ALWAYS THERE CH. 1

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL~

"Taemin?"

He hears his name and turns the other direction in the bed.

"Taemin?!"

Again he hears his name and pulls the covers up over his head to drown out the yelling.

"Taemin!"

The door slams open and in burst Key, as he storms over to Taemin's bed and jumps on top of it. He whips back the blankets to see his maknae trying to find the missing blankets to pull them back over his head. 

All Key could do his smile and pat the top of his head. He knew that Taemin was beyond tired after just getting back from one of their concerts but part of the new rules for all Korean artists is that they must go to school if they are under the age of nineteen. So Key had no other choice but to wake Taemin up for school.

"Taemin is time to get ready for school or you will be late," he said.

Taemin turned in the bed as his messy hair covered up half of his face. He blinks a couple of times as the fuzzy image of his hyung was brought into view. 

"Key hyung do I really have to go to school?" he whined.

Key nods his head getting up from the bed to allow Taemin to come out. "Yes, you do. If you don't SM will be fine and you know how much they hate forking out money. Now come on out of bed so you can eat before school."

Taemin groans out a defeated sigh as he forces his tired body out from the bed. He turned his body to side as his legs dangle out on the end. He rubs his sore muscles in his arms and in his neck that he received from sleeping in an uncomfortable position on the plane.

"Come on, Taemin times wasting," Key said, tapping on his watch. 

He was in the process of leaving the room but sees the tired maknae start to tilt back into his bed.

He quickly rushed over dragging Taemin out of bed and pushing him to the bathroom. He turns on the cold water and splashes it on Taemin's face to wake him up. As soon as the water hit Taemin, his body jolts up as he came to.

"I'm awake, hyung, please stop!" He yells out. 

He put his hands up in front of him trying to block the cold water from hitting his face. Key now noticing stopped and shook his hands as he proceeded to leave the room.

"Good, now be ready in fifteen minutes so you can get something to eat. If you're not, I'll be back and it won't be me just splashing water on your face," Key warned.

He closes Taemin's door to allow him his privacy to get dress. Once Taemin heard the click of the door closing, he stared at himself in the mirror. He had bags on top of bags underneath his eyes. His hair was a mess and he still had makeup on that he didn't remove before passing out.

With a deep sigh, Taemin turned on the hot water to allow both to warm up so he could wash up, brush his teeth and wash his face.

He turned to look at the clock displayed on his dresser. It read that it was 6:50 AM, which basically give him enough time to get dress and grab something quick before heading to school. That's only if he doesn't drag and take his time.

But his teachers should excuse him if he tardy. They just got back from their Asia World Tour, they should understand, right? I mean right, he thought.

"Damn, I hate Mondays," Taemin cried, splashing the now warm water on his face.

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Taemin made it down the stairs of the shared apartment that he lived with the rest of the SHINee members. He placed his school bag down by the front door before walking over to the kitchen, where the aroma of bacon and other breakfast food was being prepared. He hopped on one of the stools as Key was turning around with a tray of hot muffins.

Key sees the about to be tardy maknae stick out his right hand to grab a stick of bacon. "Didn't I say, fifteen minutes, thirty minutes ago?" He asked.

Taemin quickly tossed the bacon strip into his mouth before dusting his hands. "You did but I couldn't find my vest, so that's what took me longer." He tried to give his hyung one of his signature smiles but Key just kissed his teeth as he takes off the mittens he was wearing.

"Mhmm, well hurry up and eat before heading out," he stated before grabbing a muffin and heading to the table.

Taemin spins himself around to talk to his hyung. "How can you be so cheery when we just got in five hours ago, hyung?"

Key lifted his eyes up as he took a quick bite from the muffin. "It's because I never went to sleep. Now hurry up before the manager gets here."

Taemin mumbles something under his breath before grabbing another bacon and one of the muffins. "I'm going downstairs now, see you later."

Key waves him off as Taemin headed for the front door to put his shoes on and grab his bag. He yells out to his out to his hyungs who basically were still sleeping as he closed the door behind him.

Taemin ruffles his mushroom hair as he walked towards the elevator. The elevator finally arrives and Taemin stepped inside. As the doors of the elevator were closing a brown skinned hand forced its way through stopping the elevator from closing. Taemin swoops his hair away to see a brown skinned female step inside the elevator. 

She smiles at Taemin, who give her a shy smile back.

She stands in front of him as the elevator takes them door to the ground floor. All he notice about her is her curly, bouncy brown hair that kept moving as she shifted her weight in the elevator. 

Finally, the doors open and the brown skinned girl steps out before turning around and smiling at the Taemin.

She rushes away down the hall and out through the main double doors. Taemin watches her head down as he drags his body down the same hall and out through the same doors where his manager hyung was slowly pulling up.

Taemin pulls back the sliding door of the van and hops in as his manager pressed on the gas to drive forward. "I'm shocked for once that your own time," a voice says.

Taemin groans as he slowly starts to close his eyes. Maybe he could get forty winks so he could make it through the rest of the day.

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The van finally makes it to the school that Taemin would be going to for the next couple of years. Taemin feels a tap on his shoulder which stir him out from his sleep. "We're here, Taemin," acknowledged his friend, Kai.

Taemin turns his head and sees the school in front of him. It was an international school, where celebrities, military families, and wealthy families had their kids going to. For some unknown reason, SM wanted all of their young artists to start going to this particular school. A lot of their artists protested because basically they were switching schools and leaving all of their friends.

But SM didn't care as the now CEO had his administration department gathered up all of their underage artists and transfer them out of their previous school to this one. Taemin was lucky, his best friend, Kai was switching along with him as he became a new trainee under SM, so they would get to see each other more.

Taemin gets out of the van and stretched out his arms to the air as he lets out a deep yawn. He could hear the sound of the door slamming behind him as Kai pats his back to let him know it was time to go. But just as they were about to step through the gates the sound of the last bell was heard.

"I guess we're late," Kai chuckles, sadly.

They both walked until they see the teacher in charge stop them and points them over to the rest of the tardy students. 

Taemin and Kai see the students kneeling in a row with their backpacks on top of their head. He also notices the same girl from before kneeling down with her backpack over her head as well. 

"Come on, come on, I don't have all day," the head teacher yells to them.

Taemin slowly slides off his backpack as he walks to the end of the row. He kneels down and lifts his bag over his head. Kai was next to him as he also did the same thing.

Every so often, Taemin would lower his arms in which he was caught and had to stay longer. It was almost thirty minutes after the final bell to start the first period when the head teacher allowed the students to get up and leave. "I hope this teaches all you not to be late," he states.

The students let out a weak yes as they rushed to get to class. Taemin rubs his sore arms as he headed up the steps and into the school. He finally makes it to his first period in which the teacher wasn't happy that he was late.

He points over to a desk as Taemin sits his tired body in placing his head down as he could hear the commotion of the students talking. 

Finally, it got quiet and the teacher says something.

"Students, we have a new student that will be with us for a term. Uh...miss can you introduce yourself?"

"Um, my name is Erika Lee Jacobs, please take care of me," she ended before bowing. He adjusts his eyes and noticed that the new girl that just introduced herself to the class was the same one he seen earlier in the elevator and kneeling down by the front gates.

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