Seeking Light - Chapter 11b
Title: Seeking Light
Pairings: Kyuwook, Minwook, Eunhae, Kangteuk, Sihanchul, Heeteuk!friendship ( a lot more later, i promise)
Rating: PG13 maybe ( i'm quite violent, hehe)
Summary: Kyuhyun was born and raised as a member of the Dark Society, an organization where death and killing were inevitable and violence was part of life. Not even as he left the organization has he left that part of his life. Then comes Ryeowook, a young man who has absolutely little-to-no idea about the dark and violent reality of society. Can he shed light to Kyuhyun's darkness? Or will he fall prey to the Dark Society?
Part A here
Chapter 11
Part B
The next day was Saturday. It was the fourth day since the activation of Sungmin’s plan. And like the past days, Ryeowook was pretty busy. But then again, all of them were. From the chefs down to the waiter, all of them were on their toes working like machines set to dynamic mode.
Saturdays were the busiest days of the year. Sure, they were pretty busy in everyday in the entire week considering that people just come and go all the time. But it was still pretty different on Saturday nights. At this day, people just seem to come flooding in and it didn’t seem like anyone is going out. The whole restaurant was just plainly cramped with people.
And because it was a busy night, neither Eunhyuk nor Donghae would be able to keep their eyes on Ryeowook just to make sure that he wouldn’t be able to go anywhere near where Kyuhyun was. Even Sungmin wouldn’t be able to keep an eye him all the time. But he wasn’t worried though. He was perfectly confident that with all the people around, the chances that Ryeowook would see Kyuhyun was near to impossible.
Sungmin had no idea how wrong he was.
“Here’s your order, sir. Enjoy.” Ryeowook said cheerfully to a customer who was wearing a cap and heavily tinted shades.
“Ah, thanks. This looks good.” the man said to him in a voice that was slightly familiar. He tried to look closer at the man, but he seemed to be avoiding eye contact with him and appeared to be trying not to be recognized. Ryeowook found it weird. But then again, with all the weirdness going on around him, he shouldn’t really be surprised that much.
When the customer had started to eat, Ryeowook took it as his cue to start serving the next customer. He hardly got a few steps away when the weird customer began to talk to him again.
“Hey, have you noticed that young man sitting in the corner?” the man asked, jerking his head towards a direction.
Ryeowook’s eyes followed the direction to where the man was referring to and when he did, his heart skipped a beat. His eyes met Kyuhyun’s. And for a while, they just held each other’s gaze. Their eye contact was broken only when Eunhyuk passed by in between their line of sight. Once Eunhyuk has passed by already, though, Kyuhyun was already looking the other way.
“He’s been staring at you this entire time.” the man said. “I’m actually quite surprised that you haven’t felt the intensity of his stare.”
He’s been staring at me the entire time?, Ryeowook thought and a blush slowly crept up to his cheeks. Why would he be staring at me?
“He’s quite a loner, don’t you think? It’s a bit sad.” the man continued.
Inwardly, Ryeowook agreed with the weird man. It is quite sad to see Kyuhyun there sitting all alone when everyone around him were either couples or groups. He didn’t seem to belong at all.
Maybe I should go to him., thought Ryeowook.
“Don’t you think he’s quite a handsome young man?” said the customer suddenly. “You should really get to him. You would look very cute as a couple.”
The effects were immediate. Ryeowook’s face went into a deep shade of scarlet and his heart pumped faster. “N-No way! I m-mean, I don’t think that would be possible. Y-Yes I think he’s handsome b-but we really d-don’t know each other that much t-to be a couple. Oh dear, what am I saying.” Ryeowook stuttered.
The man just laughed at his reaction and said, “Hey, I’m just messing with you. No need to take what I said seriously.”
Ryeowook was still blushing violently red. He was still in shock with what the man said. And also with what he said. Did he actually admit that he found Kyuhyun handsome?
“Are you okay? You look flushed.” the man asked.
“I-I’m fine, sir. Uhh…e-excuse me.” Ryeowook stuttered. He immediately, made his way to the kitchen at a fast pace.
The moment he entered the kitchen, he leaned his back to the kitchen wall with one of his hands on his chest as if willing the heartbeats to slow down. His face was still quite pinkish.
“Yah, Ryeowook, what’s wrong?” Sungmin asked. He was talking to Eunhyuk and Donghae when Ryeowook got inside. The blush on Ryeowook’s cheek didn’t escape his sharp eyes.
“N-Nothing, hyung. I’m okay.” Ryeowook said. As much as he wanted to be honest to Sungmin, there was no way that he’ll tell him what just happened. Especially not that part that he said that he also thought Kyuhyun was handsome. “Just tired, hyung. It’s quite a busy night.”
“Yeah, tell me about it. Thank goodness there is only two hours till closing time. I’m beat.” Eunhyuk agreed, stretching his arms out. When he did stretch out, Ryeowook noticed an envelope in his hand.
“Hyung, what’s that?” Ryeowook asked, indicating the envelope.
“Oh, right. I forgot. Someone taped this to your locker, Wook. I don’t know what it is, but it does have your name on it.” Eunhyuk said.
“A letter? Who could have given it?” Ryeowook wondered, taking the envelope from Eunhyuk’s hand.
“Ooohh…It might be a letter from a secret admirer.” Donghae said, excitedly.
Sungmin’s eyes flashed dangerously at what Donghae said, but he said nothing. No one gives my Wookie a love letter except me., he screamed inside his mind.
When Ryeowook had finally opened the envelope, it became evident that it wasn’t a love letter of any sort. Inside the envelope was five tickets with colorful designs. Along with them was a note, which read: ENJOY!!!
“Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?” Eunhyuk asked out loud.
“Nope. I completely agree with you on this one.” Sungmin said. While he felt relief when the envelope didn’t contain a love letter, he still thought that it was suspicious.
Donghae looked at the tickets for a while, then suddenly his eyes widened. “Whoa, aren’t these the tickets to that awesome new amusement park in the city?! No way! It’s the biggest amusement park in the whole country!”
“What?! But aren’t these expensive?” Eunhyuk said, grabbing a ticket from Donghae’s hand to look at it and confirm if it was really a genuine ticket. “With our salary, we’ll have to forfeit at least three meals just to afford one of these.”
“Are they really that expensive? But who would have bought them?” Ryeowook asked.
Donghae opened his mouth to give an answer but Sungmin automatically placed a finger on his mouth and said, “If you say anything about it being bought by aliens, I swear I’m going to scream.”
Slowly, Donghae closed his mouth. “But, seriously, who else could have bought them?”
“Who cares who bought them? What matters is that we get to go to that awesome new amusement park.” Eunhyuk said.
“Hey, hey. No one said you can have a ticket. They were sent to Ryeowook so he gets to decide who can have the tickets. Who knows, maybe he doesn’t want any weirdoes around.” Sungmin said. Personally, he was hoping that he can spend the day with Ryeowook alone.
Automatically, two pairs of puppy dog eyes turned to look at Ryeowook. “Please, Ryeowookie-ah.”
“Of course. I don’t really see why they can’t have a ticket, Sungmin-hyung. The more the merrier, right?” Ryeowook said. He failed to see the look of disappointment that passed through Sungmin’s eyes.
“Yes!” Donghae and Eunhyuk yelled together.
It hardly took a couple of minutes for them to distribute the tickets between themselves and set a meeting time for the following day. But it barely took a couple of seconds for them to start running out of the kitchen when Shindong saw them not doing their job.
“Looks like there’s one ticket left. Who do you want to give it to, Wook?” Donghae asked as they went back to serving the customers.
Ryeowook thought for a while. Honestly, he didn’t have that many choices. He was only here for a couple of weeks. He hardly knew anyone outside Sungmin, Donghae and Eunhyuk. Well, he can invite Shindong with them, but he really is quite a scary guy. Then, there’s Leeteuk. But he didn’t know his number. So who can he invite along? Slowly, his eyes traveled to Kyuhyun who was frowning like he was angry with the world.
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Once again, Kyuhyun’s mood was far from good. He had left the main house at exactly five o’ clock in the afternoon. And again, he decided not to go to the restaurant. Unfortunately for him, though, Fate was playing along with him. He has absolutely no idea just how is it that his feet would always take him back to the restaurant again and again and again. And at precisely seven o’ clock, Kyuhyun had reached the entrance of the restaurant for the fifth time. Finally, he just surrendered to Fate and just went in the dreaded place.
After all those days that Ryeowook didn’t see him, he had already begun to stop expecting that the little waiter would look around at him. But that didn’t stop him from looking at Ryeowook as the shorter male moved ever so gracefully inside the restaurant.
Kyuhyun never expected Ryeowook to look at him at that precise moment when he was talking to a customer. The whole place seemed to go on slow motion while they held each other’s gaze. The noise seemed to shut down and all he could hear was his own heartbeat.
The moment was ruined of course, when Eunhyuk walked by in front of both of them. That was the moment that the magic seemed to break and the whole world began to turn normally again. Then, almost immediately, the fact that he had just been caught staring began to sink in and he felt embarrassed with himself. He felt Ryeowook still looking at him, but he decided to avert his eyes. He didn’t want Ryeowook to think that he has been staring at him the whole time.
Suddenly, a voice emerged in Kyuhyun's subconscious. "Pathetic, Cho Kyuhyun. To think that you’re actually feeling embarrassed over something like that." In a more logical sense, the voice speaking was his conscience. However, the voice that it was manifesting was the voice of Kyuhyun's mentor who had died some time ago.
Shut up. I’m not embarrassed. Kyuhyun replied to the voice of his mentor.
Kyuhyun managed to look up just in time to see Ryeowook walk quickly inside the kitchen. He sighed. Deep inside, the feeling of disappointment began to emerge again. When he had felt Ryeowook stare at him earlier after their eyes had met, Kyuhyun was almost sure that maybe, after all this time, he can actually speak to Ryeowook once again. Even if they were just going to bicker, he would have preferred that to no communication at all. And also, there was still that mystery about Ryeowook that he wanted to find out straight from the little waiter's mouth.
"Look at yourself. You're like a child waiting for a toy you can't have. And to think that you actually waste your time waiting for him to come and speak to you. You disgust me." the voice growled in his mind.
Kyuhyun decided to ignore his mentor's voice, but the voice in his subconscious wouldn't leave him alone. "You're curious about him? You actually care about what he's been through? Don't tell me you're turning soft on him." sneered the voice.
Kyuhyun still decided not to answer. "You ARE turning soft. You actually consider him as a friend. And all that because he had saved your life. Pathetic. A killer like you is actually caring for someone. You're a disgrace to the Dark Society." continued the voice, and this time, the tone was angry.
This time, Kyuhyun actually decided to snap back. "I don't care about him. And I don't consider him as a friend either. I feel nothing for him."
"Nothing? We'll see about that. But just remember what I told you before. You were born and raised as a killer. You're not supposed to care about anyone or anything at all. That includes him. And that fact doesn't change even if you have left the organization." the voice said before it finally disappeared. But the words it had said were burned in Kyuhyun's mind.
"There's no need to remind me that. I know that perfectly well." Kyuhyun muttered to himself. In a matter of seconds, the dark clouds that Ryeowook had managed slightly to clear up in the past days were back. Once again, Kyuhyun looked murderous.
"You know, you'll scare a lot of people away if you keep frowning like that." said a familiar voice from the table next to Kyuhyun's. When he turned his head, he saw Ryeowook clearing off the plates from the other table. He had his eyes fixed on what he was doing but it was quite obvious to whom he was speaking to.
"Funny." Kyuhyun said in a flat tone. "I don't see you running away in fear."
"Well, you don't really seem that scary to me. Honestly, you just look like you're constipated or something." Ryeowook said as he wiped the table clean.
Automatically, Kyuhyun's frown disappeared and was replaced with a look of surprise. No one had said anything like that to him before. It was actually quite incredible to hear someone joke around when he's frowning like that. Usually, people would try to get away from him as fast as they could when he is in a bad mood. Ryeowook's attitude towards him rendered him speechless.
Ryeowook had been expecting Kyuhyun to retort at what he said so when the taller male failed to give him the response he was expecting, he stopped cleaning the table and looked at Kyuhyun curiously. "Yah! No comeback? Don't tell me you're really constipated." Ryeowook said, then he added in an afterthought, "Not really surprising actually. You don't seem the type to eat a healthy diet."
Kyuhyun felt his lips twitch. In an instant, the dark cloud forming around Kyuhyun cleared away and a small grin appeared on his handsome face. This Kim Ryeowook is relly something else. "Look who's talking. If YOU were eating a healthy diet, then you wouldn't be a little waiter now, would you?"
"Ever heard of genetics?" Ryeowook said, shaking his head at what seemed to be a below-the-belt comeback from Kyuhyun. "And how many times do I have to tell you? Stop calling me that. I'm not that short."
"Whatever you say." Kyuhyun said. Then he fake-coughed a couple of times which sounded a lot like 'shorty, shorty'.
Ryeowook obviously heard the jeer and glared at Kyuhyun, which actually looked more cute than scary.
"You should give up on that. you know. You wouldn't even be able to scare a cat away with that sort of glare." Kyuhyun said with a smirk. Regardless of his mood earlier, he was actually enjoying now. It was like he had never heard his mentor's voice in his head earlier.
Ryeowook pouted at what Kyuhyun said. "You're annoying, you know that. If this is your way of having a bit of fun in your life, then I seriously suggest you find a new way to have fun." he said, then he smiled. "Fortunately for you, I have just the perfect idea how."
Kyuhyun frowned in confusion on what Ryeowook had said. He watched the little waiter come over to his table and place a ticket in front of him.
"What's this?" Kyuhyun asked, picking up the ticket.
"A ticket." Ryeowook answered simply.
Kyuhyun frowned at the response. "I know that. What I meant was what this is for."
"Well, as far as I know, it's used to give us entrance to an amusement park." Ryeowook answered thoughtfully. "Unless, of course, there's another use for it."
"Very funny." Kyuhyun said sarcastically.
"Oh, come on. Show some sense of humor, will you?" Ryeowook said, pouting. When Kyuhyun didn't respond, he said, "Aish, I don't know why I still try. I already deduced that you're hopeless in these things."
"Anyway, someone sent me some tickets to the amusement park earlier. And there's an extra ticket so I figured that maybe you...umm.." Ryeowook said then he paused before continuing shyly, "...you know, want to hang out."
Kyuhyun's eyebrows raised. Is Ryeowook actually inviting him out? Is that the same as having a date? But they're not a couple yet. Hell, Kyuhyun still doesn't consider him as a friend yet.
"Is this like your way of making up for ignoring me on the last three days?" Kyuhyun asked, confused.
"Ignoring you?" Ryeowook repeated. This time, he was the one confused. How the heck did he manage to ignore Kyuhyun in the past three days? Then suddenly, Ryeowook's face lightened. Of course, he had been overly busy in the past three days that he can't even look around. But then, that still wouldn't be considered ignoring. Unless, of course, Kyuhyun wanted to talk to him, right?
A smirk appeared on Ryeowook's face. "So you've been wanting to talk to me so badly in the past three days then?"
"No." Kyuhyun automatically lied, looking away.
"That's why you're sulking, isn't it?" Ryeowook teased.
"You're delusional." Kyuhyun said. He could fel blood rushing up to his face.
"Nope. I'm pretty sure you're sulking." Ryeowook said, the smirk still in place. "Aww, I didn't think you could be this adorable, Kyuhyun-sshi. I wouldn't have expected it from someone who had just raised a gun at me a week ago."
"Whatever." Kyuhyun muttered. "And don't call me adorable."
Ryeowook giggled at the response. This time, Kyuhyun stole a glance at his beautiful smile. Normally, he would have been furious at someone laughing at him. But with Ryeowook, he actually felt happy to cause the laughter. However, he wasn't about to admit that just yet. "Stop laughing. You look like an idiot." he muttered.
"Sorry." Ryeowook said, trying to suppress the giggles. "I was just surprised. Anyway, to answer your question; no, I'm not giving you that to make up for those days that I 'ignored' you. I'm giving them to you because I wanted to. So that you can have fum with me in the amusement park."
Kyuhyun felt a strange warmth spreading in his chest. "So you REALLY want me to come?"
"That's what I said, isn't it? So, are you coming or not?" Ryeowook asked.
Kyuhyun weighed his options. In the end, he just said, "We'll see."
It wasn't really a clear answer but Ryeowook seemed to think it was good enough. "Great! So I'll see you at the entrance of the amusement park at 4 o'clock in the afternoon then. I'll be waiting for you." Ryeowook said with a bright smile before walking away.
Kyuhyun's eyes followed his petite form as he went to another table to serve another customer. Then. he looked at the ticket in his hand. A small genuine smile grazed his face before he pocketed the ticket.
"God damn it!" Sungmin swore, punching the kitchen wall, which surprised the rest of the people inside the kitchen. Everyone was looking at him strangely but he shot them all a very scary glare and all went back to work.
"Umm...c-calm down, p-please, hyung." Eunhyuk pleaded.
Sungmin looked like he was about to explode in front of Eunhyuk, but he managed to control himself. There was no reason to take his anger out on his poor dongsaeng. He and Donghae had been pretty busy. He can't blame them for not keeping an eye on Ryeowook.
"It's fine. I'm not angry at you so stop shivering." Sungmin said, through gritted teeth. "That Kyuhyun really has some nerve. He's crossing the line."
"B-But there's nothing we can do about that now." Eunhyuk said.
"Yeah. It's not like I can change anything since Ryeowook was the one who invited him." Sungmin said. He was slightly calming down. "But you do realize that this means war."
"Umm...war?" Eunhyuk repeated, confused.
"I can't let that Cho Kyuhyun charm MY Ryeowookie anymore. I'll show him thet I'm waaay better that him." Sungmin vowed, peering through the kitchen window to continue glaring at Kyuhyun.
Sungmin wasn't the only one staring. Outside the restaurant, someone else was watching what was happening through the glass window in front of the restaurant.
"Kyaaa!! Aren't they cute?!" squealed the man who was wearing a cap and heavily tinted shades. It was the weird man Ryeowook was talking to earlier.
"Well then, I guess your plan worked afterall, Angel." Kangin said, emerging from the alley beside the restaurant.
"I told you so. All it took was a little effort." Leeteuk said, removing the cap and the shades.
"Yeah. And a billfold of my cash." Kangin muttered. "You have absolutely no idea how expensive those tickets were."
"I'll pay you back the money sooner or later." Leeteuk said, putting the cap on Kangin's head.
"Well, you can pay me with something other than money." Kangin said, wrapping his arms around Leeteuk's waist.
"Not yet you don't. I'm still having trouble walking because of last night." Leeteuk said. "And I still want to walk tomorrow, thank you very much. There are important places for me to go."
"Where's the problem in that? I can always carry you around if you want me to." Kangin whispered to Leeteuk's ear. "Besides, you might want to celebrate tonight for a job well done."
"Good point." Leeteuk said, turning his head to the side to peck on Kangin's lips. "But I'd rather celebrate when I see my children happily married. Just imagine, Cho Ryeowook. Kyaaa!! So cute!"
Then Leeteuk removed himself from Kangin's hold. "Well then. Shall we get the cake and decorations ready?"
"Hey, don't you think it's too early for that?" Kangin said.
"No, no, no. There's no such thing as being too early for a wedding." Leeteuk said, before pulling Kangin along.
Neither of them noticed three shadows standing in the dark corner of the alley. They had been listening to the conversation earlier. And when Leeteuk and Kangin had left, one of them took out a phone.
"We got the information you wanted." the man said.
"Excellent, Jaejoong. The Angel didn't notice you, did he?" the man on the other line asked. His voice was on loudspeaker so the rest of the boys heard him.
"He's been too distracted to notice." the second man said.
"Yeah, that's so like him, Yoochun." said the man on the other line. "It worked to your advantage, didn't it? Well then, I guess I'll be xpecting you in thirty minutes."
"Make that fifteen. We're heading back now." Jaejoong said before ending the call.
The last man then turned to his companions. "Looks like the Flamebird has a game in mind again."
"Doesn't he always, Junsu?" Yoochun said.
"Looks like this is going to be fun." Jaejoong said.
(Well, I finally finished it...I really have no romantic bone in me so please excuse the severe lack of cute parts :( ...this part really gave me a trouble so sorry for it...:(
Hope you'll still read it even after this...:(
Comments are loved:) Hopefully, none of them too volent...hehe..XD
Pairings: Kyuwook, Minwook, Eunhae, Kangteuk, Sihanchul, Heeteuk!friendship ( a lot more later, i promise)
Rating: PG13 maybe ( i'm quite violent, hehe)
Summary: Kyuhyun was born and raised as a member of the Dark Society, an organization where death and killing were inevitable and violence was part of life. Not even as he left the organization has he left that part of his life. Then comes Ryeowook, a young man who has absolutely little-to-no idea about the dark and violent reality of society. Can he shed light to Kyuhyun's darkness? Or will he fall prey to the Dark Society?
Part A here
Chapter 11
Part B
The next day was Saturday. It was the fourth day since the activation of Sungmin’s plan. And like the past days, Ryeowook was pretty busy. But then again, all of them were. From the chefs down to the waiter, all of them were on their toes working like machines set to dynamic mode.
Saturdays were the busiest days of the year. Sure, they were pretty busy in everyday in the entire week considering that people just come and go all the time. But it was still pretty different on Saturday nights. At this day, people just seem to come flooding in and it didn’t seem like anyone is going out. The whole restaurant was just plainly cramped with people.
And because it was a busy night, neither Eunhyuk nor Donghae would be able to keep their eyes on Ryeowook just to make sure that he wouldn’t be able to go anywhere near where Kyuhyun was. Even Sungmin wouldn’t be able to keep an eye him all the time. But he wasn’t worried though. He was perfectly confident that with all the people around, the chances that Ryeowook would see Kyuhyun was near to impossible.
Sungmin had no idea how wrong he was.
“Here’s your order, sir. Enjoy.” Ryeowook said cheerfully to a customer who was wearing a cap and heavily tinted shades.
“Ah, thanks. This looks good.” the man said to him in a voice that was slightly familiar. He tried to look closer at the man, but he seemed to be avoiding eye contact with him and appeared to be trying not to be recognized. Ryeowook found it weird. But then again, with all the weirdness going on around him, he shouldn’t really be surprised that much.
When the customer had started to eat, Ryeowook took it as his cue to start serving the next customer. He hardly got a few steps away when the weird customer began to talk to him again.
“Hey, have you noticed that young man sitting in the corner?” the man asked, jerking his head towards a direction.
Ryeowook’s eyes followed the direction to where the man was referring to and when he did, his heart skipped a beat. His eyes met Kyuhyun’s. And for a while, they just held each other’s gaze. Their eye contact was broken only when Eunhyuk passed by in between their line of sight. Once Eunhyuk has passed by already, though, Kyuhyun was already looking the other way.
“He’s been staring at you this entire time.” the man said. “I’m actually quite surprised that you haven’t felt the intensity of his stare.”
He’s been staring at me the entire time?, Ryeowook thought and a blush slowly crept up to his cheeks. Why would he be staring at me?
“He’s quite a loner, don’t you think? It’s a bit sad.” the man continued.
Inwardly, Ryeowook agreed with the weird man. It is quite sad to see Kyuhyun there sitting all alone when everyone around him were either couples or groups. He didn’t seem to belong at all.
Maybe I should go to him., thought Ryeowook.
“Don’t you think he’s quite a handsome young man?” said the customer suddenly. “You should really get to him. You would look very cute as a couple.”
The effects were immediate. Ryeowook’s face went into a deep shade of scarlet and his heart pumped faster. “N-No way! I m-mean, I don’t think that would be possible. Y-Yes I think he’s handsome b-but we really d-don’t know each other that much t-to be a couple. Oh dear, what am I saying.” Ryeowook stuttered.
The man just laughed at his reaction and said, “Hey, I’m just messing with you. No need to take what I said seriously.”
Ryeowook was still blushing violently red. He was still in shock with what the man said. And also with what he said. Did he actually admit that he found Kyuhyun handsome?
“Are you okay? You look flushed.” the man asked.
“I-I’m fine, sir. Uhh…e-excuse me.” Ryeowook stuttered. He immediately, made his way to the kitchen at a fast pace.
The moment he entered the kitchen, he leaned his back to the kitchen wall with one of his hands on his chest as if willing the heartbeats to slow down. His face was still quite pinkish.
“Yah, Ryeowook, what’s wrong?” Sungmin asked. He was talking to Eunhyuk and Donghae when Ryeowook got inside. The blush on Ryeowook’s cheek didn’t escape his sharp eyes.
“N-Nothing, hyung. I’m okay.” Ryeowook said. As much as he wanted to be honest to Sungmin, there was no way that he’ll tell him what just happened. Especially not that part that he said that he also thought Kyuhyun was handsome. “Just tired, hyung. It’s quite a busy night.”
“Yeah, tell me about it. Thank goodness there is only two hours till closing time. I’m beat.” Eunhyuk agreed, stretching his arms out. When he did stretch out, Ryeowook noticed an envelope in his hand.
“Hyung, what’s that?” Ryeowook asked, indicating the envelope.
“Oh, right. I forgot. Someone taped this to your locker, Wook. I don’t know what it is, but it does have your name on it.” Eunhyuk said.
“A letter? Who could have given it?” Ryeowook wondered, taking the envelope from Eunhyuk’s hand.
“Ooohh…It might be a letter from a secret admirer.” Donghae said, excitedly.
Sungmin’s eyes flashed dangerously at what Donghae said, but he said nothing. No one gives my Wookie a love letter except me., he screamed inside his mind.
When Ryeowook had finally opened the envelope, it became evident that it wasn’t a love letter of any sort. Inside the envelope was five tickets with colorful designs. Along with them was a note, which read: ENJOY!!!
“Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?” Eunhyuk asked out loud.
“Nope. I completely agree with you on this one.” Sungmin said. While he felt relief when the envelope didn’t contain a love letter, he still thought that it was suspicious.
Donghae looked at the tickets for a while, then suddenly his eyes widened. “Whoa, aren’t these the tickets to that awesome new amusement park in the city?! No way! It’s the biggest amusement park in the whole country!”
“What?! But aren’t these expensive?” Eunhyuk said, grabbing a ticket from Donghae’s hand to look at it and confirm if it was really a genuine ticket. “With our salary, we’ll have to forfeit at least three meals just to afford one of these.”
“Are they really that expensive? But who would have bought them?” Ryeowook asked.
Donghae opened his mouth to give an answer but Sungmin automatically placed a finger on his mouth and said, “If you say anything about it being bought by aliens, I swear I’m going to scream.”
Slowly, Donghae closed his mouth. “But, seriously, who else could have bought them?”
“Who cares who bought them? What matters is that we get to go to that awesome new amusement park.” Eunhyuk said.
“Hey, hey. No one said you can have a ticket. They were sent to Ryeowook so he gets to decide who can have the tickets. Who knows, maybe he doesn’t want any weirdoes around.” Sungmin said. Personally, he was hoping that he can spend the day with Ryeowook alone.
Automatically, two pairs of puppy dog eyes turned to look at Ryeowook. “Please, Ryeowookie-ah.”
“Of course. I don’t really see why they can’t have a ticket, Sungmin-hyung. The more the merrier, right?” Ryeowook said. He failed to see the look of disappointment that passed through Sungmin’s eyes.
“Yes!” Donghae and Eunhyuk yelled together.
It hardly took a couple of minutes for them to distribute the tickets between themselves and set a meeting time for the following day. But it barely took a couple of seconds for them to start running out of the kitchen when Shindong saw them not doing their job.
“Looks like there’s one ticket left. Who do you want to give it to, Wook?” Donghae asked as they went back to serving the customers.
Ryeowook thought for a while. Honestly, he didn’t have that many choices. He was only here for a couple of weeks. He hardly knew anyone outside Sungmin, Donghae and Eunhyuk. Well, he can invite Shindong with them, but he really is quite a scary guy. Then, there’s Leeteuk. But he didn’t know his number. So who can he invite along? Slowly, his eyes traveled to Kyuhyun who was frowning like he was angry with the world.
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Once again, Kyuhyun’s mood was far from good. He had left the main house at exactly five o’ clock in the afternoon. And again, he decided not to go to the restaurant. Unfortunately for him, though, Fate was playing along with him. He has absolutely no idea just how is it that his feet would always take him back to the restaurant again and again and again. And at precisely seven o’ clock, Kyuhyun had reached the entrance of the restaurant for the fifth time. Finally, he just surrendered to Fate and just went in the dreaded place.
After all those days that Ryeowook didn’t see him, he had already begun to stop expecting that the little waiter would look around at him. But that didn’t stop him from looking at Ryeowook as the shorter male moved ever so gracefully inside the restaurant.
Kyuhyun never expected Ryeowook to look at him at that precise moment when he was talking to a customer. The whole place seemed to go on slow motion while they held each other’s gaze. The noise seemed to shut down and all he could hear was his own heartbeat.
The moment was ruined of course, when Eunhyuk walked by in front of both of them. That was the moment that the magic seemed to break and the whole world began to turn normally again. Then, almost immediately, the fact that he had just been caught staring began to sink in and he felt embarrassed with himself. He felt Ryeowook still looking at him, but he decided to avert his eyes. He didn’t want Ryeowook to think that he has been staring at him the whole time.
Suddenly, a voice emerged in Kyuhyun's subconscious. "Pathetic, Cho Kyuhyun. To think that you’re actually feeling embarrassed over something like that." In a more logical sense, the voice speaking was his conscience. However, the voice that it was manifesting was the voice of Kyuhyun's mentor who had died some time ago.
Shut up. I’m not embarrassed. Kyuhyun replied to the voice of his mentor.
Kyuhyun managed to look up just in time to see Ryeowook walk quickly inside the kitchen. He sighed. Deep inside, the feeling of disappointment began to emerge again. When he had felt Ryeowook stare at him earlier after their eyes had met, Kyuhyun was almost sure that maybe, after all this time, he can actually speak to Ryeowook once again. Even if they were just going to bicker, he would have preferred that to no communication at all. And also, there was still that mystery about Ryeowook that he wanted to find out straight from the little waiter's mouth.
"Look at yourself. You're like a child waiting for a toy you can't have. And to think that you actually waste your time waiting for him to come and speak to you. You disgust me." the voice growled in his mind.
Kyuhyun decided to ignore his mentor's voice, but the voice in his subconscious wouldn't leave him alone. "You're curious about him? You actually care about what he's been through? Don't tell me you're turning soft on him." sneered the voice.
Kyuhyun still decided not to answer. "You ARE turning soft. You actually consider him as a friend. And all that because he had saved your life. Pathetic. A killer like you is actually caring for someone. You're a disgrace to the Dark Society." continued the voice, and this time, the tone was angry.
This time, Kyuhyun actually decided to snap back. "I don't care about him. And I don't consider him as a friend either. I feel nothing for him."
"Nothing? We'll see about that. But just remember what I told you before. You were born and raised as a killer. You're not supposed to care about anyone or anything at all. That includes him. And that fact doesn't change even if you have left the organization." the voice said before it finally disappeared. But the words it had said were burned in Kyuhyun's mind.
"There's no need to remind me that. I know that perfectly well." Kyuhyun muttered to himself. In a matter of seconds, the dark clouds that Ryeowook had managed slightly to clear up in the past days were back. Once again, Kyuhyun looked murderous.
"You know, you'll scare a lot of people away if you keep frowning like that." said a familiar voice from the table next to Kyuhyun's. When he turned his head, he saw Ryeowook clearing off the plates from the other table. He had his eyes fixed on what he was doing but it was quite obvious to whom he was speaking to.
"Funny." Kyuhyun said in a flat tone. "I don't see you running away in fear."
"Well, you don't really seem that scary to me. Honestly, you just look like you're constipated or something." Ryeowook said as he wiped the table clean.
Automatically, Kyuhyun's frown disappeared and was replaced with a look of surprise. No one had said anything like that to him before. It was actually quite incredible to hear someone joke around when he's frowning like that. Usually, people would try to get away from him as fast as they could when he is in a bad mood. Ryeowook's attitude towards him rendered him speechless.
Ryeowook had been expecting Kyuhyun to retort at what he said so when the taller male failed to give him the response he was expecting, he stopped cleaning the table and looked at Kyuhyun curiously. "Yah! No comeback? Don't tell me you're really constipated." Ryeowook said, then he added in an afterthought, "Not really surprising actually. You don't seem the type to eat a healthy diet."
Kyuhyun felt his lips twitch. In an instant, the dark cloud forming around Kyuhyun cleared away and a small grin appeared on his handsome face. This Kim Ryeowook is relly something else. "Look who's talking. If YOU were eating a healthy diet, then you wouldn't be a little waiter now, would you?"
"Ever heard of genetics?" Ryeowook said, shaking his head at what seemed to be a below-the-belt comeback from Kyuhyun. "And how many times do I have to tell you? Stop calling me that. I'm not that short."
"Whatever you say." Kyuhyun said. Then he fake-coughed a couple of times which sounded a lot like 'shorty, shorty'.
Ryeowook obviously heard the jeer and glared at Kyuhyun, which actually looked more cute than scary.
"You should give up on that. you know. You wouldn't even be able to scare a cat away with that sort of glare." Kyuhyun said with a smirk. Regardless of his mood earlier, he was actually enjoying now. It was like he had never heard his mentor's voice in his head earlier.
Ryeowook pouted at what Kyuhyun said. "You're annoying, you know that. If this is your way of having a bit of fun in your life, then I seriously suggest you find a new way to have fun." he said, then he smiled. "Fortunately for you, I have just the perfect idea how."
Kyuhyun frowned in confusion on what Ryeowook had said. He watched the little waiter come over to his table and place a ticket in front of him.
"What's this?" Kyuhyun asked, picking up the ticket.
"A ticket." Ryeowook answered simply.
Kyuhyun frowned at the response. "I know that. What I meant was what this is for."
"Well, as far as I know, it's used to give us entrance to an amusement park." Ryeowook answered thoughtfully. "Unless, of course, there's another use for it."
"Very funny." Kyuhyun said sarcastically.
"Oh, come on. Show some sense of humor, will you?" Ryeowook said, pouting. When Kyuhyun didn't respond, he said, "Aish, I don't know why I still try. I already deduced that you're hopeless in these things."
"Anyway, someone sent me some tickets to the amusement park earlier. And there's an extra ticket so I figured that maybe you...umm.." Ryeowook said then he paused before continuing shyly, "...you know, want to hang out."
Kyuhyun's eyebrows raised. Is Ryeowook actually inviting him out? Is that the same as having a date? But they're not a couple yet. Hell, Kyuhyun still doesn't consider him as a friend yet.
"Is this like your way of making up for ignoring me on the last three days?" Kyuhyun asked, confused.
"Ignoring you?" Ryeowook repeated. This time, he was the one confused. How the heck did he manage to ignore Kyuhyun in the past three days? Then suddenly, Ryeowook's face lightened. Of course, he had been overly busy in the past three days that he can't even look around. But then, that still wouldn't be considered ignoring. Unless, of course, Kyuhyun wanted to talk to him, right?
A smirk appeared on Ryeowook's face. "So you've been wanting to talk to me so badly in the past three days then?"
"No." Kyuhyun automatically lied, looking away.
"That's why you're sulking, isn't it?" Ryeowook teased.
"You're delusional." Kyuhyun said. He could fel blood rushing up to his face.
"Nope. I'm pretty sure you're sulking." Ryeowook said, the smirk still in place. "Aww, I didn't think you could be this adorable, Kyuhyun-sshi. I wouldn't have expected it from someone who had just raised a gun at me a week ago."
"Whatever." Kyuhyun muttered. "And don't call me adorable."
Ryeowook giggled at the response. This time, Kyuhyun stole a glance at his beautiful smile. Normally, he would have been furious at someone laughing at him. But with Ryeowook, he actually felt happy to cause the laughter. However, he wasn't about to admit that just yet. "Stop laughing. You look like an idiot." he muttered.
"Sorry." Ryeowook said, trying to suppress the giggles. "I was just surprised. Anyway, to answer your question; no, I'm not giving you that to make up for those days that I 'ignored' you. I'm giving them to you because I wanted to. So that you can have fum with me in the amusement park."
Kyuhyun felt a strange warmth spreading in his chest. "So you REALLY want me to come?"
"That's what I said, isn't it? So, are you coming or not?" Ryeowook asked.
Kyuhyun weighed his options. In the end, he just said, "We'll see."
It wasn't really a clear answer but Ryeowook seemed to think it was good enough. "Great! So I'll see you at the entrance of the amusement park at 4 o'clock in the afternoon then. I'll be waiting for you." Ryeowook said with a bright smile before walking away.
Kyuhyun's eyes followed his petite form as he went to another table to serve another customer. Then. he looked at the ticket in his hand. A small genuine smile grazed his face before he pocketed the ticket.
"God damn it!" Sungmin swore, punching the kitchen wall, which surprised the rest of the people inside the kitchen. Everyone was looking at him strangely but he shot them all a very scary glare and all went back to work.
"Umm...c-calm down, p-please, hyung." Eunhyuk pleaded.
Sungmin looked like he was about to explode in front of Eunhyuk, but he managed to control himself. There was no reason to take his anger out on his poor dongsaeng. He and Donghae had been pretty busy. He can't blame them for not keeping an eye on Ryeowook.
"It's fine. I'm not angry at you so stop shivering." Sungmin said, through gritted teeth. "That Kyuhyun really has some nerve. He's crossing the line."
"B-But there's nothing we can do about that now." Eunhyuk said.
"Yeah. It's not like I can change anything since Ryeowook was the one who invited him." Sungmin said. He was slightly calming down. "But you do realize that this means war."
"Umm...war?" Eunhyuk repeated, confused.
"I can't let that Cho Kyuhyun charm MY Ryeowookie anymore. I'll show him thet I'm waaay better that him." Sungmin vowed, peering through the kitchen window to continue glaring at Kyuhyun.
Sungmin wasn't the only one staring. Outside the restaurant, someone else was watching what was happening through the glass window in front of the restaurant.
"Kyaaa!! Aren't they cute?!" squealed the man who was wearing a cap and heavily tinted shades. It was the weird man Ryeowook was talking to earlier.
"Well then, I guess your plan worked afterall, Angel." Kangin said, emerging from the alley beside the restaurant.
"I told you so. All it took was a little effort." Leeteuk said, removing the cap and the shades.
"Yeah. And a billfold of my cash." Kangin muttered. "You have absolutely no idea how expensive those tickets were."
"I'll pay you back the money sooner or later." Leeteuk said, putting the cap on Kangin's head.
"Well, you can pay me with something other than money." Kangin said, wrapping his arms around Leeteuk's waist.
"Not yet you don't. I'm still having trouble walking because of last night." Leeteuk said. "And I still want to walk tomorrow, thank you very much. There are important places for me to go."
"Where's the problem in that? I can always carry you around if you want me to." Kangin whispered to Leeteuk's ear. "Besides, you might want to celebrate tonight for a job well done."
"Good point." Leeteuk said, turning his head to the side to peck on Kangin's lips. "But I'd rather celebrate when I see my children happily married. Just imagine, Cho Ryeowook. Kyaaa!! So cute!"
Then Leeteuk removed himself from Kangin's hold. "Well then. Shall we get the cake and decorations ready?"
"Hey, don't you think it's too early for that?" Kangin said.
"No, no, no. There's no such thing as being too early for a wedding." Leeteuk said, before pulling Kangin along.
Neither of them noticed three shadows standing in the dark corner of the alley. They had been listening to the conversation earlier. And when Leeteuk and Kangin had left, one of them took out a phone.
"We got the information you wanted." the man said.
"Excellent, Jaejoong. The Angel didn't notice you, did he?" the man on the other line asked. His voice was on loudspeaker so the rest of the boys heard him.
"He's been too distracted to notice." the second man said.
"Yeah, that's so like him, Yoochun." said the man on the other line. "It worked to your advantage, didn't it? Well then, I guess I'll be xpecting you in thirty minutes."
"Make that fifteen. We're heading back now." Jaejoong said before ending the call.
The last man then turned to his companions. "Looks like the Flamebird has a game in mind again."
"Doesn't he always, Junsu?" Yoochun said.
"Looks like this is going to be fun." Jaejoong said.
(Well, I finally finished it...I really have no romantic bone in me so please excuse the severe lack of cute parts :( ...this part really gave me a trouble so sorry for it...:(
Hope you'll still read it even after this...:(
Comments are loved:) Hopefully, none of them too volent...hehe..XD