So Beautiful // 3
Title : So Beautiful
Pairing : 2MIN
Rating : PG
Chapters : 3 // 8
Author : dribbledrabs
The game.
Right when we reached half time , the game was declared over.
I could never explain to you exactly what happen or why. My body is still shivering despite being in the warm building. I’m sitting in this room , the sickeningly perfect white room hands clutched together , clinging on to its pair as if for dear life.
Jinki is on his phone trying to call someone , I can’t hear him at all because of the overwhelming beeping coming from the machines. Key is sitting beside me, telling me he’s sorry for brining me here, but he didn’t want me to go home after seeing that.
My mind is trying to squeeze everything out and away. I can’t. I look across the room to see , oh god , what was happening right now.
Jinki walks in again and kneels down in front of us. He is saying something about Minho having no family , he can’t trace them from school at all even his phone is void of anything that seems to be of family contacts.
I shut my eyes and hear a scream from somewhere in my memory , like its ringing , like some background music, just that music doesn’t claw at your heart like the scream did.
“ What is it Jinki “ Key asks as his holding on to his boyfriend's hand equally scared.
Jinki glances at me , I think he’s asking if I want to hear this or if they should walk out. I nod my head.
“ The doctor said that his body , he mind its not normal like us. Its not the first time his body has collapsed into an artificial death state “
I look at Jinki , Key looks at Jinki , we don’t understand . How could your body pretend to be death unless you were really dead. Could you stop your heart from beating , your lungs from breathing at will ?
“ We’re not family , so they have no right to disclose anything more , just that its a mental condition. Its not serious because he doesn’t behave any differently , its just when something sparks that certain memory and he can’t control it he collapses and his body just shuts down. We’re lucky there was an ambulance with defibrillators onsite and they manages to revive him in time “
“ Has it happen before ? “
“ Yes , but it stopped for awhile cause of the medication, I think he stopped taking them recently “
“ You never knew this too right Jinki? “
He shook his head , he was as equally shocked as us. Worst because they knew each other for four years already and this had never happened. At least Jinki never thought it happened.
Jinki said he was staying the night with Minho and ushers Key and I out the door to get some rest. Key said he’ll be back in the morning with some food . I guess in a way we were fortunate that recitals had ended that same day in the morning and Minho’s game was in the evening. If not we’d probably not be able to cope. I held on to hem of Key’s jacket my eyes on the floor , just following him , I didn’t want to think.
Key grabs my hand from behind it and holds it tightly. He whispers to me telling me that I still had school for the next two days before winter break started. He said I should just finish up with a good attendance and worry about this later. I nodded, there wasn’t a point in me going , I would be worried about them three, but what could I do anyway.
We get into Jinki’s car, Key’s at the driver seat while I buckle myself up beside him. With a sigh , he starts the car and we’re out of the A&E driveway where we had just dumped the car and run in after Minho while he was being rolled out of the van on a stretcher.
I felt angry that his family was no where to be found , had the abandoned him because of his illness, or maybe Minho wasn’t close with them.
The week before the game left three of us hardly meeting him due to his tight training schedule. I bumped into him a few times around the common park. It was a park where the paths from all the schools eventually met at. Like the dot in the centre of a circle. You had to walk through there to get out of school anyway. People would loiter around there waiting for friends from different faculties. I was just day dreaming waiting for Jinki hyung to go home together when Minho saw me from a far and gave a slight wave.
A short conversation and the arrival of Jinki meant his departure back to the fields. That was the last we saw him till today. I wished we told him to join us for dinner or talked a little longer though it might not have made much of a difference.
When I reach home , Key walks straight to the kitchen and cooks us both a bowl of noodle each , telling me I had to eat since we skipped dinner. It was 3am. I wanted to tell him not to , that I wasn’t hungry but I knew better than to push him in the wrong direction when we were both standing on the edge.
We sit at the table eating quietly , the only noise are our chopsticks hitting the sides of the bowl. He picks up our empty dishes and washes them , he tells me that tomorrow he’ll be at the hospital with Jinki since both of them finished classes already then continues to ask me if I could pick up a few things and come by after class. Written neatly on a piece of paper , he hands it to me and gives me a hug telling me sorry for imposing , but Minho was Jinki’s best friend and they were practically family, and without any real family , Jinki was all Minho had left.
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School the next day involved me dragging myself out the door , my eyes were too tired and they refused to open but I promised my brother and didn’t want to add to his worry. Key left the house before I was up leaving a portion of food in a box on the table with a note.
Taemin,
Morning , this is breakfast or lunch
Eat and go to school , I know you’re tired , just
2 more days alright
I’ll see you later , remember to pick up the things.
Love
Hyung.
I check my pocket to make sure the list of things are still there. It was a list of everyday stuff , and some cup noodles plus drinks. I guess they were planning to stay there. The food was still warm when I picked it up and kept in my bag.
Walking to school alone was nothing out of the ordinary , reaching school and throwing myself in a corner to prep before our instructor came him was nothing special , classes finishes as usual . I stretch my body out before opening the lunch box and start munching when someone bursts into the room and shouts my name as if I was a mile a way when a much lower volume would have sufficed.
Jumping up at the sudden noise everyone turns around and stares at him, then me .
“ Taemin , you’re Key’s brother right ? “
“ Do I know you ? “
“ Where’s Minho ? “
Minho? Why would he want to know.
“ Why? “
“ I’m his friend , from birth , I heard he collapsed yesterday where is he ? “
“ The hospital. “
“ Oh my god , which ?! “
“ I’m heading there now if you want to follow me “ I offered. He was rude , buy he was panicking I’m not gong to hold it against him.
I close up the remainder of my food and hurriedly pick up my things shoving them into a bag .
“ cab ? “ I ask as we ran out of the school.
He didn’t even reply ,but there was cab waiting out front already . I guess he must have ran in looking for me .
I gave the cab driver the address and he sped off. Making a mental note to run out and buy the stuff on the list.
“ Why did you look for me ? “
“ I was looking for a Lee Jinki or a Key but everyone said they didn’t see them, they only saw you so you were the next best option “
“ Whats wrong with him “ I ask out of the blue not really bothered with his reason .
“ I .. Its very difficult to explain , I’m sure you already know the after effects of it “
“ He has no family ? “
“ He likes to say that , he has a family , he just doesn’t want to be with them “
“ Why? “
He looks at me , wondering why I wanted to know so much , or why I didn’t already know .
“ He’ll tell you when he wants too, its to much for me to say “
I look back out the window of the car , he was right , I myself barely knew Minho , if anyone had the right to know it was Jinki hyung .
We reach the hospital and I’m running after him trying to tell him to wait cause he didn’t know where the ward was anyway. Barely managing to find our way there he bursts into the room startling the couple who were watching over. He bows to them politely and introduces himself .
Key looks at me funny and asks me if I know him. I shake my head, still trying to catch my breath from that sudden sprint.
“ Sorry you are ?, I’m Jinki. “ Jinki breaks the silence and stretches out his hand to meet the stranger.
“ Jonghyun “ he states.
We all know that Jonghyun knows something , but are not in any position to ask.
I look past them at the sleeping figure. The doctor said he would wake up in a day or two. His body takes awhile to adjust back from a sudden stop. The bag of food , which I assume was the one Key brought lies on the flow beside the couch, untouched.
Jonghyun pulls Jinki out to talk to him, he probably felt Jinki was the one who knew Minho , maybe he was mentioned along the way while they were friends.
I walk over to Key and he pulls me into a hug.
“ You haven’t eaten “ I mention.
He smiles, “ Have you ? “
I shook my head and told him I had just began when Jonghyun dragged me out. Taking my bag of my shoulders , he opens it and pulls out the box handing it to me telling me to finish. He eats too , because I wasn’t going to unless he did.
How did we get into this.
Pairing : 2MIN
Rating : PG
Chapters : 3 // 8
Author : dribbledrabs
The game.
Right when we reached half time , the game was declared over.
I could never explain to you exactly what happen or why. My body is still shivering despite being in the warm building. I’m sitting in this room , the sickeningly perfect white room hands clutched together , clinging on to its pair as if for dear life.
Jinki is on his phone trying to call someone , I can’t hear him at all because of the overwhelming beeping coming from the machines. Key is sitting beside me, telling me he’s sorry for brining me here, but he didn’t want me to go home after seeing that.
My mind is trying to squeeze everything out and away. I can’t. I look across the room to see , oh god , what was happening right now.
Jinki walks in again and kneels down in front of us. He is saying something about Minho having no family , he can’t trace them from school at all even his phone is void of anything that seems to be of family contacts.
I shut my eyes and hear a scream from somewhere in my memory , like its ringing , like some background music, just that music doesn’t claw at your heart like the scream did.
“ What is it Jinki “ Key asks as his holding on to his boyfriend's hand equally scared.
Jinki glances at me , I think he’s asking if I want to hear this or if they should walk out. I nod my head.
“ The doctor said that his body , he mind its not normal like us. Its not the first time his body has collapsed into an artificial death state “
I look at Jinki , Key looks at Jinki , we don’t understand . How could your body pretend to be death unless you were really dead. Could you stop your heart from beating , your lungs from breathing at will ?
“ We’re not family , so they have no right to disclose anything more , just that its a mental condition. Its not serious because he doesn’t behave any differently , its just when something sparks that certain memory and he can’t control it he collapses and his body just shuts down. We’re lucky there was an ambulance with defibrillators onsite and they manages to revive him in time “
“ Has it happen before ? “
“ Yes , but it stopped for awhile cause of the medication, I think he stopped taking them recently “
“ You never knew this too right Jinki? “
He shook his head , he was as equally shocked as us. Worst because they knew each other for four years already and this had never happened. At least Jinki never thought it happened.
Jinki said he was staying the night with Minho and ushers Key and I out the door to get some rest. Key said he’ll be back in the morning with some food . I guess in a way we were fortunate that recitals had ended that same day in the morning and Minho’s game was in the evening. If not we’d probably not be able to cope. I held on to hem of Key’s jacket my eyes on the floor , just following him , I didn’t want to think.
Key grabs my hand from behind it and holds it tightly. He whispers to me telling me that I still had school for the next two days before winter break started. He said I should just finish up with a good attendance and worry about this later. I nodded, there wasn’t a point in me going , I would be worried about them three, but what could I do anyway.
We get into Jinki’s car, Key’s at the driver seat while I buckle myself up beside him. With a sigh , he starts the car and we’re out of the A&E driveway where we had just dumped the car and run in after Minho while he was being rolled out of the van on a stretcher.
I felt angry that his family was no where to be found , had the abandoned him because of his illness, or maybe Minho wasn’t close with them.
The week before the game left three of us hardly meeting him due to his tight training schedule. I bumped into him a few times around the common park. It was a park where the paths from all the schools eventually met at. Like the dot in the centre of a circle. You had to walk through there to get out of school anyway. People would loiter around there waiting for friends from different faculties. I was just day dreaming waiting for Jinki hyung to go home together when Minho saw me from a far and gave a slight wave.
A short conversation and the arrival of Jinki meant his departure back to the fields. That was the last we saw him till today. I wished we told him to join us for dinner or talked a little longer though it might not have made much of a difference.
When I reach home , Key walks straight to the kitchen and cooks us both a bowl of noodle each , telling me I had to eat since we skipped dinner. It was 3am. I wanted to tell him not to , that I wasn’t hungry but I knew better than to push him in the wrong direction when we were both standing on the edge.
We sit at the table eating quietly , the only noise are our chopsticks hitting the sides of the bowl. He picks up our empty dishes and washes them , he tells me that tomorrow he’ll be at the hospital with Jinki since both of them finished classes already then continues to ask me if I could pick up a few things and come by after class. Written neatly on a piece of paper , he hands it to me and gives me a hug telling me sorry for imposing , but Minho was Jinki’s best friend and they were practically family, and without any real family , Jinki was all Minho had left.
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School the next day involved me dragging myself out the door , my eyes were too tired and they refused to open but I promised my brother and didn’t want to add to his worry. Key left the house before I was up leaving a portion of food in a box on the table with a note.
Taemin,
Morning , this is breakfast or lunch
Eat and go to school , I know you’re tired , just
2 more days alright
I’ll see you later , remember to pick up the things.
Love
Hyung.
I check my pocket to make sure the list of things are still there. It was a list of everyday stuff , and some cup noodles plus drinks. I guess they were planning to stay there. The food was still warm when I picked it up and kept in my bag.
Walking to school alone was nothing out of the ordinary , reaching school and throwing myself in a corner to prep before our instructor came him was nothing special , classes finishes as usual . I stretch my body out before opening the lunch box and start munching when someone bursts into the room and shouts my name as if I was a mile a way when a much lower volume would have sufficed.
Jumping up at the sudden noise everyone turns around and stares at him, then me .
“ Taemin , you’re Key’s brother right ? “
“ Do I know you ? “
“ Where’s Minho ? “
Minho? Why would he want to know.
“ Why? “
“ I’m his friend , from birth , I heard he collapsed yesterday where is he ? “
“ The hospital. “
“ Oh my god , which ?! “
“ I’m heading there now if you want to follow me “ I offered. He was rude , buy he was panicking I’m not gong to hold it against him.
I close up the remainder of my food and hurriedly pick up my things shoving them into a bag .
“ cab ? “ I ask as we ran out of the school.
He didn’t even reply ,but there was cab waiting out front already . I guess he must have ran in looking for me .
I gave the cab driver the address and he sped off. Making a mental note to run out and buy the stuff on the list.
“ Why did you look for me ? “
“ I was looking for a Lee Jinki or a Key but everyone said they didn’t see them, they only saw you so you were the next best option “
“ Whats wrong with him “ I ask out of the blue not really bothered with his reason .
“ I .. Its very difficult to explain , I’m sure you already know the after effects of it “
“ He has no family ? “
“ He likes to say that , he has a family , he just doesn’t want to be with them “
“ Why? “
He looks at me , wondering why I wanted to know so much , or why I didn’t already know .
“ He’ll tell you when he wants too, its to much for me to say “
I look back out the window of the car , he was right , I myself barely knew Minho , if anyone had the right to know it was Jinki hyung .
We reach the hospital and I’m running after him trying to tell him to wait cause he didn’t know where the ward was anyway. Barely managing to find our way there he bursts into the room startling the couple who were watching over. He bows to them politely and introduces himself .
Key looks at me funny and asks me if I know him. I shake my head, still trying to catch my breath from that sudden sprint.
“ Sorry you are ?, I’m Jinki. “ Jinki breaks the silence and stretches out his hand to meet the stranger.
“ Jonghyun “ he states.
We all know that Jonghyun knows something , but are not in any position to ask.
I look past them at the sleeping figure. The doctor said he would wake up in a day or two. His body takes awhile to adjust back from a sudden stop. The bag of food , which I assume was the one Key brought lies on the flow beside the couch, untouched.
Jonghyun pulls Jinki out to talk to him, he probably felt Jinki was the one who knew Minho , maybe he was mentioned along the way while they were friends.
I walk over to Key and he pulls me into a hug.
“ You haven’t eaten “ I mention.
He smiles, “ Have you ? “
I shook my head and told him I had just began when Jonghyun dragged me out. Taking my bag of my shoulders , he opens it and pulls out the box handing it to me telling me to finish. He eats too , because I wasn’t going to unless he did.
How did we get into this.