1. His reality

43.4K 2.1K 3K
                                    

The cereals drowned in milk because Jae wasn't in the mood for breakfast. Doyoung had called him last evening and proposed to sing a duo, but when they tried to do it on skype, it turned out to be impossible, to divide the song that way, so Doyoung will sing all the words which contain the letter 'r'.

"Honey, maybe the Art School isn't the best idea?" Jae's mom sat across him at the kitchen table. "Have you considered..."

"No," Jae swallowed the cereals and felt he's getting angry. "You want me to give in!" he raised his voice.

"I don't, but we have tried for so many years. I know you have a nice voice, but there's not likely any chance, that you will become a professional singer. Let's face the reality," she tried to be the parent who cares too much and does more devastation than good.

"No, I still have hope," Jae felt his stomach is refusing to take the cereals in.

"Ok, let's say you have time till the end of this year, if dr. Bronson doesn't see any progress, we will look for another plan," she took a breath.

Jae remained silent. What should he say? That a miracle will bring him closer to his dream, make it possible.

To avoid his mom's face he glanced at the TV screen behind her, where some local news report was on.

"Teenage superstar, rapper TY is causing trouble again, after the drug incident from last week he was now involved into a fight. The spokesman of the record company said, that they were looking for a solution..." the reporter talked and Jae felt this morning can't get any worse, when he saw a short cut from TY's latest video, followed by blurry photos of a fight in front of a club.

"Why do they let kids like this into TV. They get fame and money and it turns their heads crazy," Jae's mom got up from the chair. "Who is listening to this kind of music anyway, probably some punks who grew up on the street," she started to put all her hate into Taeyong's music, while Jae focused his gaze on the cereal bowl.

This was the worst morning ever.


Spring came and it was one of the first really nice days, but after the breakfast confrontation with his mom Jae felt a never ending winter storming blizzards over him. The dance teacher caught a cold and they got a free hour, so most of the class ended up on the lawn. The Art School was a all boys school, but there was this girls boarding school building across the street and from the grass they could see their court.

"She's here," muttered Doyoung who opened his sandwiches and tried to keep the crumbs away from his book.

Jae laughed loud glancing to the right to see Taeil's reaction. The boy sprang up and started to make awkward movements with his hands and legs. Taeil was the best singer in the Art School, a great talent, one some record labels had an eye on, but privately he was the nerdiest and most awkward person Jae has ever met. Also his undeniable crush on the pretty Lauren, the ballerina from the girl's school was so funny. Jae and Doyoung were the witnesses of a few hopeless attempts, when Taeil tried to impress the girl, and was nearly ran over by a bus, had a mud bath in the park lake, and last week slammed his forehead against a glass door in a restaurant.

"Afe you dancing?" Jae giggled moving his head inches above Doyoung's leg, which he was using as a pillow, while he was lying on the lawn.

"Hi!" Taeil shouted and waved to the girl, but Lauren ignored him and a few of her friends laughed.

"Maybe you should just give in," whispered Doyoung and Jae felt a unpleasant wince inside, he had heard this words today.

"Never in a million years. I will be with her and we will have a dog called Little Fairy, and go for the honeymoon to the Maldives," Taeil sat back on the grass and Jae rolled from laughter.

"Don't tell her that," Doyoung shook his head.

"I'll go closer maybe she will notice me," Taeil fixed his hair and walked towards the school facility fence.

"He's such a hopeless case," muttered Doyoung returning to his book.

"I wondef what will happen this time," Jae sat up looking at his funny friend who stopped at the fence and made some strange moves again.

"I start to feel sorry for the guy," Doyoung shook his head.

"My mom tells me I should find anotef plan, anothef dfeam," Jae watched how a group of girls, including Lauren, parted from the rest and walked towards the fence.

He crossed his fingers hoping that Taeil will get his chance. Everyone deserved at least one chance with his crush.

"She gives me time till the end of the yeaf," Jae lowered his head.

"She can't put you under such pressure, it's not healthy," Doyoung started to rub Jae's back to cheer him up.

"I know, the wofst thing is, she's fight," he felt an abyss opening inside him.

"You mean right?" Doyoung corrected him.

"Yhym," Jae nodded.

The girls were nearly there, where a very hyper Taeil was standing and laughing nervously.

"Go, talk to hef," whispered Jae and Doyoung glanced this way.

Taeil opened his mouth, but before he could form a sentence a pigeon lowered it's flight above his head and a piece of droppings hit his forehead.

"Oh!" Doyoung covered his face with the book and Jae was somewhere between a laugh attack and a shock.

But the girls laughed loud while a red Taeil hurried back to the school building covering his face with his hands.

"Told you, it's hopeless," whispered Doyoung.

"Like me," Jae took a grass string and played with it feeling that fate had no mercy with the ones it decided to hate.

"Like me," Jae took a grass string and played with it feeling that fate had no mercy with the ones it decided to hate

Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.

Thank you for all the support on this story. I'm always happy about every feedback so let me know what do you think about this story :)

I will post at least once a week. If the story will receive a lot of love from you I will post earlier :)

Also I made Taeil a little clumsy in this story, but the truth is he's one of my favorite people in NCT, so don't worry :)

No girls allowed (Jaeyong)Where stories live. Discover now