You ever just be hanging out writing a song with your babe
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Jonghyun feels like he's reaching the point of listening to two different versions of the same 10 second clip of a song that he can barely tell the difference between them anymore. He sighs heavily through his lower lip, feeling the air fluttering his bangs, and tries to get himself to focus. Just on this last one thing and then he can take a break. He plays the version with the chimes in the background and then the one without. Chimes or not. Chimes or not.
He needs a distraction. He needs–
A knock on his office door. Jonghyun pulls his headphones off of one ear, surprised. He glances at the clock and is even more surprised when he sees the time. It's already 6. No wonder he's so out of focus. The last time he checked it was barely past noon.
"Yeah," he calls, and then Taemin is there, black hair poking out of his beanie and just barely falling into his eyes. His cheeks are flushed pink from cold and he doesn't so much as wave with his hand as much as a fist balled up inside of his sweater. Just looking at him has Jonghyun smiling. "Welcome home," he says, turning more in his spinny chair. "How was work?" he asks.
"It sure was," Taemin says, stepping into the room and shutting the door behind him. "I brought you food." He holds up a fast food bag, opening it and taking out a carton of chicken nuggies for himself before handing it over. "I texted asking if you wanted anything like 3 hours ago and you didn't reply so I figured you were in here forgetting that you had human needs."
"Correct," Jonghyun says, reaching out eagerly for his food. He gets a burger and fries and even more nuggies. Nice.
"Are you busy?" Taemin asks as he pulls out his burger to unwrap it. Jonghyun glances at his food, at his computer with all of the song editing software still up.
"Yeah," he says. Taemin's face falls; it's just a small thing, almost imperceptible except how Jonghyun would recognize it from him in a heartbeat. It's the lowering of his eyelids just a twitch, the shift from his neutral resting face to something with a tiny bit more lower lip. Jonghyun smiles and asks, "why?"
Taemin taps his toe on the ground, fiddles with the collar of his sweater.
"Is your lap busy?" he asks.
And that alone is enough to make Jonghyun's heart melt.
He puts his food on his desk so he can turn fully in his chair and hold his arms open.
"Too busy for you?" he asks, smiling from his heart. "Never." And now Taemin smiles back, stepping forward with his arms out. He sits down on top of Jonghyun's thighs, sitting himself perfectly into the chair with him on the first try. His arms go around Jonghyun's shoulders and his face nuzzles into Jonghyun's neck. As soon as it does, Jonghyun jumps, hissing at the contact of Taemin's skin against his.
"You're so cold," he pouts, trying not to pull away as Taemin's cold nose drags goosebumps to his skin. Taemin presses more of his face against him, smile printed against his skin.
"Someone let me play with their puppies on the walk back from the bus stop," he says. Jonghyun gasps softly. Lucky. He's jealous.
Taemin's right hand slides around to his front. He rubs up against Jonghyun's stomach through his sweater, and then slides it down to his thigh, and then brings it back up to the hem of his sweater. Jonghyun realizes what he's going for just in time and gets his own hand down there quick as lightning to wrap around Taemin's wrist.
"Do not," he says sternly, squeezing and tugging Taemin's hand away when he still feels his grubby cold little fingertips trying to find a way under the sweater.
Taemin laughs into his neck, his most obnoxious gremlin laugh, little heh heh heh hehs, but he also puts his arm back around Jonghyun's shoulders. Jonghyun hears him rustling around with his chicken nuggie box back there, and then eating noises directly behind his ear. He guesses it’s food time, then. He picks up his half unwrapped burger eagerly and gets to work.
Two-thirds of his burger and a couple of nuggies in, he feels like he is sufficiently rejuvenated and distracted enough to get back to work with a clearer focus. He puts his headphones back on over his ear and hits play on the clip he's been trying to figure out.
Another nuggie later he realizes that he just has the same problem but now in HD. Sighing, he rolls his eyes and takes off his headphones. He puts them on Taemin instead, popping them onto his head and adjusting them over his ears.
"Tell me what you think about this," he says, and plays the clip without the chimes.
"Um," Taemin says, mouth full of nuggie."It's nice. I like it."
"Okay, and, what about this?" Jonghyun asks, playing the one with the chimes.
"Better," Taemin says decisively. "The other one feels kind of empty compared to it. This one feels smoother. I like it."
"Okie dokie then," Jonghyun smiles. That's Taemin's opinion and that's what it's always going to be. He grabs the file without the chimes and removes it from the project. Taking his headphones back for himself, he continues editing with his left hand and eating with his right.
It's regular enough work–rearranging, mixing, testing what sounds good and what doesn't–that he doesn't have a problem multitasking. Every now and again he gives Taemin his headphones and asks for his opinion again, and every time Taemin gives him a short, honest answer that clears up any indecision he's been having. It always is nice to have an extra pair of ears around while he's editing.
After a while, there are more nuggie box noises and then one big, sharp movement from Taemin. Then a beat of silence, and then the sound of a little cardboard box bouncing off of the rim of the garbage can and clattering across the floor. Grinning, Jonghyun hums, "mmm, did you make it?”
"Yeah, totally," Taemin replies, grin just as obvious in his tone.
"Good job," Jonghyun praises, patting his back a little bit.
"Thanks." Half of the word is taken over by a yawn, which is then turned into Jonghyun's neck. It gets him all warm and moist, but he doesn't see how he can complain when Taemin rubs his cheek into it next. Taemin's arms slide down, too, under Jonghyun's and around his waist. His hands are still cold. Jonghyun can feel their chill through the back of his sweater. Taemin flattens them out, pressing them between Jonghyun's back and the chair.
Jonghyun leans back just a little bit. Just enough to press them a little more firmly into his chair. Just so they warm up that little tiny bit faster.
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tags: Romance, Angst and Feels, Dreams vs. Reality, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Fantasy
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Every inch of his body is his - except for five inches long, three inches wide, inked into his skin, marking him for someone else. Before he could even recognize himself in the mirror, part of him was never within his say, or even his parents’.
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Lee Jinki, 25, is currently finishing his master's degree while working at the university faculty, not hesitating to help a completely clueless new student to find to a lecture on orientation day. Watching the handsome underclassman from afar ever since, Jinki develops a crush which he was going to enjoy for as long as it lasted - move on afterwards like he always did.
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Taemin is just an ordinary university student who wants to be happy.
Key is just the high profile criminal whose life he saved who can just about make that happen.
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tags: Fluff, Wedding Planning, Humor, Awkward Flirting, Romance, Kind of enemies to lovers
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For as long as they've been together, every full moon they go stargazing, except this time it's even more special, as the full moon falls on their anniversary.
tags: Established Relationship, Traditions, Husbands, Stargazing, Astronomy Nerds, Idiots in Love
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summertime stargazing…
A second later, it's very bright as Jonghyun taps the light in the ceiling of the car. Taemin grunts, bringing his hands up to shield himself from the light like a vampire. He very much disappreciates Jonghyun’s quiet chuckles. On the other hand, he very much does appreciate Jonghyun’s hand, warm and soft on his thigh.
“I didn't think you would wake up,” he says. “Sorry. I wanted to look at the stars.”
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Kibum rounded on Minho. ‘Partner?’ he hissed, jabbing a finger into Minho’s chest.
Minho laughed awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck. ‘Um. Yeah. You might be working with Lee Taemin today.’
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Why has Minho hidden away?
Why is Jonghyun insisting he meets his human friend Taemin?
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tags: Band Fic, Romantic Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Humor
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tags: Alternate Universe - Academia, Alternate Universe - College/University, Dark Academia, Art History, Inspired by Art, Inspired by Poetry, Secret Organizations, Magical Realism, Bittersweet Ending, Unhealthy Relationships, Friends to Lovers, Museums, Alternate Universe - Art School, Mixed Media, Experimental Style
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