La Coincidence~ Chapter 20
Title: La Coincidence
Pairings: Changmin/fc with hints of yunjae and yoosu
Rating: G
Genre: Drama, Real life, General
Length: Chapters
Summary: It all started with a coincidence. One accident, one helping hand, one small step. And soon it leads to so much more. . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER 20~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
She’s in an unknown place.
Darkness stretches out on all sides as far as the eye can see. A light mist swirls around. And a silence. A deafening silence.
Min Ri stands there, not knowing which way to walk. Her body is frozen and she stands like a stiff statue. A wind picks up, whipping past her, making her finally force her rigid body to move. She starts walking but the wind gets stronger. The faster she walks, the stronger the wind. A heavy weight starts settling on her head and shoulders as her body starts to feel like lead.
She looks around for some sort of support, a person, a pole, anything to stop and lean on. Still the black mist stretches all around her, hiding everything from view as if she’s in some dark never-ending void. The wind whistles so strongly she fancies she hears someone talking, whispering in her ear, and mocking her.
An evil presence is befalling her everywhere and she hears multiple little voices whispering around her, talking about her, snickering at her situation. Finally abandoning all thought, she breaks into a run and sprints as fast as she can through the never-ending mist and darkness. The voices follow. The wind’s still blowing, but apart from that all Min Ri can hear is her own heavy panting.
Finally, when her sides feel as if they’re about to split, she stops. The voices come back, whispers escalate into hisses and jeers. Bending over and grasping her knees as she tries to catch her breath, she sighs in frustration as she think of a way out of this chaos.
As the wind howls around her, something in her finally snaps as she suddenly exclaims in a voice she never used before, “I’ve had ENOUGH!” She’s startled by her outburst but is even more surprised to find the voices immediately stop, the wind die down, the mist vanish, and the darkness slowly disappear into light, as two figures clothed in loose dresses slowly approach from underneath a tree.
The one closer to Min Ri looked radiant, with graceful white wings that stretched infinitely up to the sky. She had long black hair and smiling eyes as she took one of Min Ri’s hands in her own and dropped something in it.
She holds Min Ri’s hand a second longer before walking back to her companion in the back, who was wingless but just as graceful and a tad familiar, but Min Ri couldn’t fully discern her face so far away. The two of them look on from a distance as Min Ri slowly opens her hand to reveal a glowing, radiantly shining golden orb.
It floats up to Min Ri’s eye level and then silently bursts, being absorbed into her body. The second it happens Mn Ri feels her body completely weightless, calm and warm as the burden is lifted from her shoulders and now she can breathe easier. She inhales deeply and looks up, smiling. But the two mysteriously disappeared.
Only the tree under which they were standing remained~
Min Ri slowly opens her eyes to the golden morning sun. She smiles to herself and sits up, slowly stretching. She realizes she’s in the bedroom of the guys and sees the rising and falling movements of the members.
Yunho was right next to her, sleeping soundly in the same position over the whole night- between his bed and Jaejoong’s. Min RI smiles and lightly pulls and tugs Yunho as gently as she can and somehow manages to move him onto his own bed without waking him up.
She stands and notices Bambi was on the floor, unnoticed from yesterday’s chaotic situation. She reaches over to one of Yunho’s arms, lifts it and quietly puts Bambi there and lowers his arm again. Tip toeing out of the room, she washes up and then goes to quietly prepare breakfast and clean up. By the time the food is done, the others still haven’t woken up. Min Ri sets the table and then goes over to the living room to work on her laptop and read some news.
Yunho groans as he feels the sun’s rays shining on his closed eyes, making the inside of his lids red. He gingerly opens one eye, then the other and slowly blinks. He looks to his side and see Jaejoong asleep on his side, under the covers, with his chest rising and falling rhythmically.
With a jolt Yunho realizes that he’s on his own bed and jolts up. Now wide awake, he frantically looks around the room before soundlessly bouncing off his bed and runs out the door. He checks the studios, the laundry room, the bathroom, the closets, the dining room, the kitchen, no Min Ri.
Finally running to the living room in his bare socks he slides to a halt and breathes a sigh of relief as he sees Min Ri sitting comfortably on the couch, cross-legged with her laptop and a mug of something steaming in her hand. The sun’s shining through the windows throwing pools of light on her hair and the angles of her face.
Sensing another presence in the room, Min RI looks up from her reading and smiles, softly whispering, “Good morning Yunho! You okay?”
“Min Ri ah! You’re ok! You’re ok…” Yunho runs over to Min Ri as she closes the laptop and looks up at him confused.
“Of course I’m okay, why wouldn’t I be?” but stops when Yunho envelopes her in a bear hug.
“Yunho opp-uhhhh…you…eh?”
“You gave us all such a scare last night!”
“I…oh…ohhhh…” Min Ri says, recalling everything that happened last night, all memories flooding back. “Chesonghamnida! Chesonghamnida! I’m always a burden, always always just one big bu~”
“Enough! No you’re not! You don’t know how happy the others will be to see you’re fine!” Yunho bear hugs her again as he strokes her hair. “Dongsaeng…my dongsaeng has gotten well…” he murmurs half to himself.
“Uhhh Y-Yunho oppa….why…” Min Ri blinks her eyes and feel them get hot and sting, threatening to tear up.
She clears her throat and says, “O-oppa the food is all set, just go wash up before the others traffic the bathroom and then go eat breakfast~” She tries to pull back, away from Yunho’s hug.
“Ah I’m sorry I’m sorry…I should have let go” Yunho ruffles the back of his hair with a shy grin.
He gets up and, giving one last reassuring look to Min RI, bolts for the bathroom with his hands in the air whooping “Watery relaxation here I come!”
Min Ri sighs and smiles. She goes to the guys’ bedroom to see if Yunho made his bed, which of course he didn’t since he bolted out of it.
As she smoothes out the sheets, Jaejoong stirs and turns. His eyes squint in the morning light as he mutters, “So that guy never woke me up for the second shift last night. Psh! Typical! Always the strong leader, always the leader who can take anything on, super man pulling all nighters…”
He suddenly stops and sits up, blinking in the light. He sees Min Ri standing there, one hand holding Bambi, the other holding a corner of Yunho’s sheets.
His eyes widen as he goes in a squeaky whisper, “Min Ri!” and in one swift motion jumps from his bed onto Yunho’s and gives her a crushing hug.
“Gack op-op-oppa you…you ahh the sheets the sheets!” Min Ri was being crushed by Jaejoong’s version of a bear hug. She lightly nudges him with the hand still holding Bambi.
“You’re ok!” Jaejoong says louder this time, in his regular voice, not caring about waking the others. He pulls away from Min Ri and she can see his beaming eyes as he grins like a child.
Min RI smiles and makes a pleading look as she puts a finger to her lip, begging him not to wake the others up. But Yoochun and Changmin stir under their covers.
They then sit up, rub their eyes, and look at Jaejoong sitting on Yunho’s bed and Min Ri and then simultaneously point and go “YAH! YOU’RE AWAKE! YOU’RE STANDING!”
She turns red and fumbles with Bambi. “Yes I’m fine….t-thanks to all of you! Thank you, you guys!” She bows low and by the time she straightens up all three were giving her a group hug for the third time that morning.
“ O_O Ahh guys, okay okay, that’s alright! I’m fine! I get it, aww thank you. C’mon guys leggo what’ll Yunho and Junsu think? Aw come on- hurry, go and wash up and eat”
The last part she said directly looking at Changmin and sighs in relief as his eyes light up with the last part as he bolts out the door shouting “FOOD!” as if he hadn’t eaten in months.
Yoochun laughs and chases after him, playfully shouting “Me first, me first!”
Jaejoong gives one last look at Min Ri and says, “See you in the kitchen then. And as for Junsu…” he looks at the still bunched up sleeping figure in the last bed all the way against the wall.
“Don’t wake him up just yet. He’s probably still upset from yesterday…let him sleep more. The poor thing still hasn’t woken up even though he’s usually the first to do so~” and he quietly walks out the room.
Min Ri puts down the toy deer and smoothes each guy’s bed before going over to Junsu’s bed and pulling up his blanket, kneaded into a ball by his legs.
Junsu stirs and pouts, muttering something before letting out a sad sigh and blinking his eyes open. He sees Min Ri standing over him, the light shining through the window onto her, outlining her shape in a sort of golden halo. He widens his eyes and gapes as he whispers “Min Ri ah!” and bolts into an upright position.
“Ya, kwenchana? Kwenchana!!! This isn’t a dream right?”
“No this isn’t a dream Junsu oppa” she laughs “I don’t believe it” Junsu sits back and sniffs, wiping his eyes.
Then, all in a rush, he says, “I’m extremely sorry I left you alone like that and helpless yesterday, I didn’t protect you in ANY way, I’m terribly sorry, it’s all my fault, I’m such a hopeless~”
He bows his head low before her. Min Ri, at first dumbfounded, gently takes him by his shoulders and says, “Shh! What are you talking about?!? You protected me in the best way possible! You put yourself on the line for my safety and for that, I should be grateful!” and she hugs him as she would a little child.
Junsu sniffles as he gingerly wraps his arms around Min Ri as if making sure she’s alright, and tightly hugs her back. “Come on now dolphin, don’t whimper. Breakfast is ready! I’m sure you’re hungry, right?”
And just then Junsu’s stomach rumbles making Min Ri laugh and Junsu mortified.
Junsu breaks away, his cheeks turning red.
Min Ri bends over to Junsu’s eye level and whispers, “You gonna go eat or….is Changmin going to demolish everything for you?”
In the kitchen, Changmin suddenly sneezes “BWA-CHOO!” as the other three jump in their seats and say, “B-bless you! Are you okay, suddenly sneezing like that?”
“I’m fine I’m fine ah, but when are those two going to come?!? I can’t wait anymore I’m starving!” Changmin frowns, chopsticks already in hand.
Before the others can answer, they hear Junsu’s stampeding footsteps to the bathroom as he shouts, “HELL no, Changmin is NOT going to eat MY food!” followed by Min Ri’s laugh.
The guys in the kitchen exchange looks and shrug as Min RI walks over calmly and sits down with them. “He’s coming,” she informs them.
“Oy, what was that about me eating Junsu’s portion?” Changmin glares at her.
Min Ri turns red. “Uh, nothing. Just wanted to…get him moving… a bit. You know…” and her voice trails off as the others laugh.
“Well, you sure got him moving!” Yoochun exclaims.
Junsu bursts in and plunks himself down triumphantly next to Changmin, his eyes shining as he says, “Muahaha now my food is MY food!”
Changmin rolls his eyes and glares at Min Ri again as she ignores him and quickly starts eating her food.
Finishing the food, Min RI clears up the table to go wash the dishes. Right as she opens the faucet though, she hears the guys shouting, “Uwaaa wait wait wait, today we’ll do the dishes!”
“O_O but don’t I always do the dishes? It’s no big deal guys!”
“You’ve already done our beds and smoothed the sheets” Jaejoong “And cooked breakfast” Changmin muttered
“Besides, you’re not fully well yet and we don’t want you to get tired standing so long” Yunho says in his most authoritative tone.
“Come on, go sit in the living room and rest. We’ll take care of it” Yoochun
“Yeah, says the guy who broke a plate, falling asleep at the sink” Changmin is met with a swift smack upside his head.
“Ow, yo!”
“No big deeeeal~~~” Junsu says in his Xiahlish. “We’ve done this before in the past. You put the soap on the spongey thing and then scrub and rinse.”
“Bravoooo, give the kid a gold star” Changmin says sarcastically, leaning against the doorway with his arms crossed.
Junsu’s about to throw the sponge at him but Yunho grabs Changmin in a mock head-lock and ruffles his hair, saying “Ya, ya, ya, being a little too sarcastic first thing in the morning, aren’t we?”
“Ah hyuuuuuung cut it out okay okay alright!” Changmin is freed as he smoothes down his hair, muttering to himself.
Min Ri turns around to the sink, seeing Jaejoong already starting to rinse each dish before scrubbing them.
“ *sigh* Guys I’m not an INVALID!” Min Ri bites her lip. She goes over to the sink and pushes the four away a little forcefully. Surprised, they stumble back and make pouty faces.
"While you all have to work, leave the washing to me. Come on guys, go do some of your work that you usually do...”
They all exchange looks, grin, and the guys simultaneously run over to the sink as well.
“Gah! Wait! Elbow room! I can’t move here!” Min Ri exclaims as the place is suddenly cramped.
“Jaejoong soak the dishes, Min Ri can scrub them, Junsu rinse them, Micky dry them, I’ll put them back” Yunho says, getting into his leader mode.
“Hai, captain!” Jaesuchun reply.
Min Ri groans and shakes her head, giving up.
“…and I’ll dirty the dishes again with my eating” Changmin teases.
The other five stop and glare at him, standing at the doorway.
“It’s just a joke, kidding, kidding…” he says, holding up his hands and shrinking away from the stares.
“But then what should I do?” He puts his hands in his pockets and digs an imaginary hole in the floor with his foot.
“Dunno” Jaejoong says straightforwardly.
“Go off into the workroom alone and get some work done?” Junsu suggests.
Changmin whimpers at his hyungs.
“Sing something then!” Yoochun calls out.
“Oh no, Yoochun, now you’ve~” the other members groan but it’s too late.
“WHEN OTHER SEE WITH EARTHLY EYES JUST WHAT THEY WAAAAAANT TO SEEEEE” Changmin starts singing in his high pitched voice, making the others groan and shouts of “STOP! STOP!” grow louder.
“He’s been humming this to himself ever since last week!” Yunho winces.
“Got this song stuck in everyone’s head since then” Jaejoong tells Min Ri as he yells over his shoulder “YA! STOP! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE SINGING!!! GAHH STOP!”
“UPON THIS ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK, IIIIIIIIIIII’LL BUILD MY KINGDOM~” Changmin grins and sings away.
“Jesus, THANKS Yoochun ah!” Junsu pouts at Yoochun.
“Aw come on baby I didn’t want this to happen” Yoochun apologizes ruefully over Changmin’s singing.
“That’s why you should THINK before you talk” Junsu
“Pfft, really baby? Says you?” Yoochun grins over at Junsu, who grins back.
“Dun make me get over there and repeat it in your ear” Junsu says seductively back, as Min Ri’s heartbeat nearly hits the ceiling.
“Ahhh it’s getting really hot in here” Yoochun laughs, fanning himself with the drying cloth.
“AHH!” Min Ri exclaims.
The fanning of the cloth made some of the air-light soap bubbles float up and attach to her nose and cheeks. She groansas she tries to blow the suds off her face.
“Aishh I think I’m going to go cross-eyed if I keep doing this” Min RI sighs and forgets about the suds as she tries her best to continue scrubbing the plates.
Jaejoong and Junsu, who are on either side of her, exchange grins and simultaneously lean over and blow off the suds on her cheeks, making her sneeze.
“Hey! I wanted to do that instead!” Yoochun teases to Junsu and Jaejoong.
“Just ‘cause you two are nearer” Yunho adds on, also grinning playfully.
Without missing a beat and still singing, Changmin walks over, sinks one hand into the suds and smudges a handful of soap bubbles onto Min Ri’s face.
She sputters and exclaims in English, “What the?!?”
“Happy now guys?” Changmin arches his eyebrow and smirks as he walks a little ways off, hearing Min Ri’s “I’m gonna kill this guy~”
“You can try, but he might be worth a little more than you bargained for” Junsu jokes.
“I’m worth millions” Changmin laughs
Min Ri sighs and looks down at her work, muttering, “Just you wait, Shim Changmin”
“Ah, by the way Min Ri ah~” Yoochun says
“Hm?” Min Ri asks as Yoochun and Yunho both lean over and blow the bubbles off.
“You can thank me later guys” Changmin says nonchalantly.
Min Ri glowers.
“Ok, dishes done~” Jaejoong announces as he dries his hand and drapes an arm around Yunho and they walk off in the general direction of the living room.
As they’re leaving, Jaejoong turns around and winks at Min Ri, motioning to her the sink still filled with soap bubbles.
Min Ri nods and winks back.
Without a word she sinks her hands into the basin, walks over and flings the handful of bubbles into Changmin’s face.
“OW! IT STINGS! OW THE BUUUUURN!” he yelps as he massages one eye with one hand and grabs Min Ri’s wrist with the other.
“Seems the two of them are having their own bubble fight now” Junsu whispers to Yoochun.
“Ahh, let them be~” Yoochun wraps his arm around Junsu’s waist as they follow their hyungs.
“Hey, are my fingers pruny to you?”
“What’re you talking about pabo, you only DRIED those dishes, it’s not like you were soaking your hands in water for hours!” Junsu laughs.
“Are you sure? Moisture from the air could still make them pruny” Yoochun jokes, wiggling his fingers in Junsu’s face.
“Aww get lost!” Junsu laughs, shoving Yoochun away, only to have him run back and tackle him.
“YO! LEGGO!” Min Ri says, waving her hand like mad.
She tries to use her other hand to pry Changmin’s fingers off her wrist but he grabs her other hand as well.
“I’m still half blind by the way” Changmin.
"Urgh” Min Ri uses her knee to hit Changmin in the stomach.
“OW! What IS this, a stomach made of stone?!?”
“More like abs made of steel, thanks-very-much” Changmin grins.
“It wasn’t a compliment”
“Sounded like one to me”
“Think what you want” Min Ri scoffs, then suddenly leans over and blows the suds off his face.
Changmin coughs and sneezes.
Min Ri yanks her hands out of his grip and runs to the living room, shouting behind her, “You’re welcome!”
“HEY! GET back here!” Changmin chases after her and manages to grab her ankle as she falls on the couch.
“Ahh off, off, OFF!” Min Ri swats his hand as she tries to slide along the couch away from him.
“Oy oy oy, trying to watch some Korean news here!” Yunho exclaims, his legs wrapped around Jaejoong’s as they sit at the other end of the couch. Yoochun and Junsu are sitting on the floor going through DVDs and CDs.
Min Ri’s frantic movements away from Changmin and Changmin’s sudden jump on the couch towards Min Ri makes the two older men bounce up and down from the movement.
But before anything else is said they hear the doorbell ring off the hook, along with a high pitched voice saying, “Are you in theeere? We KNOW you’re in there oppaaaas!”
O_O!!!!!!
Pairings: Changmin/fc with hints of yunjae and yoosu
Rating: G
Genre: Drama, Real life, General
Length: Chapters
Summary: It all started with a coincidence. One accident, one helping hand, one small step. And soon it leads to so much more. . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER 20~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
She’s in an unknown place.
Darkness stretches out on all sides as far as the eye can see. A light mist swirls around. And a silence. A deafening silence.
Min Ri stands there, not knowing which way to walk. Her body is frozen and she stands like a stiff statue. A wind picks up, whipping past her, making her finally force her rigid body to move. She starts walking but the wind gets stronger. The faster she walks, the stronger the wind. A heavy weight starts settling on her head and shoulders as her body starts to feel like lead.
She looks around for some sort of support, a person, a pole, anything to stop and lean on. Still the black mist stretches all around her, hiding everything from view as if she’s in some dark never-ending void. The wind whistles so strongly she fancies she hears someone talking, whispering in her ear, and mocking her.
An evil presence is befalling her everywhere and she hears multiple little voices whispering around her, talking about her, snickering at her situation. Finally abandoning all thought, she breaks into a run and sprints as fast as she can through the never-ending mist and darkness. The voices follow. The wind’s still blowing, but apart from that all Min Ri can hear is her own heavy panting.
Finally, when her sides feel as if they’re about to split, she stops. The voices come back, whispers escalate into hisses and jeers. Bending over and grasping her knees as she tries to catch her breath, she sighs in frustration as she think of a way out of this chaos.
As the wind howls around her, something in her finally snaps as she suddenly exclaims in a voice she never used before, “I’ve had ENOUGH!” She’s startled by her outburst but is even more surprised to find the voices immediately stop, the wind die down, the mist vanish, and the darkness slowly disappear into light, as two figures clothed in loose dresses slowly approach from underneath a tree.
The one closer to Min Ri looked radiant, with graceful white wings that stretched infinitely up to the sky. She had long black hair and smiling eyes as she took one of Min Ri’s hands in her own and dropped something in it.
She holds Min Ri’s hand a second longer before walking back to her companion in the back, who was wingless but just as graceful and a tad familiar, but Min Ri couldn’t fully discern her face so far away. The two of them look on from a distance as Min Ri slowly opens her hand to reveal a glowing, radiantly shining golden orb.
It floats up to Min Ri’s eye level and then silently bursts, being absorbed into her body. The second it happens Mn Ri feels her body completely weightless, calm and warm as the burden is lifted from her shoulders and now she can breathe easier. She inhales deeply and looks up, smiling. But the two mysteriously disappeared.
Only the tree under which they were standing remained~
Min Ri slowly opens her eyes to the golden morning sun. She smiles to herself and sits up, slowly stretching. She realizes she’s in the bedroom of the guys and sees the rising and falling movements of the members.
Yunho was right next to her, sleeping soundly in the same position over the whole night- between his bed and Jaejoong’s. Min RI smiles and lightly pulls and tugs Yunho as gently as she can and somehow manages to move him onto his own bed without waking him up.
She stands and notices Bambi was on the floor, unnoticed from yesterday’s chaotic situation. She reaches over to one of Yunho’s arms, lifts it and quietly puts Bambi there and lowers his arm again. Tip toeing out of the room, she washes up and then goes to quietly prepare breakfast and clean up. By the time the food is done, the others still haven’t woken up. Min Ri sets the table and then goes over to the living room to work on her laptop and read some news.
Yunho groans as he feels the sun’s rays shining on his closed eyes, making the inside of his lids red. He gingerly opens one eye, then the other and slowly blinks. He looks to his side and see Jaejoong asleep on his side, under the covers, with his chest rising and falling rhythmically.
With a jolt Yunho realizes that he’s on his own bed and jolts up. Now wide awake, he frantically looks around the room before soundlessly bouncing off his bed and runs out the door. He checks the studios, the laundry room, the bathroom, the closets, the dining room, the kitchen, no Min Ri.
Finally running to the living room in his bare socks he slides to a halt and breathes a sigh of relief as he sees Min Ri sitting comfortably on the couch, cross-legged with her laptop and a mug of something steaming in her hand. The sun’s shining through the windows throwing pools of light on her hair and the angles of her face.
Sensing another presence in the room, Min RI looks up from her reading and smiles, softly whispering, “Good morning Yunho! You okay?”
“Min Ri ah! You’re ok! You’re ok…” Yunho runs over to Min Ri as she closes the laptop and looks up at him confused.
“Of course I’m okay, why wouldn’t I be?” but stops when Yunho envelopes her in a bear hug.
“Yunho opp-uhhhh…you…eh?”
“You gave us all such a scare last night!”
“I…oh…ohhhh…” Min Ri says, recalling everything that happened last night, all memories flooding back. “Chesonghamnida! Chesonghamnida! I’m always a burden, always always just one big bu~”
“Enough! No you’re not! You don’t know how happy the others will be to see you’re fine!” Yunho bear hugs her again as he strokes her hair. “Dongsaeng…my dongsaeng has gotten well…” he murmurs half to himself.
“Uhhh Y-Yunho oppa….why…” Min Ri blinks her eyes and feel them get hot and sting, threatening to tear up.
She clears her throat and says, “O-oppa the food is all set, just go wash up before the others traffic the bathroom and then go eat breakfast~” She tries to pull back, away from Yunho’s hug.
“Ah I’m sorry I’m sorry…I should have let go” Yunho ruffles the back of his hair with a shy grin.
He gets up and, giving one last reassuring look to Min RI, bolts for the bathroom with his hands in the air whooping “Watery relaxation here I come!”
Min Ri sighs and smiles. She goes to the guys’ bedroom to see if Yunho made his bed, which of course he didn’t since he bolted out of it.
As she smoothes out the sheets, Jaejoong stirs and turns. His eyes squint in the morning light as he mutters, “So that guy never woke me up for the second shift last night. Psh! Typical! Always the strong leader, always the leader who can take anything on, super man pulling all nighters…”
He suddenly stops and sits up, blinking in the light. He sees Min Ri standing there, one hand holding Bambi, the other holding a corner of Yunho’s sheets.
His eyes widen as he goes in a squeaky whisper, “Min Ri!” and in one swift motion jumps from his bed onto Yunho’s and gives her a crushing hug.
“Gack op-op-oppa you…you ahh the sheets the sheets!” Min Ri was being crushed by Jaejoong’s version of a bear hug. She lightly nudges him with the hand still holding Bambi.
“You’re ok!” Jaejoong says louder this time, in his regular voice, not caring about waking the others. He pulls away from Min Ri and she can see his beaming eyes as he grins like a child.
Min RI smiles and makes a pleading look as she puts a finger to her lip, begging him not to wake the others up. But Yoochun and Changmin stir under their covers.
They then sit up, rub their eyes, and look at Jaejoong sitting on Yunho’s bed and Min Ri and then simultaneously point and go “YAH! YOU’RE AWAKE! YOU’RE STANDING!”
She turns red and fumbles with Bambi. “Yes I’m fine….t-thanks to all of you! Thank you, you guys!” She bows low and by the time she straightens up all three were giving her a group hug for the third time that morning.
“ O_O Ahh guys, okay okay, that’s alright! I’m fine! I get it, aww thank you. C’mon guys leggo what’ll Yunho and Junsu think? Aw come on- hurry, go and wash up and eat”
The last part she said directly looking at Changmin and sighs in relief as his eyes light up with the last part as he bolts out the door shouting “FOOD!” as if he hadn’t eaten in months.
Yoochun laughs and chases after him, playfully shouting “Me first, me first!”
Jaejoong gives one last look at Min Ri and says, “See you in the kitchen then. And as for Junsu…” he looks at the still bunched up sleeping figure in the last bed all the way against the wall.
“Don’t wake him up just yet. He’s probably still upset from yesterday…let him sleep more. The poor thing still hasn’t woken up even though he’s usually the first to do so~” and he quietly walks out the room.
Min Ri puts down the toy deer and smoothes each guy’s bed before going over to Junsu’s bed and pulling up his blanket, kneaded into a ball by his legs.
Junsu stirs and pouts, muttering something before letting out a sad sigh and blinking his eyes open. He sees Min Ri standing over him, the light shining through the window onto her, outlining her shape in a sort of golden halo. He widens his eyes and gapes as he whispers “Min Ri ah!” and bolts into an upright position.
“Ya, kwenchana? Kwenchana!!! This isn’t a dream right?”
“No this isn’t a dream Junsu oppa” she laughs “I don’t believe it” Junsu sits back and sniffs, wiping his eyes.
Then, all in a rush, he says, “I’m extremely sorry I left you alone like that and helpless yesterday, I didn’t protect you in ANY way, I’m terribly sorry, it’s all my fault, I’m such a hopeless~”
He bows his head low before her. Min Ri, at first dumbfounded, gently takes him by his shoulders and says, “Shh! What are you talking about?!? You protected me in the best way possible! You put yourself on the line for my safety and for that, I should be grateful!” and she hugs him as she would a little child.
Junsu sniffles as he gingerly wraps his arms around Min Ri as if making sure she’s alright, and tightly hugs her back. “Come on now dolphin, don’t whimper. Breakfast is ready! I’m sure you’re hungry, right?”
And just then Junsu’s stomach rumbles making Min Ri laugh and Junsu mortified.
Junsu breaks away, his cheeks turning red.
Min Ri bends over to Junsu’s eye level and whispers, “You gonna go eat or….is Changmin going to demolish everything for you?”
In the kitchen, Changmin suddenly sneezes “BWA-CHOO!” as the other three jump in their seats and say, “B-bless you! Are you okay, suddenly sneezing like that?”
“I’m fine I’m fine ah, but when are those two going to come?!? I can’t wait anymore I’m starving!” Changmin frowns, chopsticks already in hand.
Before the others can answer, they hear Junsu’s stampeding footsteps to the bathroom as he shouts, “HELL no, Changmin is NOT going to eat MY food!” followed by Min Ri’s laugh.
The guys in the kitchen exchange looks and shrug as Min RI walks over calmly and sits down with them. “He’s coming,” she informs them.
“Oy, what was that about me eating Junsu’s portion?” Changmin glares at her.
Min Ri turns red. “Uh, nothing. Just wanted to…get him moving… a bit. You know…” and her voice trails off as the others laugh.
“Well, you sure got him moving!” Yoochun exclaims.
Junsu bursts in and plunks himself down triumphantly next to Changmin, his eyes shining as he says, “Muahaha now my food is MY food!”
Changmin rolls his eyes and glares at Min Ri again as she ignores him and quickly starts eating her food.
Finishing the food, Min RI clears up the table to go wash the dishes. Right as she opens the faucet though, she hears the guys shouting, “Uwaaa wait wait wait, today we’ll do the dishes!”
“O_O but don’t I always do the dishes? It’s no big deal guys!”
“You’ve already done our beds and smoothed the sheets” Jaejoong “And cooked breakfast” Changmin muttered
“Besides, you’re not fully well yet and we don’t want you to get tired standing so long” Yunho says in his most authoritative tone.
“Come on, go sit in the living room and rest. We’ll take care of it” Yoochun
“Yeah, says the guy who broke a plate, falling asleep at the sink” Changmin is met with a swift smack upside his head.
“Ow, yo!”
“No big deeeeal~~~” Junsu says in his Xiahlish. “We’ve done this before in the past. You put the soap on the spongey thing and then scrub and rinse.”
“Bravoooo, give the kid a gold star” Changmin says sarcastically, leaning against the doorway with his arms crossed.
Junsu’s about to throw the sponge at him but Yunho grabs Changmin in a mock head-lock and ruffles his hair, saying “Ya, ya, ya, being a little too sarcastic first thing in the morning, aren’t we?”
“Ah hyuuuuuung cut it out okay okay alright!” Changmin is freed as he smoothes down his hair, muttering to himself.
Min Ri turns around to the sink, seeing Jaejoong already starting to rinse each dish before scrubbing them.
“ *sigh* Guys I’m not an INVALID!” Min Ri bites her lip. She goes over to the sink and pushes the four away a little forcefully. Surprised, they stumble back and make pouty faces.
"While you all have to work, leave the washing to me. Come on guys, go do some of your work that you usually do...”
They all exchange looks, grin, and the guys simultaneously run over to the sink as well.
“Gah! Wait! Elbow room! I can’t move here!” Min Ri exclaims as the place is suddenly cramped.
“Jaejoong soak the dishes, Min Ri can scrub them, Junsu rinse them, Micky dry them, I’ll put them back” Yunho says, getting into his leader mode.
“Hai, captain!” Jaesuchun reply.
Min Ri groans and shakes her head, giving up.
“…and I’ll dirty the dishes again with my eating” Changmin teases.
The other five stop and glare at him, standing at the doorway.
“It’s just a joke, kidding, kidding…” he says, holding up his hands and shrinking away from the stares.
“But then what should I do?” He puts his hands in his pockets and digs an imaginary hole in the floor with his foot.
“Dunno” Jaejoong says straightforwardly.
“Go off into the workroom alone and get some work done?” Junsu suggests.
Changmin whimpers at his hyungs.
“Sing something then!” Yoochun calls out.
“Oh no, Yoochun, now you’ve~” the other members groan but it’s too late.
“WHEN OTHER SEE WITH EARTHLY EYES JUST WHAT THEY WAAAAAANT TO SEEEEE” Changmin starts singing in his high pitched voice, making the others groan and shouts of “STOP! STOP!” grow louder.
“He’s been humming this to himself ever since last week!” Yunho winces.
“Got this song stuck in everyone’s head since then” Jaejoong tells Min Ri as he yells over his shoulder “YA! STOP! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE SINGING!!! GAHH STOP!”
“UPON THIS ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK, IIIIIIIIIIII’LL BUILD MY KINGDOM~” Changmin grins and sings away.
“Jesus, THANKS Yoochun ah!” Junsu pouts at Yoochun.
“Aw come on baby I didn’t want this to happen” Yoochun apologizes ruefully over Changmin’s singing.
“That’s why you should THINK before you talk” Junsu
“Pfft, really baby? Says you?” Yoochun grins over at Junsu, who grins back.
“Dun make me get over there and repeat it in your ear” Junsu says seductively back, as Min Ri’s heartbeat nearly hits the ceiling.
“Ahhh it’s getting really hot in here” Yoochun laughs, fanning himself with the drying cloth.
“AHH!” Min Ri exclaims.
The fanning of the cloth made some of the air-light soap bubbles float up and attach to her nose and cheeks. She groansas she tries to blow the suds off her face.
“Aishh I think I’m going to go cross-eyed if I keep doing this” Min RI sighs and forgets about the suds as she tries her best to continue scrubbing the plates.
Jaejoong and Junsu, who are on either side of her, exchange grins and simultaneously lean over and blow off the suds on her cheeks, making her sneeze.
“Hey! I wanted to do that instead!” Yoochun teases to Junsu and Jaejoong.
“Just ‘cause you two are nearer” Yunho adds on, also grinning playfully.
Without missing a beat and still singing, Changmin walks over, sinks one hand into the suds and smudges a handful of soap bubbles onto Min Ri’s face.
She sputters and exclaims in English, “What the?!?”
“Happy now guys?” Changmin arches his eyebrow and smirks as he walks a little ways off, hearing Min Ri’s “I’m gonna kill this guy~”
“You can try, but he might be worth a little more than you bargained for” Junsu jokes.
“I’m worth millions” Changmin laughs
Min Ri sighs and looks down at her work, muttering, “Just you wait, Shim Changmin”
“Ah, by the way Min Ri ah~” Yoochun says
“Hm?” Min Ri asks as Yoochun and Yunho both lean over and blow the bubbles off.
“You can thank me later guys” Changmin says nonchalantly.
Min Ri glowers.
“Ok, dishes done~” Jaejoong announces as he dries his hand and drapes an arm around Yunho and they walk off in the general direction of the living room.
As they’re leaving, Jaejoong turns around and winks at Min Ri, motioning to her the sink still filled with soap bubbles.
Min Ri nods and winks back.
Without a word she sinks her hands into the basin, walks over and flings the handful of bubbles into Changmin’s face.
“OW! IT STINGS! OW THE BUUUUURN!” he yelps as he massages one eye with one hand and grabs Min Ri’s wrist with the other.
“Seems the two of them are having their own bubble fight now” Junsu whispers to Yoochun.
“Ahh, let them be~” Yoochun wraps his arm around Junsu’s waist as they follow their hyungs.
“Hey, are my fingers pruny to you?”
“What’re you talking about pabo, you only DRIED those dishes, it’s not like you were soaking your hands in water for hours!” Junsu laughs.
“Are you sure? Moisture from the air could still make them pruny” Yoochun jokes, wiggling his fingers in Junsu’s face.
“Aww get lost!” Junsu laughs, shoving Yoochun away, only to have him run back and tackle him.
“YO! LEGGO!” Min Ri says, waving her hand like mad.
She tries to use her other hand to pry Changmin’s fingers off her wrist but he grabs her other hand as well.
“I’m still half blind by the way” Changmin.
"Urgh” Min Ri uses her knee to hit Changmin in the stomach.
“OW! What IS this, a stomach made of stone?!?”
“More like abs made of steel, thanks-very-much” Changmin grins.
“It wasn’t a compliment”
“Sounded like one to me”
“Think what you want” Min Ri scoffs, then suddenly leans over and blows the suds off his face.
Changmin coughs and sneezes.
Min Ri yanks her hands out of his grip and runs to the living room, shouting behind her, “You’re welcome!”
“HEY! GET back here!” Changmin chases after her and manages to grab her ankle as she falls on the couch.
“Ahh off, off, OFF!” Min Ri swats his hand as she tries to slide along the couch away from him.
“Oy oy oy, trying to watch some Korean news here!” Yunho exclaims, his legs wrapped around Jaejoong’s as they sit at the other end of the couch. Yoochun and Junsu are sitting on the floor going through DVDs and CDs.
Min Ri’s frantic movements away from Changmin and Changmin’s sudden jump on the couch towards Min Ri makes the two older men bounce up and down from the movement.
But before anything else is said they hear the doorbell ring off the hook, along with a high pitched voice saying, “Are you in theeere? We KNOW you’re in there oppaaaas!”
O_O!!!!!!