A chance of sunshine_Chap1

If I walked across the sea, will I be able to reach you?
If we meet, I’d give you my whole heart. If I meet you by chance along that path
Please acknowledge me

Perugia, cloudy afternoon

- Just a little more, just this final wish and I will be gone…

May mumbled as she snug in her red jacket, gazing at the sky. 1905, perfect number, that was the number of time she had listened to this particular song yet the familiar melody capturing his eternally sweet voice never failed to make her heart skip a tiny beat: “ohhh… don’t be afraid!”

- Love in the ice – she sighed- I am not, Yunho, I am not afraid but you are… Though you won’t be… At least this is something I can do for you…

*****

Seoul, cloudy days

Yunho frowned, sinking into the backseat of the van.

- Not Yunchun, of courses, not Yunchun - Yunchun who wears the perfect masks as THE international dandy boy, the greasy sweet talker while in fact, his sensitive heart cannot possibly play the emotional game. And of course, not Jaejung, of ALL people, not Cassiopeia’s precious Jaejung – Yunho shrugged at his vivid imagination: thousands of fan-girls slashing their wrists in the vigorous protest against the idea of Jaejung dating some random girl. Junsu? The innocent Junsu would not be able to say “NO” – what if he idiotically sends his precious phone number at the end of the game? And Changmin – Yunho left out a heavy sigh… Changmin, Changmin, Changmin, the most ruthless and bluntest heartbreaker magnae – the perfect candidate for this hit and run game rejected the whole idea with a single word “NO”

So, if not Yunchun, If not Jaejung, if not Junsu and not even Changmin then who else but the pitiful Yunho?

- Anyway I have the 2nd least number of fans among the members – most of whom are older women who think rationally… If there is a mass protest it would not be THAT bad, isn’t it?

Just like that the leader of DBSK signed his name, sealed his fate in this brutal game of emotion. Jaejung whispered breathlessly:

- Are you sure you want to handle this? You know… THIS

- Jaejung, I should be fine

- You sure? Are you completely sure … this…

- THIS BEING WHAT? Jaejung, TELL ME, this being WHAT? – Yunho snapped unintentionally at his over-worried friend, as if he were clueless, as if he were a bloody rookie who knew nuts about this bloody brutal industry, as if he had another choice…

- This being Mnet scandal, huyng – Changmin entered the conversation out of nowhere. It seemed to the rest of DBSK that after Changmin’s passionate silence protest his mouth itched so much he had to mind everyone else’s business. – It’s THE freaking lose-lose game. You know the bloody SM rules, right? Just a gentle reminder: YOU-CAN’T-DATE. Even if she were to be great, oh wow, congratulation, you know what? You can’t date her. You will grant her the privilege to be royally humiliated and publically bashed. Worse still, if you fall for her, not only could you not bring her happiness, all that is left for after this surreal week, will just be a beautiful mess, a lifetime of misery…

Changmin stopped for a moment, to gain his breath – Changmin, Changmin… why must you always be so bluntly straightforwardly heartlessly … right?

- So what can I do? – Yunho mumbled.

- Pray, I guess – as absurdly blunt as he sounded, Changmin apparently made sense in this kind of hopeless situation. – Pray that you will meet a freaking pleasant BUT plain girl who is freaking boring… so much so half of the episode will be cut out. You feel no regret, she feels no remorse. Anyway, you are the leader of the Gods

*****

Perugia, little bit of sunshine starts sparkling at the end of the horizon.

- How can you be so… sure Yunho will fall for it? - May’s best friend finally got the courage to ask THE burning question.

- I just know – May smiled before hiding her nose in her silky scarf – I just know… - She trailed off. “Because he is Yunho, because he is too responsible, too kind, too protective toward his members, he would not let any of them risk their popularity in this…

Before she realized, before he knew it, the game had just begun. Mnet scandal, the cold-blooded, heart-shattering reality show that almost all celebrities tried their very best to avoid, almost all fan-girls hated to the core yet looked forward to the most.

- The bet of my life, before another chapter is written, before my feet hit the cold reality, before I forced myself to grow up – away from the “gods” and the perfect day dream…

May glanced for the last time at her tickets: Perugia-Rome, Rome-Seoul. Her heart ached, yet her perfect lips smiled, a gentle one, a confused one… a heartbreaking one.

“If I reached the ends of the skies, will I be able to communicate with you?”