A/N: Well, this is chapter 1. Hope you like it. Please R&R ^^

Disclaimers: Sadly, I don't own any of the characters or the DBSK band TT^TT

Chapter 1

"Hi Boo."

He twirled around and looked at Yunho.

"Hi."

"How come you're late? We started warming up ten minutes ago," Yunho stated.

"Well… I kind of… overslept," he answered a bit hesitant and tugged on the sleeves on his hooded shirt, "it got a bit late yesterday so it was a bit hard to get out of bed this morning."

"Talk about beds… where did you sleep tonight?" Junsu butted in to their conversation.

"God morning to you to, duck butt," he muttered and turned his back to his dongsaeng.

"Seriously Jae, you haven't been sleeping home at all these past two months. What are you doing?" Junsu wanted to know.

"Butt out," Jaejoong said irritated, "you don't have anything to do with my free time as long as I show up at the scheduled time."

"Come on, don't be so bitchy hyung. I miss your food, a lot," Changmin said as he too joined the conversation.

Adorable little Changmin, always talk about food. Jaejoong thought it was a pleasure to cook for his two year younger maknae even though he could be a pain in the as sometimes. Like, right now.

"I'm not bitchy, just tired of you guys always sticking your noses in other people's business, like the duck butt…" Jae muttered.

"Yes Jae, you are bitchy. And you're mean to my duck butt," Yoochun said and put his hand on his hyungs shoulder.

Jae rolled his eyes and sighed, shrugged his best friend's hand off of him and walked to the other side of the room to start warming up. He didn't know why everyone got so worked up over him not sleeping at the DBSK HQ when he never failed to get to the rehearsals and other things on time. This was the first time for over a year that he was late, and it was only ten minutes not an hour. 'Why can't they just leave me alone?' he thought and sighed as he stretched out his leg muscles. He felt so irritated, especially at Yunho who really didn't seem to care about anything else then practice. His eyes began to sting witch made Jaejoong blink hard a few times to not let any tears escape, it hurt quite a lot in his chest to think that Yunho did not care what he did as long as he showed up on time.

If it had been Yunho and not Junsu to ask where he had been the last two months he probably would have answered without thinking, and that was the dangerous part for him because everyone in his band thought he slept around. But who could he blame for that? No one but himself. He came to practice with hickeys and love marks all over his body and sometimes also on the neck, no wonder they actually believed that about him.

"You done with the stretching?"

Yoochun had come over to Jae and hovered over him, making him look up.

"Yunho wants to get going with the choreography," he said.

Jae just nodded so Yoochun gave him a hand to help him of the floor.

"Thanks," Jae mumbled.

"No prob," Yoochun smiled, "but why were you late this morning? You're always on time, so, what happened yesterday?"

"It's a long story, can we talk after this?" Jae asked.

Yoochun nodded, he was a really good friend. Both concerned and understanding at the same time, not asking one million questions at the same time and expecting answers on them all like Junsu did.

After rehearsal they had some free time before a scheduled photo shoot. Jae didn't want to go because he knew how his body looked. It had been quite rough last night when he had said no to the sex part in the game. The guy he were with didn't want to accept the fact that Jae didn't want to sleep with him, that Jae just wanted to be close and be able to touch the man's body. It all ended with Jae running from the man after almost being raped, calling a friend of his and staying over at her place. How on earth would he explain all the new bruises on his body?

"You wanted to talk to me?"

Jae turned around to face Yoochun, the only one who knew about what Jae did at night but not the reason behind his actions.

"Well, yeah… and I don't think I should be on the photo shoot today…" Jae begun and met Yoochun's eyes before telling him what happened and show some of the bruises.

"Maybe you should take the rest of the day of, go home and take a nap. And when I say home I mean the HQ," Yoochun said and felt a protest building up in his best friend, "Don't. Just do as I say for ones. I know you're the oldest, but you really behave more childlike then Changmin."

"Hmpf," Jae snorted, Yoochun was really good at offending him today, "if you drive me back I'll go home and sleep, but I don't plan on walking."

Yoochun sighed but surrendered, at least Jae accepted to go home, "I'll talk to the manager, he won't be happy but I can figure something out."

Jae smiled and they went out to Yoochun's car after telling the others Jae did not feel well enough to continue the day. At least Changmin was happy to hear that Jae was going home to the HQ, Yunho and Junsu just looked dumbstruck with the news from Yoochun.

When Jay got home to the apartment he immediately went to the living room, plopped down on the couch and turned the TV on. Since there was absolutely nothing to watch he turned the TV off again and wondered what to do next. He sighed and got up on his feet, stretched his body and went to the bedroom to do what he had promised Yoochun: take a nap. He was asleep even before his head hit the pillow not knowing about the clouds creeping up on the darkened sky.

As the day went on the sky got even darker, almost black even though it was a few hoers left to dusk. Yunho was a bit worried over Jaejoong, knowing how afraid the raven-haired boy was of thunderstorms. He wanted Yoochun to drive faster but he knew that that wasn't his brightest idea, especially now when the pavement was slick and wet from the rain that poured down. A few minutes ago it was just small, light drops, but now the sky had opened up and it rained harder for every second.

When they finally got back to the DBSK building the group was happy to have the garage on cellar level so that they could escape the rain.

When they got up to the apartment Yunho went through his pockets for the key but couldn't find it.

"Guys, does anyone of you have keys on you?" He asked and saw three heads shaking.

He sighed and pressed the handle down, hoping. The door was unlocked. That was really weird because Jaejoong always locked the door when he was alone. 'I wonder if he's still awake,' Yunho thought and went inside, kicked of his shoes and stepped aside for the others.

"Weird… hyung always locks the door…" Changmin mumbled as he went in after Yunho and continued to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat.

Yunho heard a displeased groan so, obviously, there was no food prepared for him.

"That boy is always hungry," Yoochun chuckled as he pulled Junsu with him inside so he could close and lock the door.

"Yeah, he really is," Yunho said and walked to the living room to find it being empty.

He sat down on the couch and put the TV on to watch the news, which was the only thing he felt he really had to do every day because no one else did. As the leader he was the one to take responsibility for the other members and keep track on what was happening. But as the day before there was absolutely nothing interesting said. He had missed the presence of Jaejoong too for the last two months; it felt weird to know that his hyung was in the apartment.

A loud roar woke Yunho up from his trancelike state and made him look out through the window. The lightning's' was chasing each other over the dark sky and the thunder roared highly. If Jaejoong was sleeping he would wake up from this, Yunho was quite sure about that.