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One of the most important days in a man's life is his Wedding Day. After being rejected by Hana, Taemin was positive that his Wedding Day was somewhere far off in the future. But after a staged surprise visit from the MBC filming crew, Taemin finds out that his Wedding Day might be a lot closer than he thinks as it's announced that he will be the next husband-to-be on MBC's hit reality show, We Got Married.
The day before Why So Serious is set to release, Taemin is whisked off to Jeju Island to meet his mystery bride. The setting of his first date has Taemin thinking a lot about Hana and part of him wishes that she was the one he was marrying. Yet, Taemin is determined to make the most out of his time on the show and decides to use it as his way of getting over Hana. Will Taemin be able to let go of his feelings for SHINee's sole female member? Is it possible to fall in love with someone when your relationship is fake? Which lucky female celebrity will get the honor of marrying SHINee's Taemin?
On the way to visit the Newlywed's house, Hana is nervous to meet Taemin's bride-to-be. She doesn't want to come between Taemin and his new wife yet it feels like this marriage is slowly putting a strain on her friendship with Taemin. She's happy for Taemin, she really is, but conflicting feelings leave Hana confused and dreading being in the new couple's presence. Luckily, she has Minho and Key there to watch her back and help smooth things over, but will the two frenemies prove to be helpful or will their conniving ways cause more trouble than good?
Wedding bells are ringing as SHINee's baby takes his first step into live as a married man. Follow Taemin as he discovers if marriage is all it's cracked up to be in Chapter 38, Taeminnie's Getting Married?! Head on over to Asianfanfics to check it out!
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summerofshinee · 1 year
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Kibum likes the way he looks. He takes care of himself, tends to the health of his skin, his hair, everything that builds up to his image. Everything is within his control - if he doesn’t want to go to the gym, he won’t. If he wants to drink sugary coffee, he will. And if he wants to do anything else that affects his body, his anatomy, he will.
Every inch of his body is his - except for five inches long, three inches wide, inked into his skin, marking him for someone else. Before he could even recognize himself in the mirror, part of him was never within his say, or even his parents’.
tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe, Soul Bond, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
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Fanfic Origin Story
Tagged by the lovely @bekkachaos. Thank you for the tag. Sorry I'm so late.
What was your first fandom (reading and/or writing)?
I was once and forever a shawol (fan of Kpop group Shinee for those who don't know), and started of reading and writing for Shinee back when I was 16 on asian fanfics and falling down a rabbit hole of fandom. My ships were 2min (my OTP!! Minho and Taemin), Jongyu (Jonghyun and Onew), and Onkey (Onew and Key).
What was first story you ever wrote.
It was for the Joonew fic (Joon from MBLAQ and Onew from Shinee) which surprisingly wasn't even my OTP. This is probably all really weird for people who don't know the 2nd generation Kpop bands.
What's a piece of advice you would give your younger fic writing self?
Write what you want, just have fun. It's not about how many comments or kudoses or even who reads your work. It's about you and how happy it makes you.
What’s an early fandom interaction that stuck with you (be it a nice comment , a friend you made, a fic that got a lot of feedback)
I think my favourite early fandom experience was that my twin and I used to make posters and book trailers and although it was a lot of work and we could only ever take 10 requests per release. I loved doing it. Unfortunately we both got way too busy to do it anymore.
Post a sentence or two from an older fic and a sentence or two from a newer one (if you want)
From a million flowers may bloom. A westallen story set in 1940s. Its from 2015 so I still consider it old.
The thing that struck Iris about working in a newspaper was no one wanted her to do anything important. The most they let her do was organise the articles or run reports from one journalist to another. But she was itching to write. Her editor brushed it off, giving her more menial tasks. That’s how she was stuck trying to organize a photographer for the new crime journalist.
Barry Allen, the new journalist had just transferred in after working 3 years as some sort of hotshot consultant with the cops. Iris was a little peeved that a man that had little journalistic experience was already writing pieces before her. But what could she do, her college degree seemed to mean nothing in the long run.
From against a rule set for us by time. My most recent malex time travel story.
Instead of answering, Alex just sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as he collected his racing thoughts. The silence only served to heighten Michael’s anxiety. He had jumped the gun and now Alex was going to feel awkward around him - or worse - hate him. 
Alex doesn’t have to regret this, he reminded himself – he could undo it.
Realisation quickly followed by panic washed over Alex’s face. “Don’t go back!” Alex’s hand returned to Michael’s chest to stop him as if he could hear his thoughts. He looked afraid.
Tagging these lovely beings if they feel like it💕 @4ever-the-nme @theartofdreaming1 @alex-guerin @heart-like-paper
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keybummietomyheart · 6 years
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©️: @shineemoon for the lovely Onkey gif 😍 https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1361263/1/soft-boys-fluff-shinee-onkey-happy-nonau-sweetfluff Yes this is mine Yes I’m still 110% a Jongkey shipper Yes I did write Onkey which is extremely rare so please be kind to me since they aren’t my otp 💚💎it’s just happy & sweet fluff
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WINTER
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Taemin : Are u going to show up tomorrow?
Jinki  : Still think about it
Jinki  : The restaurant closed around 10
Taemin : Come on! U hv two sous chefs!
Taemin : Let them work :P
Jinki  : Dude, it’s not a restaurant without the head chef around
Taemin : But what’s the point of hiring them if you cannot gain some free time?
Taemin : Come on, Jinki.. U know tomorrow night is important to me
Jinki  : I know, that’s why I said I’m still thinking about it
Taemin : You won’t regret it
Taemin : I have lots of good looking friends on my guest list
Taemin : #wink
Jinki  : I can get laid by myself
Jinki  : I even have invitations already waiting for me until the weekend
Jinki  : And it’s only Wednesday
Taemin : Show off
Jinki  : Sometimes drastic measures are needed
Taemin : Okay, just consider it
Taemin : Not because I have people with good asses coming to the party
Taemin : It’s because you’re my friend and this is important
Jinki  : I know
Jinki  : Text me the address anyway
Jinki  : Just in case I can sneak out one hour earlier
Taemin : Cool! I’ll send the e-invitation to ur email
Taemin : The party starts by 9
Taemin : C U tomorrow! :)
“Aren’t you too old for that?”
Kibum came back to their table with two cups of coffees. He handed one cup to Taemin and sipped what’s inside his before flopped to the grey couch at the corner of the cafe, continued to read the book from where he left it.
“What? Texting?”
“Hmmm,” his eyes aren’t leaving the page opened before him.
“This is what you’ve called networking. You need to keep up with today’s trend to be able staying at the top of society.”
He finally lifted his head to meet Taemin’s eyes, “Drink your coffee. I think you’re not getting over your last night hangover.”
“Ha. Neat,” he put his phone aside, “You’re coming tomorrow, right?”
“You mean your party?”
“What else?”
“I wouldn’t miss it for the world. There would be lots of important people coming over.”
“I should have been insulted with your statement that makes me and my achievement less important but I guess you’re right, I still have the headache from last night I refused to have any quarrel with anyone.”
“Honey, you can stick with your phone and all those youngster hype, but this is what I called networking. Don’t be too sad, I still love you.”
“Whatever. Dress up nicely.”
“You seriously doubt my wardrobe taste?”
“There’s someone I want you to meet. He might looks like a careless person, but when he stepped on any party, he’s not a joke.”
Kibum raised his torn eyebrow when the words finally hit him, “He?”
Taemin chuckles across the table, “Well, after your recent divorce, I don’t think you want to hang around someone who has more than one X chromosome in their DNA. So?”
“So what?”
“Are you interested?”
“I don’t know.”
It’s not like Kibum wanted to solitude himself from all the females as resentment of the separation with his ex-wife. Since he knew what love is back in the first year of high school, he’s open to anyone for he believes gender determined what kind of good heart people has for him. He just needs the time for himself in general, after five years he spent together with her seemed like vanished in vain because both of them cannot handle each other ego during their three years of marriage.
“It’s about time to open your heart again, no?”
“After only six months? Are you being sober now?”
“Easy there, Tiger. I’m just thinking you blamed yourself enough for something that’s already broken more than one year ago. No offense. And don’t give me that look,” Kibum pulls the best effort not to roll his eyes, “I’m not telling you to get married again, Kim Kibum. You just need to start living.”
“Am I dead already for you or what?”
“Yes. You might be here and there trying to put on the pretty mask but you’re just so dead inside. How long we’ve known each other, really? That doesn’t work for me.”
“Lecturing me doesn’t get us anywhere. Moving on it’s not that easy.”
“I know. But moving forward is doable and that’s what you should do right now.”
Kibum leaned closer to recheck whether he’s been talking with the same Lee Taemin he knew since college, “You really are still drunk, aren’t you? Since when you had those fancy words came out your filthy mouth?”
“Internet does crazy stuff on you, you don’t know that?”
Kibum scoffed and grabbed his book back though his mind is not here to continue the story line anymore.
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Lee Jinki is not a fan of a crowd actually, unless with some alcohol involved and the plan of fooling around entailed. Still, crowd gives him freedom, to mind his own business, to decide what’s to care about and what’s not.
Since a week ago, Taemin had been pestering him to stop by his party for the opening of his new studio. Being a famous photographer, he had the needs to make the night unforgettable. Besides, the younger man had been talking about how cool and perfect his new place is.
In the ocean of stranger like this, he regrets arrived there sober.   
“Lee Jinki!!”
A bright lean man screamed from near what supposed to be the main stage. Jinki waved his hand toward him but isn’t planning to greet him yet, instead he walked closer to the buffet table near the entrance and snatched a glass of prosecco. He nods to the choice of the liquor.
“Look at you! Who said he’s not coming but dressed up like one of my model?”
“This?” he assessed himself right away, black silk shirt under the same color leather jacket matched with pair of maroon pants and white Reebok classic on both his feet, “This is nothing.”
“Bullshit. You definitely rushed home, took shower, and picked your wardrobe carefully.”
“Well, aren’t you glad I finally made it?”
“Apart of I’m quite happy about it, I was pretty sure you’re coming. Lee Jinki refusing party invitation? That only happened two years ago.”
“Shut up!” he put the empty glass back and grabbed two more, one he handed to Taemin’s hand, “Congratulation, Mr. Photographer. New studio, new adventures ahead!”
The clink sounds of the two glass meeting on the air submerged by the loud longue music from the DJ at the right corner of the stage. As usual, Jinki finished his drink in one shot, leaving Taemin shaking his head to the habit.
“In this rate, you’ll get drunk before I did my speech.”
Jinki shrugged and took another glass, “Had a rough day at the restaurant. A couple kept sending back the food to the kitchen with some ridiculous reason. I needed to drag my butt out of the back house to greet them personally.”
“Is that the reason you left early?”
“You can say that. Or more like I don’t like the thought of me missing free flow in the middle of the boring week,” he winked and Taemin only snickered, “So, what did I miss?”
“Nothing, besides the mini tour I gave to the potential important client. And simple exhibition of my previous works.”
“Knowing that I won’t be your client in any future soon and I visited one of your exhibitions before, then I can continue wandering around looking for some goodies,” Jinki raised his fourth glass now already.
“Ah, speaking about the goodies. I need to introduce you to someone.”
“Your new boyfriend?”
“I don’t date anymore, Honey.”
“Ah, I forgot you’re now the exclusive mistress of that famous dancer Kim Jongin.”
“Stop saying some gibberish, this one is a present for you because you actually made an effort to give your time to me.”
“I don’t have a good feeling about this.”
“You always said that whenever I have a lover candidate for you.”
“Because it always ended up in a mess!”
“Did not!”
Jinki gulped down his sixth glass, “Did not? The last one you brought to me, four out of five times had cried whenever I led him to the bedroom. The one before that guy, already became someone’s else wife. Which one of them that wasn’t a disaster for you?”
“Okay.. okay, I made some mistakes. Who am I to lie to you? I haven’t figured it out how to find a right man for my own.”
“Then why don’t you take this one?”
“He’s a close friend of mine! Besides, he got your favorite!”
“My favorite?”
“Yeah. Perfect pair of bow lips.”
“Prettier than that one?” Jinki put down his seventh glass while pointing across the room with his chin.
Following the direction, Taemin spun quickly just to find Kibum talking to a group of women which he presumed as new acquaintances he acquired tonight judged from the way Kibum’s standing. One and other time, he glances to the place where Taemin and Jinki are standing as if their presence is a huge distraction to the conversation he engaged with the new friends he made.
Taemin returned back to Jinki which his eyes now pass through his skull to have a better look on the guy with the cashmere turtle neck with the twinkling feline eyes. A smirk appeared immediately on Taemin’s face.
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Kibum found it hard to continue engaged on the conversation he’s in since the sight of a man who looks like Apollo descendant intruded his vision. That guy looks so out of place but at the same time, giving the vibe that he’s born for the event like this. He doesn’t look threatening, however, those eyes, once struck with Kibum’s and he choked on the wine he’s been nursing since half an hour ago, making him spilled some of the liquid to his chest.
He thanked the universe he left the house with the black top instead any other color.
Though he’s definitely not one of the models Taemin has worked with before, the quality of this man’s look can easily passed for one. There’s something about him that hooked Kibum since the very beginning, forgetting what he convinced himself earlier to make tonight only for business purpose and stay around that circle. His initial plan ruined easily when he caught himself glancing more than three times in the span of ten minutes.
“Ah, really? That would be great. Here’s my name card. Contact me whenever you want,” he took out some card from his wallet, “Now if you excuse me, I need to go to the restroom.”
And with that, Kibum retreated himself from the crowd to calm himself. Once he reached the sink, he splashed some water to his face. Kibum slapped his cheeks several times, this is not happening.
He’s not seventeen anymore. But the drum rolled banging inside his chest is telling him the contrary. Having stupid crush is not his type of playground anymore. After some serious relationships ended up in not so nice break ups back in college and one failed marriage, he thought he would be more cautious and even became numb to this kind of feeling. Maybe it’s just the lust. And the neediness started build up in him after one year absence of attention. Yeah, maybe that’s the reason. Get a grip, Kim Kibum.
After spending what have been like forever in the bathroom stall, Kibum thought it would be safe for him to get out and mingle again. He’s searching for Taemin right away, secretly hoping the man with the maroon slack still tagging around. Nevertheless, Taemin seems unlikely to be found within the crowd. He kept looking to his muse, because there’s usually he would stand and explain some of his works, but those models are scattered here and there and no one has Taemin on their arms.
“Where the heck is this ungrateful kid?”
“You like what you saw?”
A deep soothing voice from his side startled him to after life if it’s not to death. He cocked his head to the source of force driven him crazy only by the sound, Kibum stepped back instinctively once he realized their distance is closer than he calculated back in his hazy mind.
“Earlier. Don’t tell me you’re not looking to my direction.”
“Wow. Such amount of confident,” Kibum snickered whilst inside he’s flipped upside down.
“Well, to begin with, I wouldn’t be this confident if I didn’t catch a beautiful human being like you giving me those intrigued glances every two minutes.”
“Oh, how smooth. How many glasses did you take to be this gallant?”
“So you did look at me.”
Jinki chuckles and when he caught Kibum just an inch before flustered as if someone found out his biggest secret.
“It’s a best friend instinct. When a very threatening man with this all manipulative vibe hanging around your best friend, you cannot just stand still and act as if nothing happened. I don’t want something bad happened with Taemin.”
Jinki closed their distance a little bit, aiming his mouth dangerously to Kibum’s ear, puffing hot breathe that turning Kibum’s whole body into stupid giddy sensation.
“Oh really? What about you, then? Want something bad happened to you?”
Usually, Kibum is not in favor of including himself in any conversation buttered all over with innuendo. But this man, changed every single thing he believed in less than five minutes. Especially when he can still feel him huffing on his neck though it’s wrapped completely under the fabric of his knitwear.
“I guess you took more than five. This one is so much better than your first defense.”
“Seven to be exact.”
“You better take care of yourself, Dear Stranger, the party just started and knowing Taemin for years, this is nothing but a teaser.”
Jinki doesn’t wait any clue to press his hip to Kibum’s side, “Why don’t you help me to take care myself? Or do I interrupt you?”
Kibum observed the face of the man next to him, he looks so beautiful even under the poor light, “You must have taken a time-management class very diligently.”
He poked Jinki’s nose quickly, both cannot deny the spark in such limited touch.
“Just being efficient, I don’t see the point to waste limited time for unimportant business.”
“What’s exactly unimportant business here?”
“Working on my uncooperative brain at the moment to arrange some words together trying to get into your pants while I’m pretty much sure it’s going to happen anyway without such futile effort.”
Jinki ducked his head to fix his hair. Little did Kibum know, he tried to hide his eyes while observing the latter’s reaction.
Kibum just beamed into wide smile, still doesn’t believe on what he just heard, “Aren’t you one of a kind with fancy mouth?”
“How about you can tell yourself once you get a taste on that?”
“Interesting.”
“You think so?”
Jinki kept staring intensely to Kibum. After the cute little dimples adorned the corner of his mouth a while ago, Jinki found it so hard to stay away from his flawless face.
“Sort of. Never in my life had I heard this kind of lame pick-up lines,” Kibum scoffed to control his grogginess.
“Well, someone gotta take the chance to try that out. Up until now, the success rate is still 50-50.”
“You tried this before?” Kibum’s almost shrieked toward the fact, “Who’s this poor soul that had to endure this kind of torture?”
“In front of you,” Kibum’s face turned into a mixture of disbelief and amusement, “This guy was such a talker and he got me under his skin in no time.”
“Wow. Tell me who talked about exes during their first encounter.”
“No one. But you’re beyond what people around me would describe as a perfect human being.”
“Looks like you picked up a lot from him.”
Jinki laughed, pinching his eyes into a perfect crescent, Kibum needs to brush off the urge to cup his face right away, “Let’s just say I’m a fast learner.”
“That’s actually good to put in your curriculum vitae.”
“I didn’t know this require such an application.”
“Oh, I usually don’t,” Kibum’s head fell to the back a little bit while he massaged his neck, “I did that only for the strong candidates.”
“Interesting.”
“Aren’t I always?”
“I don’t have opinion about that since I only saw you,” Jinki wriggling his wrist to check the time, “For about an hour so far.”
“Then we need to get to know each other more.”
The smirks curved on Kibum’s bow lips sent chills down Jinki’s spine. He slipped his hand on the other waist and rested it there after Kibum doesn’t make any protective gesture.
“So, here’s the thing. Who am I talking with this past fifteen minutes?”
“You may call him Kibum.”
“Ah, Kibum,” his voice ghosting above his cheek, “I like the way I rolled that name. But I can do more with my tongue, just so you know.”
“Is that an invitation Sir…”
“Jinki. I go by Jinki.”
Kibum arched his back slightly, purposely stretched his neck too much just so his milky skin peeked behind the cashmere, “Is that an invitation Sir Jinki?”
“If you said so, Dear..”
“Then I know somewhere perfect to get to know each other better.”
“Do you even know this place?”
For Jinki, Taemin’s new studio just looked like an old barn with stone, woods, and glasses for the aesthetic purpose. He has no idea actually, it’s the first time he hang out to such place besides his house, his kitchen, and bars.
“Oh, please. I sold this place to Taemin two months ago.”
***
Kibum didn’t know for sure what brought him here. Maybe the lust, maybe the lack of affection he experienced since his separation, or the needs of attention he craved during his sabbatical period. But since he closed the door of that main hall to the small green house at the back of the building, he couldn’t keep his hand for himself.
The other man of course didn’t help at all since what he’d been doing is basically groping Kibum’s pert globes or nuzzling to his side or mapping the hidden surface along his spine.
Anyway, like Kibum minds at all.
Once they sat at the wooden bench placed against the cold stone wall – Kibum basically thanked himself for suggesting Taemin’s interior designer to put some cushion on it – Jinki attacked those inviting cupid lips without further ado. Kibum’s giggles suppressed back to the down of his throat, he’s unable to laugh at his pathetic desire for Jinki’s velvety mouth melted his entire defense mechanism. He just naturally opened his mouth slightly wider when Jinki surprisingly carefully prodded its surface with his tongue.
“Hmmphh,” Kibum hissed in between heated domination battle, “You indeed have particular skill with your tongue.”
Jinki pulled back a little bit just to give him some space to nip at Kibum’s lower lips, “This is not even 50% of my capability, Sweetheart.”
Kibum yelped inaudibly when strong arms brought him settled on Jinki’s lap. The moonlight fell right on Jinki’s face from the glass roof, giving it mesmerizing picturesque shades. Kibum cupped his cheeks and devour what he left before. Jinki’s hand traveling haphazardly on Kibum’s back, and ended up grabbing handful of his ass leaving him squealing.
Again, like Kibum minds at all.
“Shit,” Jinki cussed when Kibum started going south and nibble on his exposed neck. The man lapping here and there, occasionally stopped a little bit longer to suck at his Adam’s apple, sending his soul ascending to heaven.
“Ah!” a perfect mixture of groan and moan slipped out Kibum’s mouth when Jinki rolled his hips against him. The sounds excited Jinki to move more erratically to satisfy both restrained needs. As if they’re dancing partner for years already, Kibum acknowledge the pace and started grinding back.
“Ugh, Kibum..”
The said man just arched his back and brought Jinki’s to his chest. Jinki secured both his hands to Kibum’s slender waist and inhales deeply of the other man’s scent. They were like pieces of puzzles finally clicked to each other, after wait for too long in such desperation.
Kibum detached themselves for a moment to look at Jinki’s eyes, pretty eyes that reflects his own craving, pretty eyes that drown him since the very second he drop his gaze on it. Jinki never found himself fascinated this much among his one night stands life. He realized Kibum is something when he doesn’t only want to suck every single inch of skin beneath the clothes but also handling it with care as if he’s the most precious and fragile ancient Egypt treasure.
Jinki about to lean further to capture Kibum’s lips but the hands on both sides of his cheeks restrain him to do so.
“I cannot do this.”
“Why?” even if he doesn’t have a mirror before him, Jinki can definitely see the frown fell upon his own face, “You don’t want this as much as I do?”
Kibum shakes his head again before rested his forehead to Jinki, “No, no, you’re beautiful, Jinki. So beautiful I couldn’t believe myself that this is real. But I’m not supposed to do this to you. It’s not fair.”
“Not fair?” Jinki asked again, suddenly terrified by the reality he’s about to face, “You have a boyfriend already? Girlfriend?”
Kibum pecked his nose slowly before flashing his hand above his eyes. Something cracked inside his chest when Jinki saw the silver band on his ring finger.
“You’re married.”
“It’s been only six months after a horrible divorce.”
“So? What’s holding you up?”
“You don’t get it, do you?”
Jinki rolled his eyes before stating the matter of fact here, “I’m single and you’re a widow. Whom are we going to hurt here?”
“You, Jinki. You. As much as I want you to continue what you’re doing down there,” both of them looking to the point where their crotch glued to each other, “Yes, the way your little prince been nudging my ass frantically had been driving me crazy I wanted to ruin your expensive silk shirt and suck your collar bones for the rest of the night, believe me. I just don’t want this to only because I’m sexually deprived.”
“So what do you want?”
Jinki is not the type who compromised during heated hour like this. But strangely, for Kibum, he’s willing to do it at least for once.
“I want you when I want you. Not when I need a release.”
Kibum removed himself from Jinki’s laps, he couldn’t help to chuckle when he notice the obvious bulge on the other’s southern region. He fixed his hair and adjusted the belt that slightly uneven after some battles of friction. Jinki looks disappointed at some point, but Kibum somehow know he’s not mad with the decision.
“A correction. The prince is not that little, if you know what I mean.”
Kibum let out wholeheartedly laughter and kissed Jinki slow and warm on the cheek, inhaling Jinki as much as possible.
“Of course I know what you mean. Or should I say, I felt?”
It’s Jinki turn to laugh this time, the way it sounds sent Kibum’s hand directly to his bangs and ruffles it messy.
“Now if you allow me, I need to go home and call my kid. It’s around the time she finished her school.”
Wow, a man with a baggage, Jinki sudden thought. But at least he admit Kibum’s a man of courage to go this far, unlike this ex-boyfriend he had that just a lump full of cowardliness. That makes Kibum more than his other flings. He might be too soon to fall, but he doesn’t care because Kibum seemed worth to fight for.
“When will I see you again?”
Kibum stopped by the threshold of the green house’s door. He turned his head and sincerely smiled to the stunned Jinki who sit alone by the bench.
“Spring. I’ll see you again on spring.”
Jinki smile to himself and scratch the back of his head that is not itchy at all.
“Spring is good.”
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I wrote this on my AFF a while ago. Since I’m not going to write again until I finish my thesis and graduated, hopefully by September or October - finger-crossed, I thought it would be nice to cross-post it here. So, yeah. I appreciate all the support you all gave me up to now. Until I see you again, please be happy and be healthy :)
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k-ibum-blog1 · 6 years
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Where Darkness Resides
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Romance, Friendship Characters: Jinki, Kibum, Minho, Taemin Ships: Onkey Read: asianfanfics // more to come.
A hunter and a wanted mage journey to the capitol where they hear of a powerful, dark mage who threatens the fate of the kingdom. However, to restore peace to both themselves and the land, it appears they must take the side of darkness. 
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iceamericanoventi · 6 years
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Blank Space - Chapter 12
Part 11
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Boys only want love if it's torture Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
Eighty seven. Eighty eight. Eighty nine.
What day is it again? He kept both eyes shut; it doesn’t seem to have any difference at this moment. All is pitch black, sunrise looks like midnight and the dawn appears like an eternity without any sheer of light. Last night, he has another weird dream, a term he agreed with himself to call it as a replacement for nightmare. It’s not frightening, it’s just odd.
In that dream he was standing in an undefined vast space full of shadow passing by and among those absurd creatures he caught a smile. Just smile, as if it’s floating on the air instead of belong to particular face. The smile was familiar for the Jinki in his dream. However, the sober Jinki could never tell who that is which stressed him way too far for a merely form of hallucination.
He stirred under the blanket. The uncomfortable weight of the mounds of cotton forced him to kick the poor duvet. Too heavy, it just flopped back to its position, only to irritate him even further. Palms pressed to his face, he wished the instant friction on the skin washed over the weariness.
But of course he could only wish.
Ninety. Ninety one. Ninety two.
There’s a slight crack on the wooden beams on his ceiling that he noticed just now. After he gave up and checked the life rotating around him. He then wondered, for how long the crack has been there. And how come it didn’t catch his attention before today? Random calculation of the bending moment and load combination suddenly came up inside his twisted mind, occupy the vacant space he’s been neglecting these past weeks.
He blinks, one and two. His vision’s projecting the same image, hypnotizing in a way, hinting a pinch of motion sickness as a precaution. The crack’s there, still, visually concerning, but seemed like it doesn’t bother the whole structure supporting the floor above. From down there, the crack is simply filling the gap, completing the entire system.
He wished the crack in his heart is as static as that. But of course, he could only wish.
Ninety three. Ninety four. Ninety five.
Distorted and obscure, that’s how everything’s pictured behind his closed back eyes. The timeline of his memory is jumbled, it’s patchy at the edge and fragmented inside and out. How it happened, he couldn’t tell. But how it felt, he had at least half of the dictionary to complain about it. About how unfair it is, about how agonizing it is.
One moment in life, he’s seeing how happy Gwiboon talked about his corny jokes which deadly annoying but actually helping her dealing with the pressure of the fashion week at the same time. Any other second, he went red when the fraction of his memory flashed, force him to dredge up how he screamed directly to her face like a mad man, asking what kind of joke she was pulling out. She said she desperately wants to spend their bubble together, a little longer, until the day turns week, and week turns months. Then again she also stormed out the room on the next day, all drenched and broken, mimicking the same hazard occurred inside his chest.
Gwiboon is more than a crush, more than a fling, more than a good catch he discovered across the field. He wished she wasn’t.
But of course, again, he could only wish.
Ninety six. Ninety seven.
Men can only wish, the sky, at the end, would be the one who decide was it worth to be granted or not. He spent a whole night in secluded beach, a hideout place he learnt from his grandfather, screaming to the far high sky, but the wound unfastened wider. At some point he admits, he was partly responsible. He wanted – and loved – the idea of a relationship, but terribly in fear for the actual relationship.
What’s bad for being in a relationship? You idiot, Lee Jinki! He cursed silently, for the thousand times already this week. That if he didn’t count words spilled out his mouth when he was unconscious.    
Ninety eight. Ninety nine.
Jinki can list at least ten reasons in less than five minutes why he didn’t pull his ass together and man up telling Gwiboon his feeling instead dropping some barricade with the whole being-casual-and-let’s-not-put-any-label-on-it shenanigans. And out of those ten reasons, none of them because of something that Gwiboon did. Or feel.
After all, he has no heart to blame her.
Hundred.
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It’s easy to put a mask around the house, especially with a father who’s that busy and a mother who recently found a new hobby in her flower arrangement club. Unfortunately, not when a little devil descendant like Lee Taemin is actually present.
Jinki is about to go out, suffocated inside his room and suddenly feeling skimpy with just helplessly cuddling his pillow. He finally charged his phone and took his iPod out from the dock. While the other family members are somewhere scattered between living room and the kitchen, he managed to take a very quick shower and put on some presentable clothes.
Today, he opted to pick brown-maroon sweater, attempt to distinguish his feeling after last week his Mom was complaining about all the black dirty laundry he piled up making her doubling the effort doing the laundry since she had to separate all those clothes to not ruin each other. He snatched pair of jeans carelessly and as if all the constellations are lined up to pinch a joke on him, it happened to be the cropped jeans Kim Gwiboon decided to put her magic on it a while ago.
“Do you like the idea of me making you clothes?”
Jinki looked up for just a second before focused back on the contemporary art book on his hands, “What does that supposed to mean? Sounds really domestic on my ears just now.”
“Oh, please. I just asked permission, like, is it okay if I spice up your wardrobe a little bit?”
“I don’t think I need any.. but if you insisted, then I guess it’s okay. Your hands wouldn’t do something disastrous anyway.”
“Good. Because I already did,” she handed him back the jeans she stole from his wardrobe few days before, “Your jeans are all the same and I noticed you kept wearing the same ones over and over again I almost sure if I assessed it a little bit more attentively I would find holes at some point. That’s boring and I don’t want my man’s boring. So give that a try and thank me later.”
He looked himself at the mirror, his eyes struck on both his ankle when the end of the jeans hanging with jumbled strain of threads, the vivid evidences that once, Kim Gwiboon existed in his dull life. To entertain his boring life.
Boring.
Yeah, maybe that’s why she left me, because I’m boring, Jinki thought.
He thought she would be forever, they would be forever, because finally Jinki thought he found someone who leveled very well with his obduracy without coercing themselves too far. Turned out, this time is not any different with the previous relationship that he head, got his hope high then spitted out back to the earth right on the top of rocky valley. Not like the thing he had with Gwiboon could be entitled a relationship anyway. He wouldn’t dare to call it that.
If only I could muster up some courage back then and just asked her out in a very proper way, I would feel so much worthier than merely a fuck buddy.
He pocketed the car keys, inhaled a very deep breath, practiced his auto-reply smile before exited his dungeon. And there he is, waiting by the corner of the breakfast island, the devious Lee Taemin who’s always up to roast his own brother.
“Oh, hello universe. The grad student is finally showed up! Congratulation!! We need to celebrate this very soon! Should I buy some champagne?”
Jinki kicked the stool where he sit furiously before poured himself a good amount of orange juice, the bright yellow liquid vanished in less than thirty seconds.
“I heard from your Mom, Buddy. Finally, you’re going.”
“It’s not in anytime soon, Dad. I just got accepted. Barely finish my final project here.”
“But you can still take the long distance single course for the first semester right?”
His father had been busy coming back and forth among Seoul, Tokyo, and London. There wouldn’t be any chance left for him to go through in his courting mode and interviewing his mother because the woman would shower him with the story of her new club before he could ask anything.
“Who told you that?”
“Your brother.”
He shot a glare to Taemin who stopped middle air from shoving a piece of taco to his mouth, “Don’t blame me. That man come to me with new pair of shoes, of course I surrendered.”
“That man is your father!” his mother slapped the back of his head which attained an annoying squeal from the youngest son.
“I am worried a little bit about you, Jinki.”
There’s a reason why his father now became a very famous attorney. His instinct works beyond human shield.
“Don’t be, Dad. I will be fine. It’s just too handful a bit now, with the final project, preparation, and also adjust the online course and everything.”
“If only you picked London, I have lots of acquaintance there who can actually help you.”
“That’s in some measure, the reason why I picked Chicago. Too many people we know in London, Dad, they might judge as well while stretching a helpful hand. Besides, it was my first choice since the bachelor but the beautiful lady over there was begging like a toddler seven years ago for me not to go there too early. I won’t give up my dream twice.”
Thanks to cousin Minjung and her obsession on NBA when they’re in the grade school. Whenever she visited, she gushed about this Chicago Bull’s to the siblings and triggered a very young Jinki to go to his father’s library and checking some books about the place along the Lake Michigan. Soon enough, he fell for the Windy City and dreamed to move and work as an architect there.
“And yet, see how stubborn you grew up into. So much effort I pulled to keep you grounded next to me. At the end you’d flee away still.”
“You better go sooner or she reenacted the same scene again, Buddy,” his father winked to him, knowing Jinki would be at least smiling on it.
“Roger that, Pops! I’m going!”
Taemin looks dejected on his seat, this is the first time since forever Jinki’s finally leaving his sanctuary that he’s witnessing and he didn’t even pay attention to him. Is he okay? Did he find another girl already? Taemin is way more worried than he used to be.
“Where?! For a date?! Why?! How?! With whom?! Why did you leave me here?! Why didn’t you say anything to me?! Dude!”
“Stop the commotion right there, Lee Taemin. I called Junghee this morning both of you are going with me to shop for my next club gathering.”
“Why on earth you called her?! And how do you know her number?! Mom!!”
The scene left Jinki shaking his head and chortling, somehow, a bit of pleasant feeling occupied his hollow core. That might be the one he would be missing so much when he’s alone abroad. However, the excitement of finally leaving all the traces screaming Gwiboon’s name whenever he turned is all that he can think about now and then. What a perfect excuse. He can’t wait to run away from every single memory of her in this house, this town, this time zone that had been hunted him ever since she asked him not to see each other anymore.
***
Jinki stood right at the check-out desk, dropped his favorite red bean buns and pulled out the wallet from his back pocket. The first thing greeted him when he opened it was the silly picture of him and Gwiboon they took one day at the photo box near Jinki’s favorite arcade because it was suddenly pouring hard. He still has no gut to throw it out because deep down he realized when he took it out, when he finally took it out, it means he needs to let it go everything and he hasn’t down for it any closer yet.
“That’s all?”
The question of the boy in front of him breaks the bubbles inside his head. Jinki’s eyes went pass him and caught the rack full of cigarettes behind. How tempting in so many ways.
“Yeah. That’s it.”
He opened the wrap immediately he stepped out the mart and decided to get his caffeine intake across the street. The café seems not that full, maybe I can still find some blind spot at the corner.
“Jinki?”
A calm voice intrigued his consciousness. He looked around for a while until a woman with short blonde hair is intruding his personal view more.
“Amber, right?”
“Yeah. I thought I called the wrong person.”
“How so? Do I look different with his hair?” Jinki jokingly pointed to his choppy hair. He attempted to cut it by himself last week since he didn’t want to go to his regular barber shop, the man over there would talk nonstop and that was the last thing he desired. The result as everyone can see, was beyond awful. Let’s just all be relieved that his hair grows in the speed of light.
“A little bit,” Amber chuckled seeing how his hair seemed done by a blind person, “But mostly because you look tired.”
Jinki laughed, but not really laughing, “Just woke up and drove here. Stay up late for the final project. How are you?”
Of course he lied, who wants to turn the situation into an awkward moment by blurted out how messed up they’re currently?
“I’m good! Quite busy at the studio but that means we’re growing. So I’m not really complaining.”
“Sounds great.”
Sounds annoying. Why can’t other people as miserable as me?
“Totally,” she looks very pumped and Jinki felt so bad for not reacting with the same level of excitement, “And how is it going with you?”
“Busy but not, bored but not, just.. so so.. you know?” Jinki snorted, tad nervous with such a simple question.
“Ah, I know.. it must be difficult for you as well.”
“As well? I thought the studio’s doing great. You’re going through something?”
Guess it’s a blessing and a curse at the same time having his personality. Being born Jinki, he can’t just ignored people’s feeling even though he knew he’s not in the current capacity to help.
“No, no, yeah, I’m great, studio, factory, all is well. I mean besides Gwiboon.. it must be hard time for you too, you know… with all this situation.”
Jinki doesn’t remember he told anyone what happened between him and the girl. Not even Taemin actually, but that kid was probably a CIA in his previous life Jinki didn’t find the necessity to tell him, nonetheless he would still just come up with some weird ideas to cheer his brother up.
Like the other day, suddenly stack of Mars appeared on his side of fridge – yes, he has his own territory inside that place because once their mother got rid of something belong to him, he exploded like a land mine. Or suddenly, chicken bucket greeted him by the corner of his desk when he came back home almost four in the morning.
But besides that, he kept everything inside. Not any single word of her came out from him after that day. She must have gone to Amber to unload her heart and narrate some stuff about them.
“What can I say?” He sent her small smile but it looks bitterer than the last pills he took for his migraine two days ago.
“I’m sorry, for both of you, really. It’s always hard to choose when it comes for this kind of crossroad, even a very smart one can be the most indecisive human being on earth. I was in her position before. In my case though, I was so much more hardheaded than Gwiboon, that way it was easier for me to leave everything behind. Gwiboon was still nice enough to think about other people around her. Her brother, you, and even her crazy parents who don’t even care. You may already know how hard her father is to his children.”
Hard to choose? Between what? Father? Why suddenly she brought up her father when Gwiboon herself never talked about the said man? Not even Jonghyun who had been friend with him longer than his sister.
“I still remember she ruck-sacked my office all tears and snots rambling about she doesn’t mind throwing herself under the bus as long as she can stay here and not being sent to the states. Poor girl.”
Sta—wait, what?
He thought he knew Gwiboon, this new found though, completely confused him to the staple. After a very quick self-deliberation, he decided to play along and stay chill. Jinki’s afraid Amber would realize she did something she’s banned to and just left the conversation hanging on the air while Jinki finally can grasp the whole portrait of the puzzle Gwiboon left behind.
“Ah she told you that?”
For Jinki that was a pure question, with a tint of hope Amber would leak some circumstances a little bit more. However for Amber, she heard that as a response of bemusement as if Gwiboon not supposed to tell anyone that and kept it only between her and Jinki.
“I am really sorry. She didn’t want to say anything at first, but I guess I was too pushy and it happened that she just couldn’t handle it by herself anymore. Her dre—“
Amber’s phone beeped before she could finish her sentence. She excused herself to check the message and immediately glancing to her wrist, unpleasant air’s very evident on her face.
“Jinki, it was really nice stumbled into you. The work is calling, though, so.. if you don’t mind..”
“Ah, yeah. Of course. Sorry I was holding you here. Thanks for the quick catch up.”
“You take care, okay?”
“I will. See you around, Amber!”
Within a minute, Amber already leaving the side of the street they were standing. Jinki felt the need of caffeine boiling inside him is just got tripled.
***
Jinki accomplished simple tasks by eleven in the morning. He changed his sheets, almost one months later – finally, his mother almost burn the filthy mattress together with it, he made himself a good cup of coffee and grilled cheese, and now started to make trial renders for his interior proposal of his final project.
He put aside his ego and locked it at the corner of the back of his head after he met Amber and of course a long drive to his grandfather graveyard only to eat two whole chicken bucket while talking to his headstone. He obviously earned very weird and awkward gazes from the other people who happened visiting their beloved ones but he didn’t mind even slightly, because at the end of the day he’s convinced, at least Gwiboon left not completely because him.
Another reason is because his professor sent him an email reminded him if he still desired to graduate by the next batch, he needs to submit 50% of the final material no later than the next week. Therefore, the reasonable part of Jinki strangled the overly sensitive and emotional self to the ground and chained him for their own good.
And of course the last part was only happened inside his head but who cares? He finally managed to control his adrenaline by eating one kilogram of avocado for each meal yesterday. Healthy or unhealthy, the people in his house could only judge. With the amount of obstinacy he owned, nobody’s able to change anything.
“Jinx, you got a package,” Taemin trespassed the door on ease knowing he’s currently having the upper hand in the house after seeing the effect of his tattle tale nature on Jinki, “Did you order something?”
“I ordered pork stew and some soondae two minutes ago but I don’t think it would come this fast and I’m pretty sure they came in different container.”
“Funny,” Taemin dropped the small brown box on his desk, “I went to the mailbox to check my shoes but I found it instead.”
“You do have some shoes fetish, don’t you?”
“So what can I do if Reebok just released its new classic edition? Sleeping soundly at night knowing thousands people out there sporting the goods while I can only dream about it? Do you want to see the world burnt? Hell no!”
Jinki’s taken aback with the sudden outburst he didn’t expect. Those shoes must cost him such fortune, he shrugged and reached the package.
“Who sent this?”
“How would I know?”
Jinki assessed the wrapper, it does have the stamp of the courier company, so it must be sent through mail. But oddly enough, they let this package passed with no name or address from the sender was written on it. And lately, he didn’t order anything besides food. Or taxi, when the other day Taemin was sneaky enough being an asshole by taking his car to go on a date.
“You brought anonymous package inside my room? How could you? Don’t go anywhere until I opened it!”
Taemin wasn’t planning to go out soon anyway, but the shrieking voice released from Jinki’s mouth was insulting his pride enough.
“What? Did Mom finally rub you off too hard? You sounded exactly like her just now! And it was just a ridiculous package! Might be from your fans who finally found our address!”
“Might be a bomb as well! If this one exploded, I’m taking you with me!”
“Did you even hear yourself? Who do you think you are? President? Prince Harry? Bruno Mars?”
“Terrorism doesn’t own GPS nor common sense!”
“Neither do you!” he dropped himself to Jinki’s mattress after he couldn’t find any leftover of candies Jinki used to have here and there on his bookshelf, “Who knows it would be just fans gift like before? And who knows you don’t want it and I got to have that?”
Jinki finally realized the reason why his brother not leaving immediately after he dropped the good. It can’t be bad, this one went through the courier company scanning system, the worst he could get is a stupid prank from someone or like Taemin said, a gift from admirer.
“But I haven’t been on stage since God knows how long!”
“Jesus Christ, just open it for crying out loud! I’ll do it if you’re too scared!”
Taemin’s this close ripping Jinki’s pillow into two. Snickered lowly, he started peeling the wrapper only to find a fine maroon box with silver band tied it together. Once the content peeking through the opening Jinki made carefully, eruption of emotion burst under his skin.
Safely kept inside the box, all the Polaroid photos Gwiboon had been taking when they were together, she obsessed with Polaroid and could take three pictures at a time. The amount of love floating from the piles started to suffocate Jinki. They were happy, it’s started and ended in a disaster but they were happy.
He picked one where both of them doing stupid faces, it was in her studio where they spent the whole night working on their own deadlines. 3 AM, with the best companion ever, that’s how she wrote below.
‘When Jinki being an architect’
‘I had enough for today’
‘Coffee time’
‘Look at meeee’
‘He said I’m cute in this one’
‘The sweetest bunny’
‘Jinki’s number :)’
‘Can’t help but being sloth to him :P’
‘Winter Project’
‘He gives the best hug’
‘His baby carrot fingers :3’
‘How the sun looks when he’s sleepy’
‘Mine <3’
She left her message in almost every picture. And the last one nearly breaks the guard on his eyes. Mine, he brushes her cute hand writings, bitter smile adorned his gloomy face promptly. It was him, lips all red pursing like baby penguin, looks like he was arguing something and she didn’t miss the chance to frame his upset state.  
He doesn’t know her whereabouts, phone calls and texts he sent only reciprocated by the provider service messages telling him the number had been deactivated. Yet now, he received the only traces left of her, returned back to him, as if she tried getting rid the last footprints of him that she possessed. It’s saddening.
Jinki continued digging the pictures, grimace, smirk, smile, and frowns appeared one to another, enlightened Taemin – who kept his brother in check by the corner of his eyes – that it was some important package. One Polaroid however was purposely been stuck to the bottom of the box.
Gwiboon was smiling, so bright, angelic and mesmerizing, with Jinki glued to her side, nuzzling her cheek, grin splitting on his half face printed on it, so evident it hurts.
‘98258’
It stunned him immediately. Still in daze, the sound of Gwiboon’s voice mocking him and his fixation on oldie stuff is echoing so loud inside his head. That’s started with simple conversation of current fashion trend which brought back the vibe from 90s. One thing led to another, both of them spent the rest of the night in front of Jinki’s laptop checking how the youngster using beeper to send each other message back then. He was so excited when they found this website full of silly quizzes where you need to encrypt the hidden message behind those series of number.  And of course Gwiboon was annoyed because most of the time, it was Jinki who’s able to guess it correctly.
Even now.
“Taem.”
“Hmm?” he tried to act as nonchalant as possible but his ears perked so bad, desperately want to know what his brother is going to say.
“How do you know you love someone?”
He cocked his head to the side, just to found Jinki looking forlornly to the small box, “How do I know I love someone?”
“Did I ask the wrong person?” Jinki let out dry chuckle to ease Taemin.
“Ha. You may say so,” Taemin puffed the sides of the pillow under his head, “This may sound so pretentious and would make you cringed at some point, but I guess, nobody knows, Jinx. It’s not weather that you could forecast, not something that obvious as if you look at your window and be like crap-it’s-raining-outside. It’s just… happened. Some are lucky enough to be more aware than the other. Some are just too oblivious until the end, until they had the urge to invent the impossible time machine.”
“And some are just too dumb and chicken out when they realized they’re in love.”
“Were you in love?”
Jinki’s eyes fluttered close to the question, “I am.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, oh.”
Silence fell once again between the two. Taemin’s digesting still all the unexpected confession he just heard while Jinki now stared blankly to the pile of Polaroid spread over the surface of his desk. Recollection brewed inside his head, somehow he’s quite proud, half awe-struck half regretted, how they managed to have this much memory in a very limited time. Indeed, time is just a concept, it’s all relative up to the point you desperately need to stretch one slice of its epoch.
“Sorry, I was disappointing with my stupid try-to-be-poetic answer. Never been in love before, never expected I’d be, but one thing I can say to you because you’re my brother and even though we’re not twins we have this scary gene connection which is too similar and I bet twins would questioning themselves once they acknowledge this, if you found yourself relating random tiny detail to certain someone, you might as well go for it, then.”
“Is that what happened with you?” Jinki timidly asked, afraid that Taemin could proof further how he missed his chance by assuming he knew what’s the best for him and Gwiboon for these past months.
“Do you realize that the color of your wood structure is exactly the same color of Junghee’s eyes under the sun? Of course you don’t. So, yeah, more or less, that’s what happened with me.”
His eyes locked to one of the photo. Gwiboon was smiling on it, hair pulled up into his favorite messy bun, one shoulder exposed to the sun flares seeping through his window and touched the glowing skin on it. She looked so serene, the most beautiful he had ever seen, because in this one, he could see the genuine Gwiboon under those rumors, those pointed fingers, those make ups, pretty clothing, cynical comments and cold surfaces she put as masks. She’s the Gwiboon who he fell for.
And his heart clenched for he still vividly recalled how he convinced Gwiboon to let him took that picture of her the minute she opened her eyes, the girl finally gave up after he threatened her he would withheld her favorite shower sex. Worked like magic back then.
And worked like poison now once he realized it’s simply a painful memory left he held tight.
“Can you do me a last favor?”
“Sounds erotic,” he yawned and ready to slither inside Jinki’s comforter, “Both of us knew very well it won’t be the last, but yeah, shoot it.”
***
The house is painted dusted blue, huge window pane by the right far covered with light grey curtain from the inside, preventing people to peek on what’s behind the glass. The porch is not that big, but enough to accommodate couple of wooden chair with small concrete table. There’s no vehicle present in the carport, only an old skateboard leaned to the white wall separating the house with the neighbor.
Jinki nervously double check his phone, reciting the address written on the screen to himself, then make sure the number there is the same with the one placed on the wall.
He has never been here before, clearly. He licks his dry lips for the nth time this morning and glanced to his watch. Ten minutes late. Damn you bridge construction, he mumbled. He’s debating whether he should make a call or just go press the ring bell.
At the end, after another minute delaying himself like a sweaty anxious provincial exam taker, he opted to the second one. Vaguely, he heard someone’s approaching, and the door in front of him swung open inside. A familiar face greeted him with small nod and smile.
“Took you longer than I expected.”
“Well, need some time to make a peace with everything, I guess? I asked your number to Taemin just yesterday.”
“Come on in, then.”
“Thanks, Minho.”
***
cross-posted on my AFF couple weeks ago :)
This one is purposely written to center on Jinki, and the universe rolling around him. I am excited but also quite sad that the next chapter will be the last one. Thank you for reading and following this story. Hopefully, you like this chapter and the upcoming one as well! As usual, I only wish for your happiness wherever you are! Comments are always welcome! XOXO
P.S.: do you know what’s the beeper message mean? Let me know if you can guess! :P
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minhoandthebabes · 4 years
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Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: SHINee Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kim Kibum | Key/Lee Jinki | Onew, Choi Minho/Kim Jonghyun Characters: Lee Jinki | Onew, Kim Kibum | Key, Choi Minho, Kim Jonghyun (SHINee), Lee Taemin Summary:
Summary: Jonghyun writes Jinki's number on the back of a bus seat, announcing his friend's loneliness to the world. Kibum seems to find the number when he needs it most.
A/N: This fic was a really fun write ^^ I want to thank elflikek and keyspiration again for helping me out along the way! I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! (ps, I'm thinking of writing a spin-off for Jongho! Let me know if you're interested below!)
Final fic for the fest!
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jjongslight · 4 years
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Just to be CLEAR about that whole shipping wars thing, we are talking about the past, like early shawol fandom years (although similar issues exist in how we construct ships but to a less toxic extent - which I might do a post about). But to anyone who wasn’t there at that time or who was there, but is trying to change the narrative now, things were really shitty in that regard (like I can’t even begin to explain). 
On a wider scale, that really speaks on how we don’t want idols to have any type of significant relationships if a) they’re not with us or b) if those relationships are not within the group’s dynamics.
And those group dynamics can’t even begin to be representative of the real dynamics so really, we are just inventing fantasies and worshiping those as if they were reality. We don’t know them like that. 
Fanfiction has been a big part of my fandom experience (and still is), I’ve written over 40 fics in the SHINee fandom so I’m not here to act like I’m better than anyone. I’m just thinking about how we use their names, very real parts of their lives and attach a whole fictional world to it for our pleasures. I’m making it sound like it’s bad, but I really don’t know. Will I continue to write fanfiction? As of now, yes. But I’d be stupid not to stop and think about it for a minute. 
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lala-pipo · 4 years
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A quick reminder that the Summer of SHINee event is still in its prompt claiming stage. If you feel your muse striking, you might want to consider taking a look at the sheet linked here.  I participated in all three fests so far (though I had to drop out of the Halloween one because it turned out that I had less time to write than I had expected during that time - maybe I will eventually get around to write that prompt. It was a JongKey one - I just can’t remember what it was about - yay me! 😂). Anyway, it was always a lot of fun, the admins are super well organized, and very forthcoming, so don’t be shy and just take a look at the sheet. 
Three prompts of mine have been claimed so far which is really exciting and I’m looking forward to reading the stories if the writers manage to complete them. 
I’m making good progress with the prompt I’ve chosen this year, and it’s so much fun to work on it because it’s so fluffy and cute which is right up my writer alley. 😳 None of the JongTae prompts have been claimed so far (as far as I can tell) which makes my heart ache a litte, so I’m considering claiming a second prompt for the sake of JongTae nation, but that depends on two things 1) how quickly I progress with my current prompt (things are looking good for once) and 2) if maybe some other writers come around to snag some JongTae (which would be awesome *crosses fingers*).
Anyway, if you see this and know writers who might be interested in a challenge, please forward them the sheet linked at the top! Thank you!  ❤️
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striptaese · 5 years
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Does anyone knows this minkey or onkey fic where
Minho/Jinki - got into a car accident when he was younger, wheelchair-bound, rich, someone (Taemin?) ordered an escort for him for a weekend
Kibum - the beautiful escort, basically walks around in a silk robe, has a namecard with a key symbol and his number?
If anyone knows, please let me know the title 🙏🏼
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Jonghyun's accident-induced Hiatus has put a lot of stress on SHINee. The other five members are now having to work hard to make up for his absence and finish getting everything ready. As the Face of the Group, it's up to Hana to get some positive attention back on SHINee before the release of The Misconceptions of Me at the end of April. SM wants her to become an actress and suggests that she auditions for the role of Sang, Na-Jung in the Reply 1997 sequel, Reply 1994. Like with being an idol, Hana has never seen herself becoming an actress and doesn't believe it's the right fit for her considering her past with acting, but after Manager-nim reveals to her that The Misconceptions project is being used as a test to see if SM wants to offer SHINee a contract renewal in two years, Hana becomes determined to do whatever it'll take to make sure SHINee doesn't fall victim to the dreaded Seven Year Curse.
Hana isn't the only SHINee member feeling a lot of pressure from SM. With Jonghyun's sudden absence from their next release comes new line distributions and Taemin has been tasked with covering Jonghyun's high-notes for Why So Serious. It doesn't help that the company has also been focusing a lot of their attention on him lately and wanting him to take on a more mature image. The stress of being put under all of that pressure has brought Taemin to his breaking point. His anxiety is running rampant and he doesn't know what he can do to make any of it better. Luckily, Hana is there to lend a helping hand as she comes up with an idea might be able to help Taemin with at least some of his problems but no one must ever know about it.
What idea does Hana propose? Will it actually be helpful or will it cause more problems down the road? After all, how can a plan be helpful if it has to be shrouded in so much secrecy? All Hana and Taemin know is that once their plan is put into action, there will be no going back and the aftermath will leave SHINee's maknaes closer than ever before.
Follow Hana and Taemin as they lean on each other for comfort and support in Chapter 37, Trying Something New. Head on over to Asianfanfics to check it out!
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summerofshinee · 1 year
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“I’ll marry you,” Jinki smiled, voice easy, light, bright. The way it always is. “Let’s give it ten years. If no one has swept either of us off our feet by the time you’re thirty, I’ll marry you." // Kibum was the tide, pulled instead by the sun.
tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Friends to Lovers, Non-Chronological
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damnonew · 5 years
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Chapters: 8/20 Fandom: SHINee Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kim Kibum | Key/Lee Jinki | Onew Characters: Lee Jinki | Onew, Kim Gwiboon, Kim Jonghyun (SHINee), Lee Taemin, Choi Minho Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Het Summary:
Jinki is but a stable boy.
Gwiboon, a noble in search of an advantageous marriage.
Their paths should have never crossed and yet... meeting will change both of their lives forever.
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key-smut · 5 years
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Does anyone have the link to a ff that’s onkey with top Jinki in which Kibum asks Jinki to spank him cuz he’s the leader? It should have two parts of I remember correctly. I’ve been looking for over an hour now and can’t find it lol
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Tremble (3/3)
WINTER
EQUINOX
SPRING
***
“I’m started questioning for what you had your studio for and bought it with such a fortune if you’re pretty much splattered on the floor of my house almost every day like this.”
Kibum kicked his leg on the way to drop himself on his favorite couch. He has lots of paperwork on his hands, round glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose.
“There’s no food there.”
“Delivery reached that area too. And that studio is literally two hundred meters away from a sushi restaurant!”
Never during his career Kibum sold a place without doing a research of the pro-cons from the neighborhood. Taemin stirred and moved to Kibum’s kitchen to prove him that he’s there only for food. But the words came out from him later said differently.
“It’s just lonely over there. Woke up there, worked there, then spent the whole evening editing pictures or sketching some concept for the next photo session. I feel trapped.”
“Wasn’t that the exact reason why you wanted that building at the first place? To save time not to drive back and forth from your apartment and work place?”
“Hah,” he gulped the strawberry’s milk he found in one shot, must be Gwiboon’s, he thought “I never knew it would be that lonely. Guess it’s just a stupid ambition I had to show the world that I’m finally here, at the very top of my career in such young age, after so many objections I faced in the past?”
Kibum torn his eyes from the paper before him, “Honey, your ambition is not stupid. Everyone has a dream and it worth to fight for even if merely a simple one.”
“So you don’t mind if I stop by your place anytime?”
He shrugged, “You’re my only friend, Tae, if I kicked out the last person who can deal my stubbornness, then who’d stay to take care of me on the days I decided to weep?”
“Lots of people want to take care of you but you pushed them away and whose fault is that? You can just literally point your finger and those men and women would voluntarily crawl toward you!”
“Stop it right there or I’d really kick you out of my house. We started with your issue how come you dodged the bullet so easily?”
“Trying to be a secret lover and you'd have thousand tricks to not get caught in an awkward situation.”
“Wow. That’s huge coming from you. Leave him then, and go find another one! You deserve so much better!”
“You sound like Jinki just now. So annoying.”
“Ah. Talking about that friend of yours, is he still pestering you asking for my number?”
“Nope. He stopped about a week ago. I thought it was because he already got your number somehow from other place.”
“I would attack you first if that happened, knowing you’re the only human chain linking us. He might just get tired.”
“Hmm, that would be possible. He tried to get you but you are more slippery than eel, so yeah.”
“Did you just compare me to a water creature?!”
This time is Taemin’s turn to shrug, “What else should I compare you? Jinki was there hot skin and flesh and you just washed him hard with your cold treatment with a simple sentence ‘I need to call my daughter’? Weren’t you just being sneaky?”
“You don’t know how it feels to be me at that time, Lee Taemin.”
Kibum and Soyu were best friends back in college. Both are free spirited and love to run against the world circling around them. One day they met during lunch break, two years after they graduated and already worked and were climbing into steady career. Soyu blurted out that she wanted to have baby. Kibum was jokingly suggesting her to go to the sperm bank and get the donor. What he didn’t expect was she suddenly asked him to be the donor instead since she already knew him and claimed that Kibum has everything she needed for the good qualities for the baby.
He was dumbfounded for a while but then without hesitation, he agreed to the request. The following months, they went to the hospital and learned about all the procedure and got it done on their fourth visit. Soyu said she would raise the baby by herself, she didn’t ask anything from Kibum besides to be present on the labor for the moral support.
However, Kibum couldn’t find him detaching from them. He loved Soyu and their daughter. He stood by their side the whole time and when Gwiboon turned two, there was nothing on the way stopping Kibum to ask her to marry him. Soyu herself, didn’t find anything to turn the request down as she loved him as well.
Their wedding day was the cutest, it was a simple ceremony, with the closest family and friends, with little Gwiboon waked her mother down the aisle. Taemin spent four of his precious roll films to capture the moment and proudly said up until these days that those were one of his best works so far.
The marriage was their beautiful sanctuary for the three of them. It was actually pleasing, physically, mentally, sexually. Until one day, they realized they loved each other not more than best friends. The fight came more often, the buried dreams reappeared to the surface, and they blamed each other more easily than worked out the obstacles together.
Kibum stopped trying and Soyu stopped caring. Being a wife was never been her dream and Kibum started to get scare with the idea of him only forcing his dream to have a family to someone he cared the most who had a very different goal in life. He still loved her as best friend, as his daughter’s mother, but she cannot fill the hole gapping inside Kibum’s heart.
He turned his priority to Gwiboon and Gwiboon only. Moreover after their decision to end the getting unhealthy marriage. He focused his mind and devoted his time for the soon to turn six years old girl. The smile of the love of his life was enough to mend the wound he has. It was hard a little bit when the court gave the custody of the girl to Soyu. But they talked about it and Soyu job’s in Paris turned out requires her to travel more often so secretly, since a month ago, they’re preparing all the paperwork for the kid to be able to move back with her father and started her school here instead in Paris.
Then came Jinki, out of nowhere, confiscated Kibum’s mind with his blinding smile, putting him in the middle of the scale with Gwiboon and him in each side. He needs him to concentrate with his life and Gwiboon’s at this very moment. But he cannot lie to himself that he wants Jinki to be part of it. It’s super silly and ridiculous, he thought, how can a man ruin his composure just with a kiss? How can he be lured just with something that looked like a remedy for his lust? 
“No. I wouldn’t know. But don’t be scared. Who knows he might be the answer of everything?”
“I’m currently not asking, I don’t need an answer.”
“Kim Kibum, you know what I mean.”
“Then tell me. Tell me how you sit down an innocent little girl and said that her father already has someone he likes and that person is not a woman like her mother but a very handsome and charming chef she met at the supermarket instead? How you can tell your own daughter that you’re bisexual?”
***
Jinki’s driving his truck back to the city after traveled east to get some goodies for his new recipe. He rolled down the window and poked his elbow out, enjoying the breeze blowing his side, gently reminds him that spring’s finally here.
Ah, spring.
He almost forgot that he hates spring. It was spring when Donghae dropped the bomb in the middle of heartfelt reunited dinner, asking him to stop seeing each other, after three weeks of break since their biggest fight ever. Having his expectation already high in the air when he called Jinki telling him that he missed him and wanted to meet, of course the question was a perfect jab on his chest.
Jinki remembered how he was stammering asking the reason why and apologizing to Donghae continuously for forcing his ambition to actually start a family together with him. However, behind his tears he could see how Donghae didn’t budge at all and stayed stern, indicating that was his final request to Jinki.
He said he loved Jinki but the relationship getting harder because Donghae thought at that point, they supposed to already know each other by heart but he still found the needs to try and try harder to please or at least understand Jinki.
Jinki knew it was bullshit but he couldn’t do anything. He’s exhausted to force himself and chase Donghae who kept insisting running to the directions pole apart with him. Donghae was his first and longest serious relationship. The empty space he left swallowed him hard. Jonghyun had to nurse him the whole next month after the breakup to prevent Jinki harming himself. He even took a break from the restaurant to heal himself before realized that the more he became busier, the faster he would forget the man he used to dream to have a family with.
When the packed-restaurant’s schedule didn’t help, the news of Donghae’s engagement that reached him three months after the dreadful evening did. The pain slowly became hatred. And when the hatred piled up in each corner of his mind, he had the urge to wash it off with alcohol and series of one night stand. Once the person he spent the night with left, the pain started to grow back and his only escape is repeating the same pattern again and again.
Months and years passed by, and he doesn’t care about spring anymore. It was back to be just a season until Kibum and his sinful lips dragged him into the new cycle of sleepless night. Never in life after Donghae he waited for something. He was done waiting. It was dreading and disappointing. But here he is, expecting his phone to ring and show him unknown number with that cheery voice entailed behind if he picked it up.
We burned and we bled We try to forget But the memories left Are still haunting The walls that we built From bottles and pills We swallow until We're not talking
He turned up the volume of his stereo when the new song from the radio started playing. Blasting the music helped him back then, might as well give it another try this time. 
I I am a man on fire You A violent desire What a dangerous night to fall in love Don't know why we still hide what we've become Do you want to cross the line? We're running out of time A dangerous night to fall in love
Jinki slammed the steer wheel. The possibility meeting a new person after Donghae was never passed his mind. Let alone developing a crush to them. Call it miracle, but Kibum did flick the switch inside him so easily, forcing him to forget whatever he believed about soulmate and stuff before.
He wished he was in a fairy-tale where he everything can just have magically have happy ending at the finish line. The hope though, just evaporated to the thin air when he faced the reality laid before him. Kibum is a father and Jinki understands very well that blood is thicker than anything. If he couldn’t compete with a woman from another rich family to marry his high school sweetheart, how on earth he would be able to win the heart of a man who already gave his life to the cutest girl he ever met?
Started a stranger A lover in danger The edge of a knife The face of an angel The heart of a ghost Was it a dream? He was stranger. Kibum was stranger. Jinki thought the latter would prefer that way. Three weeks into the spring and Jinki’s about to believe that way. He slowed the speed of his truck when he arrived to the neighborhood of his restaurant. If people said everyone would have the one that got away, maybe for him, Kibum is that one.
Jinki jumped off and slammed the door, unaware, or choosing to ignore his surrounding, he doesn’t care that the sound startled some people who shared the small street next to his kitchen back door. He unloads one by one, the wooden cart carried the fresh ingredient he acquired this morning. Usually, Jinki only did the buying in the beginning of the week. He went on Friday morning just because he couldn’t sleep well these past three days and Jonghyun suggested him to take some air and go check the farm knowing that his best friend loves it so much.
Jonghyun was right, Jinki hates to admit but that man is always right. Though it doesn’t completely cure him, at least he feels all the burden tad lighter. Strangely, the weather is warmer today, making him nonchalantly rolled his oversized white t-shirt sleeves up his shoulder causing two women walking by almost tripped their own heels.
He chortled, smirk’s evident in his face knowing he still got it after beaten up quite hard by the reality.
“If you told me before you have that cute mole on your bicep, I wouldn’t have waited until spring.”
How unreal it is, hearing the voice he could only imagined these past days. Holy shit, he couldn’t breathe, he actually kept his promise. Kim Kibum’s standing there, at the sidewalk across where Jinki parked his truck, looking more astonishing now when he’s under the sun instead of moonlight. The pair of bow lips curved beautifully, speeding up Jinki’s heartbeat with the sight.
“Well, someone forgot to tell me he has some kind mole fetish last time we met, I guess.”
Now that he saw Kibum giggling and walking closer to the side of the street where he is, only Jinki can start believe his own eyes. The pink tint is crystal clear adorning his cheeks, prominently shading the fine sculpted bones underneath. If before he said Kibum was already beautiful, this time Jinki honestly doesn’t know how the man who stepped closer to his side manages to be even more mesmerizing.
“Did I keep you waiting for too long?”
“Since it’s 21st century already, I was expecting a phone call. Or at least text message. This.. this is something beyond any scenario I ever think about.”
“I don’t do anything mainstream,” Kibum ran his hand toward Jinki’s forehead to wipe the sweat that makes his bangs stuck on it and the tingling grazing his fingertips are still the same, “So you think about me a lot?”
“More than I was planning to if I may say.”
“Good. Because I would be very disappointed if you said any different.”
“It was very flattering, but I’m actually the one who has the right to be disappointed.”
“How could so?”
“Spring started three weeks ago yet you only appeared today when I’m putting the ugliest outfit out of any day?”
Kibum looked at Jinki, he wears his plain white shirt with old washed jeans, blue plaid shirt tied around his waist with old converse covering his feet, he then burst into huge laughter that ringing like a Sanctus to Jinki’s ears, “Seriously, I would jump you right away with this outfit if we’re not surrounded by two grannies over there and group of kids exploring the neighborhood near my car.”
With that, Jinki’s sold. He slid his hand over Kibum’s waist and captured the pink flesh under his nose he’s been longing. As if it was automatically, Kibum wrapped his hands on the nape of Jinki’s neck, pressing their mouths as close as possible.
All the anxiety clouding Jinki’s mind slowly wiped out with every bites Kibum left on his lower lip. Their tongue tied to each other, trying to match the shape of imaginary puzzle they kept in it and lock it forever.
“So this is it?”
They rest their forehead to each other’s, nose brushing lightly, and Kibum hands secure Jinki’s face by his cheeks, hesitantly detached their lips just because they realized they still are human who needs some air to proceed.
“I kept my promise, didn’t I?”
“Appreciate that a lot,” Jinki pecked Kibum’s lips quickly making the other blushed once again, “Worth the wait.”
“Then.. care to continue where we left before?”
“I finished working tonight by ten.”
Kibum pouted immediately and Jinki couldn’t help to laugh, “What about fifteen minutes quickie in my car?”
“Honey, I’m afraid if it’s involving me you need at least one hour.”
“It takes that long to get it up?”
“No, it takes that long to get it down.”
Kibum whined, chewing his inner cheek, “Great, now I need to buy iron trunks to restrain myself until ten.”
Jinki cracks on the spot and deep kissing Kibum once again, doesn’t even care his lips already slightly swollen after his moves.
“You would look godly good in it, I bet.”
“I leave it in your imagination.”
“Damn, now I need to buy those trunks as well!” Kibum threw his head back laughing at the curse, Jinki didn’t miss a chance mouthing the adam apples on the his exposed neck, “My place or your place?”
“Mine. My daughter’s staying at her Nana’s house.”  
“Fine with that. But what would be my guarantee that you’re not going to vanish after this?”
Kibum found Jinki being possessively anxious cute. He pulled out his phone and pressed some number, “Let’s have some fun.”
He put it in the speakerphone mode. Jinki still has no idea until someone shrieked from the other line.
“You better have a fuckin’ good reason disturbing me during my work.”
“Lovely to hear you scream. Can you do me a favor?”
“What?”
“Can you give me Jinki’s number?”
They can hear Taemin choked so hard, both need to suppress the laughter that almost spoiled the fun.
“Can I give you what? Did you take some drug? Did you crash into some—oh, dear Lord! Are you okay?! You’re not in an accident, are you?!”
“Chill, Lee Taemin.. I just think, since Gwiboon will stay at my Mom’s place until weekend.. Why not inviting him you know.. to fool around and maybe have some sexy time.. who knows?”
“Shit! Kim Kibum! As much as I want you to stop pushing away people around you, doesn’t mean you can being a cheap jerk like this! Jinki’s my friend and if you’re going to hurt him even a millimeter, I won’t allow it with all my might bec—“
Kibum nudged Jinki’s sides and he took the clue so well.
“Taem, just give him my number. I don’t think I can hold it anymore since Kibum learned a new move with his tongue and I want it somewhere else.”
“Wait. Who is th—WHAT THE HECK! LEE JINKI?!”
***
“You’re right. You have the best bed in the world,” Kibum mumbled, cheek pressed to Jinki’s chest, his arm secured on Jinki’s naked waist.
“It’s just because it has me on it,” he said sleepily, his palm tracing Kibum’s back. He can’t get enough touching his smooth skin.
“Oh, aren’t you cocky?”
“Of course I am.. I have a really good one down there.”
Kibum slapped his tummy affectionately, “You’re by far, the most perverted person I’ve ever been with.”
“Should I be happy or should I be sad?”
Instead of answering, Kibum lifted his limb and start peppering Jinki’s navel with the kiss, going straight up passing his chest and collar bones before finally devouring his plump lips.
“I still wonder sometimes how could I betrayed myself and made you wait more than I intended.”
“I was this close to sell my goodies since you seemed uninterested.”
“Hmm,” Kibum slipped his hand under the blanket and rubbing his length just like the way Jinki likes it, “You’d get lots of money with this size, though.”
“Are you willing to trade it?”
“After almost every night have it? Not a chance,” he pecked his nose, making Jinki beamed into huge grin. He lowered his hand to Kibum’s ass and when he grabbed handful of the flesh, the latter voluntarily pressed himself closer to his side.
“You’re so beautiful, Jinki.”
“You’re more beautiful.”
“That I know.”
Jinki chuckled before he pulled Kibum’s chin closer to catch his lips, marking the bow lips as his, again and again.
“I want you to meet someone.”
“Who is that?”
“My daughter,” Kibum smiled nervously, and Jinki caressed his cheeks to ease his mind, letting him know that he’s completely find with the fact that Kibum is a father.
“I don’t know if you know this, but I sort of have met your girl before.”
“I know, she told me. And that brat never stops whining to me ever since she wanted to meet his Mr. Handsome Prince again. She even cut your face from that article in the magazine and put it on her wardrobe. I never imagined before that I need to compete with my own daughter.”
Jinki smiles remembered the sudden nickname he got after helping her with her yoghurt.
“If I need to confess, I was very worried before how you would still give me chance if your entire being already own by that little girl.”
“Well, that kid is already an obstacle in such a young age. I wonder what she would grow up into.”
“She already has your look, at the first place.”
“Even her mother complained she has no trace at all on her.”
They talked about Kibum and Soyu situation since their second date. Jinki’s very mature handling it all but Kibum still worried to death he brought more than burden to Jinki with his baggage. On the other hand, Jinki already came up clear with Kibum that even though they started everything slowly, he’d take every step seriously and wished he would try as hard as Jinki.
“Let her be, she still has a very long way to go.”
“You sure you never had kid before?”
“You think I’d be still chasing you if I already had a daughter?”
The shocking expressions on Kibum’s face giving a wave of laughter once again to Jinki. He’s one that hid his feeling very personal to himself, it’s still fascinating for him to see Kibum just put everything up on his face.
“Just kidding, Honey.. So, when do you want me to stop by your house?”
“Err, tomorrow?”
“Is nine too early for her?”
Kibum kissed him again excitedly, “She woke up at five and nags at me to make her pancake.”
It will be hard to explain to her about their relationship but Kibum wants to dismiss at least one of his worry by getting them familiar to each other first. What happened after, he’ll let the future Kibum deal with it.
“Ah. So she likes pancake? Then tell them her Handsome Prince will make her ones.”
“Stop making me jealous already,” Kibum pouted cutely and Jinki needs to control himself not to turn their position and ruined that mouth again.
“Do you want me to prove myself again?”
“Try.”
“Well, I know you’re tired, but can we have another one before we go for lunch?”
“Are you a machine or what? Trying to destroy my ass, huh?”
Truthfully, Kibum’s been waiting for those words came out his lips. But play hard to get once in a while won’t hurt.
“It’s because you kept me waiting for too long!”
“Why you kept bringing that up? I already admitted it was a mistake!”
“Because that stupid trick wasted my time. Wasted our time. I need to catch up the amount of sex we should have had if we hit it off right away.”
“God, Jinki!”
“What?!”
“You’re such a dork, you know that?”
“I don’t mind.. You like me anyway.”
“Jonghyun would complain once we exited that door.”
“Let’s just say this is me getting revenge. Hundred days I spent sleeping with my earphones plugged and woke up with the sore in both ears because Jonghyun and Minho were beyond what you can call loud.”
Kibum ducked his head and lapped Jinki’s collar bone painstakingly slow. When he raised his head up, a mischievous smirk spreads all over his face.
“So what are you waiting for?”
Jinki’s never been so aroused in such early morning.
***
“Mr. Handsome Prince!!!”
“Gwiboon be careful!”
She’s too excited she has no time to listen to her father and just ran to Jinki’s open arms. Once she’s in his reach, he wrapped her so tight and swept her from the ground.
Kibum secretly rubbing his back, afraid to upset the little girl if he just sprung and kissed him, “I thought today was supposed to be our date.”
That’s how they planned it one week ago. But the last minute, Jinki texted him to bring Gwiboon as well to join their lunch.
“This is a date,” Jinki whispered in between rambles the little girl kept making since the first second she saw him.
They headed to the table Jinki already reserved, this time as well, Gwiboon refused to sit next to Kibum as well and glued to Jinki. Even when the waiter came to take their order, she only listen to Jinki’s suggestion, completely ignore Kibum’s offer.
“Oh here we go again,” Kibum rolled his eyes but Gwiboon’s busy telling Jinki about how her week’s going, “Ya! Kim Gwiboon. Aren’t you too young to make me jealous? I’m your father!”
“I know, Daddy,” she spat her respond very fast before turned her head back to Jinki, “Nana said, I need to eat carrot but it tastes weird.”
“Look at you, the exact carbon copy of your Daddy.”
“That’s what Nana said!” she screeched enthusiastically , “What is carbon copy, anyway?”
“It means, you’re exactly like me, Honey.”
Her eyes rounded to a pair of crystal ball, “Really?! I looked like Daddy? I’m cool like Daddy?!”
“Gwiboon, Honey.. You’re waaayyy cooler and more beautiful than me.”
“Nooo, Daddy is more beautiful,” she turned into a ball of glee, eyes almost swallowed by her puffy cheeks.
“Now that I agree,” Jinki winked and pleased with the bashful smile arose on the other man’s face.
“So, Mr. Handsome Prince, why are we here today?”
Gwiboon folded her arms together in front of her buffed chest, “Daddy! That’s my nickname!”
“I can’t call him Mr. Handsome Prince?”
“No!”
“So what should I call him?”
“I don’t know.”
Jinki saw the gap for him to slide in, “Can Daddy call me ‘Honey’ then?”
Kibum almost choked to death, how dare he say such things? Quickly he wiped his mouth and glance to the little girl who’s now knitted her brows together and pursed her lips, put her best effort to concentrate as if it’s a sudden death question, not even aware that her father’s nervously waiting for the next thing spilled out from her mouth.
“Umm, okay, he can. As long as he’s not calling you Mr. Handsome Prince.”
Both men relieved in unison, however, Jinki hasn’t convinced yet. He’s about to ask further but their food came, he had to wait after the waiter the waiter finished serving all their order and left.
“Kim Gwiboon, do you know why we are here?” Jinki’s back to his initial talk.
“To eat lunch?” she answered innocently, leaving Kibum shaking his head, still amused with everything she managed to compose with that little copy of his own bow lips.
“Besides that?”
“Umm, no? Is it Mr. Handsome Prince birthday?”
“No, it’s not my birthday,” he fixed the uneven bangs on her forehead, “We have lunch today, because I need Gwiboon’s permission.”
“My permission?”
Questioning looks not only washed over her face, but also Kibum’s who’s totally clueless where this conversation heading to.
“Yes. I want to ask Gwiboon, can I be your Daddy’s boyfriend?”
Kibum doesn’t know where Jinki found such gut to bring this up. At the moment he’s torn to the idea of runaway and kick Jinki’s ball under the table. Strangely, Gwiboon doesn’t seem to be bothered at all. He hoped Jinki would turn his way so he could ask some explanation or at least moral support because the little girl might explode to the fact that he’s dating her idol.
Far from anyone expectation, she quietly scoped the cream pasta in front of her and nods slowly while savoring her lunch.
“Aren’t you already?”
Kibum’s eyes almost escaped his skull. His heart beats rapidly and he can feel blood rushing all over his head. Gwiboon continues telling some random stories on what happened to her during her stay at her grandmother’s house and about their puppies who’s getting smarter day by day, while eyes focusing on her favorite pasta dish, her little hand struggle to handle the weight of each strand of the fettuccine, but refused the help from Jinki, proving to the world once again that she’s the daughter of Kim Kibum.
Contented with the rhetorical question, Jinki’s finally lifted his head to Kibum who’s about to shoot hundreds curses and questions. Before he’s able to open his mouth, Jinki stretched his hand across the table, with the palm facing the air, inviting Kibum to reach it.
No need more words, he took one deep breath, and wrapped Jinki’s hand in his. Their eyes talking silently, making a beautiful melody only they could listen to.
To Kibum, out of all the times their eyes caught each other’s smile, Jinki beams the brightest today. His heart trembled once again, remind him to the first night their world clashed together. And with that, Kibum knows, he entrusted his heart in the right hand.
***
corrected a bit from the initial post in my AFF, typo wise only, so didn’t change anything. written in an alternate universe where people can love anyone they want and show it to the world as they pleased because love is beautiful. happy pride month! :)
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