Friday, February 5, 2010
2:45 PM
Another incompleted fic. I actually really liked the idea for this fic, I just had writer's block or no time or something.
The Fanboys
written by Mercy // started August 28, 2006
Prologue
"Ohmygosh, it's Jae Joong!"
"He is sooo hot!"
"Can I have your autograph?"
"Can I take you home with me?!"
You must already know who said those mind-throbbing comments. The fangirls. I've tried to avoid them at all costs by transferring schools but they seem to be
everywhere. I get enough headaches every single day hearing them scream and shout...it's an extremely good thing that I'm not famous.
Poor Jae Joong and the rest of his clique. When girls scream out his name, he doesn't ignore them (which I would do if I was him); he flashes them his biggest smile. Why? To keep his reputation high on the list where it should always belong. The girls all faint dramatically and some of them even add in high-pitched squeals. At that point, my eardrums are about ready to burst.
A lot of people only hear and know about fangirls. But have they ever thought about the opposite gender? Yes, you guessed it: fanboys.
There might not be as many fanboys as there are fangirls, but at
my school, it's turning into a trend. However, it's a trend that sticks...it stays with the guys forever. Not like a FASHION trend that changes with the seasons.
I, Park Tae Won, am part of the fanboy group at my school. What we do is spaz over the "famous" girls that
we like. Almost exactly like what the girls do, except we're not loud and obnoxious about it. We do everything at our private meetings. Our only nonprivate activity is
stalking. Yes, we stalk too, you know. Don't let the girls take all the credit for being stalkers.
Now that I've mentioned 'stalking,' we also do something else. Wait, let me back that up.
Some of the guys do something else besides stalking. I know you really want to know what they do, but I am sworn to secrecy. If I tell you and they find out, I'd be
dead.
Right now I am on my way to one of our meetings. We have meetings planned for every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today we have a Monday meeting, and I'm not looking forward to it at all.
I just have a feeling that something bad is going to happen.
Chapter OneI shortly arrived at Jae Hyuk's house, where we fanboys always hold our meetings. Jae Hyuk lives in a rich neighborhood, but the only thing "rich" about him is his house. In his family, there's only him, his older brother, and his father. His brother has been off to college for about a year now, and his father works two jobs to support the family. (Even though they have a
small family, they have a whole lot of expenses.) Jae Hyuk's and his brother's mother passed away several years ago, and their father has been the only one supporting them ever since.
But man, Jae Hyuk is extremely lucky. His father is not home very much, so Jae Hyuk gets all this free time and the empty house to himself. I'm pretty sure he doesn't do anything outrageous when he's alone, though. He probably just watches TV and eats whatever he wants.
I knocked on the door using our secret knock that we came up with since the beginning. The door swung open, and I was immediately grabbed by the collar and yanked in by no one other than Jae Hyuk himself. As soon as I got inside, he let go of me and slammed the door shut.
"Why are you so pissed off today?" I asked Jae Hyuk as I brushed myself off and straightened my clothing.
Jae Hyuk laughed bitterly and sarcastically replied, "I dunno."
I decided to ignore his answer and instead asked him where the other guys were. Jae Hyuk pointed upstairs and I left him to go join the others. As I walked up the stairs, I could hear the guys shouting about something. I had a clue of what the issue was, and I bet I was 95% right.
I reached the room they were in and opened the door. Different pairs of eyes stared back at me as I looked at the guys sitting in a circle in the middle of the room.
"Tae Won, what great timing! Come over here and help us settle a matter!" Song Jin called out to me while pushing up his glasses. Don't mind him; he's a dork, so he always talks like that. He's a great guy, really. Just ignore his dorkiness and you'll discover that he's not that different from everyone else you consider "normal."
The other guys nodded their heads in agreement and started chattering their heads off again. But this time, they were all talking to me at once.
"SHUT THE H*LL UP!"
Everyone widened their eyes in shock and all looked at me. B-but I'm innocent! I didn't say that!
I suddenly felt a presence behind me and slowly turned around. Oh, it was only Jae Hyuk. My heartbeat slowed down to its normal pace. I felt relieved. Until...
Jae Hyuk ruined the moment. Again. "WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU ALL SHOUTING ABOUT?!" he bellowed, shifting his gaze at all of us.
There was a bit of silence, where no one said anything. Then Song Jin finally broke the ice. "Who do you think deserves it, Jae Hyuk?" He held up two pictures, and after carefully studying them, it hit me who the two girls were: Kang Ha Neul and Jung Soo Young.
"What do you mean?" Jae Hyuk asked. I didn't understand Song Jin either.
Song Jin sighed. "Who should we eliminate tonight?" he explained impatiently.
"Oh," Jae Hyuk and I said at the same time. The other guys (including me) looked at Jae Hyuk, waiting for his answer. We waited and waited...it seemed forever until he finally declared, "Soo Young."
I was surprised. "Why Soo Young?" I asked him. Soo Young was a popular girl in our grade, and even though she was popular, she was really nice and kind, unlike the other popular girls. Okay, she was also a famous singer, but that's besides the point. Who said singers can't be nice?
Jae Hyuk rubbed his forehead with one hand. He seemed to be thinking of a way to tell us the reason why he chose to eliminate Soo Young; like he had a problem putting it into words or something. After a long time of us guys waiting and sweating, Jae Hyuk slowly said, "She...she turned me down yesterday." He avoided looking at us and shifted his gaze towards the floor.
My eyes bulged and my jaw dropped at the same time. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see the other guys reacting the same way. Before I could ask him, Song Jin stood up from his place and questioned Jae Hyuk, "What happened between you two?"
"Yeah, what the h*ll happened?" Dae Suk, another one of the guys in the group, added in.
I watched Jae Hyuk, anticipating his answer. He wasn't the type to tell you every single detail (in fact, he hated answering questions), but we were his best friends; it would be wrong for him not to tell us.
All of a sudden the doorbell rang, piercing the silence. We automatically knew that it wasn't a Fanboy at the door. All eyes looked at Jae Hyuk with worry. My heart started bouncing off my ribcage; I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach who the person was.
Jae Hyuk stood still, clenching and unclenching his fists. His face had turned pale and he looked ridiculously like a dead vampire. I bet he had an idea of who the person at the door was, too.
"Jae Hyuk?" Song Jin asked him worriedly. He walked over to him and placed a hand on his forehead. "You're a little warm. Are you okay?" He quickly took his hand back when he saw the expression on Jae Hyuk's face.
The ringing of the doorbell ceased and for a moment we thought that the person had given up. But then we heard constant pounding on the door and knew that whoever it was was very stubborn.
I couldn't stand it anymore. They were getting on my last nerves. "I'll go get the door," I informed Jae Hyuk and the rest of the guys.
Jae Hyuk unfroze himself and stuck an arm out to block my path. "No, I will," he demanded through gritted teeth.
I shrugged, scared that if I protest, I might get punched or something worse by him. "Okay," I said carelessly, like it wasn't a big deal.
"Stay here, guys," he commanded to the rest of us, and Jae Hyuk exited the room to go downstairs.
"I wonder why he didn't tell us what happened between him and Soo Young," Song Jin whispered as we sneaked out into the hallway and peeked over the banister.
"Shh!" everyone else told him.
"I want to hear what's going on down there," I added.
"B-but--" he protested.
"Shh!" The guys managed to shut him up for good this time by placing their hands on his mouth.
I grabbed his glasses and threatened him, "If you make anymore noise, I'll break them, Song Jin."
His eyes widened but he didn't struggle to say anything. That guy knows what's good for him.
We all strained our ears to eavesdrop on the conversation downstairs between Jae Hyuk and the other person. It was hard, I tell you. They must have been whispering or something because we could barely hear them. But I did catch some parts, whether they be whole or only bits and pieces:
"I didn't mean to..."
"...stop lying."
"What makes you think..."
"Maybe you should leave..."
"...come tomorrow, will you?"
"No, I will not."
"...huge favor, Jae Hyuk."
"You disgust me. GET LOST."The front door slammed shut. I wondered who Jae Hyuk was talking to. He was so bitter to them; he's usually not that ruthless.
It wasn't until after we had quickly crawled back into the room did it hit me that Jae Hyuk had been talking to a
girl the whole time. A girl that sounded really familar. I just couldn't come up with who exactly, though. Hmm... I sifted through the hundreds of pictures that we Fanboys had taken of a whole lot of girls. Song Jin sat behind me, watching over my shoulder. I stopped at a picture of Soo Young, and a light clicked on in my head. Yes,
she was the one that had came here and had a horrible conversation with Jae Hyuk. I sighed as more questions formed in my mind.
Chapter TwoJae Hyuk came back upstairs and strolled into the room. I studied his face; he seemed indifferent. Hadn't the conversation sparked any hope in him at all? The girl of his dreams had asked a huge favor of him that sounded like she was really asking him out. So why did Jae Hyuk have a frown on his face?
"I don't get it," he said out loud to no-one in particular. We turned our heads to look at him.
Seeing that he wasn't going to continue talking anytime soon, I asked, "What don't you get?"
He shifted his eyes and looked down at the carpet. I already knew that he wouldn't answer right away, so I waited patiently until he spoke up.
"Everything," he said, not looking at any of us.
As if that tells us anything,I couldn't help but think. Jae Hyuk reached over and casually picked up the pile of pictures I'd stacked in front of my Indian-style crossed legs. He shuffled through them until he found the picture he was looking for. I didn't even have to see who the girl on the picture was; I already knew it was Soo Young.
Jae Hyuk raised his head and turned to Dae Suk. "Hey, Dae Suk, can you um, open the window for me?" he asked nervously yet normally.
"Dude, it's fricken' cold out there," Dae Suk said with a scowl, but he stood up and opened the window anyway.
No one said a word as we were all too busy trying to understand what Jae Hyuk was up to. Our eyes followed him when his figure crossed the room and our bodies stood up and rushed after him when he stopped right at the window. It's unusual how curiosity can hypnotize us.
The breeze from the rushing wind outside came right at us like an invisible ocean wave. Goosebumps formed on my arms and I quickly rubbed them to feel warm again.
It wasn't cold earlier so I have no clue why it is cold now. "What are you doing, Jae Hyuk?!" I shouted as the other guys gasped in shock. He had lit up Soo Young's picture with his match and now the flames were licking up the whole thing!
He didn't reply to my question. Obviously he'd heard it, but was just ignoring it because he's a jerk like that sometimes. Instead he threw the picture out the window, and as it fell, pieces came apart and flew in different directions. It was a dumb scene, really.
Jae Hyuk turned around to face us and everyone stared back at him with open mouths or furrowed eyebrows. We still didn't understand his motive...how could we if he didn't tell us anything?
Just as I expected, he held up a hand against a few protests from the other guys and gave us his evilest smirk ever. "Don't say or ask anything," he told us. "You'll get 'the whole picture' tomorrow."
He was the only one who laughed at his lame attempt at cracking a joke.
Our meeting was over for the day. I guess you could say that it was a very
boring meeting. It was probably because it was a Monday one, but think about all the past meetings we've had and how many there were. Something exciting could have happened before but you don't know about it.
I walked out of Jae Hyuk's house and was immediately greeted with a huge pair of boobs right in my face. Like seriously, what kind of girl is this tall?
I looked up slowly and saw, to my surprise, a guy. I immediately backed away and shook my head in disgust. "Gross," I muttered under my breath. Thank God the he-she didn't hear me.
"Hey, uh, is Jae Hyuk here?" the dude, or dudette, asked me.
No way could I answer the question right on the spot. "Why?" I questioned him/her. "Why do you want to know?"
"Because..." the he-she started to look embarrassed, and he/she avoided looking at me. (Not that I would want him/her to look at me, anyway.) "Because I need to speak with him," he/she finished.
I nodded my head. "Yeah, he's inside." I stepped out of the way to let the wo-man through. I watched his tall and lanky body in a pink spaghetti-strapped tank top and a pink short mini-skirt (both obviously made for females) gingerly walk to the front door of Jae Hyuk's house. Then I instantly regretted it; the food I ate for breakfast was practically jumping up my throat and ready to burst out of my mouth. I quickly looked away and gagged.
"You're gross, Tae Won," I heard someone say from behind me. It wasn't the voice of the he-she. It was a familiar girl's voice.
I whipped around and saw my sister. "What are you doing here?" I asked her, surprised.
She gave me a wide, teeth-showing smile, and flipped her hair out of her face. The breeze sure was getting wilder. Instead of answering, she grabbed my arm and pulled me closer to her. Okay, what's the big secret?
"Can I tell you at home?" she whispered, like it was something confidential.
I began laughing so hard I couldn't stop. "That's all you wanted to tell me, sis?" I asked once I finally calmed down. I still bore a huge grin on my face, my sister's serious face and her stupidity imprinted in my mind.
"No, of course not," she firmly replied. "I just can't tell you here." She looked around us suspiciously, like she was expecting someone currently eavesdropping on our conversation. My instincts made my eyes wander around our surroundings, too.
My eyes landed on a wavering bush, and I suddenly felt suspicious like my sister. But then the bush became still and I convinced myself that it was only the wind teasing me.
"Let's go home, sis," I said, turning to face my sister.
She looked at me curiously. "Is my little Tae Won-y scared?" she taunted, her (big) mouth forming a pout.
I jerked back away from her. "Don't call me your 'little Tae Won-y'," I retorted, my voice full of power. "And I'm not scared, for your information."
Seeing the hurt expression on her face, I quickly put on a small smile, and, after some bouts of resistance from her, began leading her home. Just as we turned the corner at the end of the street, we heard an ear-splitting scream from behind us that made my arm hairs stand on end. We stopped walking and turned around. What we saw made us scream too.
Or rather, we both screamed then my sister fainted. I stuck my arms out in time to catch her before she collapsed to the ground.
"Tae...Won?" Eun Ah asked groggily. She'd just woken up and had no clue where she was. She sat up in bed slowly and looked around at her surroundings. The room she was in didn't look one bit familiar. She wondered whose room it belonged to.
Just then the bedroom door opened and a tall, skinny kid entered. Now
he looked familiar. Was he one of Tae Won's friends?
He smiled when he saw that she was awake. "Good, you're up. Tae Won left you here 'cause he had to go buy something at the store, but he'll be right back and you can leave with him then." He handed her a small bowl of soup and told her to sip it up. "You're probably very hungry."
Eun Ah said thank you and gently took the bowl from him. She pretended to blow at it to make it less hot until he left, and once the door closed behind him, she slurped the soup down noisily. She really was hungry. Once she finished, she wiped her mouth with her shirt sleeve and got out of bed. She left the bedroom and went out to the kitchen to return the bowl.
"Here's the bowl..." she said, as she got nearer to the kitchen. A woman appeared to get the bowl from her, but when Eun Ah got a closer look, she realized that the woman wasn't a woman; it was the same he-she that she had seen earlier and screamed then fainted about. She almost screamed again this time, but someone's hand from behind her was immediately placed over her mouth.
"Don't scream, sis," I shouted, "or you'll faint again!" I had came back to Jae Hyuk's house at the right time. I was glad to see that my sister was fine and awake; I didn't want to worry about her health any longer.
I turned to what I had recently found out was Jae Hyuk's brother (you know, the he-she). "Seung Jin, can you please go change your clothes so that my sister doesn't flip out again? I know you have some manly clothes in your closet somewhere so it shouldn't be a problem."
Seung Jin nodded his head. "Sure. This was just for a dare anyway. I'll go change right now." He left to go to his bedroom.
I let go of my sister and she whipped around to face me. "S-so he's not gay?" she asked, surprised.
"No, apparently he's straight," I replied.
Eun Ah smirked. "Let's see what he looks like as a guy. I bet he won't be even one bit good-looking." She crossed her arms and stood back to wait for Seung Jin to come back out.
I remained silent to watch my sister's reaction. Just as Seung Jin stepped into the living room, Eun Ah's eyes widened and her jaw dropped open. She turned her head around to whisper to me, "He's so hot!"
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