| Fan Fiction |
by Micah
“The police are still looking. No clues from the note. It’s probably just a false alarm,” Changmin shrugged.
“Do you have any suspects? Any recent or old enemies?”
“Only Jaejoong,” Changmin replied.
“Jaejoong isn’t your enemy,” Junsu rolled his eyes.
“If he really isn’t the reason that you and I are still single, then I suppose he isn’t my enemy.”
Junsu sighed. “Changmin…”
“I’ll never understand you,” Changmin sighed. Junsu wondered why he was suddenly bringing this topic up.
“I thought we were done with this topic long ago.”
“You can’t avoid it forever.”
“I…”
“I really don’t understand. Our friends from high school always wondered why you never got together with me when my family is filthy rich.”
Junsu chuckled. “That’s like asking why someone like you would be in love with me.”
“Unexplainable?”
“Yes.”
“No…”
Junsu tipped his head slightly and the book fell off. Yoochun heard it and was by his side immediately, ending the conversation.
Junsu smiled innocently and Changmin shook his head with a sigh.
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“I have a meeting tomorrow morning from seven to ten,” Changmin reminded. Junsu was his bodyguard, but Changmin was the one who had been following him around in the past few days.
“Oh, right!” Junsu gasped.
“Don’t worry, Su-ie, I’ll watch Yoochun and Yunho during that time,” Jaejoong said as he walked out of the kitchen.
“Don’t you have work?”
“I quit the job already,” he shrugged casually.
“Again?” Changmin and Junsu chorused.
“Yep! I need change. Don’t worry, Su-ie, a friend already found me a job at another restaurant,” Jaejoong smiled.
“Which one?” Junsu inquired.
“I think it’s called ‘Timeless’.”
“What? But that restaurant has been going down the gutter since…since it opened!” Changmin exclaimed. “The building was a bad investment in the first place and the owner fails at decision making.”
“That’s why I agreed to work there,” Jaejoong informed.
“What?”
“You don’t understand. Go back to reading your encyclopedia or whatever it is you do for fun,” Jaejoong brushed him off. It was true. Changmin never understood Jaejoong…not anymore, anyway.
“Is dinner ready?” Junsu asked.
“Yep!” Jaejoong grinned at him. “I saved you the two chicken legs!”
“That’s the best part! You’re amazing!” Junsu cheered as they clapped their hands and giggled like schoolgirls.
“I will go inform Yoochun and Yunho,” Changmin sighed as he stood up to walk to the guestroom that Yoochun had been occupying for nearly a week now.
As he walked closer, he heard Yunho’s voice saying, “At the least…you have the desire to return to our era.”
Yoochun’s voice replied, “We both wish to return, but for different reasons.”
They were both alone in the room, and yet they still spoke like they’re really from the ancient past? Then Changmin could only conclude that they weren’t liars…they were simply crazy. Because ‘time travel’ went against all logic.
He knocked on the door. “Yoochun, Yunho, dinner is ready.”
The door opened and the two men walked out. They thanked Changmin and followed him out to the kitchen. The three men froze in their steps at the sight before them.
Junsu had a chicken leg stuffed in his mouth, ready to take a bite. The awkward thing was that Jaejoong was holding the chicken leg and feeding it to Junsu.
“Can this be anymore awkward?” Changmin raised an eyebrow.
“You’re just jealous!” Jaejoong retorted while Junsu was busy chewing. Changmin and Jaejoong jumped into another argument while Junsu grabbed the chicken leg from Jaejoong and continued to munch, innocent eyes staring back and forth between his two friends.
Yoochun and Yunho shared glances. They couldn’t understand what Changmin would be ‘jealous’ of.
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“This, my friends, is a pool! I would have taken you guys to the beach, but Junsu made me promise not to do anything outrageous,” Jaejoong pouted.
Once Junsu and Changmin had left, Jaejoong had handed Yoochun and Yunho a set of clothing comprised of a white T-shirt and flowery swimming shorts. They were not comfortable with the swimming trunks at first, but slowly realized that it wasn’t too bad.
Now as they stood at the entrance of the pool, they still did not understand why someone would go swimming when it was freezing cold outside. Still, that didn’t stop them from following Jaejoong towards the water, to stand at the edge of the pool.
But when three girls, in bikinis, popped up from under the water, Yoochun and Yunho stopped walking. They quickly turned around, away from the water, and lowered their heads.
“What’s wrong?” Jaejoong inquired.
Yoochun and Yunho shared glances and then looked back towards the entrance to see more bikini clad girls and guys with only swimming trunks on walk in.
“This…this is inappropriate,” Yunho spoke, eyes lowered again.
“What are you talking about?” Jaejoong walked over to stand in front of them.
“The…females…their clothes,” Yoochun pointed out.
“Huh? Those are called bikinis. It’s what girls wear when they go swimming. That’s normal.”
It was the cold season so there were not many girls walking around the streets wearing skimpy clothes. Yoochun and Yunho did not even know of skimpy clothes or that girls were allowed to bare that much skin. But now, seeing girls in bikinis, they questioned the status of women in the modern time.
“But...” Yoochun began.
“I do not know how to swim. It is best that I return home. You two enjoy your swim,” Yunho spoke with finality as he began to walk away.
“Wait…” Jaejoong began.
By this time, more and more people had entered the pool. Unfortunately, most of them were immature teens running about and playing ‘push each other into the water’.
A group of five teens (three girls and two guys) were running towards Yoochun, Yunho, and Jaejoong. Just as Yunho took a step forward, two of the girls bumped into him and he froze at the skin contact. The two teenage boys tried to push each other into the water and ended up shoving Jaejoong.
Jaejoong slipped and slid towards Yunho, pushing the shocked man backwards and into the water. The group of five teens continued to chase each other to another area of the pool while Yoochun and Jaejoong stared in shock at the water (the area that Yunho had fallen into).
They waited for Yunho to resurface, but didn’t see him. “Uh…didn’t he say that he doesn’t know how to swim?” Jaejoong rubbed his chin.
“Is the water that deep?” Yoochun’s eyes widened at Jaejoong. He was sure that people on the other side of the pool were standing on their feet.
Jaejoong stepped forward slightly to look at the number marked on the side of the pool. No wonder most of the people were on the other end of the pool. “Yes, we’re on the deepest end.”
“Save him!” Yoochun shouted. Other people stared with wide eyes at the shouting man with an awkwardly attractive bowl cut.
“Oh, right,” Jaejoong jumped into the water. People began to gather when they realized that a man may have drowned.
Jaejoong soon resurfaced with an unconscious Yunho, who Yoochun easily pulled up and settled onto the cold tiles.
“Yunho! Yunho!” Yoochun shook the older man, but got no response.
“Is he okay?” someone in the surrounding crowd inquired.
“Wow, he’s hot,” a female voice commented. Yunho’s white T-shirt was soaked and sticking tightly to his toned body. The same had happened to Jaejoong and it was hard to tell who the girls were drooling over.
“Give him mouth-to-mouth!” another person shouted.
Yoochun looked up at the voice and had to wonder, “‘Mouth-to-mouth’?”
Then he heard girls gasping and claiming to faint. His head immediately turned back to look at Yunho…to see Jaejoong kissing him!
Too shocked to speak, he continued to watch. Jaejoong had a hand on Yunho’s chin to keep his mouth open and his other hand was pinching Yunho’s nose. His mouth covered Yunho’s for a few seconds before leaving it, and then the process was repeated again.
Yoochun blinked and didn’t know if he should be shocked by this…‘kissing’ or worried to death that his good friend might…well, die. If his good friend didn’t die, then Jaejoong might die when Yunho finds out about…
“Ouch!” Jaejoong exclaimed when Yunho’s eyes suddenly popped open and his hand pushed Jaejoong away roughly. Yunho had woken up at the exact same time that Jaejoong’s mouth had been over his!
Yoochun saw the humiliation and anger in Yunho’s eyes and quickly laid both hands on his shoulders to calm him down. “Are you okay?”
“What are you doing?” Yunho demanded of Jaejoong.
“Saving your life!” Jaejoong shouted. “And you shove me like that? Hmph!”
Yoochun looked up at the crowd that was giving the three men awkward looks. “Let us return home first,” he suggested.
Jaejoong stood up and gave Yunho another “Hmph!” before stomping off. Yoochun and Yunho silently followed.