Bring Me To Life (Chapter 3)
Title: Bring Me To Life
By: changline
Rating: g
Pairing: Changmin and OC
Genre: romance, a little angst
Summary: Aline was getting tired of her life, until one guy made her see that it was beautiful...
(Chapter 2)
(Prologue and Chapter 1)
“I wonder what happened.” I was on my way to the apartment I shared with my hyungs. Classes for the day were already over and I still can’t forget Aline’s expression after she talked with her father. There was certainly something wrong, but I can’t force her to tell, after all it is her private life and we aren’t actually close or anything…yet. Sigh! What is it about her that I can’t seem to stop thinking about her?
“Chang-min-shi”
“Oof! Jaejoong-hyung, please please please stop knocking me down everytime I arrive. I don’t think my butt can take much more.” Sigh. Jaejoong always does this to all of us, to me, Yunho-hyung, Yoochun-hyung,and Junsu-hyung, everytime we arrive or everytime he arrives. He says it’s one of his ways in showing us how much he loves us.
“But Minnie, you know it’s my way of showing how much I love you guys.”
“Araso Araso, but at least stop calling me Minnie, it makes me seem like a girl.”
“Okay.” He got off me and helped me up.
“Yah.” We both jumped at the sound.
“Yah! Kim Jaejoong, the fried chicken is about to be burned, get back in here already.” I laughed. Yunho-hyung is starting to panic. He really doesn’t like being left alone in the kitchen.
“Coming. Don’t get your knickers in a twist.” Jaejoong-hyung called back to Yunho-hyung.
Haha. Those two hyungs do seem sweet, no wonder a lot of people think their gay and are seeing each other. I decided to take a shower first before dinner. I feel really sticky and I’m really sweaty from PE class.
In Aline’s dormitory
Sob! Sob! Sob! I hate my life. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I don’t deserve to live anymore. Correction, I don’t want to live anymore. Maybe I should try jumping of a building, hmm…no, I might hit someone below. Slit my wrist? Nah, it’s a slow and painful way to die. Take an overdose of sleeping pills? Won’t work cause I’d need a prescription from a doctor. I always think about committing suicide but I can never actually do it. Am I a coward because I can’t do it, or am I strong because I won’t do it despite the temptation to do so? Sigh! My head aches. I don’t even want to get out of bed.
Maybe I should write a suicide letter first or I might forget when I suddenly do something stupid. I sat up in bed and started on my letter.
“Aline, why are you crying again? Is it your father? Did you two have another misunderstanding?” It was Misaki, my first year roommate and daughter of my mother’s best friend in college.
“What else could it be?” I answered. Not really up to talking to anyone, “He said I was hard headed, prideful, arrogant, and that he regretted sending me to school here. (Scoff) I can understand the hard headed part, but the prideful and arrogant? Why should I be? I haven’t done anything that would make myself proud. I don’t even like myself. I don’t even know myself. Who am I? What am I?” I couldn’t continue talking anymore as I broke into another round of sobs. I really shouldn’t live anymore. I brought nothing but grief, hurt, and disappointment to my parents ever since I was born.
“Come on senpai. Stop crying now. It’s all right.” She hugged me as I continued to cry.
Morning…
Yawn. I squinted my eyes at the light. It was morning already? Did I cry myself to sleep last night? Sigh. My eyes are gonna be puffy again today. I should really get up now, but there is really no need to yet since today is Tuesday and my classes don’t start ‘til this afternoon.
At the apartment…
“Yah. Shim Changmin! Wake up! Wake up or your gonna be late.” Yawn. It was Junsu-hyung.
“Umm. 5 more minutes, please.” I still want to sleep.
“Andwe! It’s 7:00 am already, doesn’t your class start at 7:30?”
“Boh?!” I looked at my watch. Aish. It was 7:00. I’m gonna be late again. I completely forgot to buy an alarm clock yesterday. Silly me. Yawn, I should really get up now.
“Yah. Shim Changmin! Wake up!” Junsu-hyung was already shouting at the top of his lungs. I heard the door to my room open and then Jaejoong-hyung spoke.
“Chang-Min-Shi. Do you want me to kiss you awake again?”
“Andwe!!! I’m up. I’m up.” I hurriedly went to the bathroom. Jaejoong-hyung really knew how to wake me up. I still shudder at the memory of the kiss he mentioned. Argh! He stole my first kiss. Sigh! It’s no use dwelling in the past now. I have to hurry up or I’ll be late.
At school…
Cough! Cough! Aachoo! This sucks. What did I do to deserve the cough, colds, and a sore throat? I didn’t even eat or drink anything sweet yesterday. I feel like I’m going to catch a fever anytime soon. Sigh. Today is one the worst days of my life. My father still isn’t talking to me. What should I do. My Religious Studies teacher was right. It is harder to live than to earn for a living. There isn’t even a single handsome guy to brighten up my day.
“Kyaaa!!!” About a dozen girls came toward me, but I instinctively knew I wasn’t there target or if I was then those girls have got a serious mental problem.
“Ouch! Hey! Watch where you’re going!” I was on my ass but the time they finished passing me.
“There he is. The guy I told you about. Isn’t he dreamy?” One of the girls said while the others made sounds of agreement. I got up and picked up my things, I was preparing to leave when my curiosity got the better of me. Maybe I should take a peek and see who their crazy about. As I looked through those girls, lo and behold, I saw that it was my classmates in Business Statistics that made them go crazy. Anyway, he was really handsome so I can’t blame them, but they should behave a little and not go shouting in the lobby.
Hmmm. I continued to watch him. He was reading a book and he looked so serious about it. He seems oblivious to what’s happening around him, I don’t think he even got disturbed with all those girls shouting. I didn’t know the annoying guy had a serious side. But then, don’t we all wear masks? Cough! Cough! Sigh. Being sick sure stinks.
I left the lobby and went to my next class.
After school…
“Wow Changmin! You sure got popular really fast.”
“And why shouldn’t he dummy?! He’s tall, dark and handsome. Hehe. I think even I may fall in love with him.”
“Stop it you two, it’s not that funny you know. Did you hear all those girls shouting? My ears were fair bursting by the time you two decided to come out of hiding.” My two friends Jerry and Ian, one day I’ll make them pay for what they did.
“Did you two think I didn’t notice you, hiding back there?”
“Aw. Don’t be such a spoiled sport. It was so much fun listening to their comments about you. ‘Kyaa. Changmin is so handsome. He’s so smart too.’ Hehehe.”
“You two are impossible.”
“That’s why you love us right?” These guys really are impossible.
“Enough with the fag talk already. It’s grossing me out.”
“Hahaha…”
At the school study lounge which was called “Garden of Knowledge”..
=Ringgg=
“Hello.”
“A-line-chan.”
“Yoo…Yoochun-senpai! How are you? Why didn’t you call as frequently as you promised?”
“I’m fine. Ehh, you missed me that much?”
“Not really. I just didn’t have anyone to pester while you were gone.”
“Hahaha, very funny. And you?”
“Me?”
“Uhuh, you. How are you there?”
“Um, fine.” I said trying to hide the sadness from my voice, but(sigh) Yoochun-senpai was always so sharp in hearing the changes in the tone of my voice.
“You’re not fine, are you? Did something happen between you and your father again?”
“Yeah. But it isn’t something that’s new. You know the thing that happened even before you left?”
“Yup.”
“That’s the one, but it’s not a pleasant topic for a conversation with someone who just called after three weeks of waiting on my part. Tell me everything that’s happened to you over there instead. How’d the recital go?”
“Getting bossy on me again aren’t you? You know you seriously need an attitude adjustment on that part of your attitude.”
“Haha. You like this part of my attitude.”
“Can’t argue with that. Anyway…”
At the end of the phone call…
“Hai! Sayonara senpai.” I ended the call with a smile on my lips. Yoochun-senpai always knew how to lift up my spirits when I’m down.
“Pray tell me what I should do to be able to coax such a lovely smile, such as the one you are currently wearing, from you.”
I looked up to find Changmin, Jerry, and Ian looking at me, but it was Changmin who spoke. Jerry was trying to stifle a laugh, and Ian was looking really serious and somewhat pissed at something.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“You have a lovely smile. Why don’t you smile more often?”
“Is that a compliment?”
Jerry couldn’t take it anymore and burst out laughing.
“Of course it was a compliment. Do you know we were standing there behind that post looking at you because he wouldn’t budge?” It was Jerry who spoke. He was clearly amused by the whole situation. I looked at Changmin again and noticed he was turning a little red, but he said nothing to negate Jerry’s words.
“He was like, ‘I wonder who she’s talking to that makes her smile and laugh like that. I wish I’d know how to do it.’ And I said, ‘do what?’ and then he said, ‘Make her laugh and smile like that all the time. She always looks so indifferent to the world everytime I see her.’ And I was like, ‘Oh.’ Hehehe. You should have seen his face. It was− mmmmphmph“
I looked at a red-in-the-face Changmin who was currently cutting off anything else Jerry might have said. They looked so hilarious that I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Haha. Anyway, I’m sure you guys still have a lot to do so I’m going now cause I also have something else to do. Bye guys.”
At the dining room in the apartment…
“Earth to Changmin, Earth to Changmin. Do you copy?”
Sigh! She really had a beautiful laugh and smile, but (argh) that Jerry purposely embarrassed me in front of her, not that it wasn’t true, well it was but he should have just kept his mouth shut. And I blushed, I could still feel how hot my face was.
“Oi! Shim Changmin. Are you still on earth man? Oi!” Someone hit me in the head which almost caused my face to swim in my food.
“What?!” It was Junsu-hyung who hit me, or more specifically kicked me in the head.
“Hyung, just because you’re the ace in the soccer team of the university doesn’t mean you can turn my head into a soccer ball.” I was kinda annoyed. It hurt, damn it.
“If you only came down from cloud nine I wouldn’t have had to.”
“Huh?”
“Chang-min-shi. You were spacing out in the dining table. Didn’t I say that was strictly prohibited?” I gulped. Jaejoong-hyung always took matters related to food too seriously sometimes, maybe it’s because he’s a chef.
“I’m sorry hyung.”
“So tell us Min.”, it was Yunho-hyung who spoke this time, “Is it a girl?”
“Boh?!”
“So it is a girl.” My other two hyungs looked at me incredulously.
“Changmin has a girl?” Junsu-hyung said with his eyes wide.
“Andwe! I don’t have a girl.”
“But there’s one you fancy right?” Why was Yunho-hyung always so perceptive? It’s just unfair.
“I guess.”
“When can we meet her?” Jaejoong-hyung asked.
“What do you mean meet her?”
“You know meet her. See her, get to know her. Oh Yun, I’m so excited for Min. What kind of food do you think she likes. Do you think she likes something with cheese or…”
I left the room quickly before they could notice. I still had to study, and when Jaejoong-hyung is in that mood it takes quite a long time for him to calm down. Hmm. I really wonder who she was talking to. It was pretty obvious it was a guy. A boyfriend perhaps? No, she already said she didn’t have one. A suitor? Hmm. Anyway, that guy must have been someone special. He’s one lucky guy.
By: changline
Rating: g
Pairing: Changmin and OC
Genre: romance, a little angst
Summary: Aline was getting tired of her life, until one guy made her see that it was beautiful...
(Chapter 2)
(Prologue and Chapter 1)
“I wonder what happened.” I was on my way to the apartment I shared with my hyungs. Classes for the day were already over and I still can’t forget Aline’s expression after she talked with her father. There was certainly something wrong, but I can’t force her to tell, after all it is her private life and we aren’t actually close or anything…yet. Sigh! What is it about her that I can’t seem to stop thinking about her?
“Chang-min-shi”
“Oof! Jaejoong-hyung, please please please stop knocking me down everytime I arrive. I don’t think my butt can take much more.” Sigh. Jaejoong always does this to all of us, to me, Yunho-hyung, Yoochun-hyung,and Junsu-hyung, everytime we arrive or everytime he arrives. He says it’s one of his ways in showing us how much he loves us.
“But Minnie, you know it’s my way of showing how much I love you guys.”
“Araso Araso, but at least stop calling me Minnie, it makes me seem like a girl.”
“Okay.” He got off me and helped me up.
“Yah.” We both jumped at the sound.
“Yah! Kim Jaejoong, the fried chicken is about to be burned, get back in here already.” I laughed. Yunho-hyung is starting to panic. He really doesn’t like being left alone in the kitchen.
“Coming. Don’t get your knickers in a twist.” Jaejoong-hyung called back to Yunho-hyung.
Haha. Those two hyungs do seem sweet, no wonder a lot of people think their gay and are seeing each other. I decided to take a shower first before dinner. I feel really sticky and I’m really sweaty from PE class.
In Aline’s dormitory
Sob! Sob! Sob! I hate my life. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I don’t deserve to live anymore. Correction, I don’t want to live anymore. Maybe I should try jumping of a building, hmm…no, I might hit someone below. Slit my wrist? Nah, it’s a slow and painful way to die. Take an overdose of sleeping pills? Won’t work cause I’d need a prescription from a doctor. I always think about committing suicide but I can never actually do it. Am I a coward because I can’t do it, or am I strong because I won’t do it despite the temptation to do so? Sigh! My head aches. I don’t even want to get out of bed.
Maybe I should write a suicide letter first or I might forget when I suddenly do something stupid. I sat up in bed and started on my letter.
“Aline, why are you crying again? Is it your father? Did you two have another misunderstanding?” It was Misaki, my first year roommate and daughter of my mother’s best friend in college.
“What else could it be?” I answered. Not really up to talking to anyone, “He said I was hard headed, prideful, arrogant, and that he regretted sending me to school here. (Scoff) I can understand the hard headed part, but the prideful and arrogant? Why should I be? I haven’t done anything that would make myself proud. I don’t even like myself. I don’t even know myself. Who am I? What am I?” I couldn’t continue talking anymore as I broke into another round of sobs. I really shouldn’t live anymore. I brought nothing but grief, hurt, and disappointment to my parents ever since I was born.
“Come on senpai. Stop crying now. It’s all right.” She hugged me as I continued to cry.
Morning…
Yawn. I squinted my eyes at the light. It was morning already? Did I cry myself to sleep last night? Sigh. My eyes are gonna be puffy again today. I should really get up now, but there is really no need to yet since today is Tuesday and my classes don’t start ‘til this afternoon.
At the apartment…
“Yah. Shim Changmin! Wake up! Wake up or your gonna be late.” Yawn. It was Junsu-hyung.
“Umm. 5 more minutes, please.” I still want to sleep.
“Andwe! It’s 7:00 am already, doesn’t your class start at 7:30?”
“Boh?!” I looked at my watch. Aish. It was 7:00. I’m gonna be late again. I completely forgot to buy an alarm clock yesterday. Silly me. Yawn, I should really get up now.
“Yah. Shim Changmin! Wake up!” Junsu-hyung was already shouting at the top of his lungs. I heard the door to my room open and then Jaejoong-hyung spoke.
“Chang-Min-Shi. Do you want me to kiss you awake again?”
“Andwe!!! I’m up. I’m up.” I hurriedly went to the bathroom. Jaejoong-hyung really knew how to wake me up. I still shudder at the memory of the kiss he mentioned. Argh! He stole my first kiss. Sigh! It’s no use dwelling in the past now. I have to hurry up or I’ll be late.
At school…
Cough! Cough! Aachoo! This sucks. What did I do to deserve the cough, colds, and a sore throat? I didn’t even eat or drink anything sweet yesterday. I feel like I’m going to catch a fever anytime soon. Sigh. Today is one the worst days of my life. My father still isn’t talking to me. What should I do. My Religious Studies teacher was right. It is harder to live than to earn for a living. There isn’t even a single handsome guy to brighten up my day.
“Kyaaa!!!” About a dozen girls came toward me, but I instinctively knew I wasn’t there target or if I was then those girls have got a serious mental problem.
“Ouch! Hey! Watch where you’re going!” I was on my ass but the time they finished passing me.
“There he is. The guy I told you about. Isn’t he dreamy?” One of the girls said while the others made sounds of agreement. I got up and picked up my things, I was preparing to leave when my curiosity got the better of me. Maybe I should take a peek and see who their crazy about. As I looked through those girls, lo and behold, I saw that it was my classmates in Business Statistics that made them go crazy. Anyway, he was really handsome so I can’t blame them, but they should behave a little and not go shouting in the lobby.
Hmmm. I continued to watch him. He was reading a book and he looked so serious about it. He seems oblivious to what’s happening around him, I don’t think he even got disturbed with all those girls shouting. I didn’t know the annoying guy had a serious side. But then, don’t we all wear masks? Cough! Cough! Sigh. Being sick sure stinks.
I left the lobby and went to my next class.
After school…
“Wow Changmin! You sure got popular really fast.”
“And why shouldn’t he dummy?! He’s tall, dark and handsome. Hehe. I think even I may fall in love with him.”
“Stop it you two, it’s not that funny you know. Did you hear all those girls shouting? My ears were fair bursting by the time you two decided to come out of hiding.” My two friends Jerry and Ian, one day I’ll make them pay for what they did.
“Did you two think I didn’t notice you, hiding back there?”
“Aw. Don’t be such a spoiled sport. It was so much fun listening to their comments about you. ‘Kyaa. Changmin is so handsome. He’s so smart too.’ Hehehe.”
“You two are impossible.”
“That’s why you love us right?” These guys really are impossible.
“Enough with the fag talk already. It’s grossing me out.”
“Hahaha…”
At the school study lounge which was called “Garden of Knowledge”..
=Ringgg=
“Hello.”
“A-line-chan.”
“Yoo…Yoochun-senpai! How are you? Why didn’t you call as frequently as you promised?”
“I’m fine. Ehh, you missed me that much?”
“Not really. I just didn’t have anyone to pester while you were gone.”
“Hahaha, very funny. And you?”
“Me?”
“Uhuh, you. How are you there?”
“Um, fine.” I said trying to hide the sadness from my voice, but(sigh) Yoochun-senpai was always so sharp in hearing the changes in the tone of my voice.
“You’re not fine, are you? Did something happen between you and your father again?”
“Yeah. But it isn’t something that’s new. You know the thing that happened even before you left?”
“Yup.”
“That’s the one, but it’s not a pleasant topic for a conversation with someone who just called after three weeks of waiting on my part. Tell me everything that’s happened to you over there instead. How’d the recital go?”
“Getting bossy on me again aren’t you? You know you seriously need an attitude adjustment on that part of your attitude.”
“Haha. You like this part of my attitude.”
“Can’t argue with that. Anyway…”
At the end of the phone call…
“Hai! Sayonara senpai.” I ended the call with a smile on my lips. Yoochun-senpai always knew how to lift up my spirits when I’m down.
“Pray tell me what I should do to be able to coax such a lovely smile, such as the one you are currently wearing, from you.”
I looked up to find Changmin, Jerry, and Ian looking at me, but it was Changmin who spoke. Jerry was trying to stifle a laugh, and Ian was looking really serious and somewhat pissed at something.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“You have a lovely smile. Why don’t you smile more often?”
“Is that a compliment?”
Jerry couldn’t take it anymore and burst out laughing.
“Of course it was a compliment. Do you know we were standing there behind that post looking at you because he wouldn’t budge?” It was Jerry who spoke. He was clearly amused by the whole situation. I looked at Changmin again and noticed he was turning a little red, but he said nothing to negate Jerry’s words.
“He was like, ‘I wonder who she’s talking to that makes her smile and laugh like that. I wish I’d know how to do it.’ And I said, ‘do what?’ and then he said, ‘Make her laugh and smile like that all the time. She always looks so indifferent to the world everytime I see her.’ And I was like, ‘Oh.’ Hehehe. You should have seen his face. It was− mmmmphmph“
I looked at a red-in-the-face Changmin who was currently cutting off anything else Jerry might have said. They looked so hilarious that I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Haha. Anyway, I’m sure you guys still have a lot to do so I’m going now cause I also have something else to do. Bye guys.”
At the dining room in the apartment…
“Earth to Changmin, Earth to Changmin. Do you copy?”
Sigh! She really had a beautiful laugh and smile, but (argh) that Jerry purposely embarrassed me in front of her, not that it wasn’t true, well it was but he should have just kept his mouth shut. And I blushed, I could still feel how hot my face was.
“Oi! Shim Changmin. Are you still on earth man? Oi!” Someone hit me in the head which almost caused my face to swim in my food.
“What?!” It was Junsu-hyung who hit me, or more specifically kicked me in the head.
“Hyung, just because you’re the ace in the soccer team of the university doesn’t mean you can turn my head into a soccer ball.” I was kinda annoyed. It hurt, damn it.
“If you only came down from cloud nine I wouldn’t have had to.”
“Huh?”
“Chang-min-shi. You were spacing out in the dining table. Didn’t I say that was strictly prohibited?” I gulped. Jaejoong-hyung always took matters related to food too seriously sometimes, maybe it’s because he’s a chef.
“I’m sorry hyung.”
“So tell us Min.”, it was Yunho-hyung who spoke this time, “Is it a girl?”
“Boh?!”
“So it is a girl.” My other two hyungs looked at me incredulously.
“Changmin has a girl?” Junsu-hyung said with his eyes wide.
“Andwe! I don’t have a girl.”
“But there’s one you fancy right?” Why was Yunho-hyung always so perceptive? It’s just unfair.
“I guess.”
“When can we meet her?” Jaejoong-hyung asked.
“What do you mean meet her?”
“You know meet her. See her, get to know her. Oh Yun, I’m so excited for Min. What kind of food do you think she likes. Do you think she likes something with cheese or…”
I left the room quickly before they could notice. I still had to study, and when Jaejoong-hyung is in that mood it takes quite a long time for him to calm down. Hmm. I really wonder who she was talking to. It was pretty obvious it was a guy. A boyfriend perhaps? No, she already said she didn’t have one. A suitor? Hmm. Anyway, that guy must have been someone special. He’s one lucky guy.