Jaehyun's record company opens up auditions for a casting show, he's looking for the next big superstar, but he has no idea one of the candidates is no one else than his teenage son who's starting a rebellion.
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They stayed quiet till Kun stopped the car on a backstreet. They jumped out then dived into a dark alley between buildings.
"Be careful there," said Kun jumping up pulling a fire staircase down. "You're going first so I can catch you in case," he said when he lifted Renjun up to the first step.
The boy's heartbeat speeding up, he was trembling when he started to climb up the metal ladder. He felt Kun was right behind him so he moved up with effort till a rooftop appeared. Renjun was out of breath.
"Tow more steps buddy!" he heard Kun's laugh behind him so he climbed on the roof feeling Kun's hand on his back when the boy supported him.
He was barely catching his breath when he knelt one the rooftop seeing the night view of the city, feeling the wind caressing his face in an icy way.
Kun climbed one the roof then stopped next to him.
"Come!" he said reaching his hand out helping him up.
They walked to the other side when Kun took the camera and a little tripod out, then put it to the edge testing it.
"Where are we?" Renjun leaned above the edge cautiously to see one of the most noble hotels in town right if front of them.
"A world class actress it meeting up with her secret lover her tonight," said Kun.
"So you're still working?" giggled Renjun.
"I have to live from something, hey!" Kun smiled to him. "But I'm not following your fathers no worries."
Renjun felt his stomach flipping unpleasantly, Jae was a little right about Kun, but from the other hand, Renjun couldn't complain about that strange friendship.
Kun leaned to the camera observing while Renjun sat on the roof watching the lit up hotel windows, thinking that right now in a hotel thousands of miles away his daddy Tae was working on his music. He felt another wince inside.
His mood was going up and down lately a lot, he had no control over it.
"Ah!" Kun smiled to himself pressing the aperture.
"Are they there?" asked Renjun.
"Look!" Kun moved away and Renjun leaned above the camera to see a bright window, a luxurious room with old fashioned furniture where a young woman was kissing a man as passionately as Jae and Taeyong did. Renjun's stomach flipped when the woman pulled the the man's shirt off, so he moved back feeling hot bushes on his cheeks.
"I think they're undressing," he said.
"Really?" Kun raised his brow returning to the camera view. "Indeed, precious, keep going," he whispered to himself doing more pictures, moving the camera into a different angle probably following the couple.
"Why are people doing it?" asked Renjun who rather watched Kun focusing on his work than the couple.
"Doing what?" asked Kun absent-mindedly, he was still grinning to himself.
"You know this, what they're doing right now," whispered Renjun.
"You mean sex?" asked Kun sending him a quick glance. "For fun, mostly for fun," he smiled wider.
"What do you mean?" Renjun felt the air around them becoming strangely colder.
"It's pleasant, it gives you a moment of forgetting, a few seconds away from all your trouble, it's strangely addicting, but it's a dangerous game as we're creatures of habit, we can't separate our emotions from our body needs, so even if it's just for fun in the first place it can lead you to staying wth someone, getting involved with this person and this... yes this will lead you to a lot of trouble, as being in a relationship isn't a pice of cake, it's hard daily work," Kun sighed. "And there it goes, eight minutes of pleasure, that's it," he muttered taking the camera off the tripod checking the shots when Renjun turned towards the hotel finding the room to see a distant bedroom and two vey blurry shapes cuddling to each other in bed.
"So it's not as good as people portray in books and films," asked Renjun.
"It's good in a different way. Reality is... let's say dirty, it's nature, it's not that poetic, I guess once the big picture we have in mind crushes there's place for a real experience, but it might be totally shocking at first."
Renjun observed how Kun was packing the camera and tripod.
"Why is it shocking?" he asked feeling something painful.
"Because it's like with everything new you try in life, absolutely different than how you had pictured it. Come!" Kun got up walking towards the door leading off the roof. He took a small wire out then started to play with it in the lock.
Renjun glanced towards the hotel again then at Kun, the cold wind around him becoming warm.
"You're a little bit like a deductive right?" asked Renjun suddenly jumping up.
"You can say so," Kun laughed when the lock creaked.
"So you could find someone right, if you want?" Renjun felt the hair crumbling on his body.
Kun turned to him hiding the wire looking at him seriously.
"Renjun let's go!" he said.
"No listen! I... I really want to find out something about my parents, anything! How were they? How did they look like?" Renjun felt his voice cracking when Kun walked to him then placed his hand on Renjun's face lifting it up.
"Renjun, it's not a good idea, I've heard that when adoptive children start to look for their past it mostly leads to big arguments with their second parents and Jae and Taeyong had given you all their love, patience and time, it won't be good for any of you," said Kun seriously when Renjun felt tears rolling down hie cheeks, Kun washed away with his thumbs.
"I can't remember them, how much I'm trying to remember there's nothing," whispered Renjun falling into Kun's chest sobbing loudly.
"I know it's painful, but there are two people who can fill in this empty place just allow them to," whispered Kun caressing over his head and back.
Renjun sobbed more clenching Kun's clothes in his fists, feeling how new tears were storming into his face and he had no idea how to stop them.
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