I met Yoochun when I was 21 years, 3 months and 15 days. I got a good impression of him. Yoochun was so kind and harmless that I thought he couldn’t even hurt a fly. Actually, I was assigned to be the teammate with him in Industry Project course, along with Yunho, Siwon and Heechul, who were all my seniors. At that time, I still acted coldly with him, because I didn’t get along with him like others in the team.
Yunho, who I befriended for such a long time, was a rebellious student. Unlike other majority, he would like to hang out, drink and go clubbing till sunrise. I guess that if the world ran out of wine, his world would definitely end. Maybe that was the mutuality between Yunho and Heechul. When they got in the group, they found each other easily. It could be that as Yunho was an outgoing student, he could befriend with anyone. People in the group liked him, except for one, Choi Siwon….
Choi Siwon was the student president. He was also in the basketball team, maybe he could be the team leader as well. He was hot, his six pack abs body was just terrific, and people couldn’t resist it, especially girls who got head over heels for him. I heard that they made him a website and it was a traffic jam as too many people accessed it. Wow… I could say that I was so honored to be his teammate. Exactly, because of his good morality, Siwon disliked Yunho, considering him the black sheep in the group. I caught him nagging Yunho every day like an old mom did to his son. Sure! Yunho who was always forgetful didn’t give a damn.
Siwon was also an extremist. In the group, he was a self-acclaimed leader although Heechul was older than him. He could have been the leader instead. I never caught Siwon bullying Heechul, maybe due to his age and his “so called” relationship with school mafia gangs. But I had to admit that Siwon was a great leader, except for a few times he got crazy over people, including Yoochun who didn’t do anything wrong. Then, Yunho said that “Lola Bunny” got a hormone disorder, we all laughed out loud.
One day, to prepare for the assignment proposal, we got a meeting at 4 pm, after Siwon’s basketball team practice time. I knew Yunho like an open book. He would never come in time, exactly 15 minute late as he assumed that people were going to be late like him. Heechul didn’t pick up the phone. Siwon said that he would come in a few minutes later. So, there were only me and Yoochun left….
_”Did you have any ideas for the proposal?”- He asked him, turning on his laptop.
_” Yeah! Got it. But we need to discuss!”
I reluctantly replied, actually, yesterday I was busy reading “One piece” manga, but I did research… small stuff, to be honest. Then the silence did the talking. I observed him surfing the website, a music one, then he clicked a random song.
_”Do you know this song?”- Yoochun asked when the song started
_”No. But maybe Yunho knows, he just loves music”
_”Yeah”- He smiled-“ It is called I Like Chopin or Rainy Days”
I heard him singing along with the lyrics. He sang with a moderate volume, but it was enough for me to hear. There was a moment in time I thought he was a god sent from heaven. Yoochun was handsome like a statue, which I had never noticed before. I was completely lost in his deep black eyes. So beautiful. Exactly, they were so pure that I could see my ugly me reflection.
_”Changmin, do you like rain?”- Yoochun asked
_”No, absolutely. It is all dirty and wet ”- My heartbeat was so fast that I couldn’t bear it
_ “Me either”- He seemed to agree with him.”But I remember….”- His voice suddenly became so low.” I remember kissing my girlfriend in the car where the radio played that song, outside it was raining so hard…”
Perhaps he didn’t need to say any further, I knew that they ended up making love in the car. My world ended at that time.
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At first I thought it was just a juvenile crush on him but it really took its toll on me. It came as a shock to me that I just couldn’t move my muscle. I lied in bed like a dead human being. It was true that Yoochun already had his lover and I was just a loner. In my dream, his smile was with me all the time. But it was time to go to school. Never in my life did I miss a single day at school regardless of any conditions.
I got a Microeconomics class this morning. Looking at my watch, it was still 10 minutes left before the class started, I directly went straight to the end row of the class where I saw sleeping Yunho. He was so deeply asleep that he couldn’t hear the noise. I read in the article that your seat position reflect the studying attitude. Yeah. I meant in class, you can spot that all studious students sit in the first row, while students like Yunho belong to the last one. There, they can play Ipod, read magazine, do whatever they like…. Normally, I liked to sit at the 3rd row, but today, due to the sleepless night, I just wanted to find somewhere to take a rest.
Here came the teacher wearing a plain red suit, which made him look like a real rasher of bacon. I wondered if he really smelt like it. Finally Yunho got up with his red eyes and smiled with me. Maybe today, it was going to rain as Yunho was in class. I knew it didn’t sound good to be skeptical about close friends, but I highly doubt why Yunho passed the course with the fact that he rarely came to class. Today, he was at school.
The lecture was processing normally, and of course, boring like usual. The teacher kept talking and students kept yawning, except for the front row. The way he delivered the lesson was so damn low. I was deadly sleepy when I noticed Yunho who was strange today. He did nothing, no note taking, no highlighting, but stared at one point. Then he tore a paper to make a paper plane and flew it towards. Unfortunately, Yunho got busted right away.
_”What the hell are you doing?”- Mr. Bacon shouted
_”Nothing!”- Yunho calmly shook his head, the class became chaotic
The answer was too short to satisfy him. As a result, he got mad and yelled at us. I was totally fed up with brand old lessons like:”Do you know how much your parents sacrifice to get you to university??” some kind like that. But really what the hell was Yunho doing?
_”Can you explain the point in slide 15?”- Mr. Bacon asked, giving Yunho a second chance to atone his bad behavior
_”It was all dark, teacher”
Yunho softly said, pointing his finger to the black screen. All show slides just disappeared. The class became noisy again. The studying equipment in my school sucked. Sometimes, it could get some problems and then, here it was again….
_”I will call the IT service”- A student in the front row suggested
_”They are not forced to come, are they?”- Yunho changed his position a little bit. Not waiting for the teacher to confirm, he continued-“They have no competitor, we have no influence over them either. It’s monopoly market. Right?”
_”Yeah”-Mr. Bacon face became red-“Class, you see. It’s an example for monopoly market”
I knew why Yunho got passed in every course. He was extremely smart.
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The class ended earlier than usual, and Mr. Bacon ran out of the class immediately as if he wanted to go WC. Yunho shook his shoulder and yawned
_”At last it is over….”
_”Hey, what…”
I was about to ask him what he did before but a third person interrupted us.
_”Pardon me. Is it yours?”
It was a boy with a pale skin and big black eyes. He looked thin too, which made him look like a cancer patient. But he got something charming. Maybe people could mistake him for a girl because he looked like a girl, an adorable one. He gave Yunho back his paper plane and he shook his head.
_”It was made for you”- Yunho smiled
_”Me?”
The boy looked surprised but opened it. It was all written:”Kim Jaejoong, 143”. The boy named Kim Jaejoong blinked his eyes, which meant he just couldn’t get it. And me either.
_”It’s a code. 1 is I, 4 is LOVE, and 3 is YOU. I LOVE YOU, KIM JAEJOONG”- Yunho explained with an emotionless face
_”Did you just say that you loved me?”
_”Yes, I did”
Then the suspicious look appeared on Jaejoong face. He kept staring at Yunho. But out of our expectation, he got back and ran away terrifyingly, leaving Yunho blinking his eyes, which meant he just couldn’t get it.
_”What’s wrong with him? I didn’t do anything. I just said that I loved him, nothing more….”
