[FIC] Bubblegum

Title: Bubblegum
Characters: Yesung, Leeteuk
Rating: G
Wordcount: 465
Summary: The way his hyung seems more tired every day bothers him.
A/N: Written for the one who gave me this challenge; my dear Meimei.

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There was a lot he could have done, but he didn’t. There was a lot he could have said, but he hadn’t. There was a lot he could have given, but he didn’t. Instead he had been the calm observer, watching without meddling in. He spent lots of his time thinking about how everything had gone, but he never tried to fix it or change it. Yet it had come to a point where he couldn’t keep silent anymore.

The leader had been suffering because of all the problems in the band, Kibum taking a break to do more acting, then Youngwoon having the accident and now finally Hangeng bringing up the lawsuit. Throughout that all, Jungsoo had fought to keep the rest of the band together, and it hadn’t been easy, considering the fact that Heechul had basically isolated himself from the others. With all those worries and troubles, Jungsoo had lost a lot of sleep and Jongwoon couldn’t take it anymore. He was going to make the elder guy sleep, even if he had to push him down on the bed and hold him there by force.

Now Jongwoon wasn’t shy or anti-social, no, he normally didn’t have a single problem with others, but when it came to the leader, he always felt a little uncomfortable. There was so much friendliness and openness radiating from Jungsoo that he often didn’t know how to respond to it, and it was even harder to try and force the leader to do something, when he had never forced anyone to do anything. At times Jongwoon would just ignore the weird feeling and hug his friend, but there were other times when he couldn’t.

That day was one of those times.

“Yesung-ah.. Are you alright? Do you need anything?” Jungsoo asked when he opened the door and took one step inside. Jongwoon could only stare, taking in the scene of his leader sitting on the bed with a laptop in front of him on which he was probably researching something for Teukigayo. It was rather late to still be doing that, but Jongwoon knew that Jungsoo had had no time during the days.

“Do you need anything?” Jungsoo asked again when there came no response, but still there were no words coming out of Jongwoon. He put his hands in his pockets, not knowing what to say, but suddenly felt something, and before he knew it, his mouth had already spoken the words.

“Want some bubblegum, hyung?” He held up the package, earning a weird look from Jungsoo.

“No, thank you, it’s late.” the eldest then said. “Are you sure you’re alright, Yesung-ah?”

“Yeah, yeah, I’m perfectly fine..” he mumbled in reply and with those words, he hurried back out of the room.

Better luck next time.