[Can we live...] Happily Ever After [?] - Chapter 5
Title: [Can we live] Happily Ever After [?]
Rating: PG-13 || Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Fluff/ Friendship/ (slight) Angst (?)/ AU || Status: Ongoing || Chapters: 5/9 (maybe?)
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.
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Junsu got inside his bathroom and quickly got rid of his clothes, putting them aside on the floor and getting under the sprinkle, closing the glass door behind him.
As the water started running down his body relaxing him, he thought of everything that happened on that day came to his mind: the fight with Yoochun, Jaejoong's words, Heechu's words and then the feeling of relief after seeing Yoochun again.
While thinking about it and sensing his vision getting blurry by the second, he didn't notice that the door behind him opened and only when he felt a chill running through his spine he realized that someone was inside the shower with him.
Suddenly there was more than one person under the water. A smiling Yoochun, also naked, right behind Junsu.
“Can I rub your back?” He asked and Junsu blushed like mad, stuttering afterwards.
“T-T-T-T-There's no need for that.” He replied and suddenly his vision cleared completely
“Junsu... Junsu... Junsu? Are you listening to me?” Yoochun stayed in front of him, fully clothed and having a towel in his hand “You forgot to bring a towel with you.”
“Thanks...” The boy took the towel, only realizing that he was naked in front of Yoochun “Don't open the shower's door like that!”
“You are pretty shy aren't you? Your body is like mine, so why are you so embarrassed in front of me?” Yochun asked
“It's not that... [No, I was not having strange thoughts with you] ”
“Is it some kind of complex? I read about it the other day... Body complexes. Apparently is frequent for humans to have those.”
“No, it's not lik -”
“Don't worry Junsu,” The android interrupted “you are perfect like that. You have the right proportions to your levels of muscle and your height.”
“Thank you... I guess.”
Yoochun smiled sweetly “I'm glad I was able to make you feel better. Now hurry, we'll have to make dinner”
Junsu nodded and Yoochun left the bathroom, leaving the boy dying under the water. “Did he just say I was perfect?” He looked at himself, scanning his body “Why do I feel like a pervert? I can't even believe I had those thoughts... I must be very tired.”
When Junsu finished his bath, he got out having the towel that Yoochun had given him previously around his waist, making sure that he was not anywhere to be seen and sprinting from the bathroom to his bedroom. He closed the door quickly and finally breathed.
After getting dressed and steady himself, he left the bedroom, heading to the kitchen where Yoochun was busy, cooking something.
“The kitchen helper is here. What can I do?”
“I'm making a cake. Do you want to break the eggs?”
“Sure” Junsu said, feeling hyper and grabbing an egg, smashing it completely due to the force that he used
“Not like that, Su. That's too much strength.” Yoochun said, getting closer to Junsu and startling him mostly because of his new nickname rather than because his arms were around him while teaching him how to break eggs effectively.
“Su?”
“It's short for 'Junsu'. It's cute and easy. Can I call you Su?”
“Sure. I don't mind.”
“Here, Su, put this on so that you don't get your clothes dirty.” He said, holding an apron and trying to put in on Junsu. He turned the boy around, putting the piece of cloth on him and tying it from the front, embracing Junsu in the process.
Suddenly, a voice was heard in the kitchen, making Junsu jump “Are we interrupting something?”
“What are you doing here? How did you get in?” He asked, almost screaming, partially due to being nervous.”
“The door was open. What are you guys doing? Besides the obvious, of course.”
“C-Chocolate cake” Junsu stuttered, trying to remain calm and failing in every way possible.
The magic word made the younger of the Kim brothers go forward and squeal happily “Chocolate? Can I help?”
“Since these guys were obviously making out, it's better if Changmin helps for now and I and Yunho will bring things to the living room.” Jaejoong said
After the table being set and Junsu, Yunho and Jaejoong put all the food on it, Changmin put the cake in the oven and Yoochun took the main dish to be served and the drinks to the room. Despite having a hard time convincing Changmin that the cake was not going anywhere so it was not necessary for him to cling around the oven, they managed to gather everyone in the living room and enjoyed a delicious meal, talking and laughing while savoring the food, ending it with a piece of cake for each one of them and half a cake for Changmin.
“What time is it?” Jaejoong asked at last.
“Almost midnight” Junsu replied, while looking at his watch.
“We have to go kids,” The elder said, while quickly getting up “Our parents are going to kill us. I told them we wouldn't take long and baby Changmin has to sleep. My mom never sleeps until Changmin gets home.”
“How about Hyo Hyeon's party? It's the day after tomorrow” Junsu reminded
Jaejoong sighed while Yunho kept a smile from ear to ear “Ah... Hyo Hyeon... PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATY!” The boy said, while spitting all over Junsu
“I can't believe I am going to waste this month's chance to go out at night going to that creeper's birthday party.” Changmin said, while stuffing some more cake in his mouth.
“Are you trying to say something, you little punk?”
“Yeah, I am. I don't like her, I never did and yet I have to go to her party because dad doesn't trust you to go out at night on a Saturday night and mom is afraid that Jaejoong get every girl in the party pregnant.”
Jaejoong was shocked “Woah, easy there, I am a very selective person. Half of them don't even deserve to be near or have any kind of physical contact with me.”
“Either way, the entire neighborhood thinks of you as a walking sexual organ and mom is terribly afraid to be a grandmother when she thinks of herself as being too young for that. Then I get to suffer and have to go to stupid parties because I have to take care o you two. This is all Yunho's fault, really!”
Yunho looked as his brother while making a very disgusted face “You WIL NOT have a place in heaven, Changmin. Most definitely. Not with that personality”
“Who told you that I want to go to heaven? Probably there won't be any chocolate and I'll tell you: If there is no chocolate in heaven, then I'm not going!”
Everyone looked at Changmin with strange expressions after his last statement but only one of them spoke “Chocolate in heaven? Junsu, why would there be chocolate in heaven? Where do they put the clouds then?” Yoochun asked, innocently.
Junsu smiled at the 'boy' before patting his head and turn his head to Jaejoong then. “Jae, can you pick us up the day after tomorrow? Since you have a car, we can go together to Hyo Yeon's party.”
“Us?” He sniggered “Are you taking Yoochun with you then? That should be interesting”
Channgmin's eyes lightened up the moment Junsu mentioned taking Yoochun to the party “Yoochun is going? Well, if he is going then I don't mind going too. You are going to save me from boredom, Yoochun-ah. Let's talk a lot at the party, okay?” He earned an enthusiastic nod from the android “It's official: I really like you a lot!”
Yoochun nodded, happily while Jaejoong smiled, seeing that his younger brother - the best amongst them to ever judge a person's character - liked Yoochun. Changmin could never be wrong when it came to see whether a person was good or bad and at a certain point Jaejoong was really jealous of that trait. He would like to be like him and know how to judge people; it would have come in handy in some occasions.
Jaejoong, Yunho and Changmin left after a few more minutes, leaving Junsu to help Yoochun clean the table and do the dishes despite his protests. When he finished, the boy removed the apron and hanged it behind the kitchen door, heading to the living room and sitting on the couch, yawning.
“You can do that tomorrow,” Junsu said while looking back, towards the kitchen where he could see Yoochun going back and forward “It's late. Don't you need to sleep or charge batteries or something?”
“I'm almost done” he shouted from the kitchen “Hey, Junsu? I really liked meeting your friends. They all seem like very good people and Jaejoong seems like he cares about you a lot. I didn't know he was the one that brought me here. I think I am very grateful to him.” After finishing the sentence, he was greeted with silence coming from Junsu, so Yoochun decided to peek from the kitchen into the living room where he saw Junsu sitting on the couch in an awkward position, sound asleep.
He smiled slightly and went back to his previously abandoned chore and after finishing everything up in the kitchen, Yoochun turned off the lights and entered the room where Junsu was, trying to wake him up carefully, putting his fringe to the side and away from his eyes and caressing his face with his hand, studying his features. His lips ended up getting gradually closer to Junsu's lips until they finally touched them in the end.
Junsu opened his eyes and the first thing that he saw was Yoochun's worried expression given the proximity and the fact that Yoochun had just disobeyed Junsu's order. However, Junsu just rubbed his eyes and yawned again getting up while Yoochun still looked at him. The boy sent him a smile.
“I'll let it slide for today. Goodnight Yoochun.” He said, leaving the room into his own bedroom leaving Yoochun completely frozen and blushing. Now there was a new thing to get used to: Yoochun made him blush unexplainably.
~*~
That night, Junsu dreamed about Yoochun. A perfectly normal dream if not for the small details that made him feel embarrassed.
After waking up by the sound of Yoochun's voice in the morning and still remembering the dream vividly, Junsu kept thinking that for a very long time the first thing that he would see every morning would be Yoochun's smile and it made him think that maybe it was not a very good idea to live with someone who had lips like his.
“Good morning, Su” Yoochun said, smiling at Junsu.
“Good morning, Chun.” He replied, stretching his body and embracing his pillow afterwards.
Yoochun tilted his head “Chun?”
“You gave me a cute nickname, so I got one for you too.”
“I like it” He said, smiling even more (if that was even possible) “So, did you sleep well? You seem happy.”
“I'm in a very god mood today”
“I'm glad, Junsu. Did you have a good dream?”
Junsu blushed “You can say that”
Yoochun kept looking at him before finally look away and sit on the edge of the bed “Tell me Su, how is it like to dream?”
“It's kind of hard to explain,” he started “but sometimes it's like watching a movie and other times it's like being in one. It's usually the second one for me. You can do all you want in your dreams and all kinds of weird stuff happen.”
“That sounds fun”
Junsu cleared his throat, thinking that sometimes that wasn't the case at all “Say, Yoochun, do you want to go out today? I promised to buy you new clothes today, remember?”
“Going out with you? Of course I want to go!” He chirped, while jumping from Junsu's bed
“Aright then, let's get you something else for you to wear.” Junsu got up from his bed and went to his wardrobe, opening its door and scanning his clothes for something that Yoochun could wear. He found a pair of jeans that didn't fit him anymore, a shirt, a pair of tennis shoes and gave them to Yoochun that started getting undressed immediately, shocking Junsu in the process. Yet again.
“I keep forgetting that you don't have underwear... Oh, wait, I think I have some extra underwear that I can give you.”
“Why do I need underwear?” he asked innocently
Junsu stopped for a minute before finally answering “Well, it's because... it helps...er... keeping 'stuff' in place and it's comfortable. Here you go, these are still new, I haven't worn them before.”
Yoochun put on Junsu's boxers that still looked a bit loose on his bottom and looked at his reflection in the mirror and soon after got the pair of jeans that Junsu had given him, sliding them through his slender legs and buttoning them.
Junsu had turned his back to him and started getting dressed also. It was embarrassing and it was strange given the fact that they were both male and Junsu never had any problems getting dressed in front of others guys. It was a pretty normal thing after all but the thing was that if he made an attempt to get out of the room, Yoochun would ask him why and answering would be even more embarrassing.
Meanwhile, Junsu finished getting dressed; White jeans, baby blue shirt and the black vest that he was still finishing buttoning.
Suddenly he felt a pair of eyes on him. Well, not 'on him' but on his rear. “What is it?”
“What did you do to have a butt like that? Mine is practically non-existent.” Yoochun said, while looking at his own butt.
“It's genetic I guess...”
Yoochun didn't seem happy with that answer and pouted which made Junsu think that was the most adorable thing ever as well as the fact that he was still eying his own rear through the mirror's reflection.
“I think I am developing a body complex...”
Junsu smiled, putting his arm around Yoochun's shoulders and looking at him through the mirror “Well I think you are perfect like this. You don't need a bigger ass; let me be in charge of that. Remember that I was the one who asked for you to be like this, so for me, you are the ideal of perfection.” He said, making the other blush “You are blushing”
The android put the hands on his cheeks, lowering his head a bit “For some reason that is a constant reaction these past few days. I think it might be a system's error and maybe it needs to be repaired.”
“That's not an error, Chun. It means you are shy and that is easy for you to be embarrassed when someone compliments you. Actually that is very cute. Now, let's put this on you,” He said, putting a cap on Yoochun's head “and now we can go.”
Both of them left the house and walked down the street to the nearest bus stop. The bus came twenty minutes later and as soon as the vehicle started moving, Yoochun held onto Junsu for dear life even though they were sitting.
“Are you okay, Yoochun?”
“It's my first time riding a bus... it moves too much.”
Junsu couldn't help to smile while Yoochun kept trying to remain still on his seat and failed. It took another twenty minutes for them to get to the shopping mall and by that time, Junsu was starving and Yoochun was finally able to look out of the window without feeling dizzy.
Already inside the mall, Junsu chose his favorite place to eat and ordered both for him and Yoochun.
“I bought waffles and strawberry milkshake. Do you think you'll like it? Ah, wait... you're not able to feel the food's flavor, right?”
“Actually I am not supposed to feel the food's flavor and only have a slight perception of the act itself and the feeling of being satisfied or filled with it however, I can feel the flavor. I wonder if this is an anomaly or if the application suffered some kind of upgrade by the time I installed it.”
“Does that mean you have your sensory side active?”
“No. This only happens in certain situations. Like for example I can feel the food's flavor, but I can't feel if this glass is cold or hot when I touch it.”
Junsu thought that people would think that that was fascinating, but he was kind of taken aback by it. The sole fact of Yoochun having ANY kind of sensation confused him. “Give me your hand.” He said and Yoochun obeyed. He touched his hand, trying to look for a sign in Yoochun's face. “Can you feel it?”
“No.”
“Strange. Is it only with food?”
Junsu couldn't help but to feel a little disappointed. Maybe it was an upgraded version that Yoochun had installed previously that made him taste the food but how cool would it be if Yoochun actually felt when Junsu touched him? Not that he was planning on touching him any further.
Not at all.
After eating and after Junsu get over his sudden frustration, he took the 'boy' to a store in order to buy his some clothes.
Yoochun kept staring at everything like a five year-old kid that goes into a candy shop for the first time while Junsu leaded the way, grabbing some pieces of clothing here and there and handing them to Yoochun for him to carry.
“Go try these on. The ones that fit you and that you like, bring for me to go to the cashier with them, okay? I'll wait here, so you go in there and try them.”
Yoochun got into the dressing room with a pile of clothes in his arms, barely able to close the door while Junsu rambled around the store, casually looking around for about ten minutes until Yoochun called him. He went into the dressing room and saw a very confused looking Yoochun fumbling with piece of cloth that looked like a vest.
Yoochun sent him a puppy look while showing him the piece of clothing. “I am having some difficulties understanding how I can put this on...” He said, looking kind of desperate
“It's easy. Just put this around the neck and button it behind” Junsu put the vest on Yoochun, making sure that everything else was right in place and finally let out a sound of amazement “Waaa... you look so good. Like a model straight out of a magazine.”
As Yoochun smiled and prepared to answer to Junsu's compliment, a small laugh was heard, coming from the next door's dressing room. Clearly a girl's giggle. Junsu could almost imagine what was going on in there and he found it to be right when a girl opened the door next to them and a couple got out of there.
Being the good observer that he was, Junsu could see that their lips were oddly red and he doubted that it was from the lip-gloss, unless the guy was into that kind of stuff. Of course, if that was not enough, the guy still gave her a peck in front of everyone (which was only Junsu and Yoochun, but still).
Junsu tsked at the EXTREME public display of affection and soon after spotted a very curious look on Yoochun's eyes.
That was not good.
“Have you tried on everything, Yoochun?” He asked, trying to distract him from what he had seen.
“Junsu...”
[Oh shit!]
“Are these the ones we'll be taking?”
“Those people...”
[Shit, shit, shit! Don't ask, don't ASK!]
“They were kissing, right? Why? Are they special friends like us too?”
[Damn!] Yes, they were kissing Yoochun, but I think they might be a couple. They must be dating each other.
“Dating?” He tilted his head “Is that the special relationship between two people that eventually leads them to marriage?”
Junsu sighed. He really felt like a kindergarten teacher, explaining why boys and girls kiss in the first place “Something like that. But not every couple that dates each other marries after.” Yoochun sent him a questioning look “It's kind of complicated, you know? Nowadays people date to see if a determined person is the right one for them. If it is, then they'd eventually get married but if not then they go their separate ways, meet new people and date again. Almost like a cycle.”
“So that means that dating is an experience?”
“Sort of but is not to be taken lightly. It's a way to get to know the people you love better. Is that understandable to you, Yoochun?”
The 'boy' nodded furiously “It's perfect then. Junsu, let's date!”
“WHAT?”
“I like you and I want to get to know you better. If we don't have to marry then it's perfect. Let's date!”
Junsu could feel it. It was coming. A strong and acute headache was preparing to strike him at any moment “Yoochun, we can't date each other. You are a male and a... well, a robot but mainly because you are a man like me.”
“Two men can't date?”
“No. I mean, they can, but people don't like it and think it's weird.”
“So they can't date even if they love each other?”
Junsu was loosing it “It's not that they can't it's more like-”
“That is cruel” Yoochun said at last.
[It is, right?]
“I really want to know you better” He insisted
“You can ask me about what you want to know.” Junsu said and Yoochun pouted “It's not enough?” Another pout.
“They looked happy while kissing”
Junsu knew what was coming “Yeah, usually it has that effect on people”
“Not on everyone. You don't like it.”
He knew it “It's not like that, it's just that because you did it at that time when-”
“So was it because I was the one doing it? I see... Actually my data gave me the confidence that I was able to do it without getting a negative answer from you but I guess it's not enough.”
Great, now he was getting depressed again. Suddenly Junsu thought about Heechul and imagined that wacko sitting in front on a computer, looking at Yoochun's happiness charts and cursing him for making him unhappy. It was a weird thought.
“The thing is: what is the point if only one of us can feel it?” No, he didn't just admit that he wanted Yoochun to feel his kiss too. No, he really didn't.
“I can't feel physically but I can feel a sense of happiness after doing it.”
“I have discovered another trait of your personality: you have become completely obsessed with kisses”
“Kissing you makes me happy, Su. How about you?” He asked, looking deep inside Junsu's eyes
“Well, it doesn't make me unhappy, it's just that -”
When Junsu was still preparing to articulate the next sentence, he was completely interrupted by Yoochun that pulled him inside the dressing room, pinning him against the wall and kissing him. It was most definitely not like the 'good morning' kisses or the 'good night' kiss from the previous night. It was different, more aggressive and - according to the little reasoning that Junsu was left with - better.
The kiss was long, rushed at first and then slower with both of them having their hands running through each other's waists as time went by and despite neither of them want to, they ended up parting; Yoochun's lips leaving Junsu's while his eyes kept looking for a sign that told him that the shorter one didn't like his kiss. He didn't find it though so he asked.
“Was it bad?”
“No...” Junsu gasped “Where did you learn to kiss like that?”
“I was born with it” He mocked “and television teaches a lot.”
“I'm sure it does. However, this cannot happen again.” Junsu said, completely ignoring the fact that his head was yelling the exact opposite “This is not supposed to happen, alright?”
Yoochun nodded, lowering his head and apologizing while Junsu patted his head and grabbed the clothes that the android had tried on and headed to the cashier, stumbling a little. He sure didn't remember his legs being this week.
~*~
“He did WHAT?”
“You know... those kisses! THOSE, you know?”
“Huh-Huh”
The excessive use of the words 'you know' and the not so elaborate interjections kept going for a good five minutes when finally Junsu concluded his analysis and made his blonde friend smirk.
“It was like he wanted to suck my soul from that kiss!”
“You liked it, didn't you?”
Actually it might sound weird when a person goes out on a saturday, whithout letting the friends know about it, the city has other shops and malls but that annoying yet 'always-right-about-everything' friend suddenly appears out of nowhere. And it's even weirder when that actually happens in the men's bathroom. No, scratch that, peeing with your best friend next to you (doing the same) while talking about kissing is even weirder. At least that's what Junsu thought after getting in the bathroom while going crazy by himself and happened to see Jaejoong fixing his hair in front of the mirror and the next thing he knew, he was telling him how Yoochun (whom he left waiting for him outside) tried to kiss the life out of him.
“That's not the point.”
“You're wrong, my friend. That IS the point. You liked the kiss and now you don't know what to do because you are getting closer to him and as for his personality, Junsu, he is not too frisky, he's falling for you...”
“Wake up, Jaejoong. He doesn't know what 'falling in love' is. He can't fall in love.”
“Keep telling yourself that, Junsu. Yoochun has human emotions and you know that. For all that matters, the only thing that he doesn't have yet is a neurological system, but he can somehow have feelings although he might not fully comprehend them so I say that if he is not already in love with you, he is very close to that.”
“No, he's just curious” Junsu tried to reason
“Aren't you contradicting yourself there? You just said that he is curious, but curiosity is a human trait. If he cannot be human to that level like you were saying before and like you are trying to convince yourself, how can he be curious?”
That was definitely too much information for Junsu's state of mind at the moment “So, let's just say for a split-second that you are right... What am I supposed to do?”
Jaejoong snorted “Isn't that obvious? Take him to Heechul!”
“Do you think I should ask him to repair Yoochun?”
“You're the one who needs repairing and it's in your head! I'm telling you to ask the crazy dude to see if he is able to implant a neurological system in him. It's not good if only one of you feel all of those... physical sensations and I am so not referring myself to the kiss only.”
Junsu wanted to smack his friend, but he was not in a very good position at the moment so he finished his business and zipped his pants, going to the sink and washing his hands afterwards. His friend followed him.
“You so want to jump on him, Junsu... I can see that so take him to Heechul and stop trying to be such a prude.”
Junsu showed him his most shocked expression that ended up earning him a roll of eyes “I don't want to jump on him so stop saying that and I refuse to become a pervert with an erotic robot! I don't even know why I told you what happened and most importantly: what the hell are you doing here?”
“This is a public bathroom so maybe I have the right to want to pee like every human being after drinking one too many glasses of juice because my date was such a boring yet sexy girl, don't I?”
“This is entirely your fault. If you didn't buy me Yoochun I...”
Jaejoong interrupted his friend then “You would have never experience the feeling of being in love and would keep living without knowing how it is to feel like your heart is going to burst just from looking at someone. Trust me Junsu I'm your Cupid you just didn't realize that yet...
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A/N: New chapter is served ^^ I really want to thank those who have left me such supportive comments on previous chapters, This one is for every single one of you guys.
Now, tell me what you think ^^