Saturday, June 24, 2006
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Oh man. I kinda changed my dream into a fanfic. Its a little weird so yeah.**"Congrats! Your food still taste as sucky as the past years!" Minwoo raised the champagne glass and teased me.
"At least it doesnt taste weird like last time!" I retorted.
"Yeah, its tasteless this time." Dongwan high-fived Minwoo.
"If you're not gonna help cook then shut ur trap up. We'll just get take outs the next time."
**
As usual, the two idiots fell asleep on the couch playing video games.
I squat down infront of the couch and studied the two's ugly sleeping posture and childish features.
Seriously, how did a childish guy like Minwoo manage to take over his father's big coorperation without killing it? And how did Dongwan graduate from Medical School so easily?
"What would he be, if he was still here?" I asked the silent atmosphere and sighed.
I went into my room to get the extra big blanket and squeezed myself in between the two guys on the couch.
"Just like old times." I close my eyes to sleep. I had better enjoy myself this few more hours before we all go back to our busy lives.
**
Dongwan and I, we were known as the 3 babos since young, the 3rd member of the 3babos was Eric. The three of us grew up in the orphanage and would always sneak out in the night just to irritate the counsellors who could not find us when they woke up.
It was till my second year in highschool that we moved out of the orphanage into a rented apartment.Minwoo joined us then, and we
promoted to become the 4retards.
So we all fooled around the house everyday, took up odd jobs (except Minwoo who was rich enough to sleep home all day.) and of cause, serve detention together. The rest of my highschool days were this pleasurable.
The four of us managed to graduate from highschool which wasnt as joyous as I expected. Soon, we all moved out to take on our different paths in life. Dongwan was enrolled into college and moved in to their hostel. Minwoo went back to help his parents with the buisness and I moved into a smaller apartment while Eric still stayed in that apartment.
I dont know why, but we didnt contact each other much. Maybe we were all too busy? It was only three years later that we arranged to meet up for a reunion.
**
"Arh...how nice." I lied on the carpeted floor and close my eyes for a while.
Minwoo and I reached the reunion venue at the same time. It was one of those function rooms his family owned. I dont know what we can do in this empty room but its sure felt good to sleep in. I've been having sleepless nights for the past few days. I was so excited about the reunion that I just kept recalling about the past.
Minwoo lied down beside me and I used his outstretched arm as a pillow.
"Its cold..." I turn my body sideways and hinted to him to go increase the temperature.
"Come, Oppa will warm you up." Minwoo turned his body sideways and told me dramatically.
"Still a playboy aint you? Who's the latest girl?" I poked him.
"You dont know enough girls to know who." he snorted.
"3 years, and you became a woman." Minwoo said randomly.
"But you're still a boy as always." I smiled and snuggled closer to him.
Wrong move. Our faces were inches apart and we could feel each others' breath on our faces.
An urge overcomed me and I leaned in to press my lips on Minwoo's.
I think I lost my senses because I really wanted to savour his lips so badly.
But I quickly recovered from it and 'rolled' myself away from him. I layed on my chest to the ground and hid my face, embarassed for my actions.
"Sorry, guess I missed you alot the past 3 years." I joked.
"Of cause you did."
Haha. I think Minwoo's thick skin kinda returned things back to normal and dismissed the awkard atmosphere.
But honestly, Minwoo really caught my attention back then. I got along the best with him back then. Because he would always help me prank Dongwan. Dongwan and I are not on bad terms or anything, we just love to piss each other of. So yeah, Dongwan's retard number 1 in our group, followed by me and Minwoo then Eric. I dont know why Eric's retarded, he seems to be the most sensible one. The one who always took care of us, he thinks so much more for us than we for him. :)
Just then Minwoo's phone rang.
"Is it Dongwan? Or Eric?" I asked him but he just ignored me.
"Are they not coming? Caz its really late." I asked him again.
Minwoo's face turned a pale color as he close his flip phone.
"They're not coming..."
**
"Dongwan! What happened?!" I demanded.
"Eric, he was robbed and stabbed a couple of times in an alley." He clutched his jaws.
"No! Not Eric! He's so well built! How can a filthy robber just KILLED him like this!" I pushed him hard and he feel a few steps backwards.
"It wasnt one. It was a gang of them." tears rolled down his cheeks.
"Then why did you only inform us now? Its been two days already hadnt it!?" I pulled the front of his white jacket and cried.
"I called you all immediately when i found out...I didnt expect this too when I went to meet him at the bar he's working at." he explained.
"I hate you."
"Me too."
I knew it wasnt Dongwan's fault. But I really need someone to vent my anger on.
And all the years, Dongwan's been my punching bag while I was his. The only person who could stop us fighting was not here anymore, he wont be here anymore.
Dongwan patted my head and walked off, leaving me and Minwoo behind at the graveyard.
I sat down infront of the gravestone. Minwoo didnt say a word. Guess he was too shocked to say anything.
The sun was shining so brightly down and I detest it. I rather the sky rain and take away all the unhappiness.
For a couple of minutes, I hated myself. Hated Dongwan, hated Minwoo. Why didnt any of us contacted Eric? It only occured to me that we had all drift so further apart. What happened to his funeral? Was anybody even there? We were like his family, and we werent there for him.
Eric, he was always there for me, but I was never there for him. I didnt see him for the past 3 years. I want to see him now. But I dont have any more chance do I?
**
A week later, the 3 of us gathered at our old apartment. The apartment Eric had been staying all along. It was end of the month, there was no one to pay the landlady anymore so it was time to collect our stuff.
The key to the apartment still hadnt change. It made me think that Eric had hope that one of us would drop by sometime. But none of us did and that thought made my heart sink.
Everything was still the same. Our rooms and the things we left back then were still intact.
I didnt think there was anything in my room that I wanted to keep so I headed for Eric's room.
It felt so heavy for me to take steps into the room. Memories spent in this house were gushing into my mind. I saw many photo albums spread messily on the floor. Photos from the orphange to middleschool, to highschool. Its as if my whole life was showed in there.
Had Eric been looking through these all night? He really missed us didnt he? He thought of us every minute, every second. Yet, I've only thought of myself the past years. In fact, I've only thought of myself ever since I came into this world.
I flipped through the last photo album. It was one I hadnt seen before. It had the pictures of our graduation. Pictures of our rooms before we moved out. And also, drawings of us. When did he draw this? After we left? I really dont know. I dont think I ever bothered to know Eric and that made me feel even worse.
"Why didnt you call?" I asked the empty room selfishly. Selfish me, thinking that he should have contacted us when he missed us. And not the other way round. Its as if I almost forgot that he was the one who suggested the reunion.
I could feel Dongwan and Minwoo coming into the room and standing behind me.
"Why didnt we treasure him?" I passed them the precious photo album.
**
We took everything we could from the apartment back home. I wanted to bring everything of Eric's back home but I couldnt. I stared at my tiny apartment and recalled the first day I had arrived here.
Lonliness, is that what you call it?
I made up my mind and called the landlady.
The next day, I moved back into
our apartment. I felt Eric's pressence here, and I wasnt willing to share it with some unknown people.
I arranged Eric's room neatly and packed my things back where it used to be.
I preserved Dongwan and Minwoo's room too. Sure, the rent was much more expensive than my tiny apartment but I didnt care.
I felt that this was the least I could do to repay for my selfish acts.
"Im home." I shouted to the empty house.
Our lives slowly went back to normal and the pain of Eric not being here eased a little. One thing different, was that the 3 of us made it a point to have a reunion at least once a year back in this apartment. It isnt just my house, its our house again. And every year we would do the same thing, eat, play, drink and sleep.
The funny feelings I had for Minwoo was gone. I didnt kiss him because I like him, I just did it because I was missing him and them all. In fact, if I think really hard about it, the one I could have liked back them would probably had been...Eric.
The End
**HAHA. Definetly a weird fic. This is the end. so yeah.
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