[Can we live...] Happily Ever After [?] - Chapter 1
Title: [Can we live] Happily Ever After [?]
Rating: PG-13 || Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Fluff/ Friendship/ (slight) Angst (?)/ AU || Status: Ongoing || Chapters: 1/?
Pairing(s): YooSu / YooMin (friendship)
Warning: Loosely based on "Zettai Kareshi" and the movie "Bicentennial man". Although the idea was inspired by something else, I do desclaim the story as mine. I wish I could claim all 5 as mine though, but unfortunately I can't...
Basic Synopsis: In a modern and technologicaly advanced world, where God is no longer the only creator, perfection is born.
Junsu is an college art student who has the most boring life ever, which makes his best friend think that what he needs the most in his life is love and so he decides to get him the perfect girlfriend. The only problem is that his 'perfect girlfriend' is perfectly beautiful... male.
The phone kept ringing non-stop and Heechul started cursing the fact that the damn cell phone was so tiny that he never found it when he needed to.
“Where is that damn thing? I could swear I… oh! I looked for this manga everywhere” The man said, flipping the book's pages for a few seconds until he heard the phone ring again “Damn it! I swear I have to change this ring tone. It’s so annoying, especially when I don’t know where it comes from! AH! FOUND YOU!” He said, before tripping over a ball that kept rolling through the room. “Who left this HERE? Ahem...” he said, clearing his throat “Hello, this is Kim Heechul speaking, how can I help you?”
“Hello, this is Kim Jaejoong. We spoke this morning”
“Jaejoong-sshi! Yes, I remember. What can I do for you?” The man asked, amused at the call from his first client.
“Well, you told me to call you today…”
“Did I? Well, that’s how time flies, huh?” The man said, laughing hysterically afterwards “Well, yes, everything is ready, so when can you come to pick up your order?”
“I have some spare time today, is that okay?” Jaejoong asked
“Of course. Everything is set so I only need you to sign the papers and make the final payment.”
“No problem. I can go there in about two hours, is that okay?”
“Two hours? Perfect.” Heechul hung up the phone, looked around the room where he was standing and sighed “ I really have to clean up this mess”
~*~
“Yunho?” Junsu called, tapping on his friend’s shoulder.
“Damn it Junsu, don’t scare me like that!” The boy said, jumping at the sudden contact.
“What are you doing here?
“I’m hiding.”
Junsu tilted his head while looking at his friend “Why…?”
“They are after me, don’t you know? They’re going to tear me apart when they find me” He said and Junsu kept sending him a questioning look “THEM! The girls!”
“What? Is this about women again? Now, what did you do this time Yunho?”
“Isn’t it obvious? I’m a Kim, so everyone wants a piece of me, Junsu. I swear it’s like some kind of curse or something…WHY?”
Junsu put his right hand on the boy’s forehead and then on his own “Are you having some kind of fever? Did you hit your head again, Yunho? You should go to the infirmary for that.”
“I didn’t hit my head” Yunho said, removing his friend’s hand from his forehead.
Junsu sighed “Yunho, no one is after you and trust me, no one wants ‘a piece of you’, okay?”
“I’ll show you proof then.” The boy pulled up his shirt’s sleeve, revealing his forearm having an almost unnoticeable scratch “This was their doing while attacking me this morning. I was so scared Junsu, they were like more than ten girls, running towards me and shoving one another when they attacked me. They fought with each other just to give me this!” He handed a letter in front of his friend.
“Don’t tell me that…”
“RABU RETTERU!” Yunho said, spitting all over Junsu. He was kind of used to it already though since Yunho seemed to have a slight problem controlling his spit whenever he tried to speak English, which was a frequent thing.
Junsu wiped his friend’s spit from his face while correcting him “Love letter.”
“That’s what I said. Anyway, this is the proof.”
“Have you read it already?” Junsu asked and Yunho nodded negatively
“My life is at stake, do you think I had the time for that?”
Junsu rolled his eyes at his friend’s lack of brains but remained calm “Then do it now.” Yunho whined “I’ll keep a look out for you” Another eye-roll and finally Yunho started reading the letter.
“I’ve been wanting to tell you this for quite some time, but for some reason I was not able to reveal my true feelings. The only thing I know for sure is that everytime I see you my heart seems to stop for a second. The way you smile, your way of walking, the way you brush your golden hair with your delicate fingers… Oppa, why are you so sexy?
I fell for you the moment I first laid my eyes on you and I want you to know that. Can you please accept my feelings for you? Saranghaeyo.”
“Oh… she’s such a sweetie… I didn’t know she liked me so much.” Yunho said, while folding the letter again”
“Yunho, can you understand Korean? Read with me: “the way you brush your golden hair with your delicate fingers” Yunho scrunched his face and looked at Junsu again “You have BROWN hair. This letter is not for you, it’s for Jaejoong, you idiot!”
Yunho gasped in disbelief. It couldn’t be. “But…for Jae?”
“Yes, for Jae, your brother, the most popular male in the entire college, the only person from whom they want a piece, the boy who was nominated as the sexiest teen and the only Kim who has “golden hair” around here. Get it now?”
“But they attacked me…” Yunho tried again and Junsu patted his back
“Sorry to disappoint you but they did the exact same thing to Changmin after trying to put the letters inside his locker but failing because apparently his locker was packed with candy and chocolates.”
Yunho resigned then. Junsu had broken his dreaming bubble, so he was kind of grumpy at the moment “I’m going to give this to Jaejoong-hyung. Wanna come with me?”
Junsu decided it was a good idea, mostly because he had nothing better to do at the moment, so he followed his friend through the stairs and across a large corridor that led them to the art’s office, where Jaejoong should be.
Yunho knocked on the door and then called his older brother who got out from the store room and greeted them with a smile.
“What were you doing in the store room?” Yunho asked
“I needed some materials. I’m working on a new project.”
“Is it a new sculpture?” Junsu inquired, looking at the materials
“Yeah. Mr. Kang convinced me in participating on the college’s art contest that takes place next month.” Jaejoong said
“What’s in it for you?" Junsu asked, clearly suspecting his friend’s sudden wish to participate in the contest.
“The contest’s prize, what else?”
“You can’t know if you are going to win for sure. What else is it?”
Jaejoong made out a shocked shriek as he looked at Junsu who was folding his arms while sending him a very suspicious look “It hurts me that you think such things about me, Junsu. Do you doubt me that much?” Junsu kept staring “Alright, you win, I agreed to participate in the contest and in exchange I won’t have to do any oral presentations for Mr. Kang’s class until the end of the school year.”
Junsu’s mouth fell wide open “That is totally unfair!” He yelled
“No, it’s not. It’s an agreement.” He said, brushing of the topic
“Swap with me!”
“No way!”
“C’mon! You know that the presentations drive me crazy and that I’m not even talented nor have confidence in my own work”
Jaejoong kept ignoring his friend’s words and proceeded into arranging the materials he would need on top of a table. “I know he asked you to enter the contest and you refused.”
“He didn’t propose anything in exchange.”
“He didn’t propose anything in exchange to me either. It was my demand.” Jaejoong blurted
“I didn’t know we could demand anything whatsoever from teachers” He crossed his arms again, pouting this time.
“That’s Kim POWA for you!” Yunho said, spitting slightly at the english word he had just said.
“’Power’, Yunho. It’s ‘power’” Junsu corrected
“Like I said. Jae, I have something for you. Here.” Yunho dropped a few letters on a table near Jaejoong, which made the elder sigh at the sight.
“More? I have a bag full of them. Well, I guess it’s the price to pay for popularity. Hey, Junsu, where are you going?” He asked, seeing as his friend was already going to the exit door.
“Home. I’ll just go and crawl into some emo corner or something. I think I might try and finish my painting. I still have two days.”
“How is it so far?”
“Terrible, of course.”
Jaejoong sighed. He knew that his friend didn’t have that much self-esteem, but sometimes that kind of annoyed him “Is it possible for someone to have less self-esteem than you, Kim Junsu? Your paintings are not bad; it’s just that they-”
Junsu interrupted him “It’s just that they are horrible pieces of wood and fabric with splashes of colour”
“No,” Jaejoong continued “you just need to have more confidence and inspiration. You are a great artist; you just haven’t realized that yet.”
“I like your paintings” A new voice was heard in the room, while the three boys looked at the door and saw a tall boy getting in. “Hyung, I have more letters for you. I had to take the candies out of my locker and you know what that means.”
“For real Changmin, how old are you? Five?”
“Nineteen years old, thank you very much.” The boy said, looking at Yunho and making a face.
“Oh yeah? Well, only little kids keep their lockers full with candy and chocolates.”
“Yeah? Well, I do it and I’m not sharing anything with you.”
“You’ll grow fat, your teeth will rot and there’ll be pimples appearing all over your face, you little punk”
“I’m not a punk, I’m adorable, but you’re a pain in the ass, you know that? That noona from class three also said it.”
“Come here you little…” Yunho grabbed his younger brother, putting his arm around his neck while the other hit him as hard as he could.
“Now, now, no strangling while we are in college!” Jaejoong warned, splitting the two appart “Changmin, you are adorable, but please stop teasing him with the noona from class three just because she finds you cute but can’t stand Yunho” His brother sent him a look “As for you, Yunho, you will stop bugging him and forget about that girl once and for all. She rejected you, because you were stalking her so much, so just forget about her”
“Well then, thank you for saving me Jaejoong hyung, now that I’ve given you your love letters, this adorable kid will go home” Changmin announced and left the room but not before smirking at Yunho.
“I hate that kid. Anyway, Jaejoong hyung, are you going to so home soon or not?”
“Kind of, I’ll have to go get Junsu’s birthday present before” Jaejoong said, looking at Junsu, who just scoffed.
“I told you I didn’t want a present, so don’t bother please. I’m going home, lock myself in the studio and I’m not leaving there. I don’t want a party, cake or presents.”
“Do you know that the fact that you demanded that there was no cake for your birthday made Changmin very sad? The poor kid even wanted to bake one for you, but relax, we are not making a party for you, so you can go and be depressed all you want today buy I do have a present for you and I intend to bring it to your house in a couple hours so you won’t have a choice about that matter.” Jaejoong said, while putting away the chisel he was holding and get his bag from the ground. Junsu nodded nonchalantly though “Yah! It’s a present from your best friend, do you mind showing a little more enthusiasm?”
“Your presents are always weird to the point where I’m even afraid to unwrap them.”
“I only want what’s better for you Junsu. Besides, you are so going to love the present.”
“Yeah, whatever” Junsu brushed it off and headed to the door “I’m going now. I’ll leave the door open so you can leave your present there.”
“Alright then. Happy 22nd anniversary!” Jaejoong yelled and Junsu just waved his hand, before leaving.
~*~
Yunho and Jaejoong left a few minutes later, getting into Jaejoong’s car and heading to where the elder was supposed to pick up Junsu’s present.
“I’m kind of curious about his present. You have been making it a secret ever since you said you got the idea. What did you do this time?”
Jaejoong giggled “Let’s say it’s a very special present and that it’ll keep Junsu company”
“Please don’t tell me you bought him a dog. The guy can’t even take care of himself” Yunho said
“What dog? Do you really think I’d buy him a dog? The poor animal would starve to death since Junsu is such an air head that he’d probably forget he had a dog in his house. Besides, what I have for him is way better than a dog and way more expensive by the way.” Jaejoong sighed afterwards. “I’m going to be scolded as soon as dad sees the bill for the credit card”
“Your card?” Yunho asked
“Of course not. I need money to survive. Dad’s credit card.”
Yunho winced in his seat “What? Did you use dad’s credit card?” Jaejoong nodded “How much did you spend?
“Well, let’s say everything? Yeah, I basically killed his credit card.”
Yunho was dumbfounded “He’s going to kill you…” Jaejoong nodded again “What in hell was so damn expensive? Did you buy him a car? A house?”
Jaejoong grinned as he saw the destined location approaching “Way better.”
Both of them left the room as soon as Jaejoong announced that they’d arrive and after checking what would be the right door, the elder rang the bell and was greeted by a familiar voice coming from the intercom.
“I’m Kim Jaejoong and we’ve talked a couple hours ago. I came to pick up my order.”
“Ah, yes, Mr. Kim. I’ll open the gate so please get in and go up the stairs. It’ll be on the 1st floor, 2nd door to your left.”
The gate was opened then and the brothers got in. After following the directions, they saw a door and knocked, being given the permission to get in by the same voice that greeted them a few minutes ago.
“Mr. Kim!! It’s a pleasure to meet you at last!” Heechul greeted, shaking Jaejoong’s hand all of a sudden.
Jaejoong introduced Yunho to the man who greeted him also and kept staring at Jaejoong afterwards. Yunho found him to be the weirdest guy he had ever seen in his life, with his long hair up in a ponytail and sparkly clothes.
“So, my order…” Jaejoong started
“Oh, yes! It’s ready and I have already wraped it and everything.”
“Well, I actually wanted to see it before hand.”
“If you are worrying about possible defects, please don’t. Although it’s embarrassing to say this to a customer, your request turned out as my most perfect masterpiece. You’ll get to see how it turned out from the file I’ve prepared since it has a picture and all. Please follow me.”
Jaejoong and Yunho followed the man into another room, where a big box could be seen with the sign of ‘frail’ attached to it. Heechul grabbed then a file and handed it to Jaejoong who went through the text and the specifications but soon found a mistake.
“I’m sorry Heechul-sshi, but I think there is some kind of mistake here.” Heechul approached Jaejoong, looking at the file too. “Here it says: ‘sex: male’ when it should be female and about the picture… did it turn out like that? I mean…”
Heechul cut him off at once “Well, actually when I got your order's form, I noticed you didn’t fill in the blank for the gender, so I assumed that you didn’t mind whether it would be male or female.”
“Well, I gave you the specifications and from them you should have assumed that I wanted it to be a female. I’m not exactly satisfied with this. You know, my friend for whom this is is a male.”
“I assume that that is a problem? I don’t see why though but I’ll read the rest of the file for you so you can see that every specification was followed like you asked.” Heechul grabbed the file and started reading from it “Series name: H-ent001 Soulmate - this is just his series number, it can be changed, so don’t worry - His personality is sweet, calm, caring and sensitive. As for his capabilities, he is equipped with the ability to cook, has an average IQ of 158, being very capable, curious, gentle and slightly devious and/or frisky.”
“I’m sorry but what do you mean by ‘devious and/or frisky’?” Yunho asked, innocently
“I mean exactly what you are thinking. So, these were the characteristics asked. As for the picture, you can see that I followed your request also: tall, athletic, with dark brown hair above the shoulder, plump lips and brown eyes.”
Jaejoong sighed, while making his fingers go through his silky hair “Alright, so as for the final payment, I have already transferred the money”
“Yes, I’ve seen it, thank you very much. You see, I made you a discount since you were my first customer.”
“Yeah, it helped a lot!” Jaejoong said, being as sarcastic as he could possibly be.
“About its maintenance, you’ll find the instruction’s book inside the box and I can tell you he is pretty easy to handle. After waking him, he’ll do his own maintenance and autonomy, being equipped with an internal download system for new applications. There is several applications that can be downloaded, but it will be necessary for the user to approve of them as a security measure, you know? Anyway, it’s all in there.”
“Sounds good to me. We’ll be taking it now.”
“Sure thing. Be careful though since it’s kind of heavy and if there is any kind of problem, you have my contact number”
Jaejoong and Yunho picked up the heavy box with difficulty and headed for the exit while Heechul kept yelling from inside the room “It was a pleasure making business with you!”
[Yeah, I’m sure it was… ] Jaejoong thought
After putting the box inside the car, both Yunho and Jaejoong got into the vehicle.
“I can’t believe you did this, really. Junsu is going to be so mad. You just bought him an erotic doll!”
Jaejoong was offended “No I didn’t! I got him the best thing he’ll ever have: a roommate, who talks, walks and does everything to please him”
“That sounds so wrong. He said the doll was frisky!”
“I asked Junsu about his ideal woman and these were the characteristics that he told me. It’s not my fault that he wants a devious girlfriend”
“He’s gonna be furious anyway. Do you realize his ‘perfect girlfriend’ has something very different in-between ‘her’ legs?”
“That is just a minor detail.”
The brothers arrived to their friend’s house a while late and knowing that Junsu was in his studio painting, Jaejoong hurried Yunho into getting his present quickly. Like he said he would do, Junsu let his front door unlocked so Jaejoong could easily get in. They left the box in the middle of the living room and the elder tried to call his friend just to make him know he was there.
“Junsu!!” He called
“I’m in the studio. I hope you didn’t bring cake!”
Jaejoong grinned “Don’t worry, I just brought your present. I’ll leave it in the living room.”
“Alright. I’ll open it later on. Thanks anyway!”
Yunho looked at his brother grinning as mad and then looked at the box “Let’s open it and save him the trouble.”
Jaejoong agreed and started pulling the duct tape from the box and opened it. Inside the carton box, there was another one, made out of a more resistant material which Jaejoong also opened, finally revealing Junsu’s ‘present’.
“Oh… my… God!” Yunho blurted
“I know, I know.” Inside the box there was a boy, laid in fetal position, having his eyes closed and a serene expression. “It’s so… perfect and it’s so-”
“Naked” Yunho finished “Do we leave it like this?”
“Of course not. Give me the towel that is on the table” Jaejoong picked up Junsu’s new roommate while Yunho put the towel around his waist making him sit on their friend’s couch later on while Jaejoong still looked for the instruction manual.
“Are you going to turn it on?” Yunho asked, suddenly realizing what he said “Gosh, this sounds so wrong…”
“Can you imagine Junsu’s reaction? He’ll think he has a dead body in his living room. Oh, it’s here!” Jaejoong started reading ‘First time connecting: If it’s the first time you try to turn on the system, it’s internal battery as well as the backup battery will be empty which means that the central system might take a while to be activated. For a well succeeded activation, you will have to connect the battery cable to the electricity for one hour. After this charging period you might want to choose whether you want to fill in the central battery completely or not.
As soon as the backup battery is full, the main system will be on and will charge the main battery without needing the electric circuit’s help. This method is very practical for the daily usage of the ‘Soulmate’ since the system has self-maintenance installed and will charge the battery automatically’ Well, isn’t that easy?”
Yunho looked at his brother, slightly confused “So, we just need to plug it, right? Where’s the cable? Is this tiny thing behind the ear?” Jaejoong nodded and Yunho connected the cable to the tiny hole behind its ear and afterwards to the electricity. “Is it on? I think it’s broken.”
As soon as he said the words, some lights started flashing and startled Yunho “Well, what do you know, it works” he said “Yeah, our job here is done, so what about going now, Jae?” The older nodded and both of them left the room quickly, leaving the ‘present’ there.
~*~
Junsu didn’t realize how late it was until he actually looked at his watch and sighed when he saw it was way past midnight. He had finally finished his painting and although he was not thrilled about the way it turned out to be, he thought that it wasn’t as bad as he expected.
After putting away the painting along with the brushes and the ink, Junsu decided that it was a good idea to eat something, since he didn’t even have dinner that day so he left his studio and headed to the kitchen getting out a few leftovers from the fridge and ate. When he was finished, he put the dirty dishes in the sink - being too lazy to wash them - and left the kitchen, heading to his room and meanwhile passing through the living room when he saw a strange light.
As he got into the living room, that was completely dark, he could only see the strange light and a silhouette on his couch so Junsu had to admit: he was scared. Even so, he managed to silently grab something that he could use as a weapon and quickly turned on the light, seeing then a boy, ‘sleeping’ on his couch, covered with his table’s towel.
Junsu heard a small ‘click’ and soon enough the ‘boy’ opened his eyes, took off the strange cable that seemed to be connected to him and looked at Junsu, smiling afterwards.
Junsu freaked out.
“Who are you and what are you doing here?” Junsu asked, pointing the umbrella that he managed to pick up in the dark at the boy and trying not to look scared.
“Hello, nice to meet you” The ‘boy’ said, bowing respectfully
“Why do you have my towel around you? Give it back!”
“Why certainly.” He said, taking of the towel and giving it to Junsu, being completely naked meanwhile.
Junsu blushed “Maybe it was not a good idea. You can keep it.”
“Thank you sir, you are very kind.”
“Now, who are you? Is this a prank from Jaejoong or something?” Junsu asked, putting away his useless umbrella.
“My name is H-ent001 Soulmate, I’m here to serve you and unfortunately my system does not recognize the name Jaejoong. I do not know such person.” He said
Junsu could not close his mouth as he was having some trouble realizing what was really happening there “Alright, enough with the jokes. Get out.”
“Where should I go, sir?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care. Just go home. This joke has gone too far already, so get out.” Junsu yelled and the boy got out, closing the door then. Junsu tried to think about what the hell was going on in there and decided to call his friend.
“Hello~?”A very sleepy Jaejoong answered the call
“What’s going on here, Jaejoong? Why did I get to my living room and have a naked guy sleeping on my couch? What kind of joke is this?”
“Oh, that! It’s your birthday gift.”
Junsu tried not to loose his mind and be calm, but he failed in doing so “Are you out of your mind? Who is him? No, don’t tell me, I don’t want to know since I kicked the guy out already, but I do want to know what the hell were you thinking! Did you pay him? Okay, maybe I don’t want to know that either, I just can’t believe what you did. Do I look like I’m THAT desperate?”
“Can you calm down, please? He’s not what you are thinking but if you want me to tell you honestly, yes, you do look desperate. Now look around his box and you’ll find a book inside. Read it and you will understand. I still can’t believe you kicked it out of the house Junsu. It’s not ‘his’ fault.”
“Jaejoong just fu- ”
“Now, now, watch your tongue Junsu. Calm down and do what I told you. By the way is it safe for me to go to college tomorrow?”
“Don’t even try to appear in front of me” Junsu threatened
After hanging up the call and cursing for five more minutes, Junsu looked at the box that Jaejoong mentioned and again the anger started boiling so he just grabbed everything, determined to put in out in the trash but when he opened his front door he saw the boy he had ordered to go away ten minutes earlier sitting on the floor, having still his tower around his waist.
“What are you doing there?” Junsu asked
“You told me to go out. Is this where I’ll be staying from now on?”
Junsu sighed, annoyed “No, now you go home.”
“Then can I go inside again?” The ‘boy’ asked, smiling while at it and Junsu started thinking that maybe he had some kind of mental problem.
“Are you retarded? I’m telling you to go home, to YOUR house.”
He tilted his head cutely “But I am already here since this is where you live, sir, so it’s my home too and I shall never leave unless you command me to”
“[Isn’t that what I’ve trying to do?] Alright, get in, we need to talk” Junsu said, giving up on that stupid talk and so, the stranger got into his house again.
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A/N: 1st chapter and it's loong as hell, so it might be boring, I don't know. I hope you guys like it though. It's not proof-read, since I'm too tired for that now, so forgive any typos, okay?
So, what do you think? Tons of comments, please?