the city spins around (response to flashfic challenge 5: we didn't start the fire)

[ianinna.livejournal.com]

title: the city spins around
author: ianinna
word count: 626
concrit: yes, please.
characters: yunho/heechul
summary: there is beauty in the transcience of everyday.
author's notes: AU, utterly random, possibly disjointed. my yunho muse only agreed to help at the last minute. for shay, who is loved, and she wanted horella, and i fail at deadlines. title taken from 'look after you', by the fray.

 

Yunho caught the last train out of the city that day, exhausted from ten hours of work that had him wishing for the weekend — and it was only Tuesday.

He slid into one of the seats, melting into weariness and twilight. He lost himself in the muck of random, slightly disoriented thoughts, Junsu would be dead if he didn’t make dinner. He wondered if Jaejoong had replaced the coffeemaker like he said he would. It’s been three weeks, maybe I should call and remind him of it. He reached into his coat pocket, fingers wrapping around his mobile phone, Yoochun should be on a plane to Paris by now, Jaejoong and the coffeemaker forgotten, Did Changmin receive my package yet? Yunho looked up and admired the pretty city lights, promising himself that he would visit that tower one of these days, Junsu had better made dinner, damn it, consoling his stomach with feather-touches and a deep sigh.

Twenty minutes or so, Yunho’s train of thought went on, hopping from one detail to next, as there was comfort in the rush — Yunho liked to think that he was accomplishing a lot of things.

Yunho’s mental scheduler was counting the stops underneath all of his daily cerebral cereal, so Yunho stood up when the count got to four. One flight of stairs up to the surface and two blocks to home, the quiet drone of the scheduler went, then giving way to I wonder where Donghae got that shirt he was wearing earlier. The doors hissed open, Yunho stepped out, only to catch a blur of color and warm laughter passing him by, like a camera flashbulb, bright and fleeting, which left him frozen in mid-stride.

*

Last train, lost in thought, Four, scheduler intoned, Yunho got up and waited by the doors. Then that blur of color catching Yunho’s eye and that warm laugh echoing through the carriage. Yunho looked up shortly before the doors slid open: a boy with paint-splattered jeans, red blueprint tube and backpack slung over one shoulder.

And the boy smiled like the sun.

 

*

Yunho caught the train and got caught in thought everyday for the next few days, and there was always the boy with dancing eyes and charcoal-smudged fingertips. Art student, Yunho mused, Artist.

The boy was beautiful.

 

*

One day the boy rode the train with another, dark-eyed and thoughtful, who seemed to prefer listening to the taller boy (sun-smiled and wonderful), the other boy nodding every once in a while. It made Yunho’s breath catch when the boy (all whirlwind and delight) took the other boy’s hand and tugged him out of the carriage.

*

It took three more days and his cousin Junsu to let Yunho know what the boys were: Junsu didn’t know the older boy’s name, but the younger one was in Junsu’s class, Hyung, why are you asking me questions about Kim Kibum’s brother?

Junsu vowed never to take the train with Yunho again.

 

*

One day, the boy wasn’t on the train, and while Yunho was swimming in the quiet mess of his head, he still half-expected to see the kaleidoscope of someone standing beside him when his brain told him it was his stop.

It was rather cold that night.

 

*

He found the boy the next day, all smiles, doodling on a sketchbook while stations flew past, one two three, Yunho got up. And he smiled at the boy as he went past.

The boy paused on the platform, looked back. Heechul.

Yunho said his name, the utterance lost in the sea of people flooding out the gates. Heechul smiled.

One flight of stairs up to the surface and two blocks to home.

Tomorrow was another day to look forward to.

Comments

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Shay loves, too. :D

... I want a Heechul to brighten up my tube journeys. :|

[ianinna.livejournal.com]

♥ :D

and yes, this idea sprung from my train ride earlier. i want a heechul for those train trip to and from work, too. D:

[halfkissed.livejournal.com]

spottage. like, cheese.

[halfkissed.livejournal.com]

did......... yunho get off the wrong stop the last time? o.O

oh heechul. please to be distracting me too, one day. with your brother kibum, preferably.

[wmelon-kaiye.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that was very nice.
Just the idea.
:3
Yuke loves very much :DD Yunho is such a phail.