Title: Best of the Best (Revised Version) Original Link: www.winglin.net/fanfic/ikang2
Genre: General
Length: 1,022 words
Characters: Changmin and Yunhei(fic)
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“Eh? You’re here again, Yunhei? You’re really bothersome.”
“Bleh! That’s why you like me! By the way, oppa*, when’s your next Korean album coming out?”
“Mm, don’t know. Next year, I guess… Why don’t you ask your dad?”
“He doesn’t know, either. But I’m already excited! You haven’t been in Korea for a long time! Is your album gonna be good?”
“Maybe. We haven’t started yet. Who knows?”
“Let me know if you start, okay?”
“Why should I?”
“Because! I want to be there to cheer for you!”
“Eh? No, don’t! You’ll jinx us, then the album would turn bad!”
“That’s not true! If I cheer for you, the album would be the best album there is and then you’ll win all three Daesangs* and you’re gonna be thanking me!”
“Duh, as if that will ever happen…”
“It’s true because I am oppa’s good luck charm!!!”
“More like ‘bad luck charm!’”
“Eh, oppa’s so mean! I’m your good luck charm because I said so and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
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“And the ‘Best Group of the Year Award’ goes to… BIG BANG!”
‘I’m sorry, Yunhei… I’m sorry…’
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“Yunhei-ah, are you okay? You look pale.”
“Never better! The heat’s just getting to me… Don’t worry!”
“If you’re tired, you can rest, you know. It’s not like you work here anyway.”
“Nah-uh, I want to be here cheering for oppa to work hard! If I don’t then oppa would laze around then the album would turn bad and you won’t win the Daesangs!”
“Yah, there you go again with the Daesangs! The album isn’t even half finished yet! What’s so great about the Daesangs, anyway? We already won them last year anyway. This year, if we win, we win. If we lose, we lose. Period.”
“It’s not just a matter of win or lose! I want the whole world to know that you guys are the best of the best! And in order to prove that I have to make sure you work hard and not just laze around like what you always do!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you sa- Yunhei? Yunhei-ah!? Hyung*, help!”
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“And the ‘Best Artist of the Year Award’ goes to… BIG BANG!”
‘I’m sorry, Yunhei… I worked hard, I really did. We all did… but it doesn’t seem enough…’
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“Yunhei-ah, what’s going on…? What are you doing in here? This isn’t the place for you!”
“Oppa, mianhaeyo*… I can’t come to your recordings and rehearsals anymore…”
“What are you talking about? Of course you can! You just need to rest!”
“Mianhaeyo, oppa…”
“Stop saying sorry! Yah, you’re just being lazy, aren’t you? Tch, you’re the one who always push me to work hard and here you are lazing around!”
“I’m sorry. I’m such a burden to oppa…”
“What? Who told you that?”
“Oppa’s always angry with me because I keep pushing him… Mianhaeyo, oppa. I just wanted you to do your best…”
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“And the ‘Best Album of the Year Award’ goes to….”
Changmin hung his head low and stared down at the floor. Tears threatened to fall from his eyes, but he desperately tried to stop them. They had failed Yunhei two times already. He can’t bear to hear that they’d fail her one more time. If they come to her empty-handed… if they come to her with nothing to be proud of…
“Even if we don’t win, Min, she’ll understand…” Yoochun said as he put his arm around his shoulders.
It was hopeless.
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“Yunhei-ah, how do you like this? The management asked me to write the lyrics for ‘Love in the Ice’ Korean version. Is it good enough?”
“It’s very good… Oppa’s lyrics are the best… Are you going to include this to the album?”
“Yup! And it’s going to be the best album there is!”
“Oppa’s group is really the best… You’ve worked really hard… You’ll really win the Daesangs… I know you will…”
“Of course! And I promise you we will win all three!”
“One award is enough, oppa…”
“Nope. We will win the Daesang awards for Yunhei! We’ll win thousands of awards for Yunhei! Because Yunhei is our good luck charm! Right?”
“…”
“Right, Yunhei? You’re our good luck charm. You said so, right? So in order to win, you need to be there…”
“…”
“You’re our good luck charm, so you need to still be around, arasso*? Yunhei?”
“…”
“Why don’t you answer? Don’t you like oppa anymore?”
“…”
“Answer me, please…”
“…”
“I’m begging you, Yunhei, please answer me…”
A hand clamped Changmin’s shoulder, tight. He turned around and came face to face with the doctor. “I’m very sorry…”
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“And the ‘Best Album of the Year’ goes to…”
‘This album means so much to us five. This award show means the world to me than anything else. You gave meaning to it. So much meaning… I’m sorry we failed, Yunhei… I couldn’t keep my promise…‘
“DONG BANG SHIN KI!”
The crowd went wild and screamed in delight.
Time stood still for Changmin. He sat still, refusing to believe his ears.
‘One award is enough, oppa…’
He felt a hand clamp his shoulders tight, snapping him back to reality. He turned and came face to face with Yunho smiling at him warmly. “Let’s go? Her award is waiting…”
Changmin stood up and followed his hyungs in a daze. Just when he was in front of the stage did he suddenly seem to wake up. He looked at the audience cheering, waving a sea of red balloons. And in the crowd, he saw a mirage of her face.
Unable to keep his tears in any longer, he cried.
Shim Changmin who had never cried before, wept. Hard.
“Thank you…God, thank you…”
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Changmin walked towards her grave, together with the rest of the members. Fishing out the trophy from his coat pocket, he settled it down on top of the gravestone.
“This is for you, for being the best of the best. Thank you.”
He traced the engraved words on the gravestone and smiled.
Lee Yunhei. Beloved daughter, friend, and fan. Born December 1993. Died January 2008.
“Rest in peace, litlle Yunhei.”
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*oppa – what a younger female addresses an older male
*Daesang – highest awards given to an artist (from what I understand)
*hyung – what a younger male addresses an older male
*mianhaeyo – Korean term for “I’m sorry.”
*arasso – Korean term for “understand”
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Based on the last MKMF awards where I have , for the first time, seen Mr. Shim Changmin’s tears =)