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[fic] Minho/Key – SHINee – Head Over Heels

Title: Head Over Heels
Author:

fonulyn
Rating: PG
Pairing: girl!Minho/Key (Minjung/Gwiboon)
Disclaimer: I own no one, only my dirty imagination.
Summary: Minjung hates high heels. More specifically, she hates dancing in them. And she hates how easy some others can make it.
Comments: ...please don’t ask me why, haha. I don’t know where this came from, I just suddenly wanted Key and Minho in a girl group about to debut and. well, this happened! \o/
…also I might or might not be planning continuation to this as well. whoops?

It's the seventh time Minjung trips over her own feet in the span of one hour that has her sprawling on the floor, face first. Nothing is hurt, except for her pride, and she firmly considers never getting up again in her life. It'd be a good way to go, choking herself to death on the practice room floor.

Thankfully she never actually manages to get that far, not before there's a firm kick to her side that has her groaning and tilting her head to the side. What she spots first is a pair of pink heels, so obnoxiously bright that it almost makes her want to shield her eyes. That is so distant from the pale ivory ones she's wearing herself, grudgingly at best. She would've so preferred sneakers but yes, company orders.

"Are you ever going to get up and stop wasting our time?"

The sneer makes Minjung flush, not with embarrassment but with anger, and she follows the perfect line of smooth pale legs up to the little pink shorts and the white, almost see-through shirt that reveals a bit too much of the day's flowery underwear choice. She doesn't exactly have any time to admire the tempting curves in front of her, not when her gaze lands on Gwiboon's face that is twisted into a disapproving frown.

"C'mon have a heart," Minjung tries, but the words come out a little too snappishly to make anyone feel sorry for her. She swears, she's just not cut out for this. The singing she can do, rapping she can do, even the dancing she can do but not in those godawful helltraps called high heels. Who the fuck ever came up with such a torturous thing!? He'd rather have his toenails pulled off than dance in three-inch heels.

The only answer she gains is another kick to her side, hard enough to actually hurt, and she cries out instinctively. Thankfully she doesn’t manage to go any further – like into trying to gut Gwiboon alive – before Eunsook’s smiling face is right in front of hers, a notch desperate and a lot nervous. “Here let me help you.” She offers her hand and pulls Minjung up from the floor. “We can take a short break girls, okay?” She shoots an inquiring glance at their trainer but he shrugs and agrees, for once.

Minjung dusts her grey sweats automatically, trying to avoid looking at anyone else in the room. She’s had just about enough embarrassment for the whole day, thank you very much.

“Let’s go grab a drink,” Junghee smiles and hooks her arm with Minjung’s, swirling them around just in time to see Gwiboon storm off the room and a worried Taeyeon follow right behind to make sure no one will be murdered today.

“I think she hates me,” Minjung sighs.

Junghee’s lip curls and she rolls her eyes, fondly. “She hates everyone today, don’t take it personally.”

It’s kind of hard not to, though. They’ve been training together for debut for what feels like an eternity now – has it really been years, oh god – and living together for equally long, and still Minjung feels that she is the only one who hasn’t managed to form any kind of a contact with Gwiboon. Not like all the others have.

And maybe, just maybe, it bothers her a bit more than she is willing to admit.

Two weeks later Minjung hasn’t gotten any better at dancing in high heels. They’re already considering the possibility of her getting flats since she is considerably taller than any of her groupmates. Yet their supposed debut concept kind of demands heels and even Minjung admits that, grudgingly. Besides she doesn’t want to lose, no to a stupid inanimate object like a pair of shoes. Even if they’re the most uncomfortable, infuriating pair of shoes in the entire world.

So she takes it up to go practice alone in the mornings before anyone else wakes up. She isn’t really suicidal enough to walk through the city in the dead of night, and she doesn’t want to wake anyone up to take her there either. She has a feeling their manager would skin her alive if he’d find her wandering around in the dark.

The only viable option is the laundry room. In the basement of their apartment building. Thankfully the whole building is owned by the company so there are hardly any unwanted visitors there. At least that is what Minjung keeps telling herself when her heartbeat picks up and her palms start to get clammy from nervousness. She’s completely safe and sound, and she is just going to use the opportunity for some extra practice.

Needless to say, it does nothing to her skills. Absolutely nothing. She’s still about as graceful as Bambi on ice, tangled up in her own legs before she gets through the first fourth of the song. After a week of that she’s just about ready to give up, but something makes her decide that she should give it one more try.

It’s completely silent when Minjung pads down the stairs and into the laundry basement. She’s barefoot, her hated heels dangling from her fingers as she swings the door open and – is completely blinded by the bright lights in what she assumed would be a completely dark room. She has to blink for a good while to make her eyes adjust, and when they do she blinks some more to make sure she’s not actually seeing things, but that this is really happening.

Gwiboon is sitting right there, on one of the low tables they use for folding the clean laundry fresh out of the dryer. She’s wearing a pair of comfortable sweats and an oversized t-shirt, not a hint of makeup on her face and somehow it feels absolutely… unreal. Minjung has never seen Gwiboon like this outside the confines of their apartment, not even in the laundry room.

She is wearing the pink heels though, and they clack against the hard floor as she jumps up and straightens, her ponytail bobbing atop her head.

“You ready to go?” Gwiboon asks, cocking her head to look at Minjung inquiringly. Minjung simply gapes, unable to get a coherent thought out right now since what is this.

She still hasn’t said a thing when Gwiboon cues the music, so silent it’s barely audible over the clicking of their heels when they start moving. Gwiboon keeps correcting Minjung’s stance, gives her hints on how to arrange her miles of legs, and all in all manages to be extremely useful as a teacher.

It’s all kind of baffling. Minjung has no idea how this happened but it’s not like she’s going to object to her newlyfound balance and the way she is actually regaining her confidence bit by bit. It’s been long since she felt this comfortable about dancing and it’s only been like … three hours holy shit they should already be upstairs getting ready for the day of practices, how can it be their manager hasn’t already sent bloodhounds after them!?

As they hurry up the stairs Gwiboon almost slips on one of the steps. Minjung grabs her elbow to steady her and the grateful smile she gains in return makes something flip in the pit of her stomach.

After that, they spend almost every morning in the basement, learning the steps to their songs and perfecting Minjung’s ability to dance in her high heels. Minjung is beginning to feel kind of schizophrenic when she both looks forward to those sessions and dreads them, for multiple reasons each.

But the fact remains: They debut three months later, with three different dance songs all one shortly after another, and Minjung doesn’t miss a single step in a single performance.

Junghee can’t contain her excitement and wonder over Minjung’s sudden abilities, Taeyeon gives her a disbelieving but happy look every time she manages to get through yet another performance, and Eunsook is practically vibrating with unadulterated giddiness since everything is working out so well.

The thing Minjung likes the best is how Gwiboon looks at her, a pleased smile tugging her lips and her eyes saying something along the lines of I did that. I made that. She knows, they both know, that this would have never happened without all those dark mornings spent between the washing machines and the dryer, mapping out the choreographies on the tiled floor again and again.

Even after the first round of promotions end they wake up each morning before dawn. They try to muffle their laughter as they sneak down the stairs and keep elbowing each other, both on accident and on purpose. They ditch the heels and the official choreographies and instead dance whatever they feel like, usually whatever Gwiboon feels like.

Minjung used to think she hated dancing. Not so much, not anymore.

Quite the contrary.

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this is jojo writing at 2 am after a random burst of creativity, lmao. also ignoring all of her other projects can you see how good I am. right.

back to staring at the keyboard trying to make it write my fics for me \o/

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Mwuahahaha. I'm first!

You know I loved this to bits *flails around and rolls on the floor* Girl!Key is just too hot, and Minho is just so cute as a fumbly slightly butch girl XD

MOAR I tell you. MOAR!

I want kisses and cuddles and... lesbian smut gdi! I need this like I need air to breathe. And you wouldn't deny me that now, would you? Hmm?

I ...kind of had a dream about this when I went to bed and I might work that into a sequel of sorts.

...and it kind of included girly Key in that pink catsuit.

SO WE SHALL SEE. I'd love to but you know me and my million projects ;--; I also realized I've got like two weeks to write that shinee secret santa fic and I didn't even begin so \o/

I WANT ALL OF THAT TOO even though I'm not sure how I'll be able to write it BUT I DO I DO I DOOOOO

♥

This was really cute~ and sweet and well written for a 2am ficcu, much better than anything I can write at a decent hour xD
Well done sis, I am proud.

ahaha don't sell yourself short I'm sure you could write a better 2 am ficcu XD

but thank you baby sis~~♥ I'm happy you liked iiiiit~~ :DDD

Gwiboon is sitting right there, on one of the low tables they use for folding the clean laundry fresh out of the dryer. She’s wearing a pair of comfortable sweats and an oversized t-shirt, not a hint of makeup on her face and somehow it feels absolutely… unreal. Minjung has never seen Gwiboon like this outside the confines of their apartment, not even in the laundry room.
This gave me a lot of feels ;A;

but i agree with everyone, this absolutely needs a continuation and some romance and jhdsfkl. ;A;
/rolls on the floor

Aw Gwiboonie-feels ;--; I always have them idek.

Eeee I'm so happy to hear you think soooo~ And yes yes I might maybe sort of have something in mind to go on from here 8)

OMG THAT WAS SO CUTE!!!!

I don't usually read girl pairings but I gave this a shot (because you wrote it <3) and I don't regret it.
I feel like this could totally happen as male!shinee also, except for the heels part. lmao. maybe insoles instead. :D

okay, gwiboon/key is all kinds of perfection, `kay? I wish (s)he was in my life /sighs

back to staring at the keyboard trying to make it write my fics for me \o/
me except i have to write an essay on poems D:

ahaha trust me, I don't usually (like, almost ever, I think I did it once before) write girl pairings but this somehow just... happened?? I don't even know why! but I'm so happy that you gave it a chance ;--; ♥♥♥

LMAO and you're so right, it could so happen with insoles XD even if minho doesn't exactly need them ahah

oh I hope you got your essay done! I'm dying to get some writing done but why is it so late again ;--;

/SCREECHES BECAUSE I FREAKING LOVE GIRL!SHINEE

this was so cute man idek ughhhh

i dont think ive ever read girl!shinee in a girl group before so i kind of squealed when i read the beginning

also gwiboon is so hot and minjung is so cute and uggggggghhhhhhhhh

thanks for writing this tho ;;;;

thank you for reading :D and for commenting! ♥ I'm glad to hear you liked it! haha I don't even know, I thought I don't have a thing for girl!group shinee but ....obviously I do 8)

screams.

oh my god okay this gave me the squeals and the giggles and stuff like that that ;~;

Junghee’s lip curls and she rolls her eyes, fondly. “She hates everyone today, don’t take it personally.” APPLAUSE

U IS GUD JOB MAH FRAND.

…also I might or might not be planning continuation to this as well. whoops? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. DO IT :|

THANK YOUUUU~ 8D am glad to hear you approve~~

ahaha now when I have some time for writing I will put that continuation plan into action! \o/

\O/ ♥

Awkward minho is awesome... X)
Key is a diva as usual...
You should absolutely continue this story *cough*to the smut*cough*... ;)

haha I think I will, we shall see when I have enough time for it :D but thank youuu~~

Awkward minho is awesome... X)
Key is a diva as usual...
You should absolutely continue this story *cough*to the smut*cough*... ;)

aww this made me feel really good :3
I also feel a lot of other things I'm not gonna bore y'all with, but let's just say I finally got around to watching my I Am last night and then you go post a debut fic! lol strange coincidence but since I have strong feels ~~coughdramaqueencough~~ about ~~everything~~ SM your fic is making me think! >"<

I wouldn't hate it AT ALL if you continued this, even if it stayed pg :o tho it's you so.../cough :P
I love the facets to Gwiboon, and I could really see them develop a special bond, and vibrating Eunsook made me chuckle :D

btw nice with a story that lends the title so easily, huh? ;D

~~pissing like emails I shouldn't be writing comments when I should be sleeping like wth is this orz~~

awww ma bb I'm glad it made you feel nice :3 AND NONSENSE you could never bore me never! idk the debut thing just kind of happened... but I have sort of some plans to continue from that line, maybe. we'll see :3

THO IT'S ME WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING!? >:| and idk I think I'm gonna continue this whether I want or not since my brain already planned a couple of possible future scenarios for this XD soooooo. my mind never asks me what I want. damnit.

IKR I loved that the story practically named itself since THAT NEVER HAPPENS TO ME not in my world ;_______;

you should get more sleep :( do I need to fly over to tell you bedtime stories?

:DD I love you and your plans something great always comes from it 8D

lol not implying anythingggg!! xD just.. I think I always now feel the need to remind writers that I can easily do with less than smut cos I've been..um.. let's just say I have not wanted to come within a ten mile radius of anything less than NC-17 BUT I'm a changed woman! \o/ so you just go right on ahead~^^

and yes pls come balli balli cos as you can see 5am and still making lame comments orz

haha if I'd just manage to actually write something instead of only planning like 90% of the time.

what exactly caused that change!?? it's quite radical you must admit, haha XD

you need to get better with this sleeping-business bb!

lol well as long as you do get the occasional fic out there I can be patient :D

LOL IT IS xD honestly, I think it's the last couple of months (omg it's legit only been 4+ months since Tintap :O it feels like a lifetime lol omg) "branching out" that's made me more relaxed about it idk? like..idk loss/lack of/in intensity of SHINee feels? >_< idk but definitely also loss of great writers have just meant me reading less = loss of fic intensity feels? lol wth am I even saying here idk xD I think it's just meant that those intense smut feels have eased off somehow and voilá! - room for all the other stuff that can make up a great fic ^^ /ramblesssssss aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

AND IT'S ONLY MIDNIGHT ODG

um clearly forgot to sign in for that comment ._. but can you guess who?? XDDD

(oh wow and now I have to prove my humanity to lj to post this comment great 8|)

i absolutely love you for this
first of all, girl!shinee
second of all, i have never read genderswitch where they were a girl group and it's such a good idea!
and third, gwiboon. but that just goes without saying XD
this was so sweet and so them. this is pretty much exactly how i imagine minjung and gwiboon would get along, especially in a group together.
and for some reason, i pictured them dancing to Genie. b/c the heels were important for the concept? idek. reasons.
but i loved this and i am excited for the continuation!?

I can't believe no one wrote them in a girl group before! there's ...quite a bit of girl!shinee out there I think and the girl group was literally the first thing I thought of, haha! I totally love the thought, to be honest :D

haha and yeah Genie would work!

thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this :D and I do hope I'll manage to actually write more sometime, haha.

I really enjoyed this. It was refreshing and different to look at it from this perspective. And I do think that even though Key/Gwiboon would get easily frustrated she would be more than willing to help someone who is trying as hard has Minjung has been trying....it just fits

I like this world, I hope you will write more in it

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D And there definitely will be more!

CUTE, DAMMIT, CUTE!

AND I'M BACK, LOL.

WELCOME BACK :D

also your timing is pretty much perfect since I just finished typing the third part of this verse x)

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[fic] Minho/Key – SHINee – Head Over Heels

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