Oct 23, 2010 14:53
[Already in sujuhet]
Title: If Love - [3/?]
Author: caramelorchoco
Pairing: Leeteuk/Taeyeon, Donghae/Jessica, Kyuhyun/OC, Sunny/Sungmin,
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I sadly do not own super junior or snsd. I do own the fictional plot.
Summary: An ongoing tale on the love life of various super junior members, learning about life and love each in their own way.
Author's note: The story in this chapter happens before the first chapter. Hope you guys will enjoy :D
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Sorry, sorry. It was me, firstly.
‘Jungsu, I can’t take this.’
‘What do you mean, don’t you like it?’ Taeyeon kept quiet, holding the necklace in her hands. Leeteuk’s face that was smiling before, suddenly turned quite somber. His eyes darted away from looking into Taeyeon’s eyes.
They were in an empty practice room. Leeteuk took some time the night before to look for an empty room in the SM building that was hidden from everyone’s sight to celebrate her birthday. He found one that was unused and set up a table and two chairs in the middle of the room.
Leeteuk begged his stylist to help him buy a cake for him to share with Taeyeon. He couldn’t risk being caught buying cake in a bakery, especially when it was nowhere near any of his members’ birthdays. His stylist rolled her eyes and agreed, muttering ‘you better invite me to your wedding’ under her breath as she took the money from Leeteuk’s hands.
He spent the night thinking of what to get her. He’d always wanted to give her some sort of jewelry. Any sort of jewelry, and he’d have one too, similar to hers, and they could wear it whenever they weren’t together.
‘Yah, Jungsu, you’re so old fashioned’ he told himself. It was true, he wondered if matching jewelries were what the ‘kids’ did nowadays. He didn’t really know but he couldn’t really care less.
Leeteuk drove out of Seoul one Sunday to attend church with his mom. He felt an immense feeling of guilt throughout the ride to the church, burdened by it, feeling restless by it. Guilty for not visiting the church often, and not thinking about religion at all when he’s at work. Guilty for not seeing his mother often, not even picking up the phone to call her, expecting her to call in whenever she wanted to.
He was a bad son, he thought to himself. He spent more time on his career and the band more than his family. He could never explain why he did so, he just felt so separated from them sometimes, he’d always been like that. As much as Leeteuk portrayed himself as an outgoing and loud person on the television, he wasn’t really like that off camera. In many ways, Leeteuk was quiet and reserved. It takes a lot for him to open up about anything.
He just felt that there was still a barrier between his family and himself and it was that barrier that made him feel uneasy with them at times. He thought about this, about all of this and it made him feel sad.
He was in church, his mother by his side. The rush of emotions in his head, and the thoughts in his mind about his family and his abandoned duties as a son was causing a storm inside Leeteuk. He was just wracked with guilt, and the sermon wasn’t doing him any good. It didn’t help either that his mother suddenly took his hands and held them close, smiling at her son and told him, ‘I’m very happy you decided to come today’
At the sound of those words, Leeteuk couldn’t take it anymore and lowered his head down and let the tears run down his face. He tightened the grip on his mother’s hands, a soft whisper of ‘mianhaeyo’ escaping his lips every other second. He walked his mother back to their house after the sermon. It was a silent walk, his mother was quite shocked at his public display earlier that day.
‘Umma’
Leeteuk’s mother looked at her son, noticing the frown he had on his face. He wanted to tell her everything, how sorry he was, how he often found himself so burdened with work he just wanted to leave everything and spend an entire day with her, how he was sorry he couldn’t give her a grandchild to keep her company, he wanted to beg on his knees for her to be patient with him, that he would sort out everything when the time was right.
But for once in Leeteuk’s life, words failed him.
‘Do you know any jewelry store nearby?’ he asked, keeping his apologies till later. His mother smiled and nodded. His mother took him to a small jewelry shop in the town. When she said small, she meant, extremely small. There was a collection of silver jewelry being displayed, a typical array of designs, nothing special. His mother pointed out a pair of matching necklaces shaped like hearts, and told him to get those.
‘They’re very simple though,’ she said. ‘Do you think your girl would appreciate such simple jewelry?’
‘I think she’d be fine with it.’
‘Oh, so she’s not the high maintenance type is she?’ Leeteuk laughed at his curious mother. He didn’t tell her who his girlfriend was. ‘When are you going to tell me who she is?’
‘It’s too soon, umma.’
Leeteuk drove back to Seoul to catch a taping of Sukira. Eunhyuk seemed to be more talkative that day and Leeteuk gave him more chances to speak, he spent most of the time thinking about how to present the necklace to Taeyeon. He looked at the necklace under the DJ table, his fingers tracing the edges of the silver heart.
He realized that he was not the best son a mother could have, but he wanted to make it up by being the best lover Taeyeon could ever have.
He went back to the studio to set up Taeyeon's little birthday celebration in the practice room. He tried to spell out her name on the cake his stylist brought in that day with some icing but gave up and wrote a message on a card which he stuck onto the cake.
He brought Taeyeon into the dark practice room with her eyes closed. Taeyeon smiled as she saw the light from the candles on the cake.
After she took a bite from the cake, Leeteuk reached into his pocket and took out the necklace, placing it in the palm of her hands. Taeyeon’s wide smile slowly faded away once she realized what she was actually holding.
She looked up at Leeteuk.
‘Jungsu, I can’t take this.’
fandom: super junior,
fanfic,
leeteuk/taeyeon,
jessica,
donghae