A/N: Hey readers! I'm currently supposed to be going on a short hiatus. Hope all these chapters kept you guys busy while I was get back on track and hopefully by the time you arrived at this one I'm already back! No huh? No new update right... well, if not then in a few days or maybe tomorrow I'll be back. In the meantime enjoy this chapter! It's fairly long you know and quite surprising! I promise an equally if not longer chapter for my next update so be on the lookout for another update in a few day's time! Happy reading!
Chapter 35 Walls Whisper Secrets of Your Love Life
"Good morning Minnie. You need to get ready for school," Yoochun said ruffling his hair.
Changmin began to wake up, his eyes attempting to adjust to the light. Once his eyes were fully open he saw he was alone in bed.
"Morning," Changmin said groggily.
Changmin usually jumped out of bed ready for the day to begin. As much as Changmin had laughed and smiled after the attempt at stealing his innocence, Changmin was still not the same. Not only that but he missed JaeJoong so much! His drive for being up in the mornings was clearly breakfast but now he didn't even have that to look forward to. He wished JaeJoong would show up and put his arms around him, hold him and just let him cry while making shushing sound and trace circles on his back like before. He needed to cry and let it all out, but he couldn't. Changmin had to get out of bed and get ready for school despite his strong desire to stay home in bed all day. Changmin lazily sat up and saw the wrinkled letter and grabbed it as he slowly got out of bed practically dragging his body across the room towards the door. Changmin paused in front of the room his friends were staying in and swung the door open only to find the absence of his friends.
"They left early," Junsu said. "I walked in to wake them and when they found how close they were they stood up quickly. Guess they were deeply embarrassed to be found sleeping in each other's arms," Junsu said giggling. "They said they were going to go back home to get ready for school."
"I see," Changmin said. Changmin would have definitely joined Junsu in a fit of giggles but nothing came out.
He continued walking until he reached the closed door of his room. Once more he hesitated in opening it in fear he would find something completely different but he finally turned the knob and pushed the door open. It was just as Kyuhyun had left it three hours back. He walked in to safely store the letter in his desk drawer and get his clothes for school. He walked out to take a shower with hopes that the cleansing water would wash everything away.
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Eunhyuk and Donghae ran as fast as they could through the dimly lit streets so early in the morning. When they arrived in front of Donghae's house they came to an abrupt halt to catch their breath. Donghae pulled out his keys to let them both in and they ran upstairs to take quick showers, dress, grab their things and head out again.
They'd gotten ready with good timing so they walked back over to Changmin's house. They both walked in silence only stealing glances at each other every now and then. They finally arrived at Changmin's front door and knocked. Junsu, clad in his school uniform, opened the door.
"Oh hey. Wow, you guys got ready fast. Come in, Changmin will be out soon." Junsu held the door wide open for the two boys and they walked in.
Donghae looked around and saw the door to Changmin's room open. He walked closer and saw the room was pristine. Donghae walked in and saw Changmin putting his belongings away in his book bag.
"Morning Min," Donghae said. "When did you clean your room up?"
"I didn't clean it," Changmin replied.
"Then who did?"
"Well, Kyuhyun did."
That came as a surprise to Donghae. "I didn't expect you to say that. So why was he here?"
"I don't really want to talk about it," Changmin said.
"Okay."
Eunhyuk showed up behind Donghae and said, "Hey guys come eat."
Donghae and Changmin followed Eunhyuk to the dining table where Junsu had set up bowls and spoons, cereal and milk.
"Sorry Minnie, that's all we have until Jae comes back," Junsu said.
The boys sat down to eat quietly and when they were done they stood up to pick up their dishes.
"Min, take care," Yoochun said ruffling Changmin's hair.
Changmin nodded and then he wrapped his arms around Yoochun tightly and Yoochun hugged the shorter boy back.
Then Yoochun and Junsu shared a slow lingering kiss as a good-bye and when they broke it Junsu headed towards the door with the three boys and they all waved Yoochun good-bye.
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As the boys arrived on campus they received strange looks from all the students. Girls could be seen whispering to each other while glancing at them. Boys threw dirty looks at them.
"What's going on?" Junsu asked.
Neither one of the boys had any idea. Upon entering the school building they met with countless flyers flooding the walls. Eunhyuk pulled one down and he was shocked at what he saw.
"Hyuk, what is it?" Donghae asked at seeing his change of expression.
Eunhyuk handed the piece of paper to Donghae.
"What is this?!?!" Donghae yelled out when his eyes met the picture of Heechul and Eunhyuk about to kiss and the word "FAG" written in big bold letters below it. Donghae instantly began to pull down the flyers and caught a glimpse of some pictures of Eunhyuk in a dress which made him even angrier.
"Hae stop!" Eunhyuk said. "There's no point in taking them down. The entire school has seen them already."
"What's the point of doing something like this? Hyukkie has never messed with anyone," Changmin said in a low unusual voice as he clenched his fists.
"Forget it guys; let's just go to class," Eunhyuk said.
"Hyuk, I don't think you should go to your first period class," Donghae said seriously. "You should wait until your next class. I have the rest of my classes with you. You shouldn't be alone."
"What's the worse they can do? Call me a fag? The walls already did that for them."
"Maybe you should listen to Donghae," Junsu said.
"Guys, don't worry. I don't care about what they say to me or about me"
"But Hyuk–"
"Hae, I've told you before; nothing else matters except you guys." Eunhyuk smiled. "Well, I'm heading over to class now and you guys should too."
Eunhyuk walked away and Donghae looked over in his direction feeling uneasy about everything.
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Eunhyuk was walking towards his classroom when at the doorway he was stopped by an arm held across the threshold.
"Seunghyun, could you please remove your arm? I'd like to go in," Eunhyuk said.
Seunghyun and the other boys laughed.
"It's T.O.P and no, I don't want to remove my arm," Seunghyun said.
"Fine, then don't remove it," Eunhyuk said before ducking below Seunghyun's arm and going into the classroom.
"Where do you think you're going?" Seunghyun asked while pulling Eunhyuk back from his blazer collar.
"Uh, class."
"Seunghyun pulled Eunhyuk back violently and pushed him, causing Eunhyuk to stumble backwards.
"Sol, GD, grab him." Two of the other four boys followed Seunghyun's orders and roughly grabbed Eunhyuk and dragged him away.
"Let go!" Eunhyuk exclaimed, struggling to break free.
Once they were in a deserted hallway the two boys that had grabbed Eunhyuk let go of him, pushing him against the wall.
"Listen to me fag! You're going to respect me you hear," Seunghyun said in a demanding voice.
"Sorry, I won't be rude anymore but I asked if you could let me through nicely and you're the one who didn't respond nicely."
"Stop trying to be a smartass! Look, we don't want a fag like you in our classroom," Seunghyun said.
"So now that I've been labeled all over the school you actually care? I don't mess with you or anybody. I keep to myself and my friends so just let me go to class because I'm already late," Eunhyuk said.
"I don't think you understand me," Seunghyun said with a smirk and grabbed Eunhyuk by his shirt collar and flung him to the ground.
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Changmin sat in his usual spot in class at the front row, center column. The professor stood in front of the classroom getting ready to begin class.
"Everyone please pass your homework to the front," Professor Joo said.
"At the mention of homework Changmin gasped. He had not done it. Changmin slowly raised his hand to be acknowledged by the professor.
"Yes Changmin?"
Slowly putting his hand down Changmin said, "I didn't do it," in a morose tone.
The entire classroom erupted into gasps and whispers. Changmin glanced over to his left and he could see Sohee trying her best to not show her surprised reaction.
The professor too was shocked. "Don't worry about it; you never fail to turn in all your assignments. Is there any reason why you didn't do your work?" Professor Joo asked.
Changmin hesitated for a moment. The reason? The question created a sudden rush of images and feelings that began to flood Changmin's insides. Tears threatened to escape. The professor noticed something was not quite right with his student.
Finally Changmin answered, "Yes, there is a reason," in the most serious voice he could make without being shaky.
The voices in the classroom grew louder, no longer caring to be discreet. Changmin felt like he was suffocating in his seat. He abruptly stood up grabbing his bag to leave the room which caused even more of an uproar. The professor was shocked at his number one student's sudden outburst but simply watched Changmin run out of the room.
'Sometimes bad things happen, even to good kids such as him,' Professor Joo thought. He marked Changmin as present and continued with class.
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Moments after having exited the room, Changmin realized what he'd just done. At that very moment he hated himself for letting everything get to him and running out like that. He couldn't return now; he'd made quite a spectacle and the only thing he could do now was go to the infirmary. At least, if he found himself in the infirmary he couldn't get in trouble. In fact, he wasn't feeling very well and he would have preferred to have stayed home, but he wasn't sick so he hadn't thought he should miss class. He made his way to the infirmary and met a scene in one of the hallways. Five boys were hovering above a boy on the ground. Changmin began to quicken his step to go see what was going on until he could clearly see that the boy on the floor was his friend Eunhyuk.
"What are you guys doing?" Changmin asked.
Seunghyun looked up from Eunhyuk to see whose voice it was. "It's none of your business. Get out of here unless you want to join him."
"Eunhyuk is my business."
"So you've decided, you want to join him then," Seunhyun said with a satisfied smile.
"Hey TOP, I don't think you should mess with him," one of the other four boys whispered in Seunghyun's ear.
"And why shouldn't I V.I?" Seunghyun asked.
"Well, because he's every teacher's favorite, not to mention extremely popular with the girls and even the guys. If word got out that YOU did something to him the whole school would kill you," V.I. whispered.
"Is that true D-lite?" Seunghyun asked one of the other boys for a second opinion.
Instead of one confirmation Sol and GD joined D-lite in nodding and Seunghyun cursed under his breath. "Why didn't I know this before?"
"We thought you knew," GD said.
"Can't you tell? He gives out a princely aura," D-lite said with an expression of adulation at the thought of Changmin.
Seunghyun gave D-lite a strange look before turning over to look at the shorter, weaker boy who had apparently rained on his fun.
Eunhyuk hadn't wasted time as the five boys whispered between each other and as best he could he stood up quietly so that he would be able to run when the time asked. Changmin made eye contact with him and signaled for him to run but Eunhyuk shook his head.
"Listen punk, you really have nothing to do with this so I'll let you go, but if you don't leave right now I'll have no choice," Seunghyun said trying to sound threatening but unconvincing now that he knew he really couldn't touch a hair on Changmin's head.
"Like I said, Eunhyuk is my business because he's my friend," Changmin said.
Eunhyuk hadn't left but he'd gone a distance away from the five boys.
"You mean this fag here is your friend?" Seunghyun asked with a smirk as he looked down at Eunhyuk only to find him gone, wiping that smirk off his face. All the boys turned to see Eunhyuk standing far from them and Eunhyuk ran for it with the five boys running after him.
"Hey wait! Leave him alone!" Changmin yelled as he ran after them.
Eunhyuk had turned the corner of the hallway long before the boys running after him could catch up to him and he was suddenly pulled into one of the doorways to his right. In a panic Eunhyuk opened his mouth, but before any sound could escape, a hand on his mouth muffled the sound while getting into what appeared to be a restroom stall.
"Donghae?" Eunhyuk said when he finally saw who his captor was.
Donghae held a finger to his mouth and whispered, "Keep your voice down."
Outside in the hallway approaching voices could be heard.
"Get up on the toilet so they don't see you," Donghae whispered and quickly helped Eunhyuk up and got up himself, holding Eunhyuk pressed on the wall. Donghae paid close attention to the other voices and noises coming from the hallway. Donghae turned over to Eunhyuk until both their eyes made contact and they were looking at each other, their faces only an inch away from each other. Donghae swallowed hard.
"Check in there!"
Someone walked into the boy's restroom and Eunhyuk, to keep himself from letting a sound escape from his mouth, wrapped his arms around Donghae and pressed himself to his chest. Eunhyuk watched the person's shadow as it moved across the boy's restroom and at finding nothing it headed back out the door. Eunhyuk gave a silent sigh of relief and signaled to Donghae that the coast was clear. They both slowly got off and walked out of the stall.
"Donghae, what are you doing here?" Eunhyuk asked.
"I was worried something would happen and I was right, they want to hurt you," Donghae said.
Donghae peeked out the door and looked in all directions and signaled to Eunhyuk that the coast was clear so that they can leave.
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Changmin followed behind the boys but saw no sign of Eunhyuk at all. Then the five boys came to a sudden halt, apparently having lost sight of Eunhyuk themselves. Changmin had to think of something quick and then it hit him. He pulled out his phone and called someone from his contacts.
"This is Heechul, what can I do for you?" rang an excited voice through Changmin's phone.
"Hyung, I need your help. Could you get down to the school at this very moment?"
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"Donghae, where are we going?" Eunhyuk asked.
"I don't know, we just have to get somewhere safe. You should hide in the infirmary, pretend you're sick just until the next bell," Donghae said.
Cautiously looking around to make sure they weren't seen they made their way to the infirmary but suddenly came to a half when D-lite came face to face with them.
"Hey TOP, he's here and he's not alone," D-lite said.
"He's not with that twerp Changmin is he?" Seunghyun asked from a distance as he made his way to where they were.
"Nope, he's with some other kid."
"Even better," Seunghyun smiled when he got there.
"What's your deal with him?" Donghae shot out at Seunghyun.
"Just that he's disgusting and perverted," Seunghyun said.
"How do you come to that conclusion?" Donghae asked.
"The whole school knows that he's a faggot! Seeing those pictures posted all over the school makes me want to puke."
Donghae caught Changmin the corner of his eye at the other end of the hallway making signs that he should keep them talking more.
"That doesn't give you the right to hurt him," Donghae said.
"It doesn't matter if it gives us the right, we're going to do whatever we damn want," Seunghyun said.
"Can't you reconsider?" Donghae asked, trying to think of more things to say to stall them.
"Reconsider?" Seunghyun asked. "This is funny! Who the hell do you think you're dealing with?"
"I just thought maybe you guys understood reason. You guys are awfully unreasonable. None of the answers you guys have given me so far are valid. If you'd said that Eunhyuk here spread a rumour about you or stole something from you or even spoke rudely to you then I'd understand your anger. The thing is that you guys don't have a reason do you?" Donghae asked.
"Why the hell are we still listening to you? Get them," Seunghyun said signaling his boys to go forth.
"Seunghyun!" Changmin yelled.
"Damn it! It's TOP!" Seunghyun said angrily turning around to see who had said his name only to meet with a surprise. Heechul instantly grabbed Seunghyun and kissed him making Seunghyun freeze in pure shock. The other four watched with their mouths agape at what they were seeing. Seunghyun eventually reacted and shoved Heechul away as he wiped his mouth.
In anger Seunghyun shoved Heechul into the locker causing Heechul to let out a high pitched scream. At that very moment someone else showed up at the scene.
"Hannie!" Heechul exclaimed. "This boy here shoved me against the wall and kissed me!"
Hankyung swiftly ran over and shoved Seunghyun to the floor with full force leaving everyone with their mouths hanging. Seunghyun stumbled to get up and at seeing the fury in Hankyung's eyes decided that the best idea was to run. Hankyung didn't let Seunghyun get away and chased after him with Seunghyun looking back for fear of his own life. The other boys ran after their leader calling his name.
Changmin ran up to Heechul. "I feel bad for him."
Heechul winced and bit his lip. "Now that I think about it, me too. My Hannie knows Chinese Martial Arts. I'd hate to see that pretty boy's face get messed up by my Hannie. Well, I'll go after them, take care honey," Heechul said to Changmin. "You too," Heechul said at Donghae and Eunhyuk before running off.
"Minnie, what just happened?" Eunhyuk asked.
"Exactly what you saw. Who else could stop those guys except that kissing monster and his jealous Hannie," Changmin said.
"What do we do now?" Donghae asked.
"Wait till next period? After all, we are in the same class so I won't be alone," Eunhyuk said.
"I guess so," Donghae said.
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"Hey, you're friends with that guy," a boy said to Junsu.
"What guy?" Junsu asked.
"That homo," the boy said.
"You're talking about the guy posted all over the school?"
"Yeah him, so you know him?"
"As a matter of fact I do. His name is Eunhyuk and we're friends," Junsu said.
Another boy asked, "Has he ever hit on you?"
"No. I've known him for years and he's never hit on anyone," Junsu said.
"Yeah, but now he's out."
"Are you saying that for all I know you could be gay?"
"Hell no! I'm no fag!"
"For all you know I could be gay," Junsu said.
All the boys moved their desks away from Junsu.
Junsu laughed. "Never been interested in any one of you guys before, only my hot boyfriend."
Junsu didn't care what they thought. He'd be graduating that year and he would always have Yoochun, his family and friends. Junsu simply laughed at the other boys' odd expressions and continued with whatever he was doing.
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Changmin, Eunhyuk and Donghae walked together over to their second period class.
"Damn, I forgot this is our free period," Donghae said. "Without class actually going on they can do whatever they want."
"Don't worry Hae, I'll be fine," Eunhyuk said.
Upon entering the room, the same looks that they'd been receiving since that morning they arrived on campus became more intense.
A girl shoved Eunhyuk away from Donghae and Changmin. "Don't get close to them you fag!"
"Leave him alone," Donghae said defensively.
"You guys can't possibly be friends with that fag after the proof posted all over the school," said another boy.
Eunhyuk simply ignored what everyone else said and made his way to his usual seat next to Donghae's. A boy kicked his desk over and Eunhyuk went to go pick it up without protest. Donghae couldn't bear to see this. The boy kicked it down again.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Donghae shot at him.
Eunhyuk stopped Donghae from going any further, but it only made things worse because he was shoved to the ground. Changmin went up to him and offered his hand but Eunhyuk's hand was slapped away by someone else and Eunhyuk stood up by himself.
Everyone acted as if Eunhyuk had a disease they didn't want Changmin and Donghae to catch.
"Let go of me!" Donghae exclaimed furiously.
Eunhyuk just looked at Donghae straight in the eyes and hesitated for a split second and then took a few steps forward. Eunhyuk grabbed Donghae by his tie and pulled him into a kiss that left Donghae speechless and made the entire class go crazy.
Girls pushed Eunhyuk away from Donghae while others held Donghae back. Donghae stood frozen due to what had just happened. The room felt as if everyone held their breaths waiting for Donghae to do something. Donghae pulled away from the girls and quickly went up to Eunhyuk and pulled Eunhyuk into a kiss, his hands on Eunhyuk's face.
Girls could be heard wailing and boys could be heard talking in disbelief.
When they broke the kiss Eunhyuk asked, "What took you so long?"
"Just now or my entire life?"
"Both."
"Let's get out of here," Donghae said grabbing Eunhyuk's hand and leading him out of the classroom.
"OMO! Omo, omo, omo!"
Everyone turned their attention to a girl who looked like she would pass out any moment. She ran after the couple and poked her head out the door and in her excitement literally melted onto the floor, almost getting trampled by other students walking the halls.
Eunhyuk and Donghae stood in the middle of the crowded hallway kissing for everyone to see.
Changmin felt happy for his friends and wished he could jump and squeal in excitement, but he couldn't although in his heart he was. He simply let out a smile of happiness and decided to sit down in his seat. The room once more erupted into talk of what had just happened. Changmin felt in an odd mood due to everything that had happened and was currently happening. Changmin couldn't explain where his sudden outbursts were coming from but he stood up and in a loud voice said, "You guys are too noisy! I want to concentrate on my work!."
Everyone lowered their voices and continued in whispers. Still, Changmin could hear their whispers still focused on the same subject of his friends.
"Yah! How can anyone concentrate with all of you? Eunhyuk and Donghae, the guys that just kissed for all of you to see are my friends," Changmin said picking up his things to leave. "The guy in the picture with Eunhyuk is my friend; his name is Heechul and his boyfriend can kill you, he's scary. My parents are both men. I have a brother-in-law and guess what, I don't have a sister!" Changmin was at the doorway already. "You know what else, a few hours ago my first kiss was stolen by a boy! I slapped him, how dare he, but that's not the point! Spread rumors about me; tell the whole school for all I care! This is my family and friends and I only need them!" With that Changmin stalked out of the classroom, perhaps to the library, a quiet place where he could study.
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Donghae stumbled to unlock the door with one hand as he held Eunhyuk's with the other. He pulled Eunhyuk in and up the stairs into his bedroom, locking the door behind him.
Donghae grabbed Eunhyuk and kissed him as he pinned him against the wall.
"Why aren't we in school?" Eunhyuk asked with hitched breathing.
"Because we're in my bedroom," Donghae replied.
"What if your parents show up?" Eunhyuk asked with concern in his voice, but his body saying otherwise.
"They're still away," Donghae said burying his neck in Eunhyuk's neck, his hand unbuttoning Eunhyuk's shirt.
"They're always conveniently away."
"I don't mind convenience at all," Donghae said now grabbing Eunhyuk and throwing him on the bed. Donghae quickly straddled him and continued to strip Eunhyuk from his uniform. Eunhyuk did the same, going straight for Donghae's shirt buttons. He ran a hand down Donghae's chest that sent shivers until he met with Donghae's belt and began to unbuckle it. He then proceeded to unbutton and unzip Donghae's pants and without wasting a second slipped his hand inside Donghae's boxers.
Donghae moaned into their kiss at his lover's touch. "Hyuk I want you now!"