Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: Epilogue
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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Selene was stressing out. It was getting terribly late and she still had to prepare the boys’ food, but apparently they had run out of rice. How was she supposed to take decent care of those crazy boys when there wasn’t even rice in the house? Muttering some complaints to herself, she went outside to go ask for some rice next door. As she walked out the door, however, the surprisingly good weather immediately made her feel better and for a moment she had forgotten what she was doing outside. When it hit her again, she quickly set off to the neighbour’s door. She rang the bell, waiting a little impatient for her neighbour to open. When the door opened, however, it was not the person she had expected to see.
“Afreya? What are you doing here? I thought you were in Europe this week?” she said surprised, but immediately after that her face brightened. “Great to see you. It’s been too long! How have you been?” She hugged her friend and took a step back again. Afreya smiled a little, letting her eyes wander over Selene’s features as well.
“Ah, I’m just cleaning a bit. The Europe assignment has been cancelled, so I have a sudden lot of free time. That’s why I decided to come clean up the house. You know how much of a slob this guy can be.” she then replied. Selene nodded.
“I hear you.” she said with a sigh. “I know two others like them. You should be very happy that this one at least cleans up after himself a little. How is Hazel?”
About five years ago, the boys had all moved to their own houses. Selene had of course moved in with Hyukjae and for some reason, Leeteuk had decided to come live next door. Due to his still ongoing success in the past years, Afreya had still not decided to get together with him, that being the reason she was still living in her own house together with her adopted daughter. However, Selene was getting more and more convinced of the fact that it wouldn’t take much longer anymore for her friend to move in with Leeteuk. The two of them just really loved each other way too much.
“She’s doing fine.” Afreya smiled when she said it, thinking about her little daughter. “Keeps asking me about papa Jungsoo.” Selene noticed the sparkle in Afreya’s eyes when she said ‘papa Jungsoo’ and had to hide a smile with a cough. “How are the boys?”
“They’re doing fine as well. Being their normal selves.” Selene smiled thinking about the two. “Kwon has just found out how to make people angry by colouring walls with his markers and Dongjae is starting to learn how to play the piano now. He can already play ‘Slam my hand on the keys so it makes funny noises’ and ‘Keep on hitting the same key until someone comes and gives me attention.’” Selene sighed. “I guess I’m happy they stopped annoying each other for a bit now.” She turned to look at her own house. “Talking about the boys. I just came to ask for some rice, actually. I am in the middle of preparing their lunch.”
“Oh, you should have said so immediately. Come in, I’ll get you some. How much do you need?” Afreya stepped aside to let Selene in first, before closing the door and setting off to the kitchen to gather some rice. Selene followed, continuing the conversation on their way in.
“Not too much. Just one bowl will be enough.” When looking around, she added another question. “I thought Jungsoo would be home today? He didn’t have any schedules today, did he?”
“No, he didn’t. He’s taking a nap on the couch. Seriously, that guy should get to bed earlier and get out later. I don’t know how he manages to stuff all his activities in the twenty-four hours there only are in a day.” Afreya complained, but she was smiling the whole time. “How’s your husband keeping up? Has he gotten used to the liveliness by now?”
“Yah, he’s keeping up fine. Ever since we went to go buy a dog he’s been satisfied. To say it in his words: ‘You have something you wanted and I have something I want as well. So we can both be happy now.’” Selene chuckled. “You won’t hear me complaining about that.”
“Did you guys finally decide about a name for the poor dog?” Afreya asked laughing, while pouring a bunch of rice into a bowl. Selene chuckled as well and nodded. “Tell me.”
“Well, we were still doubting a long time, but then he started being even more cute, so we settled for Yemin.” she explained.
“Yemin?”
“Yesung and Sungmin put together. Because he’s so cute, yet so weird. I mean.. He eats our curtains..” Afreya started laughing again, making her friend chuckle as well. She handed over the bowl of rice to Selene and smiled a little.
“Say hi to Jo Kwon oppa when you see him again. I’ll come say hello to the boys before I go home. It’s been a while since I’ve seen my godchild.” Afreya then said, walking Selene to the door again.
“True. Dongjae asked about you recently.” Selene replied with a smile. “But Jo Kwon oppa is coming over later today. Why don’t both you and Leeteuk hop by as well? Then you can say hi to Jo Kwon yourself and Kwon can see his godfather again. It’s been ages. He might not even recognize him anymore.” Afreya chuckled.
“I’ll kick his lazy butt out of the couch and bring him over, even if I have to drag him the ten meters to your doorstep.” Both girls laughed again and Selene had forgotten all about her earlier stress.
“Thanks for the rice, Afreya. I’ll see you later today then? He should be here at about 2 PM.”
“I’ll make sure to hop by.”
Selene waved once more at her friend, before walking back to her own house. When she opened the door, Yemin immediately came running towards her, sniffing at her feet only to sneeze, turn around again and run right back into the living room. Selene laughed as she closed the door again. When she made her way towards the kitchen, she noticed both of her boys nicely sitting at the dining table. A little surprised she looked from the four year old Kwon at the three year old Dongjae and back. When she looked up at the door leading to the kitchen, she noticed the reason for their model behaviour.
“Donghae oppa!” she said happily. “What brings you here?”
“Hyukjae’s car.” he replied with a grin, walking up to her to give her a hug. He was careful not to push the bowl of rice out of her hands. “I came to visit my two most favourite people in the world.”
“That’s very nice of you!” Selene said, smiling brightly as she walked into the kitchen. She greeted her cooking husband with a kiss, moving towards the rice cooker with her bowl of rice.
“He meant me and Dongjae.” Hyukjae mumbled, trying to provoke her.
“I know he did. Why do you say that? Do you not think it’s nice he’s visiting you and your son?” she said surprised, after which she turned to look at Donghae. “I’m sorry, oppa, but I think Hyukjae would rather have you not coming over for a visit again.”
“No, that’s not what I meant!” Hyukjae immediately protested, running over to Donghae to grab his arm so he couldn’t leave. While doing so, he also moved away from the food so that she could take care of it again. Selene took over the cooking with a smile.
“Of course not..” she said softly. “That’s what they all say.”
“Hey! Aren’t you supposed to be on my side?” Hyukjae pouted.
“If you wanted to have me on your side, then you should have done the exact opposite of marrying me.” she replied, looking up at him with a little teasing smile. He stuck out his tongue at her. Before she could react, however, Donghae had already given him a little push.
“Your kids are watching. Don’t teach them such things. It’s already bad enough that there’s one of you walking around on this world.” he reprimanded his friend. Hyukjae gave Donghae a sad look, but his response was cut off by the beeping of the rice cooker and the immediate cries for food from the two little boys. Selene took the casseroles and placed them on the table. As she put the finished rice in a bowl again, she looked up at Donghae.
“Are you eating with us?” she asked. He shrugged.
“If you don’t mind.” he then said, hesitating a little.
“Of course I don’t mind.” She smiled happily. “Just sit down and eat along. As long as you don’t show the boys bad table manners.”
“That would be Hyukjae’s job.” he replied, smiling brightly. Selene grinned as she put the bowl of rice on the table, immediately dishing up the boys. After serving everyone, including herself, she sat down and picked up her spoon to start eating.
When they finished eating, Selene cleared the table, put the things away in the dishwasher, cleaned up the kitchen and then prepared everything for when the guests would come. She got out all kinds of snacks and cookies, started making coffee and boiled water for tea. For the two boys, she just put cups on the table so that they could drink milk.
It felt quite nice to be able to do those things in silence, as normally the boys would be running around, trying to get a cookie already before they were allowed to. Now, Hyukjae and Donghae were playing with them in the living room. Once finished with preparations, she went to sit down on a chair and relax, but the moment her butt touched the chair, the doorbell rang. She immediately leaped up again and set for the door, knowing who would be behind it.
A wide smile had already brightened her whole face, a reaction she showed every time she met Jo Kwon. Luckily, her reaction when meeting Hyukjae consisted of a smile that was accompanied by the feeling of love for him. And sometimes, after not seeing him for a long while, she would even be waiting at the door until he came home. Those were things she didn’t do with Jo Kwon.
It had been strange at first to combine her love for Hyukjae with the urge she felt to be with Jo Kwon and often she had felt like she needed to choose between the two of them. However, after explaining the whole soul mates situation to Jo Kwon as well, because she believed he had the right to know, things had taken a turn for the better. Both of the men had always supported her and said that no matter what she did, they would accept it, so in the end they had all managed to get used to the weird jumble of feelings.
Selene realized that things might not have been so hectic and weird if K’Ae had never told them about the whole soul mates stuff, but she would also probably have lost Hyukjae that way, so she could never blame the girl for telling them. Besides, now that things did work out, it was somehow easier to deal with some of the weird moments, knowing that she didn’t always control her own feelings. The whole thing was an easy culprit to blame things on.
With those thoughts in her mind, she opened the door, looking right into the smiling face of the person she loved as much as if he were her real brother.
“Oppa!” she exclaimed, unconsciously sighing a little as she drank in the features of his face. It had been a while since she last saw him, since his schedule was as busy as ever. His smile widened and he opened his arms a little for her to step into his embrace, something she gladly did. They hugged each other for a while, savouring the calming effect the presence of the other had on them, but then Selene let go and stepped aside for him to enter.
“Dongjae, Kwonnie! Uncle is here! Come say hello!” she meanwhile called out. Immediately, the door to the hallway burst open and two hyperactive bombs of energy made their way into the hallway, happily yelling out ‘Uncle Kwon’ as they crashed into his legs and hugged them tightly. Selene chuckled, watching how Jo Kwon picked up his namesake and guided the other kid back into the house. Right when Selene wanted to close the door, she saw Leeteuk and Afreya coming out next door, so she waited for them to come in as well.
Ten minutes later, they were all spread around the table, the kids enjoying the possibility to eat as many cookies as they could without being reprimanded by their parents. Leeteuk and Afreya had taken place next to each other, across from where Hyukjae and Jo Kwon were sitting. The two kids sat next to one another as well and on the other side of the table were Selene and Donghae. Somewhere underneath the table, in between all their feet, Yemin had found a great spot to sleep. The atmosphere was a happy and relaxed one as they shared stories about their life.
Selene let her eyes scan over her family and closest friends, smiling happily. She felt like she couldn’t get any happier than she was, surrounded by loved ones without any problems in her life. That’s when Afreya suddenly grabbed Leeteuk’s hand and pulled the attention towards her by clearing her throat.
“I’m moving in with Leeteuk.” she said softly. Her eyes sparkled as people started congratulating her, but apparently she wasn’t done yet. “And I’m pregnant, so we’re getting married.”
Selene was too dazed to reply at first, but then she started grinning and joy for her friends happiness bloomed in her heart. Everyone started congratulating the two in a daze of blurted out words and nonsense, but then they all shut up and just grinned widely or smiled happily. The two kids just kept on eating cookies, staring at the noisy adults with wide eyes. For once they were the silent ones.
“That’s wonderful news, Afreya.” Selene finally said again. The others nodded as Afreya and Leeteuk shared a look and smiled at each other. Selene let her eyes wander from the new couple over her own children to stop at her husband. He looked up at her right at that moment and a bright smile lightened up both their faces.
It was right then and there that Selene realized life couldn’t get better.
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Monday, 29 August 2011
[FIC] Soulmates: Selene
Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 22/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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Afreya had walked away while Selene introduced the boys to the other four. She already knew all of them, so there had been no use in staying. Besides, her attention had been attracted by something else. Or someone else, to be more exact. From the moment she had walked in and spotted Leeteuk with his T-shirt halfway over his head, the image had been stuck in her head. She hadn’t seen him for a very long time, since the Star King recording probably, and the sudden encounter had shaken up her mind. She could clearly remember Selene’s constant teasing with the fact that Leeteuk had fallen for her. She also remembered the time when she had been smitten by him. Even though those days lay far behind her, seeing him up close like that, still did something to her.
As she had walked out the door, to be able to clear out her mind, she had felt someone looking at her, but she had seen no one as she looked around. she had started her walk through the hallways, even though she had no idea where she was or how to get back. Somehow she would manage to find her way, and if not, then there were enough people walking around to ask. Slowly she started to think everything over.
Back home in Japan, she had a boyfriend waiting for her. Iku Morioka was his name. She had met him while going out during one of her free days. He had been at the same club she had gone to and at a certain moment he had started dancing with her. They had danced together for the rest of the evening. When she wanted to leave, he had walked her home and in the end they had exchanged phone numbers. Iku was two years older than her. He was a very sweet and kind guy, but he didn’t seem to know the meaning of fun. Whenever Afreya had one of her happy moods where she acted like a little kid again, he would look at her as if she was crazy and he would be ashamed to have her act like that in front of other people. That was something she didn’t like.
When she was still in the middle of thinking, she suddenly realized someone was walking beside her. A worried feeling grew in her and as she slowly looked up she feared that the face she was going to see was the one she really didn’t want to see at that moment. As her eyes wandered over Leeteuk’s smile up to his brown eyes, she felt the tiny bit of hope that it was someone else being crushed under the aching truth. Why did he have to follow her now? On this day of all times? Even though she felt more like sighing and hiding her face in her hands, she showed him a little smile. After all, the boy had done nothing wrong. Well.. Boy.. He was about seven years older than her, so maybe she shouldn’t think of him as a boy.
“Hello, Afreya-ssi.” he said, smiling back. He had such a sweet smile and those sparkling eyes..
‘Don’t think about it, girl, you have a boyfriend. His name is Iku Morioka and he might be a douche bag sometimes, but at least he doesn’t have thousands of fans willing to kill you if you so much as look at him.’ she reprimanded herself in her mind, before responding to Leeteuk’s words. “Leeteuk oppa, you should stop addressing me with ssi. I think we know each other well enough now to leave those formalities out, don’t we?”
“Ah, I guess you’re right.” he replied. Her words had made his smile brighten, something she strangely took pleasure in, yet dreaded as well. Couldn’t he just not like her? At least then she wouldn’t feel so guilty every time she looked at him. It was already bad enough that she had actually started comparing Iku to him. Of course Leeteuk won by far. As far as she was concerned, no one could win from Leeteuk.. But why did he have so damn many fans? Why did he make her worry about his fans? She shouldn’t. Because they didn’t have anything together and they wouldn’t have anything together. Not now and not e- “How have you been?”
“Fine. How about you?” she replied, without thinking about it.
“I’ve been doing well.” he said, yet she knew he wanted to say more. And indeed, after a short pause he continued. “But I missed you. It’s good to hear you have been doing well.” A smile broke through on her face. He was so predictable. Yet that was exactly what made him so cute. She sighed. Oh dear, oh dear. Why was he being like this?
“Why would you miss me? I’m nothing special. In fact, I’m a bit of a bore.” she mumbled. Totally unexpected, he grabbed her hand and pulled her through a door on their right. She let out a surprised squeak, but was too dazed to struggle against him. After he closed the door behind him, it was already too late to try and get out. She did not want to hit him to be able to get out, and he probably wouldn’t step aside if she asked him to either. He turned around to look at her.
“I don’t know how many times you want me to tell you, Afreya, or what language you want me to use. You know you’re dear to me and that I care about you a lot.” he said. “I know you don’t feel the same way about me, you might not even care about my feelings, but please just do not question them all the time.” Afreya was silenced by his words. He looked way to serious. Was way too serious. She felt something change inside of her and with sudden annoyance, she pulled her arm free from his grip.
“And why should I not?” she replied, her voice rising because of her anger. “I never asked for these feelings of yours, nor did I ask for you. In fact, I don’t want you around me at all but you keep following me around wherever I go like some crazy stalker. Can’t you just leave me alone? I have no business with your feelings, so don’t come pushing them into my face. Go bother someone who actually gives a damn about what’s going on in that stupid head of yours.” Immediately after her angry outburst she felt sorry for her words, but Leeteuk did the worst thing he could have done as he went against her.
“I never thought you would be like this.” he said, his voice sounding sad, yet angry as well. She seemed to have really hurt him with her harsh words. “I never asked for these feelings either, yet I do have them, but all you do is push me away. How do you think that is like for me? You never even gave me a chance, you simply refused me from the very beginning. I already told you. Even if you don’t feel the same, can’t you just accept my feelings and at least treat me like a friend. Because that is what I thought we were. Friends.” She wanted to answer, but he didn’t seem to be ready yet. “But I guess you don’t know what being friends really means.”
“Park. Jung. Soo.” she said, leaving a threatening pause in between every syllable. “If you think you have any right to say those things to me, you are greatly mistaken. You think you can come up to me, tell me you care about me and then simply expect me to accept it? Or I guess you expect me to bow down to the ground and worship you like all those crazy fans of yours?” Her voice had risen even more and in the end she was yelling at him. He did not stay calm under that either, of course, so his response was just as loud. Somewhere in the back of her head she remembered lots of people in the hallways, but it didn’t seem to matter anymore.
“How dare you!?” he exploded. “You can say whatever you want about me, but don’t you dare speak a word about E.L.F. You have no right to address them like that as they have never done anything wrong to you. Or have you forgotten how to show respect for others as well?” She faintly realized that this was the first time ever for her to see or hear Leeteuk being angry. That realization, however, didn’t matter to her. He had managed to trigger her anger and once started, there was no stopping it. Especially not now that he was shouting back at her.
“You think so much of your dear little fans, why don’t you go and fall in love with one of them? I’m sure the poor girl will welcome you with open arms and ‘accept your feelings’ like you so desperately want me to do.” she almost spat the words in his face, getting more and more worked up over it with every word spoken. “And why can’t you just for once listen to me and simply leave me alone for crying out loud! I really don’t feel like having this nonsensical discussion with you. Especially not in the middle of a conference hall!”
“Well I guess love really is blind.” he snapped. “Making me able to actually feel love for someone like you who obviously doesn’t have the tiniest bit of respect for other people. I thought you were someone with a good heart, but I guess I was wrong. It is strange, though, that you say these things to me, because you yourself don’t listen to others either, or you would have known why I can’t leave you alone. And you would have known that you shouldn’t insult E.L.F.”
“Why do you always start about those stupid E.L.F?” she immediately yelled back. “What did they ever do for you that you think so high of them? Did they ever comfort you when you felt bad? Did they ever hold you when you wanted to be hold? Did they ever help you when you needed help? Aren’t it your members instead of those crazy girls who are always by your side?” In the heat of their discussion, they had moved away from the door, a little more to the middle of the room. While yelling at him, she pushed his chest to get him to go away from her, but it could just as well have been a fly hitting him, for he didn’t even move an inch.
“I could ask you the same thing. Why do you always attack them? What did they ever do wrong to you?” he responded. He lifted his hands as if he wanted to grab her collar or something, but stopped the movement halfway and only clenched his fists tightly. His move made her want to hit him, but it felt like she couldn’t move.
“I’ll tell you what they did wrong to me!” she yelled back. “They exist! They live, they breathe and they freak over you! They follow over every little thing you do and want to control every darn step you take! Do you want to know why I attack them?” She gave him the fiercest look she could manage, but already her strength was leaving her, knowing that what she would say next would be the end of her protest. “Because they’re the one thing keeping me from being with you, you idiot!”
As the last words left her mouth, lots of things seemed to happen at once. The most alarming one of all, was the door handle going down and the door opening, but all her attention was taken by Leeteuk. He let his hands finish their movement after all, grabbing the fabric of her sweater and pulling her closer to him. Before she could react, his lips touched hers and he kissed her very softly and gently, as if they hadn’t just been yelling at each other. She couldn’t help closing her eyes. In a very distant land of reality, she heard the door close again, but that sound got lost in the wave of feelings that rushed through her.
When she opened her eyes again, she took a step back to be able to catch her breath. For a few moments, she simply stared blankly ahead, but then she lifted up her head and looked at him. He was looking right back at her, an expression on his face that she couldn’t really place. A little nervous, she softly bit her lower lip, making a slight smile appear on his face. He had already let go of her sweater, but now he put a hand on her shoulder to pull her closer again. She lost her balance because of the sudden pull and crashed into his chest, but he didn’t seem to care. He simply put his arms around her and hugged her tightly.
Inside she felt confused and there was a loud alarm going off in her head that chanted ‘Iku Morioka’ over and over again. She could not do this to him, nor to Leeteuk. Her breathing became faster, until it finally turned into sobbing. Immediately Leeteuk pushed her a little away from him to look at her with a worried expression. His obvious care for her only made things worse. She wiped away the tears, but there simply were more to run down her cheeks. As he leaned closer to comfort her in some way, she softly pushed him away again. That action made him realize that something wasn’t right.
“Mianhe.” she whispered, slowly releasing herself from his grip. He tried to keep her close, but she couldn’t be close to him with what she was going to say. Silently, she took a step away from him to dry her tears with the sleeve of her sweater. When she had kind of regained control over herself, she was able to look straight at him again without feeling uncomfortable. “Leeteuk-ssi.” she mumbled softly, but he seemed to flinch upon hearing those words.
“Did you not say we should drop the formal speech? Don’t we know each other well enough now?” he asked, his voice unsure and hurt. She took his hand and softly stroked the back of it with the tips of her fingers.
“I did.” she agreed. “But what I have to tell you is very serious.”
“Do you have some fatal disease?”
“What!? No. Where did you get that from?”
“I’m sorry, it’s just that.. In movie dramas that’s mostly the thing a girl tells the boy who loves her after saying those words.” His words were so innocent and random that they made her chuckle. Yet that laughter soon left her again as she thought of the words she was going to say. She stopped the movement of her fingers and gently let the palm of her hand rest on his.
“That’s not it, Jung Soo.” she finally said after a long silence. “I love you.” He wanted to do something, but she didn’t even let him move, lifting up a finger to gain his attention and to make clear that she wasn’t done talking yet. “However, I am not like Selene. I cannot live like that. I cannot do everything secretly to then once sit in front of such a huge hall full of fans and have to confess like that. I refuse to beg them to forgive and accept me, as if what I have done was wrong. I know very well how much your fans mean to you and how you wouldn’t have reached anything without them, but I will not do something like what Selene did today.”
“Afreya..” he started, but she looked up at him, thereby bringing him to silence.
“Yet I do love you.” she continued. “Like you. Feel something for you. Care about you. However you want to call it. I love you and I will wait for you. Until the day that it doesn’t matter anymore what all those girls think. I’ll wait and, if you’ll still have me then, I’ll be there for you. But not now. I cannot live like that. I’d rather be alone for the rest of my life than having to face your precious E.L.F with the confession that I am your girlfriend. I’m sorry.”
Her words were followed by a long silence. She had averted her eyes to their hands, unable to keep looking at him as he stared at her in disbelief. In her head, the alarm was still going on, still chanting the name of her boyfriend. Somehow she would have to tell him about that too, because she wanted to be completely honest to him.
“Please..” he finally said. “Please tell me you don’t mean this.”
“I cannot tell you lies.” she answered, feeling the tears form in her eyes again.
“Then promise me you will not wait.” he said, pulling her closer by her hand and touching her cheek with his fingers. “When there is someone else, do not put him aside because you’re waiting for me. I want you to be happy, not lonely because of me.”
“Oppa..” she whispered, closing her eyes a moment before looking up at him. “I have a boyfriend.” She waited for his reaction in fear, not knowing if he was going to be hurt, angry or show an unexpected reaction. He looked at her for a while, taking in the new piece of information she had given him. Finally, a little smile broke through on his face.
“That is good.” he said, smiling just for the sake of it. It was no use, because Afreya could see the smile did not reach up to his eyes. “I’m glad you have someone to be happy with. I’m glad you’re not lonely.” She immediately shook her head.
“But I still am lonely. You are on my mind all the time, not him. I earnestly tried to love him, but there is you and I cannot love two people at the same time. You don’t know for how long I have been trying to forget you. For a while I thought it worked, but now that I saw you again today, I know that was nothing more than hope.” she said. His hand was still resting in hers and she had tightened her grip a bit while talking. His smile faltered.
“You cannot give up everything just to wait for me.” he said. It was obvious that he was shocked when he realized that she had actually considered doing something like that. “I can’t leave Super Junior. I can’t leave the others behind. I can’t leave E.L.F. Even if part of me wants to, I can’t. You know that. So please don’t ruin a whole life just waiting for me.” He pulled his hand free from her grip and took a step closer to her to be able to hug her. “You have to be happy and get a husband. Have some kids, so that you can play with those who have the same age as you do in your head.”
She smiled. What else could she do upon once again getting proof that he was too caring? What else could she do upon hearing his well-meant advice? What else could she do upon being hugged by him? With a sigh, she gave in to her feelings and let herself lean into his hug some more. Unconsciously, she even put her own arms around his middle and let her body rest against his. They were about the same height, but it didn’t feel weird, even though she had always wanted someone taller than her.
“Can I ask you something?” she suddenly said, as her thoughts wandered off to that certain thing which she had wondered about for a while now. She didn’t even try to look at him while asking it, because it felt way too nice to be able to stand so close to him. He didn’t seem to have any intention of letting go of her either, so that was a well cut out deal.
“Of course.” the calm response came. There was no doubt in his voice and he had shown not a single sign of hesitation.
“Did it never bother you that I am seven years younger?”
“Six years and two hundred and fifty-eight days to be more exact.” he responded, giving her the exact amount of days like it was nothing. “It did. At first. Well, it didn’t really bother me, but it felt weird. I felt weird for liking someone so young, after always saying I wanted someone older. I even counted out the days to make it look less bad, but that didn’t really work. Then one day I simply decided that it doesn’t matter. They say love is blind, so I thought, why should it be able to count?” His words made her smile once again.
“You’re strange.”
“They say it’s my charm.”
“They say you’re an angel.”
“An angel with a strange charm.”
“Stop spending so much time with Yesung. You weirdo.” He chuckled, a sound that made her giggle, which, in its turn, made him laugh. In the end, their laughter drifted out into the hallway, creating a big contrast with the loud noise they had caused a little before.
Selene walked back the way she had come. She was dazed, to say the least, and K’Ae next to her seemed to be baffled as well. They had walked in silence for a while already, but even though she was sure she was totally going the wrong way, K’Ae did not correct her path, nor did she really care. They each kept to their own thoughts, but were probably thinking about the same thing. In a bit of a clouded state of mind, Selene turned her head to look at K’Ae.
“Well.. That was unexpected.” she mumbled as she turned her head back to look where she was going at.
“I hear you.” K’Ae replied. Selene realized she was speaking Japanese as well. Faintly she remembered Hyukjae telling her K’Ae had taught him Japanese. How long ago was it when she had given K’Ae some tips about learning other languages? She had picked it up quite quickly.
“You learned fast.” she complimented the other girl.
“Not really. I just had a lot of free time on my hands. That happens when you can’t sleep at all and have to spend lots of nights on your own, trying to keep busy. After a while, staring at sleeping people does get boring as well.” K’Ae smiled when she said that, making the surroundings seem all the more relaxed. It was strange how the ghost girl could influence a whole place just like that. Selene sighed a little.
“Ah, K’Ae, can I ask you something?”
“Of course.”
“Is it normal that I miss him this much, even though I’m very happy right now?” she mumbled. K’Ae seemed to always know exactly what she was talking about, even though her thoughts jumped from one subject to another that didn’t really have a connection to the first.
“It is. Even now, there is a big part of my mind occupied with thoughts about Top. For me it is of course worse, because he is the only thing holding me on this world, but it is still normal for all of us. Your soul wants to reunite and for that the parts have to be close together. That’s why you miss him even now. In time you’ll get used to it and it will become less. Still, you will have to learn to combine your boyfriend and your soul mate, because neglecting Jo Kwon will mean that the ties between the two of you will be broken and you will return to earth for a second life, just like I did.”
“You came back to earth?” Selene exclaimed surprised. As she looked up, however, she saw the door of the room they were supposed to be at, so she decided to leave that question for a different time. “Let’s go for a drink one of these days and then you can tell me all about this situation.” K’Ae laughed.
“Deal.” she said, as she pushed open the door and walked in. “Hey boys!” she called out. Everyone immediately greeted her happily and Selene quickly introduced the ghost girl to her other friends and her mother. She wisely left out the ‘ghost’ part though. Hyukjae had offered everyone a drink and gave one to the two girls as well now. He gave her a subtle questioning look, that she answered by smiling and nodding reassuringly. Everyone started to have conversations amongst each other, where Hyukjae, K’Ae, Sungmin and Selene would help with the translating whenever it was needed.
At a certain point, the door of the room opened again and a few people entered. Selene looked up and smiled when she saw Afreya coming first. As she let her eyes wander to the next person, whom she expected to be Leeteuk, she let out a surprised, but happy shriek. Her father was standing in the door opening. He had looked around at all the people a little shocked, but immediately came towards her when he noticed her.
“I’m sorry I’m a little late, dear. You know how it goes. Traffic jams and that sort. I hope I didn’t miss anything?” he said with a smile, leaning closer to give her a kiss on her cheek. She put her arms around his neck and gave him a short hug.
“No you didn’t, dad.” she then responded. “But you might want to go and greet mom before she completely forgets about you. I heard her mention managers without T-shirts.” Her father burst out laughing.
“If it’s just the managers, I still have some time. We only have to worry when she starts about the head of the company.” he replied. His words made her laugh and Hyukjae, who was still standing next to her, chuckled as well.
“Dad, this is my boyfriend, Hyukjae. Hyukjae, this is my dad.” she introduced them to each other. Her father turned his attention to Hyukjae and shook the young man’s hand. They exchanged a polite smile, before greeting each other.
“Hello Hyukjae.” her father said politely.
“Hello dad.” the answer came. Again her father started laughing.
“Ah, my little Selene, I already like him. He calls me dad. You picked well.” he said, before adding: “So where are the drinks?” Laughing, she went to get her father something to drink as well. He thanked her and then went to greet her mother. Smiling happily, Selene made her way through the group of people, dragging Hyukjae along by his hand. When they reached the couch, she pushed him down on the last available spot and then went to sit on his lap. With a blissful feeling, she cuddled up against his chest and let her head rest on his shoulder.
“Saranghae.” she mumbled to him. He put his arms around her and smiled.
“Aishiteru.”
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 22/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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Afreya had walked away while Selene introduced the boys to the other four. She already knew all of them, so there had been no use in staying. Besides, her attention had been attracted by something else. Or someone else, to be more exact. From the moment she had walked in and spotted Leeteuk with his T-shirt halfway over his head, the image had been stuck in her head. She hadn’t seen him for a very long time, since the Star King recording probably, and the sudden encounter had shaken up her mind. She could clearly remember Selene’s constant teasing with the fact that Leeteuk had fallen for her. She also remembered the time when she had been smitten by him. Even though those days lay far behind her, seeing him up close like that, still did something to her.
As she had walked out the door, to be able to clear out her mind, she had felt someone looking at her, but she had seen no one as she looked around. she had started her walk through the hallways, even though she had no idea where she was or how to get back. Somehow she would manage to find her way, and if not, then there were enough people walking around to ask. Slowly she started to think everything over.
Back home in Japan, she had a boyfriend waiting for her. Iku Morioka was his name. She had met him while going out during one of her free days. He had been at the same club she had gone to and at a certain moment he had started dancing with her. They had danced together for the rest of the evening. When she wanted to leave, he had walked her home and in the end they had exchanged phone numbers. Iku was two years older than her. He was a very sweet and kind guy, but he didn’t seem to know the meaning of fun. Whenever Afreya had one of her happy moods where she acted like a little kid again, he would look at her as if she was crazy and he would be ashamed to have her act like that in front of other people. That was something she didn’t like.
When she was still in the middle of thinking, she suddenly realized someone was walking beside her. A worried feeling grew in her and as she slowly looked up she feared that the face she was going to see was the one she really didn’t want to see at that moment. As her eyes wandered over Leeteuk’s smile up to his brown eyes, she felt the tiny bit of hope that it was someone else being crushed under the aching truth. Why did he have to follow her now? On this day of all times? Even though she felt more like sighing and hiding her face in her hands, she showed him a little smile. After all, the boy had done nothing wrong. Well.. Boy.. He was about seven years older than her, so maybe she shouldn’t think of him as a boy.
“Hello, Afreya-ssi.” he said, smiling back. He had such a sweet smile and those sparkling eyes..
‘Don’t think about it, girl, you have a boyfriend. His name is Iku Morioka and he might be a douche bag sometimes, but at least he doesn’t have thousands of fans willing to kill you if you so much as look at him.’ she reprimanded herself in her mind, before responding to Leeteuk’s words. “Leeteuk oppa, you should stop addressing me with ssi. I think we know each other well enough now to leave those formalities out, don’t we?”
“Ah, I guess you’re right.” he replied. Her words had made his smile brighten, something she strangely took pleasure in, yet dreaded as well. Couldn’t he just not like her? At least then she wouldn’t feel so guilty every time she looked at him. It was already bad enough that she had actually started comparing Iku to him. Of course Leeteuk won by far. As far as she was concerned, no one could win from Leeteuk.. But why did he have so damn many fans? Why did he make her worry about his fans? She shouldn’t. Because they didn’t have anything together and they wouldn’t have anything together. Not now and not e- “How have you been?”
“Fine. How about you?” she replied, without thinking about it.
“I’ve been doing well.” he said, yet she knew he wanted to say more. And indeed, after a short pause he continued. “But I missed you. It’s good to hear you have been doing well.” A smile broke through on her face. He was so predictable. Yet that was exactly what made him so cute. She sighed. Oh dear, oh dear. Why was he being like this?
“Why would you miss me? I’m nothing special. In fact, I’m a bit of a bore.” she mumbled. Totally unexpected, he grabbed her hand and pulled her through a door on their right. She let out a surprised squeak, but was too dazed to struggle against him. After he closed the door behind him, it was already too late to try and get out. She did not want to hit him to be able to get out, and he probably wouldn’t step aside if she asked him to either. He turned around to look at her.
“I don’t know how many times you want me to tell you, Afreya, or what language you want me to use. You know you’re dear to me and that I care about you a lot.” he said. “I know you don’t feel the same way about me, you might not even care about my feelings, but please just do not question them all the time.” Afreya was silenced by his words. He looked way to serious. Was way too serious. She felt something change inside of her and with sudden annoyance, she pulled her arm free from his grip.
“And why should I not?” she replied, her voice rising because of her anger. “I never asked for these feelings of yours, nor did I ask for you. In fact, I don’t want you around me at all but you keep following me around wherever I go like some crazy stalker. Can’t you just leave me alone? I have no business with your feelings, so don’t come pushing them into my face. Go bother someone who actually gives a damn about what’s going on in that stupid head of yours.” Immediately after her angry outburst she felt sorry for her words, but Leeteuk did the worst thing he could have done as he went against her.
“I never thought you would be like this.” he said, his voice sounding sad, yet angry as well. She seemed to have really hurt him with her harsh words. “I never asked for these feelings either, yet I do have them, but all you do is push me away. How do you think that is like for me? You never even gave me a chance, you simply refused me from the very beginning. I already told you. Even if you don’t feel the same, can’t you just accept my feelings and at least treat me like a friend. Because that is what I thought we were. Friends.” She wanted to answer, but he didn’t seem to be ready yet. “But I guess you don’t know what being friends really means.”
“Park. Jung. Soo.” she said, leaving a threatening pause in between every syllable. “If you think you have any right to say those things to me, you are greatly mistaken. You think you can come up to me, tell me you care about me and then simply expect me to accept it? Or I guess you expect me to bow down to the ground and worship you like all those crazy fans of yours?” Her voice had risen even more and in the end she was yelling at him. He did not stay calm under that either, of course, so his response was just as loud. Somewhere in the back of her head she remembered lots of people in the hallways, but it didn’t seem to matter anymore.
“How dare you!?” he exploded. “You can say whatever you want about me, but don’t you dare speak a word about E.L.F. You have no right to address them like that as they have never done anything wrong to you. Or have you forgotten how to show respect for others as well?” She faintly realized that this was the first time ever for her to see or hear Leeteuk being angry. That realization, however, didn’t matter to her. He had managed to trigger her anger and once started, there was no stopping it. Especially not now that he was shouting back at her.
“You think so much of your dear little fans, why don’t you go and fall in love with one of them? I’m sure the poor girl will welcome you with open arms and ‘accept your feelings’ like you so desperately want me to do.” she almost spat the words in his face, getting more and more worked up over it with every word spoken. “And why can’t you just for once listen to me and simply leave me alone for crying out loud! I really don’t feel like having this nonsensical discussion with you. Especially not in the middle of a conference hall!”
“Well I guess love really is blind.” he snapped. “Making me able to actually feel love for someone like you who obviously doesn’t have the tiniest bit of respect for other people. I thought you were someone with a good heart, but I guess I was wrong. It is strange, though, that you say these things to me, because you yourself don’t listen to others either, or you would have known why I can’t leave you alone. And you would have known that you shouldn’t insult E.L.F.”
“Why do you always start about those stupid E.L.F?” she immediately yelled back. “What did they ever do for you that you think so high of them? Did they ever comfort you when you felt bad? Did they ever hold you when you wanted to be hold? Did they ever help you when you needed help? Aren’t it your members instead of those crazy girls who are always by your side?” In the heat of their discussion, they had moved away from the door, a little more to the middle of the room. While yelling at him, she pushed his chest to get him to go away from her, but it could just as well have been a fly hitting him, for he didn’t even move an inch.
“I could ask you the same thing. Why do you always attack them? What did they ever do wrong to you?” he responded. He lifted his hands as if he wanted to grab her collar or something, but stopped the movement halfway and only clenched his fists tightly. His move made her want to hit him, but it felt like she couldn’t move.
“I’ll tell you what they did wrong to me!” she yelled back. “They exist! They live, they breathe and they freak over you! They follow over every little thing you do and want to control every darn step you take! Do you want to know why I attack them?” She gave him the fiercest look she could manage, but already her strength was leaving her, knowing that what she would say next would be the end of her protest. “Because they’re the one thing keeping me from being with you, you idiot!”
As the last words left her mouth, lots of things seemed to happen at once. The most alarming one of all, was the door handle going down and the door opening, but all her attention was taken by Leeteuk. He let his hands finish their movement after all, grabbing the fabric of her sweater and pulling her closer to him. Before she could react, his lips touched hers and he kissed her very softly and gently, as if they hadn’t just been yelling at each other. She couldn’t help closing her eyes. In a very distant land of reality, she heard the door close again, but that sound got lost in the wave of feelings that rushed through her.
When she opened her eyes again, she took a step back to be able to catch her breath. For a few moments, she simply stared blankly ahead, but then she lifted up her head and looked at him. He was looking right back at her, an expression on his face that she couldn’t really place. A little nervous, she softly bit her lower lip, making a slight smile appear on his face. He had already let go of her sweater, but now he put a hand on her shoulder to pull her closer again. She lost her balance because of the sudden pull and crashed into his chest, but he didn’t seem to care. He simply put his arms around her and hugged her tightly.
Inside she felt confused and there was a loud alarm going off in her head that chanted ‘Iku Morioka’ over and over again. She could not do this to him, nor to Leeteuk. Her breathing became faster, until it finally turned into sobbing. Immediately Leeteuk pushed her a little away from him to look at her with a worried expression. His obvious care for her only made things worse. She wiped away the tears, but there simply were more to run down her cheeks. As he leaned closer to comfort her in some way, she softly pushed him away again. That action made him realize that something wasn’t right.
“Mianhe.” she whispered, slowly releasing herself from his grip. He tried to keep her close, but she couldn’t be close to him with what she was going to say. Silently, she took a step away from him to dry her tears with the sleeve of her sweater. When she had kind of regained control over herself, she was able to look straight at him again without feeling uncomfortable. “Leeteuk-ssi.” she mumbled softly, but he seemed to flinch upon hearing those words.
“Did you not say we should drop the formal speech? Don’t we know each other well enough now?” he asked, his voice unsure and hurt. She took his hand and softly stroked the back of it with the tips of her fingers.
“I did.” she agreed. “But what I have to tell you is very serious.”
“Do you have some fatal disease?”
“What!? No. Where did you get that from?”
“I’m sorry, it’s just that.. In movie dramas that’s mostly the thing a girl tells the boy who loves her after saying those words.” His words were so innocent and random that they made her chuckle. Yet that laughter soon left her again as she thought of the words she was going to say. She stopped the movement of her fingers and gently let the palm of her hand rest on his.
“That’s not it, Jung Soo.” she finally said after a long silence. “I love you.” He wanted to do something, but she didn’t even let him move, lifting up a finger to gain his attention and to make clear that she wasn’t done talking yet. “However, I am not like Selene. I cannot live like that. I cannot do everything secretly to then once sit in front of such a huge hall full of fans and have to confess like that. I refuse to beg them to forgive and accept me, as if what I have done was wrong. I know very well how much your fans mean to you and how you wouldn’t have reached anything without them, but I will not do something like what Selene did today.”
“Afreya..” he started, but she looked up at him, thereby bringing him to silence.
“Yet I do love you.” she continued. “Like you. Feel something for you. Care about you. However you want to call it. I love you and I will wait for you. Until the day that it doesn’t matter anymore what all those girls think. I’ll wait and, if you’ll still have me then, I’ll be there for you. But not now. I cannot live like that. I’d rather be alone for the rest of my life than having to face your precious E.L.F with the confession that I am your girlfriend. I’m sorry.”
Her words were followed by a long silence. She had averted her eyes to their hands, unable to keep looking at him as he stared at her in disbelief. In her head, the alarm was still going on, still chanting the name of her boyfriend. Somehow she would have to tell him about that too, because she wanted to be completely honest to him.
“Please..” he finally said. “Please tell me you don’t mean this.”
“I cannot tell you lies.” she answered, feeling the tears form in her eyes again.
“Then promise me you will not wait.” he said, pulling her closer by her hand and touching her cheek with his fingers. “When there is someone else, do not put him aside because you’re waiting for me. I want you to be happy, not lonely because of me.”
“Oppa..” she whispered, closing her eyes a moment before looking up at him. “I have a boyfriend.” She waited for his reaction in fear, not knowing if he was going to be hurt, angry or show an unexpected reaction. He looked at her for a while, taking in the new piece of information she had given him. Finally, a little smile broke through on his face.
“That is good.” he said, smiling just for the sake of it. It was no use, because Afreya could see the smile did not reach up to his eyes. “I’m glad you have someone to be happy with. I’m glad you’re not lonely.” She immediately shook her head.
“But I still am lonely. You are on my mind all the time, not him. I earnestly tried to love him, but there is you and I cannot love two people at the same time. You don’t know for how long I have been trying to forget you. For a while I thought it worked, but now that I saw you again today, I know that was nothing more than hope.” she said. His hand was still resting in hers and she had tightened her grip a bit while talking. His smile faltered.
“You cannot give up everything just to wait for me.” he said. It was obvious that he was shocked when he realized that she had actually considered doing something like that. “I can’t leave Super Junior. I can’t leave the others behind. I can’t leave E.L.F. Even if part of me wants to, I can’t. You know that. So please don’t ruin a whole life just waiting for me.” He pulled his hand free from her grip and took a step closer to her to be able to hug her. “You have to be happy and get a husband. Have some kids, so that you can play with those who have the same age as you do in your head.”
She smiled. What else could she do upon once again getting proof that he was too caring? What else could she do upon hearing his well-meant advice? What else could she do upon being hugged by him? With a sigh, she gave in to her feelings and let herself lean into his hug some more. Unconsciously, she even put her own arms around his middle and let her body rest against his. They were about the same height, but it didn’t feel weird, even though she had always wanted someone taller than her.
“Can I ask you something?” she suddenly said, as her thoughts wandered off to that certain thing which she had wondered about for a while now. She didn’t even try to look at him while asking it, because it felt way too nice to be able to stand so close to him. He didn’t seem to have any intention of letting go of her either, so that was a well cut out deal.
“Of course.” the calm response came. There was no doubt in his voice and he had shown not a single sign of hesitation.
“Did it never bother you that I am seven years younger?”
“Six years and two hundred and fifty-eight days to be more exact.” he responded, giving her the exact amount of days like it was nothing. “It did. At first. Well, it didn’t really bother me, but it felt weird. I felt weird for liking someone so young, after always saying I wanted someone older. I even counted out the days to make it look less bad, but that didn’t really work. Then one day I simply decided that it doesn’t matter. They say love is blind, so I thought, why should it be able to count?” His words made her smile once again.
“You’re strange.”
“They say it’s my charm.”
“They say you’re an angel.”
“An angel with a strange charm.”
“Stop spending so much time with Yesung. You weirdo.” He chuckled, a sound that made her giggle, which, in its turn, made him laugh. In the end, their laughter drifted out into the hallway, creating a big contrast with the loud noise they had caused a little before.
Selene walked back the way she had come. She was dazed, to say the least, and K’Ae next to her seemed to be baffled as well. They had walked in silence for a while already, but even though she was sure she was totally going the wrong way, K’Ae did not correct her path, nor did she really care. They each kept to their own thoughts, but were probably thinking about the same thing. In a bit of a clouded state of mind, Selene turned her head to look at K’Ae.
“Well.. That was unexpected.” she mumbled as she turned her head back to look where she was going at.
“I hear you.” K’Ae replied. Selene realized she was speaking Japanese as well. Faintly she remembered Hyukjae telling her K’Ae had taught him Japanese. How long ago was it when she had given K’Ae some tips about learning other languages? She had picked it up quite quickly.
“You learned fast.” she complimented the other girl.
“Not really. I just had a lot of free time on my hands. That happens when you can’t sleep at all and have to spend lots of nights on your own, trying to keep busy. After a while, staring at sleeping people does get boring as well.” K’Ae smiled when she said that, making the surroundings seem all the more relaxed. It was strange how the ghost girl could influence a whole place just like that. Selene sighed a little.
“Ah, K’Ae, can I ask you something?”
“Of course.”
“Is it normal that I miss him this much, even though I’m very happy right now?” she mumbled. K’Ae seemed to always know exactly what she was talking about, even though her thoughts jumped from one subject to another that didn’t really have a connection to the first.
“It is. Even now, there is a big part of my mind occupied with thoughts about Top. For me it is of course worse, because he is the only thing holding me on this world, but it is still normal for all of us. Your soul wants to reunite and for that the parts have to be close together. That’s why you miss him even now. In time you’ll get used to it and it will become less. Still, you will have to learn to combine your boyfriend and your soul mate, because neglecting Jo Kwon will mean that the ties between the two of you will be broken and you will return to earth for a second life, just like I did.”
“You came back to earth?” Selene exclaimed surprised. As she looked up, however, she saw the door of the room they were supposed to be at, so she decided to leave that question for a different time. “Let’s go for a drink one of these days and then you can tell me all about this situation.” K’Ae laughed.
“Deal.” she said, as she pushed open the door and walked in. “Hey boys!” she called out. Everyone immediately greeted her happily and Selene quickly introduced the ghost girl to her other friends and her mother. She wisely left out the ‘ghost’ part though. Hyukjae had offered everyone a drink and gave one to the two girls as well now. He gave her a subtle questioning look, that she answered by smiling and nodding reassuringly. Everyone started to have conversations amongst each other, where Hyukjae, K’Ae, Sungmin and Selene would help with the translating whenever it was needed.
At a certain point, the door of the room opened again and a few people entered. Selene looked up and smiled when she saw Afreya coming first. As she let her eyes wander to the next person, whom she expected to be Leeteuk, she let out a surprised, but happy shriek. Her father was standing in the door opening. He had looked around at all the people a little shocked, but immediately came towards her when he noticed her.
“I’m sorry I’m a little late, dear. You know how it goes. Traffic jams and that sort. I hope I didn’t miss anything?” he said with a smile, leaning closer to give her a kiss on her cheek. She put her arms around his neck and gave him a short hug.
“No you didn’t, dad.” she then responded. “But you might want to go and greet mom before she completely forgets about you. I heard her mention managers without T-shirts.” Her father burst out laughing.
“If it’s just the managers, I still have some time. We only have to worry when she starts about the head of the company.” he replied. His words made her laugh and Hyukjae, who was still standing next to her, chuckled as well.
“Dad, this is my boyfriend, Hyukjae. Hyukjae, this is my dad.” she introduced them to each other. Her father turned his attention to Hyukjae and shook the young man’s hand. They exchanged a polite smile, before greeting each other.
“Hello Hyukjae.” her father said politely.
“Hello dad.” the answer came. Again her father started laughing.
“Ah, my little Selene, I already like him. He calls me dad. You picked well.” he said, before adding: “So where are the drinks?” Laughing, she went to get her father something to drink as well. He thanked her and then went to greet her mother. Smiling happily, Selene made her way through the group of people, dragging Hyukjae along by his hand. When they reached the couch, she pushed him down on the last available spot and then went to sit on his lap. With a blissful feeling, she cuddled up against his chest and let her head rest on his shoulder.
“Saranghae.” she mumbled to him. He put his arms around her and smiled.
“Aishiteru.”
[FIC] Soulmates: Selene
Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 21/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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“You don’t know how much I want to hold her right now, because I know how tensed she is, but the company forbade me to do so.” he said softly, showing an obvious care for her and a surprising honesty about the involvement of the company in the conference. Selene herself hadn’t even known of this little detail that the company had included. It was probably better that way, because if Hyukjae had told her she might just have gone to that company boss and released her infamous temper on him.
“And sure they should!” another fan exclaimed. Even though she didn’t hold a microphone, Selene could hear her from all the way across the conference hall. “You don’t want to do this, Eunhyuk!” The words were spoken in a very rude and disrespectful way, but Hyukjae didn’t even care. He managed to keep his calm and smile as he looked down at the ground, while slowly passing the microphone from one hand to the other and back. After doing that three or four times, he finally raised the thing to his mouth again.
“Actually I do.” he said, lifting his head to look at the fan who had called out so rudely. “And I hoped E.L.F would support me. Have you not always supported us? Do you not want the best for us? Do you not want us to be happy?” His questions followed each other one by one, not leaving any space for the fan to answer. “I promised to always be honest, but now that I am you hate me for it? I wish I could make all of you E.L.F happy, but I can’t, can I? Even if I would have fallen in love with one of you, there still would be thousands of others left behind as well. There are so many of you and only fifteen of us, so what do you want us to do? I had hoped you would all be happy that I was happy and wish us the best of luck, but I guess somehow I knew that wouldn’t be possible.” Even though he didn’t cry, Selene knew he was close to it and the silence that followed his words was more meaningful than ever. Screw every company and every fan in the world. She would not let him be like this when she was sitting right next to him.
Without giving one more thought to the fans, the reporters or the consequences of her actions, she pushed the microphone in the hands of the person sitting on her right and turned to Hyukjae. Without hesitation, she put one hand on his and let one arm slide around his shoulders. His reaction was almost immediate. The tensed muscles in his back relaxed and he loosened his grip on the microphone as he looked up at her with a slight smile. She smiled back, gave him a short hug and sat back down. As she accepted the microphone that was handed back to her, she softly intertwined her fingers with his, resting both their hands on the arms of the chairs. It was only when she looked up at the hall full of staring people, that she realized what exactly she had just done. Fearing the worst, she simply looked at their hands again and softly stroked his hand with her thumb. The silence lasted a while, before someone suddenly spoke very clearly.
“I am happy that you are happy, Eunhyuk-ssi, and I hope all of you will soon become just as happy.” It sounded. Selene dared to glance up from under her eyelashes to see one of the fans in the front row standing there with a smile on her face. “Because I care about all of you and that means I want to see you happy, no matter how or with who you manage that. That’s why I support you in your decision and I will protest against the company if they even try to kick you out of the group or force you to break up.” The girl nodded after those words as if to mark the end, but she didn’t sit back down. She just smiled as she looked at the couple and the other fourteen members. Another short silence followed her words, before another fan stood up as well.
“I am happy too.” he said. Selene was surprised to see a male fan, but she didn’t even get much time to wonder about it, because suddenly lots of fans started standing up, all saying ‘So am I.’ or ‘Please be happy.’ In the end, it was again more than half of the present fans who were standing up and smiling. Yet, that was not the end of it. After a short hesitation, more fans began to stand up, but they did not voice their opinion.
“How do I know this girl will not make you change? How will I know she will not take you away from your fans?” The one fan who had made the rude comment spoke again, but her tone was less sharp then before. She still didn’t sound very positive, however. Hyukjae raised his microphone again and smiled a little.
“Have I changed in the last year? Have I been taken away from you E.L.F?” he asked kindly, using formal speech even though the fan was younger than him. She seemed to be taken aback by his friendly tone and formal words, because her answer was nothing more than a very short shake of her head. “Yet Selene already was my girlfriend then as well. Nothing will change, just that you now know about her and you didn’t before. Will it make such a big difference?”
“I do not intend to take Hyukjae away from his fans, from all of you. I do not plan on changing anything about the situation. You should also not be afraid that you will lose the love of the members, because if ever they should forget about E.L.F, which is not likely, I will make sure to refresh their memories.” Selene added to his words when no one responded for a while. “All I ask of you is to accept me. You do not have to like me or something like that, but don’t hate me either.” Even though she felt like she was begging, she kept her straight position and did not even flinch once under the piercing stares of the thousands of fans.
Her words were followed by a new outburst of noise, only this time the fans started chanting her and Hyukjae’s name. It was such an amazing feeling, that Selene was unable to stop the tears from running over her cheeks. Immediately there were caring fingers wiping them with a tissue, but she pushed away the hand and took the tissue to do it herself. She didn’t want to look too weak in front of the still chanting fans. Even though she saw a bunch of fans not chanting along, it still was a wonderful thing. She had known from the beginning that not everyone would be happy with it, but the fact that there were so many really was a miracle on its own.
She stared out into the audience until their chanting died away. The silence was full of expectations and Selene felt a knot in her stomach because of the tension.
“Thank you.” she managed to choke out into the microphone. Her vision once again became blurry and the helpful hands were back with another tissue. She let the person wipe away her tears this time and tried to make out who it was. To her great surprise, the member leaning closer to her was Kangin, who was gently cleaning her face. He smiled encouragingly when he noticed her looking at him. As she calmed down a little, she also slowly became aware of how her left hand was being held tightly by Hyukjae.
“I appreciate this so much.” He meanwhile said to his fans. “This means a lot to me. I hope you will all keep supporting us and show our next album lots of love. Saranghae E.L.F.” Again people cheered, but they became silent when Leeteuk picked up his microphone. He told them to ask any question they wanted to ask and that every member would answer. After that, there were all kinds of questions being asked by the fans, but after a few more, they hardly asked about Selene again, so the rest of the conference, she silently sat next to Hyukjae, holding his hand the whole time.
When she finally returned backstage after two more hours of listening to the questions and the boys’ answers, she was immediately hugged by her five friends, who seemed to have become hyperactively happy in the time she had been gone. With big smiles they hugged her, bounced around her and hugged her again. As they happily let out shrieks of joy, Selene just stood there, overwhelmed by the total of it all.
“You did great!” Afreya exclaimed. It was a little weird to hear Japanese after three hours of listening to nothing but Korean, yet it also felt very familiar.
“They totally loved you!” Chinatsu added happily. Kana, Kasumi and Sakura only smiled, but they did join in on the fun of group hugging and stuff like that.
Next up was her mother, who stroke her hair and gave her a reassuring squeeze in her shoulder.
“You were very good, musume.” she spoke, before giving her a hug. “Now at least properly introduce me to this Casanova of yours who’s got more than a thousand girls at his feet.” Selene laughed, even though the tears had started to run over her cheeks again. The emotions and tension of the last three hours had been too much for her to handle and she was now suffering from an outburst of all those emotions.
“Oh mom, I love you so much. I hope you know that.” she sniffed.
“Of course I know, musume.” her mother replied calmly, but Selene could see how surprised and touched her mother was upon hearing those words. It was not often that she spoke out her feelings that bluntly, without having a real reason to. Feeling a little unsure about that, she hugged her mother and closed her eyes. When she let go again, there was no trace left of the sudden outburst of emotions. A slight smile played with the corners of her mouth and she turned to look at the others.
“Let’s go. I’ll introduce you to the boys.” she said. Even though the girls had arrived in the morning and it was way past six in the evening now, there had never been time to introduce them to the boys properly. In fact, they hadn’t even seen the boys up close yet. Just like her mother, who hadn’t even met her daughter’s boyfriend before the whole world knew about it. Selene had thought that sad, but there was nothing she could have done about it. The boys’ schedule had been too busy. They would have a free week without schedule after the conference, however, to let the fans calm down.
Upon arriving at the boys’ backstage room, they were confronted with the view of the fifteen members changing into different T-shirts. Selene, who had gotten used to seeing them quickly change clothes out of hygienic consideration, simply entered the room, but the others behind her stopped and stared or quickly looked away. Her mother was the only one who simply walked through with her, looking back at the other five girls with a smile.
“Well girls, have you never seen another person’s body before?”she asked jokingly, turning to the fifteen boys. “Although I must say that these are exceptionally nice to look at. Do you think they would mind walking around without T-shirt for a bit, musume?” Selene turned to look at her mother with a shocked expression. She was lucky her mother didn’t know any Korean and had therefore spoken Japanese, because otherwise the boys would have understood it as well.
“Mom!” she exclaimed in shock. That’s when two arms were put around her middle and she was pulled into a hug-squeeze by Hyukjae. To her surprise he was laughing, as if he had understood her, and he turned to her mother with a smile on his face.
“I don’t really mind walking around without my T-shirt for a while, but I’m afraid I would feel very uncomfortable and awkward being checked out by the mother of my girlfriend.” he said with an amused voice. It took a few moments for Selene to realize he was speaking Japanese. His accent was almost non-existent and even the grammar was close to perfect.
“Oh.. That’s true..” her mother replied, like it was not at all something extraordinary that Hyukjae gave her such an answer in her own language. “How about your manager? Do you think he would mind going shirtless?”
Selene stared at her mother, too shocked to get out another word. Hyukjae wasn’t much of a help either, because he simply laughed. Sungmin, the only other member who knew Japanese well, as far as she knew, had walked over to the five girls still standing at the door and invited them in. Always the gentleman, of course. Selene looked from her mother at her boyfriend and back, before shaking her head in defeat.
“Well mom, this is my boyfriend. Hyukjae, this is my mother.” she mumbled, quickly introducing the two to each other before they could blurt out more nonsense. “And you never told me you knew how to speak Japanese.” she then continued, turning to Hyukjae and poking a finger in his stomach. He jumped a little because it tickled and smiled at her.
“I learned it in the last few months. K’Ae taught me.” he replied, catching her hands in his so that she couldn’t poke him anymore and pressing a soft kiss on her lips. When he went on talking, he had switched back to Korean. “You did a great job, Lene. I’m very proud of you.” His words made her smile and she felt a little proud inside.
“Selene-ssi.” someone else called her. She turned to see who it was. Heechul, still not wearing a T-shirt, walked up to them. “You totally owned those people out there!” he exclaimed, giving her a high five. He then surprised her by giving her a very tight hug, even lifting her from the ground a little. When he put her down, he turned to her mother with his big smile. “Hello, Selene’s mom. Great daughter you got here. Really great. Wonderful personality. Too bad she’s already taken by my dongseng.” He shook her mother’s hand, before walking away again.
“He said hi and added some nonsense.” Selene said upon seeing her mother’s confused look, waving Heechul away as if he was no big deal. She then took a step towards the guys. “Ya, listen up.” she called out, making them all turn to face her. “I want to introduce you all to my friends. Can you form a line or something? It would be very appreciated.” There came a lot of protest about them not being little kids anymore and them seeing no reason to form a line, but she cut it off by saying: “Those who don’t form a line can get a punch in the face.” Immediately, every single one of them went to stand in a line, excluding Hyukjae who stayed at her side with his arm around her middle. She smiled sweetly. “Thank you very much.”
First of all, she of course introduced Hyukjae to her four friends who hadn’t seen him yet. Even though the three youngest seemed to be a little nervous meeting these famous people, some of them being their idols, Sakura showed no sign of that. She smiled, bowed and shook Hyukjae’s hand. He bowed back, reaching out for the other three girls’ hand as well. The rest of the boys had obviously decided to move up from youngest to oldest, so next up was Henry. The rest of the guys went back to doing other things, but kept an eye on her to see when they should come up and say hello. Selene smiled on the inside about their discipline.
Afreya, who already knew all the boys, had left the group of people being introduced to the boys. That’s why, during the little conversations the girls had with the boys, Selene tried to look around to find her friend, but didn’t see her anywhere. A little surprised because of Afreya’s sudden disappearance, she felt a little worried, yet she decided there was nothing that could happen as long as she stayed in the building, so she concentrated on the introductions again.
When Heechul had been introduced, finally wearing a shirt as well, it was Leeteuk’s turn. At least, it was supposed to be, yet Leeteuk had disappeared. Surprised, both her and Hyukjae looked around the room, but he was nowhere to be seen. He wasn’t even sleeping on the couch. Suddenly, Selene grasped the whole situation, linking Afreya’s disappearance to Leeteuk’s in her mind and immediately coming up with a bunch of possible outcomes.
“Stay here for a second, I’m going to find Afreya.” she mumbled to Hyukjae, immediately leaving the room. She didn’t really have an idea where her friend, or possibly both of her friends, could be, but she set off anyway. The moment she was in the hallway, however, K’Ae suddenly appeared by her side, making her jump aside in surprise. When she saw who it was, she put a hand over her heart as she calmed down.
“I’m sorry. I did not mean to scare you. It’s just that I know who you’re looking for and I know where they are.” the older girl said, seeming very serious.
“Is everything alright with them, unni?” Selene immediately asked, worried about her friend. At the same time, she wondered why the two of them would have gone off on their own. Okay, Leeteuk was still into Afreya, but Afreya had never shown any wish to get closer to him than she was, nor did she have any reason to sneak away and talk to him in private. Selene felt a little awkward, however, not knowing if she should disturb the two in case they were really talking about something.
“Well, I’m not quite sure. They disappeared into a room together and I could hear them discussing something from two rooms away.” K’Ae replied. Immediately every doubt in Selene’s head was cleared. When Afreya yelled at someone, that meant things were bad. Very bad. Bad enough to reach them as fast as possible and get in between before she would start fighting. Afreya had not taken her Ninjutsu classes in vain and even though it showed much less often, the girl’s temper was just as bad as Selene’s at times.
“Take me to them, please.” she said anxiously. K’Ae immediately started leading the way and Selene followed as quickly as she could. After walking through two hallways, she could hear the sound of screaming voices and unconsciously started running. Once she reached the right door, she grabbed the handle and pushed it open. The moment the door slid open, however, the noise suddenly stopped, and what Selene saw made her stare a moment in shock, before pulling the door closed again and walking away.
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 21/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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“You don’t know how much I want to hold her right now, because I know how tensed she is, but the company forbade me to do so.” he said softly, showing an obvious care for her and a surprising honesty about the involvement of the company in the conference. Selene herself hadn’t even known of this little detail that the company had included. It was probably better that way, because if Hyukjae had told her she might just have gone to that company boss and released her infamous temper on him.
“And sure they should!” another fan exclaimed. Even though she didn’t hold a microphone, Selene could hear her from all the way across the conference hall. “You don’t want to do this, Eunhyuk!” The words were spoken in a very rude and disrespectful way, but Hyukjae didn’t even care. He managed to keep his calm and smile as he looked down at the ground, while slowly passing the microphone from one hand to the other and back. After doing that three or four times, he finally raised the thing to his mouth again.
“Actually I do.” he said, lifting his head to look at the fan who had called out so rudely. “And I hoped E.L.F would support me. Have you not always supported us? Do you not want the best for us? Do you not want us to be happy?” His questions followed each other one by one, not leaving any space for the fan to answer. “I promised to always be honest, but now that I am you hate me for it? I wish I could make all of you E.L.F happy, but I can’t, can I? Even if I would have fallen in love with one of you, there still would be thousands of others left behind as well. There are so many of you and only fifteen of us, so what do you want us to do? I had hoped you would all be happy that I was happy and wish us the best of luck, but I guess somehow I knew that wouldn’t be possible.” Even though he didn’t cry, Selene knew he was close to it and the silence that followed his words was more meaningful than ever. Screw every company and every fan in the world. She would not let him be like this when she was sitting right next to him.
Without giving one more thought to the fans, the reporters or the consequences of her actions, she pushed the microphone in the hands of the person sitting on her right and turned to Hyukjae. Without hesitation, she put one hand on his and let one arm slide around his shoulders. His reaction was almost immediate. The tensed muscles in his back relaxed and he loosened his grip on the microphone as he looked up at her with a slight smile. She smiled back, gave him a short hug and sat back down. As she accepted the microphone that was handed back to her, she softly intertwined her fingers with his, resting both their hands on the arms of the chairs. It was only when she looked up at the hall full of staring people, that she realized what exactly she had just done. Fearing the worst, she simply looked at their hands again and softly stroked his hand with her thumb. The silence lasted a while, before someone suddenly spoke very clearly.
“I am happy that you are happy, Eunhyuk-ssi, and I hope all of you will soon become just as happy.” It sounded. Selene dared to glance up from under her eyelashes to see one of the fans in the front row standing there with a smile on her face. “Because I care about all of you and that means I want to see you happy, no matter how or with who you manage that. That’s why I support you in your decision and I will protest against the company if they even try to kick you out of the group or force you to break up.” The girl nodded after those words as if to mark the end, but she didn’t sit back down. She just smiled as she looked at the couple and the other fourteen members. Another short silence followed her words, before another fan stood up as well.
“I am happy too.” he said. Selene was surprised to see a male fan, but she didn’t even get much time to wonder about it, because suddenly lots of fans started standing up, all saying ‘So am I.’ or ‘Please be happy.’ In the end, it was again more than half of the present fans who were standing up and smiling. Yet, that was not the end of it. After a short hesitation, more fans began to stand up, but they did not voice their opinion.
“How do I know this girl will not make you change? How will I know she will not take you away from your fans?” The one fan who had made the rude comment spoke again, but her tone was less sharp then before. She still didn’t sound very positive, however. Hyukjae raised his microphone again and smiled a little.
“Have I changed in the last year? Have I been taken away from you E.L.F?” he asked kindly, using formal speech even though the fan was younger than him. She seemed to be taken aback by his friendly tone and formal words, because her answer was nothing more than a very short shake of her head. “Yet Selene already was my girlfriend then as well. Nothing will change, just that you now know about her and you didn’t before. Will it make such a big difference?”
“I do not intend to take Hyukjae away from his fans, from all of you. I do not plan on changing anything about the situation. You should also not be afraid that you will lose the love of the members, because if ever they should forget about E.L.F, which is not likely, I will make sure to refresh their memories.” Selene added to his words when no one responded for a while. “All I ask of you is to accept me. You do not have to like me or something like that, but don’t hate me either.” Even though she felt like she was begging, she kept her straight position and did not even flinch once under the piercing stares of the thousands of fans.
Her words were followed by a new outburst of noise, only this time the fans started chanting her and Hyukjae’s name. It was such an amazing feeling, that Selene was unable to stop the tears from running over her cheeks. Immediately there were caring fingers wiping them with a tissue, but she pushed away the hand and took the tissue to do it herself. She didn’t want to look too weak in front of the still chanting fans. Even though she saw a bunch of fans not chanting along, it still was a wonderful thing. She had known from the beginning that not everyone would be happy with it, but the fact that there were so many really was a miracle on its own.
She stared out into the audience until their chanting died away. The silence was full of expectations and Selene felt a knot in her stomach because of the tension.
“Thank you.” she managed to choke out into the microphone. Her vision once again became blurry and the helpful hands were back with another tissue. She let the person wipe away her tears this time and tried to make out who it was. To her great surprise, the member leaning closer to her was Kangin, who was gently cleaning her face. He smiled encouragingly when he noticed her looking at him. As she calmed down a little, she also slowly became aware of how her left hand was being held tightly by Hyukjae.
“I appreciate this so much.” He meanwhile said to his fans. “This means a lot to me. I hope you will all keep supporting us and show our next album lots of love. Saranghae E.L.F.” Again people cheered, but they became silent when Leeteuk picked up his microphone. He told them to ask any question they wanted to ask and that every member would answer. After that, there were all kinds of questions being asked by the fans, but after a few more, they hardly asked about Selene again, so the rest of the conference, she silently sat next to Hyukjae, holding his hand the whole time.
When she finally returned backstage after two more hours of listening to the questions and the boys’ answers, she was immediately hugged by her five friends, who seemed to have become hyperactively happy in the time she had been gone. With big smiles they hugged her, bounced around her and hugged her again. As they happily let out shrieks of joy, Selene just stood there, overwhelmed by the total of it all.
“You did great!” Afreya exclaimed. It was a little weird to hear Japanese after three hours of listening to nothing but Korean, yet it also felt very familiar.
“They totally loved you!” Chinatsu added happily. Kana, Kasumi and Sakura only smiled, but they did join in on the fun of group hugging and stuff like that.
Next up was her mother, who stroke her hair and gave her a reassuring squeeze in her shoulder.
“You were very good, musume.” she spoke, before giving her a hug. “Now at least properly introduce me to this Casanova of yours who’s got more than a thousand girls at his feet.” Selene laughed, even though the tears had started to run over her cheeks again. The emotions and tension of the last three hours had been too much for her to handle and she was now suffering from an outburst of all those emotions.
“Oh mom, I love you so much. I hope you know that.” she sniffed.
“Of course I know, musume.” her mother replied calmly, but Selene could see how surprised and touched her mother was upon hearing those words. It was not often that she spoke out her feelings that bluntly, without having a real reason to. Feeling a little unsure about that, she hugged her mother and closed her eyes. When she let go again, there was no trace left of the sudden outburst of emotions. A slight smile played with the corners of her mouth and she turned to look at the others.
“Let’s go. I’ll introduce you to the boys.” she said. Even though the girls had arrived in the morning and it was way past six in the evening now, there had never been time to introduce them to the boys properly. In fact, they hadn’t even seen the boys up close yet. Just like her mother, who hadn’t even met her daughter’s boyfriend before the whole world knew about it. Selene had thought that sad, but there was nothing she could have done about it. The boys’ schedule had been too busy. They would have a free week without schedule after the conference, however, to let the fans calm down.
Upon arriving at the boys’ backstage room, they were confronted with the view of the fifteen members changing into different T-shirts. Selene, who had gotten used to seeing them quickly change clothes out of hygienic consideration, simply entered the room, but the others behind her stopped and stared or quickly looked away. Her mother was the only one who simply walked through with her, looking back at the other five girls with a smile.
“Well girls, have you never seen another person’s body before?”she asked jokingly, turning to the fifteen boys. “Although I must say that these are exceptionally nice to look at. Do you think they would mind walking around without T-shirt for a bit, musume?” Selene turned to look at her mother with a shocked expression. She was lucky her mother didn’t know any Korean and had therefore spoken Japanese, because otherwise the boys would have understood it as well.
“Mom!” she exclaimed in shock. That’s when two arms were put around her middle and she was pulled into a hug-squeeze by Hyukjae. To her surprise he was laughing, as if he had understood her, and he turned to her mother with a smile on his face.
“I don’t really mind walking around without my T-shirt for a while, but I’m afraid I would feel very uncomfortable and awkward being checked out by the mother of my girlfriend.” he said with an amused voice. It took a few moments for Selene to realize he was speaking Japanese. His accent was almost non-existent and even the grammar was close to perfect.
“Oh.. That’s true..” her mother replied, like it was not at all something extraordinary that Hyukjae gave her such an answer in her own language. “How about your manager? Do you think he would mind going shirtless?”
Selene stared at her mother, too shocked to get out another word. Hyukjae wasn’t much of a help either, because he simply laughed. Sungmin, the only other member who knew Japanese well, as far as she knew, had walked over to the five girls still standing at the door and invited them in. Always the gentleman, of course. Selene looked from her mother at her boyfriend and back, before shaking her head in defeat.
“Well mom, this is my boyfriend. Hyukjae, this is my mother.” she mumbled, quickly introducing the two to each other before they could blurt out more nonsense. “And you never told me you knew how to speak Japanese.” she then continued, turning to Hyukjae and poking a finger in his stomach. He jumped a little because it tickled and smiled at her.
“I learned it in the last few months. K’Ae taught me.” he replied, catching her hands in his so that she couldn’t poke him anymore and pressing a soft kiss on her lips. When he went on talking, he had switched back to Korean. “You did a great job, Lene. I’m very proud of you.” His words made her smile and she felt a little proud inside.
“Selene-ssi.” someone else called her. She turned to see who it was. Heechul, still not wearing a T-shirt, walked up to them. “You totally owned those people out there!” he exclaimed, giving her a high five. He then surprised her by giving her a very tight hug, even lifting her from the ground a little. When he put her down, he turned to her mother with his big smile. “Hello, Selene’s mom. Great daughter you got here. Really great. Wonderful personality. Too bad she’s already taken by my dongseng.” He shook her mother’s hand, before walking away again.
“He said hi and added some nonsense.” Selene said upon seeing her mother’s confused look, waving Heechul away as if he was no big deal. She then took a step towards the guys. “Ya, listen up.” she called out, making them all turn to face her. “I want to introduce you all to my friends. Can you form a line or something? It would be very appreciated.” There came a lot of protest about them not being little kids anymore and them seeing no reason to form a line, but she cut it off by saying: “Those who don’t form a line can get a punch in the face.” Immediately, every single one of them went to stand in a line, excluding Hyukjae who stayed at her side with his arm around her middle. She smiled sweetly. “Thank you very much.”
First of all, she of course introduced Hyukjae to her four friends who hadn’t seen him yet. Even though the three youngest seemed to be a little nervous meeting these famous people, some of them being their idols, Sakura showed no sign of that. She smiled, bowed and shook Hyukjae’s hand. He bowed back, reaching out for the other three girls’ hand as well. The rest of the boys had obviously decided to move up from youngest to oldest, so next up was Henry. The rest of the guys went back to doing other things, but kept an eye on her to see when they should come up and say hello. Selene smiled on the inside about their discipline.
Afreya, who already knew all the boys, had left the group of people being introduced to the boys. That’s why, during the little conversations the girls had with the boys, Selene tried to look around to find her friend, but didn’t see her anywhere. A little surprised because of Afreya’s sudden disappearance, she felt a little worried, yet she decided there was nothing that could happen as long as she stayed in the building, so she concentrated on the introductions again.
When Heechul had been introduced, finally wearing a shirt as well, it was Leeteuk’s turn. At least, it was supposed to be, yet Leeteuk had disappeared. Surprised, both her and Hyukjae looked around the room, but he was nowhere to be seen. He wasn’t even sleeping on the couch. Suddenly, Selene grasped the whole situation, linking Afreya’s disappearance to Leeteuk’s in her mind and immediately coming up with a bunch of possible outcomes.
“Stay here for a second, I’m going to find Afreya.” she mumbled to Hyukjae, immediately leaving the room. She didn’t really have an idea where her friend, or possibly both of her friends, could be, but she set off anyway. The moment she was in the hallway, however, K’Ae suddenly appeared by her side, making her jump aside in surprise. When she saw who it was, she put a hand over her heart as she calmed down.
“I’m sorry. I did not mean to scare you. It’s just that I know who you’re looking for and I know where they are.” the older girl said, seeming very serious.
“Is everything alright with them, unni?” Selene immediately asked, worried about her friend. At the same time, she wondered why the two of them would have gone off on their own. Okay, Leeteuk was still into Afreya, but Afreya had never shown any wish to get closer to him than she was, nor did she have any reason to sneak away and talk to him in private. Selene felt a little awkward, however, not knowing if she should disturb the two in case they were really talking about something.
“Well, I’m not quite sure. They disappeared into a room together and I could hear them discussing something from two rooms away.” K’Ae replied. Immediately every doubt in Selene’s head was cleared. When Afreya yelled at someone, that meant things were bad. Very bad. Bad enough to reach them as fast as possible and get in between before she would start fighting. Afreya had not taken her Ninjutsu classes in vain and even though it showed much less often, the girl’s temper was just as bad as Selene’s at times.
“Take me to them, please.” she said anxiously. K’Ae immediately started leading the way and Selene followed as quickly as she could. After walking through two hallways, she could hear the sound of screaming voices and unconsciously started running. Once she reached the right door, she grabbed the handle and pushed it open. The moment the door slid open, however, the noise suddenly stopped, and what Selene saw made her stare a moment in shock, before pulling the door closed again and walking away.
[FIC] Soulmates: Selene
Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 20/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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It was d-day. She was going to die. She was sure of it. Fans probably brought guns and what not to kill her and they would not be afraid to use them. Her life was going to end that very day. She comforted herself with the idea of coming back as a ghost anyway, but that reassurance was overshadowed by the realization that she would be living by Jo Kwon’s side then and not Hyukjae’s. She swallowed a few times as she stared at the wall in front of her without seeing it. The screams were deafening, while Hyukjae had only just set foot on the stage. Her heartbeat sped up to what must be at least two hundred beats per minute and she was starting to feel less sure every second.
She had been in Korea again for a week. Even though the company had not been happy when finding out about Hyukjae’s relationship with her, it had already been far too late to do anything about it by then, so they had agreed with the conference. However, they had also said that if the fans responded negatively and wanted him to break up, he would have to do so or he would be kicked out of the group. Everything depended on the reaction of the fans now and that reaction was something Selene dreaded most of all. In less than twenty minutes, she would have to get up on that stage as well and face the fans and press who had come to find out about this infamous girlfriend everyone had been talking about.
In the last two months, Selene had been happy to be in different countries. Korean news had been flooded by articles about Hyukjae’s relationship and all kinds of options about who this lucky girl might be. She had comforted herself with the knowledge that none of the options had been her, but still. As the weeks had passed, the commotion had lessened, especially when it became clear that there would be a formal announcement during a conference. Everyone had calmed down, waiting for that specific day. A day that had now come.
That morning, all her friends had arrived in Korea as well. Everyone had been given a room in the company building and even her mother and father were there to support her, something she couldn’t appreciate more. They had given her words of encouragement. Kana, Chinatsu, Kasumi, Sakura and Afreya were even sitting with her now, holding her hands or glancing at her face in worry from time to time, but all she could focus on was the dimmed sounds coming from the large conference hall. Her courage was slowly leaving her as she heard the screams rise in strength. That meant Hyukjae had now brought her up and she had almost no time left. Her friends all hugged her and said words of encouragement. She didn’t hear them. It was only when the door opened and K’Ae walked in that she averted her eyes from the wall.
“It’s time now, Selene.” K’Ae spoke softly. She reached out a hand. Feeling more like a zombie than a living and breathing person, Selene got up and walked towards the ghost girl. Right before she walked out of the room, she glanced back at her friends, who all showed her a thumbs up. Swallowing once again, she did the only thing she knew to do in her situation. She turned off her brain and blindly followed K’Ae towards the stage. At the stairs, they stopped, and K’Ae turned to look at her. A compassionate smile appeared on her face and she gently stroked the younger girl’s cheek. “Don’t worry. I’ve walked through the audience a bit. Although they’re not thrilled, they are not intending to kill you either.” Selene took a deep breath and turned to the stage. She didn’t answer, knowing that if she did, she would lose control and start crying or run away.
“So as promised, I will reveal the identity of my girlfriend today. I hope E.L.F will show her as much love as you have shown Super Junior, because she is very dear to me.” Hyukjae’s words reached her ears, but she did her best not to think about their meaning. His voice sounded assured and calm, so she tried finding courage in that. The occasional screams that had sounded before all died away and the conference hall was left in complete silence. Selene felt how her heartbeat suddenly slowed and how everything in her head seemed to go as silent as the hall. Then Hyukjae’s shape appeared at the end of the stairs and he slowly walked halfway down, reaching out a hand to her. As in a dream, she walked up to take his hand. He covered his microphone with his free hand and pulled her close in a short hug. “Aishiteru.” he whispered, before letting go and walking back up the stairs.
She stood there like frozen for a few seconds, letting the meaning of the one word sink in. When he reached the last step of the stairs, she moved like a robot. One step higher, another one, another one, the last one and after that out on the open stage. The silence was not interrupted while she made her way towards the seats on the stage. All the Super Junior members were sitting there in two rows, the fifteen of them, to show their support for their member’s decision. Hyukjae took his place on the front row and, with a strange calm that felt almost like numbness, she slowly sat down on the chair next to him. Someone pressed a microphone in her hand that she accepted with numb fingers. She took one deep breath, closed her eyes for a second and lifted her head to look at the audience.
“Annyeonghaseyo.” she said, letting her gaze wander over the black nothingness where she expected lots of fans to be hidden. “My name is Selene Miyake.” The sudden noise that followed her words almost made her jump up in surprise. Immediately the earlier calm left her and her heartbeat sped up again. She grabbed the arm of her chair and squeezed as hard as she could to at least let out a little bit of the stress. As the screams of fans became more organized, she could distinguish two kinds of screaming. Encouraging screams and screams of anger. To her great surprise, the first kind of screams were much louder. As she started to get used to the bright lights of the stage, she also started to recognize shapes in the black nothingness and soon she could see the vastness of the audience. There must be more than a thousand fans and press people present.
Hyukjae calmly waited for the noise to die away and none of the other members made any move to silence the fans either. Selene felt worries come up again. How much would they hate her for ‘stealing’ their Hyukjae? Would she leave the conference alive? How would she have to act? If she would clearly state that she was his girlfriend, they would probably think her arrogant, yet if she said she would accept the fans wishes, they might think she didn’t want to fight for him. They might see her as someone who simply wanted his money. She closed her eyes shortly again, deciding to just be honest. It wouldn’t do to make promises she wouldn’t be keeping anyway, so she would just be honest and be herself. With that decision made, she waited what seemed like an eternity until the fans slowly became less loud and in the end became completely silent again. She made the smile reappear on her face just in time for the first question.
“Where are you from?” one of the reporters asked. She was surprised that the question was addressed to her instead of Hyukjae. Apparently, she had been accepted as being a person too.
“I’m Japanese.” she answered, clutching the microphone like it was her only reassurance of safety.
“How did you two meet?” the next question immediately followed.
“We met in Germany when Hyukjae was on vacation there.” The rumour in the hall became a little louder as people mumbled to each other how weird it was for a Korean and a Japanese person to meet in a country so far away as Germany.
“You look familiar, Selene-ssi, are you famous in your country or something like that?”
“No, I’m not really famous. But 6 months ago I appeared on Star King together with my friend. We were the two interpreters.” She had to swallow a few times to release herself from some of the stress. There was no getting away from this anymore.
“Eunhyuk-ssi..” someone else asked. “Can you tell us the whole story?” Hyukjae smiled and nodded, showing a very relaxed and uncaring attitude that made her feel all the more like the odd one out. The other fourteen members were just sitting around them, probably feeling a little bored. Selene bit her lower lip and averted her eyes from the audience to Hyukjae, to see what he would tell them.
“Like Selene already said, we met in Germany. I encountered her on the streets and she helped me to find my hotel. Later on, we realized that we actually had to meet one another for business purposes. She had been assigned to give me a short introduction of the things I could do in Germany on that first day and from then on I would be on my own again. Yet the next day Leeteuk came to visit me and she had also been assigned by the company to accompany him to the hotel where he would surprise me. We then spend the whole day together before the three of them, Leeteuk and the two girls, went back to Korea. Because I was already intrigued by her from that first day, I asked for her number before she left, but we didn’t really contact each other until I suddenly got a text from her.” Hyukjae turned to look at her, making it clear that he wanted her to continue. She swallowed once again, before turning back to the audience and going on.
“Well, my friend, Afreya, had also exchanged numbers with Leeteuk and Hyukjae, and she had kept some sort of contact, texting with Leeteuk from time to time. When she told me about this, I felt like contacting them again as well, just to see how they were doing. Because of that, I texted Leeteuk the next time I was in Korea, but he had a very busy schedule that day, so he told me to contact Hyukjae. He asked me to come over to their dorm for some tea and after that we kept meeting occasionally whenever I was in Korea to have a drink and talk a little. That went on for quite some months and we became quite good friends.”
“For me it was more than friendship.” Hyukjae butted in at that point. “I really liked her personality and soon found myself in love with her. I didn’t tell her at first, as I thought it was probably just puppy love, but after a couple of months, I realized it was more, so one day I simply decided to tell her my feelings. She was in Korea at that time, so I called her and told her I would meet her in her hotel. Even though she kept insisting she didn’t have much time and would meet me later that day, I just went and once she let me in, I blurted out the words like that.” Selene smiled when she remembered that day. The stress had slowly lessened while talking and because of Hyukjae’s careless attitude, she felt less careful as well.
“To be honest, I was quite surprised. He had called me, saying he had to meet me and would come over. Because he sounded very urged, I thought something had happened, so I was very worried. I had expected a lot of things, like he would tell me one of the members had gotten an accident or something like that, but I never considered he would confess to me. At first I even thought he was doing a hidden camera prank on me or something, but it soon became clear he was dead serious about it.” she sketched the situation with an amused feeling. Thinking back to it really made it all look so funny. She even chuckled a little at the end of her explanation. Suddenly, she felt a hand being put on her shoulder and surprised, she stiffened in her chair. Immediately she remembered her place and that she had to be careful with what she said because of all the fans listening. The person gave a soft, reassuring squeeze in her shoulder, thereby telling her she was doing a good job. She looked back at the person, immediately getting six smiles from the members in her sight. She couldn’t keep herself from smiling as well while turning back to the audience. Meanwhile Hyukjae had continued the story.
“Selene was a little confused at first, but I somehow convinced her to go on a date with me, telling her that if it didn’t feel right to her, she could still refuse me after. She accepted after some debating and I took her to Han River the same evening. Of course there was a great risk of being recognized, but I really wanted to have a real date instead of always meeting at our dorm or her hotel. On a side note, I want to apologize to the three girls who actually did recognize me there for lying to them, but because it was our first date, I wanted it to be like any other person’s first date.” He left a short silence before finishing the story. “It was not that day, but about a month later that we actually really became a couple. We have been together ever since.”
“So when that famous Star King kiss happened, you two were already together?” a reporter verified. Both Selene and Hyukjae nodded at the same time, looking at each other and smiling upon realizing it. That little action, the first sign they had given of actually knowing each other, made the fans in the back burst out in screams again. Immediately the tensed feeling returned and Selene’s smile faded away as she averted her eyes to the ground. After a few more very random questions from the reporters about her age, the amount of members in her family, the job of her parents and stuff like that, it was time for the fans to ask their questions. A time Selene had dreaded the most. Even though there had been only a select group of fans allowed to attend the conference, it was a very big select group and she already knew that not all were happy about her. That’s why she tightened her grip on the microphone even more when the first question came.
“You said you texted Leeteuk first instead of Eunhyuk, does that mean you were more interested in him at first?” a fan asked. Her speech was formal and respectful, so Selene figured she was younger than her. However, even the respectful tone could not hide the sharpness of the question.
“No. I texted him first because my friend had told me Hyukjae did not answer her texts, but Leeteuk always answered very fast, so I guessed I would have more luck texting him first. I planned on asking him to ask Hyukjae to come along if he would have had the time.” she replied with the same kind of formal speech, trying her best not to sound too loose about it, but also to not be too formal and show her nervousness that way. She let her eyes wander over the audience, to the next fan who got up to ask a question.
“Do you guys fight a lot?” she asked. Her speech was much less formal and she also looked older, so Selene made sure to be respectful when she answered.
“We did not fight that much, actually. We’ve been together for a bit more than a year now and we maybe had three or four slight discussions. We don’t see each other that often, of course, so that might be a reason for that.” she explained. She felt a little guilty for lying when thinking back to the few major outbursts of her temper, but the fans didn’t have to know everything. A little smile appeared on her face as she added: “Actually, I fight a lot more with Heechul-ssi than with Hyukjae.” The comment made a few fans laugh and Selene felt more reassured upon hearing that sound.
“Selene-ssi.” the next fan standing up said. The soft sound of the voice made Selene look for this girl in surprise. “Eunhyuk-ssi.” When her eyes found the speaker, Selene felt a knot in her stomach. She recognized the girl, but had no idea where she knew her from, yet it felt like something important that she should know. Staring at the girl who was standing at quite a distance, she suddenly felt a click, as if something turned in her brains and she suddenly realized who the girl was.
“You’re one of the fans at Han River.” she exclaimed, hardly able to keep herself from jumping up in surprise. Hyukjae gave her a weird look, before leaning closer towards the girl, as if that meter would make him able to see her clearer while she was standing at least twenty meters away. The girl smiled, something that Selene could hear in her voice when she spoke again.
“Yes I am. It surprises me that you still recognize me. Especially from so far away.” The girl left a short silence before continuing. “I just want to say that I accept your apologies and I’m sure my friends will too, although I cannot speak for them. I also want to wish you both the best of luck and hope you will become happy.” Selene felt strangely touched by this stranger’s words. Probably because she now knew that there at least was someone who didn’t oppose to her being Hyukjae’s girlfriend. In fact, it mattered a lot to her. That fact was proven by the tears starting to form in her eyes, but she quickly blinked them away. “If I could ask one thing..” the fan softly said.
“Of course.” Hyukjae replied with a friendly smile, thereby encouraging the girl to feel free to ask anything. “But.. What is your name?”
“My name is Lee Haneul.” the girl answered. Selene could see her bow slightly while saying that. “And I wonder why you two are not even looking at each other. At first I thought this was just a joke because you two didn’t even look at each other once. Now I think it’s because you’re trying not to make too much fans angry or something. This might just be my humble opinion, but I think you should at least hug once or something like that and if I’m not mistaken there are others who think like me as well.” Haneul said, sounding very calm and unafraid of what other fans might think. Her words caused more than half of the group of fans to scream in agreement. Selene flinched by the sudden sound, instinctively moving backwards. She was luckily stopped by the person sitting behind her or she would have fallen off her chair. Panic rose in her and she turned to Hyukjae in hopes that he would tell her what to do, but he was still looking at Haneul.
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 20/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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It was d-day. She was going to die. She was sure of it. Fans probably brought guns and what not to kill her and they would not be afraid to use them. Her life was going to end that very day. She comforted herself with the idea of coming back as a ghost anyway, but that reassurance was overshadowed by the realization that she would be living by Jo Kwon’s side then and not Hyukjae’s. She swallowed a few times as she stared at the wall in front of her without seeing it. The screams were deafening, while Hyukjae had only just set foot on the stage. Her heartbeat sped up to what must be at least two hundred beats per minute and she was starting to feel less sure every second.
She had been in Korea again for a week. Even though the company had not been happy when finding out about Hyukjae’s relationship with her, it had already been far too late to do anything about it by then, so they had agreed with the conference. However, they had also said that if the fans responded negatively and wanted him to break up, he would have to do so or he would be kicked out of the group. Everything depended on the reaction of the fans now and that reaction was something Selene dreaded most of all. In less than twenty minutes, she would have to get up on that stage as well and face the fans and press who had come to find out about this infamous girlfriend everyone had been talking about.
In the last two months, Selene had been happy to be in different countries. Korean news had been flooded by articles about Hyukjae’s relationship and all kinds of options about who this lucky girl might be. She had comforted herself with the knowledge that none of the options had been her, but still. As the weeks had passed, the commotion had lessened, especially when it became clear that there would be a formal announcement during a conference. Everyone had calmed down, waiting for that specific day. A day that had now come.
That morning, all her friends had arrived in Korea as well. Everyone had been given a room in the company building and even her mother and father were there to support her, something she couldn’t appreciate more. They had given her words of encouragement. Kana, Chinatsu, Kasumi, Sakura and Afreya were even sitting with her now, holding her hands or glancing at her face in worry from time to time, but all she could focus on was the dimmed sounds coming from the large conference hall. Her courage was slowly leaving her as she heard the screams rise in strength. That meant Hyukjae had now brought her up and she had almost no time left. Her friends all hugged her and said words of encouragement. She didn’t hear them. It was only when the door opened and K’Ae walked in that she averted her eyes from the wall.
“It’s time now, Selene.” K’Ae spoke softly. She reached out a hand. Feeling more like a zombie than a living and breathing person, Selene got up and walked towards the ghost girl. Right before she walked out of the room, she glanced back at her friends, who all showed her a thumbs up. Swallowing once again, she did the only thing she knew to do in her situation. She turned off her brain and blindly followed K’Ae towards the stage. At the stairs, they stopped, and K’Ae turned to look at her. A compassionate smile appeared on her face and she gently stroked the younger girl’s cheek. “Don’t worry. I’ve walked through the audience a bit. Although they’re not thrilled, they are not intending to kill you either.” Selene took a deep breath and turned to the stage. She didn’t answer, knowing that if she did, she would lose control and start crying or run away.
“So as promised, I will reveal the identity of my girlfriend today. I hope E.L.F will show her as much love as you have shown Super Junior, because she is very dear to me.” Hyukjae’s words reached her ears, but she did her best not to think about their meaning. His voice sounded assured and calm, so she tried finding courage in that. The occasional screams that had sounded before all died away and the conference hall was left in complete silence. Selene felt how her heartbeat suddenly slowed and how everything in her head seemed to go as silent as the hall. Then Hyukjae’s shape appeared at the end of the stairs and he slowly walked halfway down, reaching out a hand to her. As in a dream, she walked up to take his hand. He covered his microphone with his free hand and pulled her close in a short hug. “Aishiteru.” he whispered, before letting go and walking back up the stairs.
She stood there like frozen for a few seconds, letting the meaning of the one word sink in. When he reached the last step of the stairs, she moved like a robot. One step higher, another one, another one, the last one and after that out on the open stage. The silence was not interrupted while she made her way towards the seats on the stage. All the Super Junior members were sitting there in two rows, the fifteen of them, to show their support for their member’s decision. Hyukjae took his place on the front row and, with a strange calm that felt almost like numbness, she slowly sat down on the chair next to him. Someone pressed a microphone in her hand that she accepted with numb fingers. She took one deep breath, closed her eyes for a second and lifted her head to look at the audience.
“Annyeonghaseyo.” she said, letting her gaze wander over the black nothingness where she expected lots of fans to be hidden. “My name is Selene Miyake.” The sudden noise that followed her words almost made her jump up in surprise. Immediately the earlier calm left her and her heartbeat sped up again. She grabbed the arm of her chair and squeezed as hard as she could to at least let out a little bit of the stress. As the screams of fans became more organized, she could distinguish two kinds of screaming. Encouraging screams and screams of anger. To her great surprise, the first kind of screams were much louder. As she started to get used to the bright lights of the stage, she also started to recognize shapes in the black nothingness and soon she could see the vastness of the audience. There must be more than a thousand fans and press people present.
Hyukjae calmly waited for the noise to die away and none of the other members made any move to silence the fans either. Selene felt worries come up again. How much would they hate her for ‘stealing’ their Hyukjae? Would she leave the conference alive? How would she have to act? If she would clearly state that she was his girlfriend, they would probably think her arrogant, yet if she said she would accept the fans wishes, they might think she didn’t want to fight for him. They might see her as someone who simply wanted his money. She closed her eyes shortly again, deciding to just be honest. It wouldn’t do to make promises she wouldn’t be keeping anyway, so she would just be honest and be herself. With that decision made, she waited what seemed like an eternity until the fans slowly became less loud and in the end became completely silent again. She made the smile reappear on her face just in time for the first question.
“Where are you from?” one of the reporters asked. She was surprised that the question was addressed to her instead of Hyukjae. Apparently, she had been accepted as being a person too.
“I’m Japanese.” she answered, clutching the microphone like it was her only reassurance of safety.
“How did you two meet?” the next question immediately followed.
“We met in Germany when Hyukjae was on vacation there.” The rumour in the hall became a little louder as people mumbled to each other how weird it was for a Korean and a Japanese person to meet in a country so far away as Germany.
“You look familiar, Selene-ssi, are you famous in your country or something like that?”
“No, I’m not really famous. But 6 months ago I appeared on Star King together with my friend. We were the two interpreters.” She had to swallow a few times to release herself from some of the stress. There was no getting away from this anymore.
“Eunhyuk-ssi..” someone else asked. “Can you tell us the whole story?” Hyukjae smiled and nodded, showing a very relaxed and uncaring attitude that made her feel all the more like the odd one out. The other fourteen members were just sitting around them, probably feeling a little bored. Selene bit her lower lip and averted her eyes from the audience to Hyukjae, to see what he would tell them.
“Like Selene already said, we met in Germany. I encountered her on the streets and she helped me to find my hotel. Later on, we realized that we actually had to meet one another for business purposes. She had been assigned to give me a short introduction of the things I could do in Germany on that first day and from then on I would be on my own again. Yet the next day Leeteuk came to visit me and she had also been assigned by the company to accompany him to the hotel where he would surprise me. We then spend the whole day together before the three of them, Leeteuk and the two girls, went back to Korea. Because I was already intrigued by her from that first day, I asked for her number before she left, but we didn’t really contact each other until I suddenly got a text from her.” Hyukjae turned to look at her, making it clear that he wanted her to continue. She swallowed once again, before turning back to the audience and going on.
“Well, my friend, Afreya, had also exchanged numbers with Leeteuk and Hyukjae, and she had kept some sort of contact, texting with Leeteuk from time to time. When she told me about this, I felt like contacting them again as well, just to see how they were doing. Because of that, I texted Leeteuk the next time I was in Korea, but he had a very busy schedule that day, so he told me to contact Hyukjae. He asked me to come over to their dorm for some tea and after that we kept meeting occasionally whenever I was in Korea to have a drink and talk a little. That went on for quite some months and we became quite good friends.”
“For me it was more than friendship.” Hyukjae butted in at that point. “I really liked her personality and soon found myself in love with her. I didn’t tell her at first, as I thought it was probably just puppy love, but after a couple of months, I realized it was more, so one day I simply decided to tell her my feelings. She was in Korea at that time, so I called her and told her I would meet her in her hotel. Even though she kept insisting she didn’t have much time and would meet me later that day, I just went and once she let me in, I blurted out the words like that.” Selene smiled when she remembered that day. The stress had slowly lessened while talking and because of Hyukjae’s careless attitude, she felt less careful as well.
“To be honest, I was quite surprised. He had called me, saying he had to meet me and would come over. Because he sounded very urged, I thought something had happened, so I was very worried. I had expected a lot of things, like he would tell me one of the members had gotten an accident or something like that, but I never considered he would confess to me. At first I even thought he was doing a hidden camera prank on me or something, but it soon became clear he was dead serious about it.” she sketched the situation with an amused feeling. Thinking back to it really made it all look so funny. She even chuckled a little at the end of her explanation. Suddenly, she felt a hand being put on her shoulder and surprised, she stiffened in her chair. Immediately she remembered her place and that she had to be careful with what she said because of all the fans listening. The person gave a soft, reassuring squeeze in her shoulder, thereby telling her she was doing a good job. She looked back at the person, immediately getting six smiles from the members in her sight. She couldn’t keep herself from smiling as well while turning back to the audience. Meanwhile Hyukjae had continued the story.
“Selene was a little confused at first, but I somehow convinced her to go on a date with me, telling her that if it didn’t feel right to her, she could still refuse me after. She accepted after some debating and I took her to Han River the same evening. Of course there was a great risk of being recognized, but I really wanted to have a real date instead of always meeting at our dorm or her hotel. On a side note, I want to apologize to the three girls who actually did recognize me there for lying to them, but because it was our first date, I wanted it to be like any other person’s first date.” He left a short silence before finishing the story. “It was not that day, but about a month later that we actually really became a couple. We have been together ever since.”
“So when that famous Star King kiss happened, you two were already together?” a reporter verified. Both Selene and Hyukjae nodded at the same time, looking at each other and smiling upon realizing it. That little action, the first sign they had given of actually knowing each other, made the fans in the back burst out in screams again. Immediately the tensed feeling returned and Selene’s smile faded away as she averted her eyes to the ground. After a few more very random questions from the reporters about her age, the amount of members in her family, the job of her parents and stuff like that, it was time for the fans to ask their questions. A time Selene had dreaded the most. Even though there had been only a select group of fans allowed to attend the conference, it was a very big select group and she already knew that not all were happy about her. That’s why she tightened her grip on the microphone even more when the first question came.
“You said you texted Leeteuk first instead of Eunhyuk, does that mean you were more interested in him at first?” a fan asked. Her speech was formal and respectful, so Selene figured she was younger than her. However, even the respectful tone could not hide the sharpness of the question.
“No. I texted him first because my friend had told me Hyukjae did not answer her texts, but Leeteuk always answered very fast, so I guessed I would have more luck texting him first. I planned on asking him to ask Hyukjae to come along if he would have had the time.” she replied with the same kind of formal speech, trying her best not to sound too loose about it, but also to not be too formal and show her nervousness that way. She let her eyes wander over the audience, to the next fan who got up to ask a question.
“Do you guys fight a lot?” she asked. Her speech was much less formal and she also looked older, so Selene made sure to be respectful when she answered.
“We did not fight that much, actually. We’ve been together for a bit more than a year now and we maybe had three or four slight discussions. We don’t see each other that often, of course, so that might be a reason for that.” she explained. She felt a little guilty for lying when thinking back to the few major outbursts of her temper, but the fans didn’t have to know everything. A little smile appeared on her face as she added: “Actually, I fight a lot more with Heechul-ssi than with Hyukjae.” The comment made a few fans laugh and Selene felt more reassured upon hearing that sound.
“Selene-ssi.” the next fan standing up said. The soft sound of the voice made Selene look for this girl in surprise. “Eunhyuk-ssi.” When her eyes found the speaker, Selene felt a knot in her stomach. She recognized the girl, but had no idea where she knew her from, yet it felt like something important that she should know. Staring at the girl who was standing at quite a distance, she suddenly felt a click, as if something turned in her brains and she suddenly realized who the girl was.
“You’re one of the fans at Han River.” she exclaimed, hardly able to keep herself from jumping up in surprise. Hyukjae gave her a weird look, before leaning closer towards the girl, as if that meter would make him able to see her clearer while she was standing at least twenty meters away. The girl smiled, something that Selene could hear in her voice when she spoke again.
“Yes I am. It surprises me that you still recognize me. Especially from so far away.” The girl left a short silence before continuing. “I just want to say that I accept your apologies and I’m sure my friends will too, although I cannot speak for them. I also want to wish you both the best of luck and hope you will become happy.” Selene felt strangely touched by this stranger’s words. Probably because she now knew that there at least was someone who didn’t oppose to her being Hyukjae’s girlfriend. In fact, it mattered a lot to her. That fact was proven by the tears starting to form in her eyes, but she quickly blinked them away. “If I could ask one thing..” the fan softly said.
“Of course.” Hyukjae replied with a friendly smile, thereby encouraging the girl to feel free to ask anything. “But.. What is your name?”
“My name is Lee Haneul.” the girl answered. Selene could see her bow slightly while saying that. “And I wonder why you two are not even looking at each other. At first I thought this was just a joke because you two didn’t even look at each other once. Now I think it’s because you’re trying not to make too much fans angry or something. This might just be my humble opinion, but I think you should at least hug once or something like that and if I’m not mistaken there are others who think like me as well.” Haneul said, sounding very calm and unafraid of what other fans might think. Her words caused more than half of the group of fans to scream in agreement. Selene flinched by the sudden sound, instinctively moving backwards. She was luckily stopped by the person sitting behind her or she would have fallen off her chair. Panic rose in her and she turned to Hyukjae in hopes that he would tell her what to do, but he was still looking at Haneul.
[FIC] Soulmates: Selene
Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 19/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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“Of course not. Why would I be together with someone like her? She wouldn’t be able to endure my personality for even a day, let alone live up to the standards of being Kim Heechul’s girlfriend.” the arrogant answer came. Selene wanted to hit the self-assured smirk that she was sure he’d show from his face, but she was supposed to be asleep. While she was still debating whether to reveal her state of being awake or not, there suddenly was the sound of two bodies crashing into each other and Heechul made a surprised noise.
“One more word about Afreya..” another voice said, sounding dangerously angered. A shocked silence came over the room and Selene couldn’t keep herself from glancing up from under her eyelashes. Leeteuk was holding Heechul by his sweater and glared at his friend. Their faces weren’t even five centimetres apart from one another. The tension in the room was at a maximum. In the end, Leeteuk let go of Heechul by pushing him back a little and walked out of her sight. She quickly closed her eyes again not to be caught. A door was being closed a little harder than really needed, but Selene imagined Leeteuk had put a lot of effort into keeping himself in check just not to wake her. The thought of his caring for others made her feel very bad for him. Why couldn’t Afreya just like him back?
“Well.. Selene’s soundly asleep for sure.” Heechul said after a long silence. He cleared his throat, after which she heard footsteps. He probably walked to the place where Leeteuk had sat to take the place. She was again still deciding if it was time for her to ‘wake up’ or not when the sound of a door opening came, followed by the sound of footsteps.
“Mianhe.” Leeteuk said softly when the footsteps stopped. She could clearly imagine his apologetic face in her mind and her heart hurt to think of it. “I overreacted.” Selene couldn’t take it anymore, so she moved a little and slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the image of Leeteuk and Heechul hugging. It eased her heart a bit, but there still was the urge in her to give Heechul a few good punches.
“You should not be the one apologizing, hyung.” Heechul’s whispered answer came, almost not understandable, but still there. The sincere apology in his voice eased Selene’s anger, leaving her with only sadness for Leeteuk. She blinked a few times and slowly lifted her head a bit.
“What did you do wrong again this time?” she asked with a sharp tone in her voice. All heads turned to look at her. She noticed it apparently wasn’t the whole group who had come. There was only Leeteuk, Heechul, Hangeng and Kyuhyun in her sight.
“Nothing much. He was simply being Heechul again.” Hangeng answered her question, giving her a little smile.
“Good morning, by the way, Selene-ssi.” Someone then startled her by speaking from behind her. She turned around so fast that she had to grab Hangeng’s shoulder to keep herself from falling out of the couch. With wide eyes she looked at Shindong who was standing behind the couch. Next to him was Donghae. She quickly glanced around the room, to make sure there was no one else who could scare her any more. “Or should I say good evening.” Shindong meanwhile continued, smiling happily. She turned back to face him, slowly feeling herself calm down again.
“Good evening.” she replied, moving her eyes from Shindong to Donghae and then turning around to look at all the other members. “What are you all doing here?”
“Congratulating you two on making it official. Want to know how many hateful comments the fans have made?” Heechul answered happily, the little smirk appearing on his face again.
“I suggest you keep your comments for yourself a bit, hyung.” Hangeng answered. Even though he didn’t sound angry or reprimanding, when Heechul glanced at his friend, he immediately averted his gaze to the ground and shut up. Leeteuk who had meanwhile went to sit on the arm of the couch, put a hand on his friend’s shoulder. Selene couldn’t help noticing once again how quickly he forgave others and how caring he was even after being angry at Heechul himself just before that.
“No, but seriously. You guys finally made it official.” Hangeng then continued the start of his friend’s words. “That’s so cool. I didn’t think you’d ever find the courage to, though, Selene.”
“Yah well. It had nothing to do with my courage. I just let Hyukjae do what he wanted to do.” she replied, thereby turning to the one she was talking about. It was the first time she looked at him since being awake and her eyes grew in surprise when she saw him. He had smiled at first, but upon seeing the change in her expression he frowned.
“What’s wrong?” he asked, seeming worried. She looked around at the others, who were eyeing her interestedly. They didn’t seem to have noticed anything odd about Hyukjae. A little embarrassed she leaned closer to him to hug him, bringing her mouth next to his ear to be able to mumble something to him without others hearing it.
“Why are you wearing one of my T-shirts?” He looked down upon hearing her question and immediately started blushing. She went to sit on his lap to be able to continue the private conversation. He pressed a kiss on her lips before answering.
“I took a short shower before, but my T-shirt got wet so I borrowed one of yours for a bit. I didn’t realize I was still wearing it. I’m sorry.” he replied, whispering as well. She noticed the other members looking at them. At least those in her sight did so. Those being Hangeng, Donghae and Shindong. A little smile appeared on her face as she rested her cheek against his neck.
“It’s okay. You look sexy.” she said, a little louder now. She noticed how Hangeng rose an eyebrow and smiled innocently.
“Our Hyukkie looks sexy?” Leeteuk asked surprised. “I can hardly believe it.” Selene chuckled and let go of her boyfriend to jump up from the couch.
“Ah, Leeteuk-ssi!” she exclaimed, happily running towards him to hug his neck and ruffle through his hair very informally. She was glad to see a smile appear on his face. “You should be happy to know that there is at least one sexy Sukira DJ then.” Her words brought laughter to all of them and she couldn’t help hugging Leeteuk again upon seeing his playful insulted expression.
“Hey, watch out, you’re going to choke him to death!” Heechul commented, pushing her arm to get her to let go of Leeteuk.
“At least with me he still feels loved.” she replied, using the most informal language she could come up with. As she looked up at Heechul, she tried to use the most vicious look she could manage. The response was immediate.
“You disrespectful..” he started, already getting up to hit her or whatever, but she didn’t even let him finish that line.
“Yes, I am disrespectful. What are you going to do about it? Hit me? Even if you kill me I will just come back as a disrespectful ghost.” she countered. The silence that followed her words was deafening. Even though Heechul stared at her, she just stared back. They kept it serious for a few seconds before bursting out in laughter. “Ah that felt good.” she said, chuckling as she let go of Leeteuk to give Heechul a neck-hug as well. He ruffled through her hair, but she couldn’t care less as it had already been a mess after sleeping on the couch.
“Eunhyuk-ah.” Heechul then said, turning his gaze to his dongseng. “I’d take good care of her if I were you, or I might just steal her away. I like her temper.” He grinned over a joke only he understood and simply pulled her on his lap, not caring if she liked that or not.
“You mean she can actually live up to the standards of being Kim Heechul’s girlfriend?” Kyuhyun said jokingly. Selene quickly pulled free from Heechul’s grip and skipped back to the couch, jumping in next to Hyukjae, to put her arms around his middle and let her chin rest on his shoulder.
“Even if I can live up to those standards, whatever they may be, I’d rather marry a dead Hyukjae than spend one second as Kim Heechul’s girlfriend.” she replied.
“Eww, imagine that smell.” Shindong immediately commented. “It’s already so strong now, let alone when he is dead.”
“Oh, poor Selene. Are you sure about this?” Donghae added, giving her a worried look. Selene, however, was too absorbed by her new discovery to react to their words. Hyukjae’s smell had changed a little. She grabbed the T-shirt to smell it. Even though it didn’t smell like him, it wasn’t exactly what she was looking for. She continued her search by lifting his arm a little and smelling his armpit. Hyukjae immediately pulled his arm down again and leaned away from her. When she looked up at him in surprise, she saw his obvious embarrassment.
“Selene, what are you doing?” he asked, blushing an awful lot. She raised an eyebrow and shook her head, sighing as if he was making things much more embarrassing than they were. She pulled him closer again and continued her search for the unknown smell. It was not the T-shirt, it wasn’t his armpit either, she was not going to smell much lower than that since there were still other members watching, so the only place left was his face. A little indecisive she looked at his face a moment. She took his chin in her hand and turned his face from left to right. Again he interrupted her by pulling his head away. “Really, what are you doing?”
“She looks a lot like my mother whenever she thought I had smoked or taken drugs.” Heechul commented. Selene looked at him in wonder a moment.
“Well, something smells off about you.” she finally spoke again, turning back to Hyukjae. “But I can’t seem to find what exactly it is.” Her words made all the members get up and walk closer to smell Hyukjae himself.
“He actually smells less bad than normal.” Shindong was again the one to comment first, sounding genuinely surprised. The others nodded and everyone looked at Hyukjae expectantly. He was blushing like crazy, feeling very embarrassed with everyone staring at him like that. He suddenly got up and shook his head.
“Aish, really, what is wrong with you people?” he exclaimed annoyed, trying to cover up for his embarrassment like that as he pushed his way through them to sit down in the other couch. Selene followed right behind him, sitting down next to him again. “I told you I showered.” he said, giving her an accusatory look.
“You mean you normally don’t?” she replied, smiling and stroking through his hair to calm him down. “It’s not that, it’s something else.”
“Do you really have to smell at me like a dog to find out?” he replied, but while he talked she leaned closer again to smell his breath.
“Ha!” she exclaimed proudly, having found the origin of the unknown smell. “What did you eat?”
“What?” Hyukjae stared at her with a baffled expression. She just looked back with a bright smile on her face. He looked at her as if she was crazy, rolled his eyes and sighed. “I ate some rice cakes.” he then said. “Is that forbidden these days?”
“There are rice cakes here?” Selene asked surprised, looking forward to eating some herself. She had already forgotten all about Hyukjae’s changed smell, as if the riddle had been solved.
“There were, but Yesung is probably eating the last ones now.” Hyukjae was still looking at her with that ‘you are truly crazy’ expression, but she didn’t even notice it.
“Yesung is here?” she replied happily, jumping up from the couch. “Why did no one tell me?”
“Because you didn’t ask.” was Donghae’s smart comment. She stuck out her tongue in his general direction, before skipping to the kitchen to find Yesung and hopefully some leftover rice cakes as well. When she entered the kitchen, she was happy to find a plate with still some rice cakes on it. She happily bounced towards the table, throwing her arms around Yesung’s body and hugging him tightly.
“Hello, my most favourite person in the whole world. Do you have some rice cakes left for me? Please say you do. I will love you forevermore.” she happily said.
“Hey, what about me!?” Hyukjae called from the other room, but she wisely ignored him.
“I do have some leftover rice cakes, actually.” Yesung replied. “Hello Selene. Have one.” He reached the plate out to her and she excitedly took all three leftover rice cakes.
“Thank you very much, Yesung oppa.” she said, happily walking back into the living room, leaving Yesung with the empty plate.
“Why are you leaving me? I thought you would love me forevermore?” he complained.
“I’m sorry, did I forgot to mention I would love you forevermore until you were out of rice cakes?” she called over her shoulder, making her way back to the couch to sit down next to Hyukjae and making herself comfortable resting against his side. Yesung walked into the living room as well, looking very down and left behind. She smiled and waved at him, while contently eating her rice cakes.
“I think we better leave these two weird people.” Heechul commented. The whole group, who was still just standing at the couch where she and Hyukjae had sat a little before, nodded in response.
“That might not be such a bad idea.” Shindong agreed.
“We’ll see you in a while, Selene.” Leeteuk mumbled. Selene nodded and got up to give them all a hug as goodbye. She started with Kyuhyun and ended with Yesung, even though she skipped Heechul, only giving him a disgusted look that made him grin again. When hugging Yesung, she mumbled a short sorry and offered him half of the last rice cake. He kindly declined before walking out the door. When the door closed behind him, Selene put the last rice cake in her mouth and walked back to the couch. She sat down on Hyukjae’s lap, leaning against his chest and happily closing her eyes. When he put his arms around her, she opened one eye to look at him.
“So you also used my deodorant?” she asked. He grinned sheepishly as he nodded.
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 19/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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“Of course not. Why would I be together with someone like her? She wouldn’t be able to endure my personality for even a day, let alone live up to the standards of being Kim Heechul’s girlfriend.” the arrogant answer came. Selene wanted to hit the self-assured smirk that she was sure he’d show from his face, but she was supposed to be asleep. While she was still debating whether to reveal her state of being awake or not, there suddenly was the sound of two bodies crashing into each other and Heechul made a surprised noise.
“One more word about Afreya..” another voice said, sounding dangerously angered. A shocked silence came over the room and Selene couldn’t keep herself from glancing up from under her eyelashes. Leeteuk was holding Heechul by his sweater and glared at his friend. Their faces weren’t even five centimetres apart from one another. The tension in the room was at a maximum. In the end, Leeteuk let go of Heechul by pushing him back a little and walked out of her sight. She quickly closed her eyes again not to be caught. A door was being closed a little harder than really needed, but Selene imagined Leeteuk had put a lot of effort into keeping himself in check just not to wake her. The thought of his caring for others made her feel very bad for him. Why couldn’t Afreya just like him back?
“Well.. Selene’s soundly asleep for sure.” Heechul said after a long silence. He cleared his throat, after which she heard footsteps. He probably walked to the place where Leeteuk had sat to take the place. She was again still deciding if it was time for her to ‘wake up’ or not when the sound of a door opening came, followed by the sound of footsteps.
“Mianhe.” Leeteuk said softly when the footsteps stopped. She could clearly imagine his apologetic face in her mind and her heart hurt to think of it. “I overreacted.” Selene couldn’t take it anymore, so she moved a little and slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the image of Leeteuk and Heechul hugging. It eased her heart a bit, but there still was the urge in her to give Heechul a few good punches.
“You should not be the one apologizing, hyung.” Heechul’s whispered answer came, almost not understandable, but still there. The sincere apology in his voice eased Selene’s anger, leaving her with only sadness for Leeteuk. She blinked a few times and slowly lifted her head a bit.
“What did you do wrong again this time?” she asked with a sharp tone in her voice. All heads turned to look at her. She noticed it apparently wasn’t the whole group who had come. There was only Leeteuk, Heechul, Hangeng and Kyuhyun in her sight.
“Nothing much. He was simply being Heechul again.” Hangeng answered her question, giving her a little smile.
“Good morning, by the way, Selene-ssi.” Someone then startled her by speaking from behind her. She turned around so fast that she had to grab Hangeng’s shoulder to keep herself from falling out of the couch. With wide eyes she looked at Shindong who was standing behind the couch. Next to him was Donghae. She quickly glanced around the room, to make sure there was no one else who could scare her any more. “Or should I say good evening.” Shindong meanwhile continued, smiling happily. She turned back to face him, slowly feeling herself calm down again.
“Good evening.” she replied, moving her eyes from Shindong to Donghae and then turning around to look at all the other members. “What are you all doing here?”
“Congratulating you two on making it official. Want to know how many hateful comments the fans have made?” Heechul answered happily, the little smirk appearing on his face again.
“I suggest you keep your comments for yourself a bit, hyung.” Hangeng answered. Even though he didn’t sound angry or reprimanding, when Heechul glanced at his friend, he immediately averted his gaze to the ground and shut up. Leeteuk who had meanwhile went to sit on the arm of the couch, put a hand on his friend’s shoulder. Selene couldn’t help noticing once again how quickly he forgave others and how caring he was even after being angry at Heechul himself just before that.
“No, but seriously. You guys finally made it official.” Hangeng then continued the start of his friend’s words. “That’s so cool. I didn’t think you’d ever find the courage to, though, Selene.”
“Yah well. It had nothing to do with my courage. I just let Hyukjae do what he wanted to do.” she replied, thereby turning to the one she was talking about. It was the first time she looked at him since being awake and her eyes grew in surprise when she saw him. He had smiled at first, but upon seeing the change in her expression he frowned.
“What’s wrong?” he asked, seeming worried. She looked around at the others, who were eyeing her interestedly. They didn’t seem to have noticed anything odd about Hyukjae. A little embarrassed she leaned closer to him to hug him, bringing her mouth next to his ear to be able to mumble something to him without others hearing it.
“Why are you wearing one of my T-shirts?” He looked down upon hearing her question and immediately started blushing. She went to sit on his lap to be able to continue the private conversation. He pressed a kiss on her lips before answering.
“I took a short shower before, but my T-shirt got wet so I borrowed one of yours for a bit. I didn’t realize I was still wearing it. I’m sorry.” he replied, whispering as well. She noticed the other members looking at them. At least those in her sight did so. Those being Hangeng, Donghae and Shindong. A little smile appeared on her face as she rested her cheek against his neck.
“It’s okay. You look sexy.” she said, a little louder now. She noticed how Hangeng rose an eyebrow and smiled innocently.
“Our Hyukkie looks sexy?” Leeteuk asked surprised. “I can hardly believe it.” Selene chuckled and let go of her boyfriend to jump up from the couch.
“Ah, Leeteuk-ssi!” she exclaimed, happily running towards him to hug his neck and ruffle through his hair very informally. She was glad to see a smile appear on his face. “You should be happy to know that there is at least one sexy Sukira DJ then.” Her words brought laughter to all of them and she couldn’t help hugging Leeteuk again upon seeing his playful insulted expression.
“Hey, watch out, you’re going to choke him to death!” Heechul commented, pushing her arm to get her to let go of Leeteuk.
“At least with me he still feels loved.” she replied, using the most informal language she could come up with. As she looked up at Heechul, she tried to use the most vicious look she could manage. The response was immediate.
“You disrespectful..” he started, already getting up to hit her or whatever, but she didn’t even let him finish that line.
“Yes, I am disrespectful. What are you going to do about it? Hit me? Even if you kill me I will just come back as a disrespectful ghost.” she countered. The silence that followed her words was deafening. Even though Heechul stared at her, she just stared back. They kept it serious for a few seconds before bursting out in laughter. “Ah that felt good.” she said, chuckling as she let go of Leeteuk to give Heechul a neck-hug as well. He ruffled through her hair, but she couldn’t care less as it had already been a mess after sleeping on the couch.
“Eunhyuk-ah.” Heechul then said, turning his gaze to his dongseng. “I’d take good care of her if I were you, or I might just steal her away. I like her temper.” He grinned over a joke only he understood and simply pulled her on his lap, not caring if she liked that or not.
“You mean she can actually live up to the standards of being Kim Heechul’s girlfriend?” Kyuhyun said jokingly. Selene quickly pulled free from Heechul’s grip and skipped back to the couch, jumping in next to Hyukjae, to put her arms around his middle and let her chin rest on his shoulder.
“Even if I can live up to those standards, whatever they may be, I’d rather marry a dead Hyukjae than spend one second as Kim Heechul’s girlfriend.” she replied.
“Eww, imagine that smell.” Shindong immediately commented. “It’s already so strong now, let alone when he is dead.”
“Oh, poor Selene. Are you sure about this?” Donghae added, giving her a worried look. Selene, however, was too absorbed by her new discovery to react to their words. Hyukjae’s smell had changed a little. She grabbed the T-shirt to smell it. Even though it didn’t smell like him, it wasn’t exactly what she was looking for. She continued her search by lifting his arm a little and smelling his armpit. Hyukjae immediately pulled his arm down again and leaned away from her. When she looked up at him in surprise, she saw his obvious embarrassment.
“Selene, what are you doing?” he asked, blushing an awful lot. She raised an eyebrow and shook her head, sighing as if he was making things much more embarrassing than they were. She pulled him closer again and continued her search for the unknown smell. It was not the T-shirt, it wasn’t his armpit either, she was not going to smell much lower than that since there were still other members watching, so the only place left was his face. A little indecisive she looked at his face a moment. She took his chin in her hand and turned his face from left to right. Again he interrupted her by pulling his head away. “Really, what are you doing?”
“She looks a lot like my mother whenever she thought I had smoked or taken drugs.” Heechul commented. Selene looked at him in wonder a moment.
“Well, something smells off about you.” she finally spoke again, turning back to Hyukjae. “But I can’t seem to find what exactly it is.” Her words made all the members get up and walk closer to smell Hyukjae himself.
“He actually smells less bad than normal.” Shindong was again the one to comment first, sounding genuinely surprised. The others nodded and everyone looked at Hyukjae expectantly. He was blushing like crazy, feeling very embarrassed with everyone staring at him like that. He suddenly got up and shook his head.
“Aish, really, what is wrong with you people?” he exclaimed annoyed, trying to cover up for his embarrassment like that as he pushed his way through them to sit down in the other couch. Selene followed right behind him, sitting down next to him again. “I told you I showered.” he said, giving her an accusatory look.
“You mean you normally don’t?” she replied, smiling and stroking through his hair to calm him down. “It’s not that, it’s something else.”
“Do you really have to smell at me like a dog to find out?” he replied, but while he talked she leaned closer again to smell his breath.
“Ha!” she exclaimed proudly, having found the origin of the unknown smell. “What did you eat?”
“What?” Hyukjae stared at her with a baffled expression. She just looked back with a bright smile on her face. He looked at her as if she was crazy, rolled his eyes and sighed. “I ate some rice cakes.” he then said. “Is that forbidden these days?”
“There are rice cakes here?” Selene asked surprised, looking forward to eating some herself. She had already forgotten all about Hyukjae’s changed smell, as if the riddle had been solved.
“There were, but Yesung is probably eating the last ones now.” Hyukjae was still looking at her with that ‘you are truly crazy’ expression, but she didn’t even notice it.
“Yesung is here?” she replied happily, jumping up from the couch. “Why did no one tell me?”
“Because you didn’t ask.” was Donghae’s smart comment. She stuck out her tongue in his general direction, before skipping to the kitchen to find Yesung and hopefully some leftover rice cakes as well. When she entered the kitchen, she was happy to find a plate with still some rice cakes on it. She happily bounced towards the table, throwing her arms around Yesung’s body and hugging him tightly.
“Hello, my most favourite person in the whole world. Do you have some rice cakes left for me? Please say you do. I will love you forevermore.” she happily said.
“Hey, what about me!?” Hyukjae called from the other room, but she wisely ignored him.
“I do have some leftover rice cakes, actually.” Yesung replied. “Hello Selene. Have one.” He reached the plate out to her and she excitedly took all three leftover rice cakes.
“Thank you very much, Yesung oppa.” she said, happily walking back into the living room, leaving Yesung with the empty plate.
“Why are you leaving me? I thought you would love me forevermore?” he complained.
“I’m sorry, did I forgot to mention I would love you forevermore until you were out of rice cakes?” she called over her shoulder, making her way back to the couch to sit down next to Hyukjae and making herself comfortable resting against his side. Yesung walked into the living room as well, looking very down and left behind. She smiled and waved at him, while contently eating her rice cakes.
“I think we better leave these two weird people.” Heechul commented. The whole group, who was still just standing at the couch where she and Hyukjae had sat a little before, nodded in response.
“That might not be such a bad idea.” Shindong agreed.
“We’ll see you in a while, Selene.” Leeteuk mumbled. Selene nodded and got up to give them all a hug as goodbye. She started with Kyuhyun and ended with Yesung, even though she skipped Heechul, only giving him a disgusted look that made him grin again. When hugging Yesung, she mumbled a short sorry and offered him half of the last rice cake. He kindly declined before walking out the door. When the door closed behind him, Selene put the last rice cake in her mouth and walked back to the couch. She sat down on Hyukjae’s lap, leaning against his chest and happily closing her eyes. When he put his arms around her, she opened one eye to look at him.
“So you also used my deodorant?” she asked. He grinned sheepishly as he nodded.
[FIC] Soulmates: Selene
Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 18/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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“I’ll announce on my Cyworld that I have a girlfriend. We’ll let them get used to the idea for a month or two, before revealing your real name and such in an official interview with the press or something. Maybe we should even make it a little conference that fans can attend as well. If we do it that way, the hate or whatever towards you will probably be much less or even non-existent.” he then explained. Throughout his talking, he obviously calmed down a lot again and he even started to sound very lively.
“You have really thought a lot about this, haven’t you?” she asked, eyeing him with an investigating look, yet feeling surprised about his sincerity over the whole subject. He nodded in answer, smiling a little.
“How can I not have? I want to show my wonderful girlfriend to my wonderful fans.” He was beaming while speaking. “Besides. It could work great. We won’t be able to see each other for the next months anyway, so even if they follow me around all day long for a whole month straight, they won’t find out anything. Then when your schedule gets less busy I’ll arrange the meeting and we’ll tell them everything and reveal your identity.” She felt a smile breaking through on her face as she listened to him talking. He sounded really enthusiastic and was obviously really looking forward to being able to do something like that. In the end, when he finished talking, she took a step closer to him and softly stroked his cheek. She looked him right in the eyes, before turning away and walking towards the bed.
“If this is really what you want, then I won’t be the one stopping you.” she said, sitting down on the edge of the hotel bed. He had followed her with his eyes, but now also walked towards her to hug her.
“Saranghae, Lene.” he whispered in her ear, obviously very happy about the outcome of their conversation. She chuckled softly. Seeing him happy made her happy as well.
“Saranghae, Hyukkie.” she replied, whispering as well for no reason at all. “Jeongmal.”
“Aishiteru.” She chuckled upon hearing his cute Japanese again.
“Wo ai ni.”
“I love you.”
“Chan rak khoon.”
“Okay, I give up. You win. You know more languages.”
She laughed out loud upon hearing those words, but like that it was agreed. After sharing a short kiss, she got up to get her laptop. They moved to the couch to be able to make use of a table. While he was busy starting up the computer, she observed him a little. She had forgotten how much faith and belief he could give her by simply being sure of himself. Those moments had rarely appeared in the few past months. Even though whenever he was like that, she felt safe and taken care of, something she really liked and needed.
When he had the laptop running and connected to the internet, he logged in on his Cyworld account. Before doing anything more, he motioned her to sit with him. She smiled and went to sit right next to him, hugging his arm and letting her head rest against his upper arm. He pressed a little kiss on her hair, before going on with his Cyworld inspection. He browsed through comments he had gotten from fans, answering a few as he thought them funny or very sweet. He read every single one of them to her. However, some comments really made a sick feeling come up in her as she heard them.
Things like ‘Eunhyuk-ssi, are you well? I hope you are. Stay healthy. I wouldn’t want my future husband to feel sick. Kekekeke. Saranghae.’ made her want to kidnap Hyukjae to a faraway place where no one knew him or it made her curse the day she fell in love with him. Not that she knew which day that had been. In fact, she had simply developed a loving feeling towards him throughout their numerous dates, which had, at some place in time, reached the point of not wanting to be without him.
Luckily there were also other comments like ‘Eunhyuk oppa. Always be happy. I want to see you smile often. Stay healthy and take care. Bring us some good songs and shows. Saranghae.’ that made her smile and appreciate the fans even though they were constantly swarming around him. Still, she tried to read as much as possible of what he answered on the comments to make sure he didn’t answer weird stuff. It was a pity that she didn’t know how to read Korean that well, though. After answering some more comments, Hyukjae finally opened a new entry.
“You write it.” he said, looking up at her. She gave him a surprised look.
“What? Why? This is supposed to be your confession, not mine. Besides, I hardly know any Korean writing.” she protested. Luckily he could only see the truth in her words, so he started writing it himself. She tried her best to read it.
“A.. An.. N.. Annyeong?” she read, guessing the last half of the word because she didn’t feel like deciphering more of the signs. He grinned.
“So you can read it.” he said.
“Very slowly. And I’ll only understand it when I say it out loud most of the time.” she replied, making him smile even more. He finished writing his entry in not that much time, after which she demanded for him to read it out loud to her. She had to do some convincing, because he wanted her to read it herself, but after showing some of her cute and puppy-eyed side, he gave in and started reading it out loud for her.
“Annyeong my wonderful E.L.F. How are you all? I hope you are well. Anyway.. Today I have a confession to make, because I promised to always be honest to you all about everything. So, yah.. Here is my confession.. I am in love. In fact, I have a girlfriend. For real. I’m not tricking you. There are no cameras hidden in my Cyworld. Kekeke. I’m very sorry to have to bring it to you all in this way, but it is my only option. To be honest, not even the company knows about it, so you E.L.F are the first to know. Apart from my girlfriend and the members, that is. I hope you will all still support Super Junior and the other members even if you don’t like me anymore for this. But what can I say. Love is unpredictable. Saranghae, E.L.F.”
Even though she didn’t really like some parts, she did not say anything about it, because it was his entry and all. She simply nodded when he finished talking and smiled a little insecure. He simply pressed a short kiss on her lips, before sending the entry. There was no going back now. She felt partly scared, partly relieved. It would be official and they would at some point be able to get out of the door without having to look out for company people or whatever. Yet on the other hand, Hyukjae would be getting in lots of trouble with his company and management. Somehow the two of them had been able to keep their relationship a secret, even though she came over to visit way too often. Luckily, she had been close with almost every member, so everyone had always assumed her to be a general friend or something.
Suddenly feeling a little unsure and small, she moved closer to Hyukjae, hiding herself against him. He gently put both arms around her and hugged her. She smiled and closed her eyes, letting herself relax completely in his grip. Because of the quite late hour, it didn’t take her long to be carried away into dreamland, where every image and every thought was about Hyukjae.
She woke up by the sound of people talking and her ‘bed’ moving. At first she felt a bit disoriented, but she kept her eyes closed, not wanting to get up just yet. Her schedule was so busy lately, she always had to get up early, but she wouldn’t get up if her alarm clock didn’t go off. Yet, when her head was carefully lifted and then laid down again, she started to listen to the voices. They were suddenly talking a lot more silent, yet one of them was still clear enough.
“Shush a little, she’s asleep. She looked so exhausted, so let’s not wake her up, okay.” The boy’s voice was soothing. Right when she had decided that his words must have meant she didn’t have to get up and that she could sleep on, someone else answered.
“Why? I’ll take the hits when we wake her. I love it when her temper shows.” The name of the speaker flashed through her head. Heechul. Without a doubt. Immediately fully aware of her surroundings again, she realized her alarm clock would not go off that day and she had probably only slept a few hours, if it was that much. She decided to keep pretending to be asleep out of pure curiosity. Because after all, what was Heechul doing in her hotel room?
“Come in and sit down.” the first voice, being Hyukjae’s of course, said. The commotion that followed his words made her correct her own question. What were all the Super Junior boys doing in her hotel room? Wasn’t that a bit too obvious? Had they gone brainless running into a hotel with the twelve of them? Or maybe even fourteen.
Her head was carefully lifted again as someone took on the job of pillow again. She tried breathing as slowly and evenly as possible.
“Okay, so why are you here?” Hyukjae asked. His voice came from much closer now, so she figured he must be the one taking up the job as her pillow.
“Why? Isn’t that obvious!?” Again Heechul answering, showing her that he was genuinely excited or upset about something. If not, he would have let someone else do the talking. “I read your Cyworld entry. Together with a few hundred fans who are bombing it with comments.” Of course. The Cyworld entry. How could she have forgotten that? So they were even more stupid coming to her hotel room all at once. Were all Korean boys this big of idiots?
“Hush. Not too loud. Don’t wake her.”
“Oh come on. If she hasn’t woken up yet then she won’t because of some talking either.” She wasn’t quite sure who had said that, but the voice came from further away.
“But look at her. Doesn’t she look cute, not giving us sarcastic or angry looks and not spouting her witty comments?” That was Heechul again. She had to really put an effort into staying still and especially into keeping herself from smiling. Luckily, she managed. That’s when she realized the person she was resting on was not Hyukjae. The smell was totally different.
“Heechul-ah.” a calm voice sounded from right above her. “Don’t be such a mean person. She’s very sweet to you, seeing how you treat her.” Soft fingers stroke her hair out of her face. Even if the voice hadn’t already given away his identity, the fact that Heechul didn’t react on the comment with an angry response would be enough proof as well. It was Hangeng sitting with her. Suddenly she felt the need to open her eyes and move away from him. Why had he taken Hyukjae’s place? Why did Hyukjae allow him to do that? Hadn’t he always been quite jealous when other people, even his members, treated her that way? Why wasn’t he now? Her discomfort grew as she thought about those things, but right when she wanted to move, another comment stopped her from doing so.
“It’s nice to see that you have finally listened to us.” Heechul said. Listened to them? What did he mean? Was there something Hyukjae did that they had told him to do? “I told you it shows more backbone to tell the world about your relationship. Now you finally did. Great job.”
“Like he did it because you said so. It probably took him so long just because you said he should.” The teasing tone of the voice, the lack of response from Heechul’s side and the closeness of the person made it obvious that it was again Hangeng who had spoken. It also made Selene aware again of the fact that he was sitting so close and her head was resting on his leg. She would have to change that. Very subtly change it. With a little sound which she imagined people would make while sleeping, she turned a little and rolled her head from his leg. Her action made them all become silent all of a sudden. Even when she had stopped moving they remained silent and she could imagine them looking at her. Finally someone spoke again.
“Hangeng hyung, can I have my seat back, please? You’re kind of stealing my girlfriend and it looks like she doesn’t like it.” Hyukjae said, using very formal language. She had to do her best not to smile. He seemed to have understood her move as if he knew she was awake. Yet, if he did, he would probably have said something about it, so she decided to keep up her comedy.
“Stealing your girlfriend?” Hangeng asked, sounding shocked. “This simply was the only couch left I could sit in. I can’t help it that your girlfriend just had to take up all the space. At least she moved over a little now.” His answer caused her to have some trouble holding back her laughter, but since her face was now hidden away from their gazes a little, the slight smile that appeared wasn’t that much of a problem. She did know that if she didn’t get better control over her expression, she wouldn’t be able to keep this up much longer. Even though Hangeng didn’t move, she did feel how someone came to sit on the little bit of space next to her middle, at the edge of the couch.
“So hyung, how are you and Afreya doing?” someone suddenly asked. It took her a few moments to figure out it had been Kyuhyun who talked. It was only after that that the real meaning of the question came to her. What? Heechul and Afreya? No way. Afreya would surely have said something to her about it if that was the case. Or would she?
“Oh, great. I called her yesterday and she gave me her number.” Heechul replied calmly, however. He seemed to be totally serious.
“Eh..? If you didn’t have her number yet, then how did you call her?”
“I mean her personal number. I used to only have the one she uses for professional purposes. She doesn’t give her personal number to just everyone, of course.” Selene knew the truth of those words. It would be strange for Heechul to know about these things if he did not really get Afreya’s personal number. Selene felt a knot in her stomach because of the tension, but she refused to betray herself, so she did her best to keep her body relaxed. She did let out a little sigh, turning her head again to make her position a bit more comfortable.
“That must be a good sign then..” Hyukjae said, but he sounded surprised, like he didn’t know about the whole situation before either.
“Of course it is. She now also calls me Heechul-oppa or just oppa instead of Heechul-ssi.” The words were spoken with a certain tone in them that made it clear Heechul thought of that as something big.
“Wow.” Hangeng replied sarcastically. He still sounded way too close to her liking, but at least she knew now that he didn’t mean anything with it. “Then you must really like her if you allow her to do that. Have you asked her out for dinner yet?”
“No, not yet. But I might soon. I’ll take her to my favourite place then.” Heechul replied. Selene felt how her heartbeat sped up. Luckily no one was close enough to hear or feel that change. There was a short silence after her words, before Heechul spoke again. “Well, Selene seems deeply asleep or she would have already responded.”
“So you weren’t serious?” Hyukjae asked surprised. To Selene, he also sounded a little relieved. Maybe he had been wondering how to bring the news to her. There was another silence in which Heechul probably answered by shaking his head or nodding, something she couldn’t see. It frustrated her not to know the answer. “Would you really date her?” Hyukjae then continued, making it clear that Heechul’s answer had been negative.
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 18/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.
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“I’ll announce on my Cyworld that I have a girlfriend. We’ll let them get used to the idea for a month or two, before revealing your real name and such in an official interview with the press or something. Maybe we should even make it a little conference that fans can attend as well. If we do it that way, the hate or whatever towards you will probably be much less or even non-existent.” he then explained. Throughout his talking, he obviously calmed down a lot again and he even started to sound very lively.
“You have really thought a lot about this, haven’t you?” she asked, eyeing him with an investigating look, yet feeling surprised about his sincerity over the whole subject. He nodded in answer, smiling a little.
“How can I not have? I want to show my wonderful girlfriend to my wonderful fans.” He was beaming while speaking. “Besides. It could work great. We won’t be able to see each other for the next months anyway, so even if they follow me around all day long for a whole month straight, they won’t find out anything. Then when your schedule gets less busy I’ll arrange the meeting and we’ll tell them everything and reveal your identity.” She felt a smile breaking through on her face as she listened to him talking. He sounded really enthusiastic and was obviously really looking forward to being able to do something like that. In the end, when he finished talking, she took a step closer to him and softly stroked his cheek. She looked him right in the eyes, before turning away and walking towards the bed.
“If this is really what you want, then I won’t be the one stopping you.” she said, sitting down on the edge of the hotel bed. He had followed her with his eyes, but now also walked towards her to hug her.
“Saranghae, Lene.” he whispered in her ear, obviously very happy about the outcome of their conversation. She chuckled softly. Seeing him happy made her happy as well.
“Saranghae, Hyukkie.” she replied, whispering as well for no reason at all. “Jeongmal.”
“Aishiteru.” She chuckled upon hearing his cute Japanese again.
“Wo ai ni.”
“I love you.”
“Chan rak khoon.”
“Okay, I give up. You win. You know more languages.”
She laughed out loud upon hearing those words, but like that it was agreed. After sharing a short kiss, she got up to get her laptop. They moved to the couch to be able to make use of a table. While he was busy starting up the computer, she observed him a little. She had forgotten how much faith and belief he could give her by simply being sure of himself. Those moments had rarely appeared in the few past months. Even though whenever he was like that, she felt safe and taken care of, something she really liked and needed.
When he had the laptop running and connected to the internet, he logged in on his Cyworld account. Before doing anything more, he motioned her to sit with him. She smiled and went to sit right next to him, hugging his arm and letting her head rest against his upper arm. He pressed a little kiss on her hair, before going on with his Cyworld inspection. He browsed through comments he had gotten from fans, answering a few as he thought them funny or very sweet. He read every single one of them to her. However, some comments really made a sick feeling come up in her as she heard them.
Things like ‘Eunhyuk-ssi, are you well? I hope you are. Stay healthy. I wouldn’t want my future husband to feel sick. Kekekeke. Saranghae.’ made her want to kidnap Hyukjae to a faraway place where no one knew him or it made her curse the day she fell in love with him. Not that she knew which day that had been. In fact, she had simply developed a loving feeling towards him throughout their numerous dates, which had, at some place in time, reached the point of not wanting to be without him.
Luckily there were also other comments like ‘Eunhyuk oppa. Always be happy. I want to see you smile often. Stay healthy and take care. Bring us some good songs and shows. Saranghae.’ that made her smile and appreciate the fans even though they were constantly swarming around him. Still, she tried to read as much as possible of what he answered on the comments to make sure he didn’t answer weird stuff. It was a pity that she didn’t know how to read Korean that well, though. After answering some more comments, Hyukjae finally opened a new entry.
“You write it.” he said, looking up at her. She gave him a surprised look.
“What? Why? This is supposed to be your confession, not mine. Besides, I hardly know any Korean writing.” she protested. Luckily he could only see the truth in her words, so he started writing it himself. She tried her best to read it.
“A.. An.. N.. Annyeong?” she read, guessing the last half of the word because she didn’t feel like deciphering more of the signs. He grinned.
“So you can read it.” he said.
“Very slowly. And I’ll only understand it when I say it out loud most of the time.” she replied, making him smile even more. He finished writing his entry in not that much time, after which she demanded for him to read it out loud to her. She had to do some convincing, because he wanted her to read it herself, but after showing some of her cute and puppy-eyed side, he gave in and started reading it out loud for her.
“Annyeong my wonderful E.L.F. How are you all? I hope you are well. Anyway.. Today I have a confession to make, because I promised to always be honest to you all about everything. So, yah.. Here is my confession.. I am in love. In fact, I have a girlfriend. For real. I’m not tricking you. There are no cameras hidden in my Cyworld. Kekeke. I’m very sorry to have to bring it to you all in this way, but it is my only option. To be honest, not even the company knows about it, so you E.L.F are the first to know. Apart from my girlfriend and the members, that is. I hope you will all still support Super Junior and the other members even if you don’t like me anymore for this. But what can I say. Love is unpredictable. Saranghae, E.L.F.”
Even though she didn’t really like some parts, she did not say anything about it, because it was his entry and all. She simply nodded when he finished talking and smiled a little insecure. He simply pressed a short kiss on her lips, before sending the entry. There was no going back now. She felt partly scared, partly relieved. It would be official and they would at some point be able to get out of the door without having to look out for company people or whatever. Yet on the other hand, Hyukjae would be getting in lots of trouble with his company and management. Somehow the two of them had been able to keep their relationship a secret, even though she came over to visit way too often. Luckily, she had been close with almost every member, so everyone had always assumed her to be a general friend or something.
Suddenly feeling a little unsure and small, she moved closer to Hyukjae, hiding herself against him. He gently put both arms around her and hugged her. She smiled and closed her eyes, letting herself relax completely in his grip. Because of the quite late hour, it didn’t take her long to be carried away into dreamland, where every image and every thought was about Hyukjae.
She woke up by the sound of people talking and her ‘bed’ moving. At first she felt a bit disoriented, but she kept her eyes closed, not wanting to get up just yet. Her schedule was so busy lately, she always had to get up early, but she wouldn’t get up if her alarm clock didn’t go off. Yet, when her head was carefully lifted and then laid down again, she started to listen to the voices. They were suddenly talking a lot more silent, yet one of them was still clear enough.
“Shush a little, she’s asleep. She looked so exhausted, so let’s not wake her up, okay.” The boy’s voice was soothing. Right when she had decided that his words must have meant she didn’t have to get up and that she could sleep on, someone else answered.
“Why? I’ll take the hits when we wake her. I love it when her temper shows.” The name of the speaker flashed through her head. Heechul. Without a doubt. Immediately fully aware of her surroundings again, she realized her alarm clock would not go off that day and she had probably only slept a few hours, if it was that much. She decided to keep pretending to be asleep out of pure curiosity. Because after all, what was Heechul doing in her hotel room?
“Come in and sit down.” the first voice, being Hyukjae’s of course, said. The commotion that followed his words made her correct her own question. What were all the Super Junior boys doing in her hotel room? Wasn’t that a bit too obvious? Had they gone brainless running into a hotel with the twelve of them? Or maybe even fourteen.
Her head was carefully lifted again as someone took on the job of pillow again. She tried breathing as slowly and evenly as possible.
“Okay, so why are you here?” Hyukjae asked. His voice came from much closer now, so she figured he must be the one taking up the job as her pillow.
“Why? Isn’t that obvious!?” Again Heechul answering, showing her that he was genuinely excited or upset about something. If not, he would have let someone else do the talking. “I read your Cyworld entry. Together with a few hundred fans who are bombing it with comments.” Of course. The Cyworld entry. How could she have forgotten that? So they were even more stupid coming to her hotel room all at once. Were all Korean boys this big of idiots?
“Hush. Not too loud. Don’t wake her.”
“Oh come on. If she hasn’t woken up yet then she won’t because of some talking either.” She wasn’t quite sure who had said that, but the voice came from further away.
“But look at her. Doesn’t she look cute, not giving us sarcastic or angry looks and not spouting her witty comments?” That was Heechul again. She had to really put an effort into staying still and especially into keeping herself from smiling. Luckily, she managed. That’s when she realized the person she was resting on was not Hyukjae. The smell was totally different.
“Heechul-ah.” a calm voice sounded from right above her. “Don’t be such a mean person. She’s very sweet to you, seeing how you treat her.” Soft fingers stroke her hair out of her face. Even if the voice hadn’t already given away his identity, the fact that Heechul didn’t react on the comment with an angry response would be enough proof as well. It was Hangeng sitting with her. Suddenly she felt the need to open her eyes and move away from him. Why had he taken Hyukjae’s place? Why did Hyukjae allow him to do that? Hadn’t he always been quite jealous when other people, even his members, treated her that way? Why wasn’t he now? Her discomfort grew as she thought about those things, but right when she wanted to move, another comment stopped her from doing so.
“It’s nice to see that you have finally listened to us.” Heechul said. Listened to them? What did he mean? Was there something Hyukjae did that they had told him to do? “I told you it shows more backbone to tell the world about your relationship. Now you finally did. Great job.”
“Like he did it because you said so. It probably took him so long just because you said he should.” The teasing tone of the voice, the lack of response from Heechul’s side and the closeness of the person made it obvious that it was again Hangeng who had spoken. It also made Selene aware again of the fact that he was sitting so close and her head was resting on his leg. She would have to change that. Very subtly change it. With a little sound which she imagined people would make while sleeping, she turned a little and rolled her head from his leg. Her action made them all become silent all of a sudden. Even when she had stopped moving they remained silent and she could imagine them looking at her. Finally someone spoke again.
“Hangeng hyung, can I have my seat back, please? You’re kind of stealing my girlfriend and it looks like she doesn’t like it.” Hyukjae said, using very formal language. She had to do her best not to smile. He seemed to have understood her move as if he knew she was awake. Yet, if he did, he would probably have said something about it, so she decided to keep up her comedy.
“Stealing your girlfriend?” Hangeng asked, sounding shocked. “This simply was the only couch left I could sit in. I can’t help it that your girlfriend just had to take up all the space. At least she moved over a little now.” His answer caused her to have some trouble holding back her laughter, but since her face was now hidden away from their gazes a little, the slight smile that appeared wasn’t that much of a problem. She did know that if she didn’t get better control over her expression, she wouldn’t be able to keep this up much longer. Even though Hangeng didn’t move, she did feel how someone came to sit on the little bit of space next to her middle, at the edge of the couch.
“So hyung, how are you and Afreya doing?” someone suddenly asked. It took her a few moments to figure out it had been Kyuhyun who talked. It was only after that that the real meaning of the question came to her. What? Heechul and Afreya? No way. Afreya would surely have said something to her about it if that was the case. Or would she?
“Oh, great. I called her yesterday and she gave me her number.” Heechul replied calmly, however. He seemed to be totally serious.
“Eh..? If you didn’t have her number yet, then how did you call her?”
“I mean her personal number. I used to only have the one she uses for professional purposes. She doesn’t give her personal number to just everyone, of course.” Selene knew the truth of those words. It would be strange for Heechul to know about these things if he did not really get Afreya’s personal number. Selene felt a knot in her stomach because of the tension, but she refused to betray herself, so she did her best to keep her body relaxed. She did let out a little sigh, turning her head again to make her position a bit more comfortable.
“That must be a good sign then..” Hyukjae said, but he sounded surprised, like he didn’t know about the whole situation before either.
“Of course it is. She now also calls me Heechul-oppa or just oppa instead of Heechul-ssi.” The words were spoken with a certain tone in them that made it clear Heechul thought of that as something big.
“Wow.” Hangeng replied sarcastically. He still sounded way too close to her liking, but at least she knew now that he didn’t mean anything with it. “Then you must really like her if you allow her to do that. Have you asked her out for dinner yet?”
“No, not yet. But I might soon. I’ll take her to my favourite place then.” Heechul replied. Selene felt how her heartbeat sped up. Luckily no one was close enough to hear or feel that change. There was a short silence after her words, before Heechul spoke again. “Well, Selene seems deeply asleep or she would have already responded.”
“So you weren’t serious?” Hyukjae asked surprised. To Selene, he also sounded a little relieved. Maybe he had been wondering how to bring the news to her. There was another silence in which Heechul probably answered by shaking his head or nodding, something she couldn’t see. It frustrated her not to know the answer. “Would you really date her?” Hyukjae then continued, making it clear that Heechul’s answer had been negative.
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