Starry Eyes - REWRITTEN

四; Four

"It's about my family, and my past"

His jaw dropped, in all the years I had known him I had never once mentioned or talked about my family. Or my past before I met them, and since I have been back having not once wanted to talk about the years I was gone. To be honest, I never talked about my life or family around them, and they knew to never ask. Other then Si, no one knows anything.

So I explained it to him, all of it.

- PAST -

I was born into an extremely wealthy family, and I'm not talking kind of rich I'm talking at par if not more then Si's family. But my parents, who traveled a lot and were never home, never really wanted to talk about anything with me or want me to mention my family name to anyone until I had the proper training. The first of my friends was Ximen, although I had known Si longer. Ximen was always kind to me even if he put up a kind of tough outside, they always saw Jing and Lei together. It kind of made me feel as though he didn't want anyone to know we were friends, at first this made me retaliate against him until one day when I walked in on Jing yelling at Lei. I walked up to her and told her to stop, she told me she was doing nothing wrong and pushed me. I got right back up and opened the sliding door telling her to get out, immediately she pushed me backward. But this time I fell over the stool and crashed to the ground with a loud 'BANG!' that's when Jing ran out and Lei rushed to me. At first, I let the rest of the boys think that Jing was all sweet and innocent until one day I couldn't hide it anymore.

I was on the swings and no one else was around, I was humming to myself and Jing came up behind me and pushed me off. I got back up and sat back down, only to be pushed again. This happened a few times until one time she pushed me and my knee got cut off some of the ground. I didn't cry, I was soft at the time but held my tears back, and there it was she saw I wouldn't cry and she left. This would have also been unknown if Si hadn't seen the whole event, and after many days of Si yelling at me to tell him, I finally caved. He immediately warned Ximen and Meizuo and told them to keep an eye on her but not let anyone know. Lei became suspicious and eventually found out that she continued to "bully" or harass me after the event with Lei. He became enraged and shut me and everyone else out. My parents had horrible timing and took me for a week to meet business partners in Busan and Seoul, my hometown (Busan), and make friends with their daughters. When I came back Si told me to let Lei cool down for a few days, since we were entering high school at the time and Jing had lied to him again and my absence didn't help. So I did as he said and I let him cool down for a few days, but those few days turned into a month of him not talking to me. During this time my friendship with Ximen and Si grew, but during this month I was also harassed by Jing a lot more. At the end of the month when Lei finally talked to me at lunch he told me that I was rude for leaving. I apologised, but I couldn't promise him I wouldn't do it again. And as I suspected no more then two weeks later my parents and Si's parents took us on a leave to the states where we took a business course and were supposed to "Bond".

The whole month we were gone was absolute torture for me, and for Si to be away from his friends. We spent a lot of our free time doing boxing, and sports. Although I never truly liked them it was fun to hit and kick things sometimes. As Si's behavior seemed to be out of wack, he was always almost more calm around me. We grew up like siblings but without the resentment. When me and Si returned, Lei wouldn't talk to me for a week, but I understood. Despite the chances, I had to tell them "Hey my family is rich, I am the heiress to a big company, I am going through rigorous training, and oh yeah I'm to be married soon".

I was once told that I had to do things and sacrifice things to help others, and I learned that when I had to leave with my parents. I told them I was going to study abroad with my aunt, but really for the next four and a half years I traveled the world and learned many languages, trades, business, music, and other things. You might think that I actually saw my parents more because of this but instead, I saw them less, and it caused me to spiral. I developed many things over the four and a half years, including anxiety and a rare and small case of Autism. Often, I would retreat to music and performing but sometimes I had to retreat FROM it. I found that my only cure would be being with my old friends and so I begged my parents (face to face for once) to let me attend Ming De University and take their renowned business course. Although, I had to agree to a treacherous deal. I had to run the company while there or go back to Korea and study, but I was given an out. If it all became too much and I wanted to move to Korea, I had to be signed by a large entertainment company, not using my family name, and make it there or I would be sent back to China or the states to take over the company and marry. I took this as a last resort and the workload was not much since I only had to approve things and sometimes meet with large business officials.

But if I put that aside, I felt like I still kept a lot from them. And I was worried Lei might not live up to his promise.

A promise we made four and a half years ago, one that could change everything...

[ A/N ]
I hope you enjoyed this!! Her past is kind of explained here, but things will be expanded upon as we go along. I know we haven't really even hit the events of chapter 2 but I plan on having many many many chapters so I like to throw in a lot more events since the story was poorly written and had a terrible sense of time and plot structure. And to be honest it was all over the place with all the guys liking her then not and then them all getting into fights, but there is going to be some huge drama in here that spices up some things. So stay tuned for the next episode, oh and I plan on some events being left out from the original just so that the story flows better. Do you like the way that I basically have spanned out 2 or so days through like 4 chapters? I hope you do, looking forward to many more chapters.

~Undercover Angels