Too Much For Words - Chapter 1
Title: Too Much For Words
Rating: K+
Genre: Romance/Melodrama
Pairings: Rainie Yang / Leeteuk
Length: 4 Chapters [Completed]
Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I own none of the celebrities used in this fanfiction. They belong to themselves, or their management companies... whatever. This fanfic, in no way, represents the celebrities in real life. It's all in my head. The plot belongs to me and me only.
Summary: Who would have known that the reason behind her departure was the very reason she should have stayed? But not all was lost. After she left the ones she loved - including the boy who saw her only as a sister - to catch some air, she met someone important and, years later, returned to her old life renewed. As expected, she wasn't the only one who had changed... Now, her past and her present lives collide in the most unexpected ways.
For as long as she could remember, Rainie was never allowed to call him Teukie.
“But why not?” the young Rainie would whine to her mother, pulling on the rims of her beautifully laced gown, “Everyone else does!”
Rainie’s mother would slant a look at the little girl, a small scowl on her smooth cheeks, “He’s older than you, sweet heart, you have to respect him.” Rainie crossed her arms over her torso, pouting fervently, as she huffed in frustration. Her rounded cheeks reddened as she held her breath angrily.
“It’s okay, Mrs. Yang, if she really wants to call me Teukie then she’s more than welcome to.”
Rainie stomped back to her seat at the breakfast table, not sparing the little boy a single glance while doing so. The boy sighed as he shifted his gaze back to the older lady, “No, Leeteuk, Rainie has to learn to respect you like an older brother.”
“But she just calls me Leila,” Rainie’s older twin retorted wittily, grinning mischievously at their mother. The older lady shook her head with a light smile.
Rainie glared at her sister, “You’re only a few minutes older!”
“Older is older, by how much doesn’t matter,” Leila rolled her eyes, stuffing the last spoon of cereal into her mouth in a rush. “I’m done! I’ll be going out now, mother.” Their mom nodded accordingly, cleaning off the corners of Leila’s lips before she made a mad dash for the door and disappeared from sight.
Leeteuk furrowed his brows, watching as Rainie barely ate out of her breakfast bowl. “Aren’t you going to eat?” He attempted to ask, but only received silence from the fuming child. Leeteuk quickly jumped out of his chair, hopping towards Rainie, when she turned and held her hands out protectively.
“What are you doing?” Rainie questioned.
Leeteuk smiled brightly at her, “Since you seem incapable of eating on your own, I thought I’d be the caring older brother and take it upon myself to feed you!”
“Isn’t he sweet?” Rainie heard her mother chirp from the kitchen, chuckles following the sarcastic remark.
“I can feed myself,” Rainie muttered under her breath, “Since when did your mandarin improve so much?”
Leeteuk shrugged, “I learn from the best.” He was about to proceed towards her, reaching up to the table for her spoon, when she swiftly whipped it out of his hands.
“I said I can do it myself,” She repeated, a slight blush creeping up her neck, “Just... just stay away from me.”
Rainie was snapped back to reality when her friend, Joanne, knocked on the surface of her desk repeatedly. “You’ve been doing that a lot lately,” Joanne inquired, a worried expression plaguing her cutely shaped face, “I’m a bit worried.”
“Been doing what?” Rainie asked, stretching her arms over her head.
“Spacing out,” Joanne replied, “Or whatever it is you’re doing. Is something wrong?”
Rainie shook her head, “Nope.” The teacher tapped the blackboard with his ruler, silencing the girls, and continued on with the class lecture.
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“Ugh, I’m so tired,” Rainie complained as she threw the broom aside and plopped down in her desk, “This is high school, but they use us like custodians or something.” Joanne laughed and pat the exhausted girl on her back.
The spotlight was always on Rainie. No matter where they were, when it was, or what was happening, it was hard to take ones eyes off of the girl. She was petite; skinny but curvy, despite her young age, and bore the cutest features one could possess. Her hair was long and wavy, her eyes large and round, her nose small but tall, and her lips always seemed to curve into a small pout, they were thin but a beautiful pinkish tint.
“You’ve got about two minutes,” Joanne teased, nudging Rainie in the arm.
Rainie lifted a brow, “Until what?”
“Until your spotlight will be stolen.”
Indeed, no longer than two minutes later Leeteuk joyfully skipped into the room. He held three lunch boxes in his hand, his signature smile never fading, as he made a bee line towards Rainie’s desk.
“What are you doing here?” Rainie would ask, disregarding the fact that this question has been asked every day of the school week for two years already. She asked this question every time Leeteuk shamelessly buzzed into her school life, intruding the only personal time she had away from him.
Leeteuk ignored her question and turned to find Leila, who was sitting with a large group on the other side of the room. He kindly delivered her lunch box to her, earning a hug from the girl, and retreated back to Rainie’s table.
Once again, Joanne was right. The eyes, ones which were previously set strictly on Rainie and her twin, were now all staring at the cute young man who excitedly zoned into the room.
“What did I tell you?” Joanne grinned proudly at her friend. Rainie rolled her eyes and snatched her lunch box out of Leeteuk’s hand.
Leeteuk glanced between the sisters, “Why don’t you two ever eat together?”
“What are you talking about? We eat together everyday; breakfast and dinner,” Rainie replied bluntly.
Shaking his head, Leeteuk brushed Rainie’s bangs out of her eyes and opened a bottle of water for the younger girl. “I meant in school,” He insisted, “You two never talk or interact with each other at all.”
“We do enough of that at home,” Rainie lazily muttered, her head lowered so he couldn’t see her small blush.
Joanne narrowed her eyes with a smile, “I’m sure the two of you spend plenty of time at home as well.”
“We do!” Leeteuk beamed, “We’re always together.”
“Only because you never leave me alone,” Rainie mocked.
Leeteuk frowned, “That’s because you’re a lot like my little sister.”
“You don’t have a little sister,” Rainie rolled her eyes, shoving some rice down her own throat. For some reason she hasn’t had much of an appetite at all lately but she knew if she didn’t eat, Leeteuk would never leave her alone.
Leeteuk reached over and pinched her cheeks, “Of course I do! You!”
Fed up with whatever it was that was happening between them, Rainie slammed her lunch box on the table and stomped out of the room. Joanne sighed, “Teukie, not very smooth of you,” Joanne sighed before running after Rainie. Leeteuk’s eyes widened, unsure of how to react, as he watched the shadow of her back disappear behind the sliding doors of the classroom.
“What did you do this time?” Leila teased from her crowd.
Leeteuk scratched the back of his neck and shrugged, “Nothing... I think.”
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“Mother, I want to study abroad.”
Mrs. Yang lifted her chin from her files to make direct eye contact with her youngest daughter, a stern and worried look in her slightly wrinkled eyes. “Why?” She asked, weaving her fingers together and setting her hands on the surface of her office desk.
“I...,” Rainie stuttered while she tried to decide on one of the excuses she came up with previously, “I want to experience another culture, learn a new language, meet new people, try to become more independent.” Obviously, she couldn’t choose.
Mrs. Yang sighed, “But you’re only a sophomore in high school, you’re too young.”
“I’ll be a junior next year,” Rainie reassured, “This is the age when everyone else goes to study abroad! I can take care of myself, I swear.”
A shadow shifted outside of the office door and, being as sharp as she was, Mrs. Yang immediately knew it was Leeteuk. She glanced at Rainie, who avoided any sort of eye contact with her, and shook her head in defeat. “Fine, we’ll make arrangements with your school to have you study abroad starting next year.”
“Thank you!” Rainie gleefully cheered, giving her mother a big bear hug, “You’re the best mom ever!” Hugging her daughter back, Mrs. Yang wasn’t oblivious to the fuming figure on the other side of the wall. Leeteuk’s head was hung low, his hands lacked behind his back, as he kicked softly at the wooden ground.
Mrs. Yang looked her youngest daughter in the eyes, “I hope you’re making a wise decision, one you’ll never regret.”
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“I can’t believe you’re actually leaving the country,” Leila whined, hanging onto her younger sisters arm like a koala bear, “And for so long, none the less!”
Rainie smiled apologetically, “We’d have to split up eventually.”
“But in another country! Where no one knows you, no one will take care of you,” Leila remarked in disbelief, “No one!” Rainie laughed, tapping her older sister on the crown of her skull lightly. “What I can’t believe even more than that is mother approved,” Leila continued, “I thought she’d reject you right away.”
Rainie pursed her lips in thought, “I thought so, too.”
“Maybe she thinks you’ve grown up!”
An arm swung itself around Rainie’s shoulder and pulled her into a familiar chest. Leila was forced to loosen her grip on her baby sister, causing her to frown unhappily. “You play favorites, Oppa,” Leila pouted.
“That’s because you never play with me,” Leeteuk imitated her pout, “You’re too busy with your own friends.”
Leila crossed her arms defiantly, “You and Rainie are too busy being in your own world to acknowledge me, anyways.” She stuck her tongue out at the duo and skipped ahead, spotting her friends at the front gate of the high school.
“You sure get your news updates fast,” Rainie scoffed, pulling Leeteuk’s arms off of herself, “I’ve only told Joanne and Leila.”
Leeteuk laughed, forcing his way back onto her shoulders, “Neither of the two can keep secrets for long.” Leeteuk leaned in close to Rainie’s cheek, seemingly about to whisper something into her ears, but was quickly pushed away by her.
Rainie panicked, “If you keep acting like that, other people will think we’re dating or something.”
“Then let them,” Leeteuk shrugged, his tone heavy because he was a bit angry at her for pushing him away so suddenly, “Why does it matter? As long as we both know we’re not.”
“That’s the problem,” Rainie scowled. She gave him one last glare before deciding it was best to just move on and headed to her classroom, leaving Leeteuk stunned and speechless once more. As she stomped to her classroom, her eyes welling with threatening tears, she kept repeating the same phrase to herself, “That’s the problem.”
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Leeteuk dropped his head onto the desk and sat in silence. No one knew what to do, they had never seen the upbeat, outgoing, guy so depressed before in the years that they’ve known him. Sure, he was a foreigner and sometimes acted a little differently, but this just wasn’t normal.
“What’s wrong with you, man?” One of his classmates, Arron, decided to break the awkward silence, “You’ve never been so blue, out of the blue.”
Without lifting his head, Leeteuk twisted his neck from side to side in the formation of a head shake. “Nothing,” He groaned.
“It has something to do with your cute little sophomore sister, doesn’t it?” Jiro added. Though he didn’t receive an answer, the sudden jerk he earned from Leeteuk was answer enough.
“How did you-”
Arron pat Leeteuk on the shoulder, “Joanne’s my girlfriend, remember?”
“But how did Jiro-”
Jiro grinned, “Arron’s my best friend, remember?”
“Sadly, yes I do remember,” Leeteuk sighed, giving Arron a weak glare. “I just don’t know what to do anymore,” He nearly cried, “Why does this have to be so difficult?”
Jiro tilted his head and took a seat in the desk beside Leeteuk’s, “What ‘s the problem?”
“Don’t say that,” Leeteuk hounded out, his hands balling into a fist, “I don’t want to hear anything that’s even close to sounding like that phrase.”
Arron lifted a brow, “Okay... then what can we help you with?”
“She’s leaving the country,” Leeteuk lifelessly groaned.
Jiro croaked, “So?”
“So? So?! I have no idea where she’s going, who she’ll be with, or when she’s coming back,” Leeteuk scowled, “or if she’ll ever even come back.”
“She’s bound to come back,” Arron rolled his eyes, “This is her home after all, her entire family is here.”
“As for the former questions,” Jiro hummed, “Well, we can’t help you with those but you can help yourself.”
Leeteuk pouted, “How?”
“Ask her,” Arron replied.
Slouching in his desk, Leeteuk shook his head, “I can’t.”
“Why not? She’s your little sister,” Jiro questioned.
Leeteuk sighed, “According to her, that’s the problem.”