CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
KANGIN & LEETEUK
Leeteuk was not able to visit Kangin after school. After all those days he did not do his work, he had to catch up. So he spent every evening working and previewing papers. Plenty of the papers were a lot harder than usual. It seemed like his father was testing him. Seeing if he could handle much more.
Leeteuk did not quite enjoy it.
Instead, he dreamed of being by Kangin's side and inhaling his restaurant smell. But Kangin was poor and Leeteuk's father would never approve of him. That was why their relationship was a secret.
But his heart did miss him right now.
Leeteuk sighed and ruffled his hair, sighing again and repeated the same process until his hair was a total mess. "Aish!"
"You don't have to be too hard on yourself." A deep voice grumbled.
Leeteuk just laughed.
"You finished a lot. I'm proud of you," his father said, flipping through all the sheets in the stack.
"Yeah…"
"Well, Good work. When you are done, you can go to your room."
"I can't leave?" Leeteuk asked.
He watched his father walk towards the window and sigh. "Leeteuk, my son, you are the heir to this company. If I have to do what I think is best for you then I will. I worry about you…I truly do," his father lied. "I may be gone all the time, along with your mother but I have eyes. I know you have been sneaking out and not doing your work like you are supposed to. So we both-your mother and I- have decided that you are no longer allowed to leave the house."
"What! You cannot do that!" Leeteuk gasped.
"But I can Leeteuk. I'm just doing what is best for you." His father turned towards him and looked him dead in the eye.
"Best for me! You're doing what is best for me! You obviously do not know me then," Leeteuk spit.
"When you are done. Come down for dinner. We'll be waiting."
Once the door closed Leeteuk grabbed a stack of papers and threw them across the room. A cloud of papers filling the air with white and whisking their way to the ground with ease. The room felt how and he wanted to scream but instead he fell back into the chair. Staring blankly at the door and the emptiness up in him.
He finished up the rest of his work, picking up the papers in the process when he heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" He asked half irritated.
"It's Eunhyuk."
Leeteuk sighed and rubbed his face. "Come in!"
"Sorry to bother you," Eunhyuk whispered.
"It's okay."
"What are you doing?" Eunhyuk pondering as he walked closer to the desk, hands examining the papers.
"Just…work."
"I didn't know you had a job…"
"I don't. Father wanted some help with some stuff."
Eunhyuk sighed. "That…is a lot of work."
"Don't worry. This is only the first time he has asked," Leeteuk lied. Lied like a cat in the warm rays of the sun.
"Oh, well I hope I'm not bothering."
"You're not. Don't worry." Leeteuk smiled.
"Should I come back later?" Eunhyuk asked.
Leeteuk smiled and sat back in the chair, motioning his brother towards the lazy boy next to the desk.
"Oh no, It's fine."
Leeteuk watched Eunhyuk walk over to the couch and sit down. Slumping his shoulders up and down nervously. The way he started fumbling with his fingers and his eyes darting all over the room.
"Are you okay? Was there anything you wanted to ask me?" Leeteuk asked, the sound of a pen scribbling as he signed the last couple of sheets.
"No, I'm fine. Thanks for asking."
Leeteuk paused to look at his brother. "Eunhyuk, are you sure you are okay?"
"Leeteuk you know when you have, like, this really terrible feeling in your gut? That you know something bad may happen."
"Uh…Sure I do." Leeteuk looked into his brothers frightened eyes and licked his lips. Eunhyuk was not acting like the Eunhyuk he would always be. He seemed too off.
"Well, I have it and I guess I'm kind of just freaking out right now."
"If it makes you any better, you can stay in here until I finish the last bit."
Eunhyuk smiled and let out a deep breath. "Thanks."
"So, how are you and Donghae?"
"Same old, same old."
"Have you come out about your relationship to father?" Leeteuk asked.
Eunhyuk chuckled, somehow relighting the room with his laugh. "No. We planned on telling them this following week."
Leeteuk gave him a sincere smiled and stacked the papers up. "I hope everything works out the way you want them too. Have you thought about what will happen when they do not?"
"Fishy's talked about it a couple times."
"And?"
"We haven't really come up with a solution…" Eunhyuk mumbles.
"Just take into consideration that father is a tough one. If he does not accept it then you must think of other ways you can fix it."
"I'm just afraid of losing Donghae."
"We're always afraid to lose who we love." Leeteuk smiled, twirling around in his chair as he thought of Kangin.
Eunhyuk gave him a weird look and checked his watch. "Are you sure there is not anyone you like?"
Leeteuk pushed the chair back and stretched. The sound of him moaning and his bones cracking. Twisting his hand in a circular motion to relieve the pain from all the writing.
"Ready?"
Eunhyuk nodded and followed his brother down the stairs to the dining room. The faint sound of whispers. His steps echoed as he took each step one by one and met his parents at the end of the stairs.
"Are you guys going somewhere?" Leeteuk asked.
"We are going out to eat, Leeteuk," his mother said. Her bright white smile lighting the room. Relieving the stress and anger he held on his father just moments ago.
"This is the first. As a family?" Leeteuk rolled his eyes.
"Watch the attitude!" His father snapped.
"Mianhae." Leeteuk bowed.
They walked out of the house and to the family car. His father actually driving them-which was a first. They never went out to do anything and when they did, it was for business purposes only.
They parked in front of a restaurant, his father locking the car and walking towards the building with his hand on his wife's back.
"Do you not think this is strange?" Leeteuk whispered.
"Think what is strange?" Eunhyuk looked up from his phone. "Oh, did you know Donghae's eating out too?"
"Really? Weird, ask him which one. But I mean about us going out. Father never takes us out."
"He said he's at the Kino and no, I don't." They both looked up towards the restaurant and froze in their steps.
"The Kino, right?" Leeteuk read the cursive letters in the front that read 'The Kino".
"Uh…Yeah. Are there two in town?"
Leeteuk shook his head. "No, there is only one."
"Well, this just got odd," Eunhyuk said.
"Tell me about it."
They followed after their parents and walked into the restaurant. The jazzy music filling the air as other people ate silently with smiles on their faces. The waiter appeared and walked them to their table.
Leeteuk and Eunhyuk looked around the room. The glowing red lights bellowing across the walls in favor of granting warmness. Each voice and face given a different sound or picture of art while they talked the night away. It was nice.
"I'm starting to get that feeling in the pit of my stomach again," Eunhyuk whispered to Leeteuk.
Leeteuk nodded and gulped, his Adams apple bobbing. "Me too and its getting worse every time we take a step."
"I am not liking this."
"Neither am I."
The waiter finally led them to their table and handed the menu's to them nicely.
Leeteuk and his brother froze when they saw they family that awaited them.
"Donghae!" The both choked out.
Donghae looked up with wide-eyes and was probably thinking the same thing they were. What is going on?
"You three know each other?" Donghae's step-father asked, smiling a little too widely.
"We go to the same school," Eunhyuk said, looking Donghae straight in the eyes. As if they were sending thoughts to each other telepathically.
"Sit boys. Sit!"
Leeteuk and Eunhyuk scooted the chairs out and sat down while their parents talked casually. Leeteuk and Eunhyuk both leaning over the table the same time as Donghae.
"What is going on?" Leeteuk complained.
"I don't know. All they told me was we have a surprise," Donghae said.
"A surprise!" Eunhyuk sternly whispered.
"What if they found out already!" Donghae eyes grew wider.
"I don't think so guys." Leeteuk assured before the parents called them back.
"Order what you may," They said.
After dinner was serve, Eunhyuk and Donghae would casually look at each other. While Leeteuk was trying to figure out what was going on.
"We would like to make a toast!" Leeteuk's father boasted-probably half drunk…already.
"Yes, Yes!" Donghae's father laughed.
"To the lovely couple!"
Eunhyuk and Donghae spit out their wine. "What!" They spoke in unison.
"Leeteuk and Donghae!"
"WHAT!" All three said.
Leeteuk could feel his heart racing as he looked into Donghae's frightened eyes.
"Donghae's father and I have been talking. We have decided on this awhile back but we finally wanted to tell you guys. Alkon computers and Kobin Games have united and you two, my son Leeteuk and Donghae are getting married. In three weeks."
"An arranged marriage?" Leeteuk snapped.
"Why yes."
Leeteuk knew what his father was doing. He did this because it wasn't just for the couple. Leeteuk's father already knew about Eunhyuk and Donghae and all he wanted to do was ruin their lives.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Donghae send Eunhyuk a sympathetic look. A look of apology and love. A look that said, "Forgive me".
Leeteuk could not tear a couple so in love apart but what could he do when it was his father? "Congratulations!" They all cheered.
"Eunhyuk, are you not going to congratulate them?" His father smirked, sipping his red wine.
"Don't," Leeteuk whispered low enough for only Eunhyuk to hear.
It was as if he could see his brother's heart breaking right in front of him. And it hurt.
Kangin picks up the last of the used dishes. Quickly wiping the table before he finished with the other tables.
"Leeteuk hasn't been here in a while," His father said.
"He is probably just busy with work. I'm sure he will come later." Kangin smiled. He placed the last of it in the sink and rolled up his sleeves. Catching sight of the small T.V they had but only turned on during the closing shift. His eyes squinted to see if what he was seeing was true.
He walked towards it and turned up the volume.
"Future owner and son of the greatest computer company in the world, Alkon, has announced that he will be getting married. The wedding has been planned and will take part in three weeks at their Beach House. The groom? Bride? He is the son of Kobin games. We all would like to congratulate the new couple, Leeteuk and Donghae."
"What the hell?" A crack sounded as the plates on the counter were tossed aside from him. His hands cut and bleeding like the cut that was suddenly sliced through his heart. The plates broken into a millions pieces, just like his heart.
