Silence - renmin

один

Renjun was mute, he hasn't spoke in almost 7 years and with a terrifying story why. He lived with his older brother kun since his mom was dead and his father was in a home meant for the disabled and brain damaged. Living in a town in America being two of the handful of Chinese in the area, not to mention their horrific backstory left them all alone together.

Kun, being 26 and graduated from university, worked all day and sometimes night, he was always busy with his job, but he was also an amazing chef and dreamed of opening his very own restaurant. They lived in a small two story home that was perfect for them, it was cozy and warm and all they needed. They were still pretty new to the town, only moving in a few months ago, another reason for renjun being mute was the language barrier, he could understand it and read it pretty well but when it came to talking it he got too stressed.

Kun told all his teachers about renjun but didn't tell the story behind why, only saying that it was because of childhood trauma and physiological damage due to the trauma. The teachers respected him and never put any attention on renjun. It worked, at school he was simply invisible, hiding in the old art studio that was now used for storage or the library during lunch, eating the bento box kun made for him in the morning.

But somehow he caught the attention of a very popular boy who was an attention magnet and total heartthrob. Na Jaemin was the soccer team captain, lived on the rich side of town, and always looked good, he got boys and girls lining up for him, but the only one he actually wanted didn't even notice the line.

Huang renjun was someone he was intrigued by, he was a mystery to the entire school yet he was really the only one who wanted to unlock the mystery boy's secrets. Jaemin sat behind renjun in English every Tuesday and renjun was beside him in calculus on Wednesday's.

"OMG he's just too adorable! I think I'm gonna faint" Jaemin squealed at his friends, talking about his crush the 7th time in less than 15 minutes, it was lunch, and all of Jaemin's friend group had it together. They were sitting in there usual table "what did he do this time?" Mark asked, not really wanting Jaemin to go on but he would've anyway, "I saw him in the library a few periods ago and he just looked so cute and small next to the bookshelves" Jaemin said dreamily.

"Where even is he? Doesn't he have the same lunch as us?" Jeno asks, "he does, but I don't know where he goes" Jaemin sighed disappointedly. "Wait you guys don't know? Didn't I tell you?" Chenle asks, shocked at himself, "you know where he is??" Jaemin desperately asks. Chenle nods, "a few days ago I was passing by the old art room to help Mrs. hara at the beginning of lunch and I saw him there" Chenle explained, "I thought I told you guys-" he was interrupted by Jaemin. "Imma go get my mans!" Jaemin yelled before running out of the cafeteria.

As he was running down the halls and up the stairs he thought about what he was gonna say, what would renjun say back? Would he even say something? He saw a vending machine and stopped to get a strawberry milk, renjun's favourite. Continuing at full force he finally found the old art room, needing a minute to catch his breath before he opened the door.

There he was, huang renjun looking more ethereal than ever, he was looking out the window before Jaemin stepped in the room, catching his attention and looking directly at one of the most popular boys in school. 'You are Na freaking Jaemin! Compliment him, give him the milk and start a conversation!' Jaemin screaming encouragements at himself in his head while confidently walking straight to renjun.

Renjun simply looked at Jaemin confused, no one else was in the room so Jaemin must be there for either him, or another reason. He tilted his head when Jaemin sat in the desk in front of him facing towards him, he couldn't lie to himself, Jaemin was very attractive but renjun never really payed attention to anyone like Jaemin. "Your glasses look very cute on you" Jaemin said, charisma dripping from the compliment, smirking at renjun's reaction.

Renjun immediately turned red and widened his already big doe eyes, before covering his face with his hands to hide his blush. Jaemin laughed a bit before continuing "Honestly, I think you being this cute and going practically unnoticed is a crime" Jaemin looked at the delicious bento box he had before noticing no drink, and placed the milk he brought on the table. Renjun tilted his head again, looking at the drink in front of him.

"I noticed you didn't have a drink, you can take mine" Jaemin explained, not wanting to say he bought it for renjun, renjun shook his head, taking the milk before handing it back to Jaemin. "Take it, please, the vending machine was out of my drink so I bought that instead even though I don't like strawberry flavoured things, I'll just throw it out after a sip and I don't wanna waste my money" Jaemin explained, starting to wonder why renjun hasn't said a word.

Renjun hesitantly took the milk before he grabbed his bag, opening it up and grabbing his wallet, unzipping it before taking out a dollar and 50 cents, offering it to Jaemin, "no. It's fine, just take it" Jaemin pushed the handful of money away. In the end renjun gave up, sipping the milk as he sulked, "can I ask you something?" Jaemin asks, his head resting on his hand as he stared dreamily at the boy in front of him.

Renjun gives a simple nod, already knowing what the question was, "why haven't you spoken yet? You don't have to answer or anything it's just that I don't wanna annoy you.. or anything..." Jaemin slowly stops his blabbering when renjun takes out a small notebook and turned to the very first page. 'I'm mute.' Was written in small, unsure writing but that was just because renjun was still learning English, Jaemin stared at the two words in shock, he new about being mute, sometimes it was a choice and other times it wasn't, but he had never really seen anyone mute before.

Renjun giggled silently at Jaemin's reaction, flipping the page and showing it to Jaemin, 'my name is huang renjun (黄仁俊). I'm from China and live with my older brother kun, I like to draw, and I haven't spoken in 7 years' Jaemin read softly and widened his eyes at the last part, 'damn, I don't think Chenle hasn't even pass the 15 minute mark' he thought to himself.

Renjun flipped another page, and showed it to Jaemin, 'I use this notebook to communicate with people' finally he flipped to a clean and empty page, taking out a random pencil from his bag he wrote 'ask me something and I'll answer here' he then showed it to Jaemin. Renjun cutely tilted his head, waiting for Jaemin to ask something, "oh uhh, well firstly I'm Na Jaemin, the soccer team captain, I have a younger sister who's 6 and I'm Korean but I was born here" Jaemin started off, pausing when the other began writing in his notebook.

'I know that, you're the most popular boy in this school' renjun showed with another silent giggle, Jaemin laughed too, happy that renjun at least knew who he was. "Ah, well, were you born mute, or did something happen, you don't have to say the story if you don't.. wanna..." Jaemin asked and renjun answered, 'something happened, maybe if you don't leave me like everyone else does I'll tell you in the future' Jaemin's heart tightened reading that.

"They leave you? Why? Your amazing and beautiful and adorable and I always see you help the teachers, who wouldn't wanna be friends with the huang renjun!?" Jaemin asked, just about ready to beat the shit out of anyone who hurt renjun. Renjun blushed at the compliments as he wrote 'I guess my notebook is annoying, but they've also told me that they just want to get the secrets out of me and when I don't give them what they want they get mad at me' he showed Jaemin. Jaemin was so close to asking who did it, a list of all the assholes he could punch but he didn't, he contained himself and decided to change the subject.

"They're just a bunch of assholes.." Jaemin muttered softly before continuing, "can you tell me more about yourself? Like your favourite food and colour and stuff?" Jaemin asked and renjun started writing again. 'My favourite food is Chinese hotpot, my favourite colour is anything pastel, my favourite animal are cats and dogs, and my favourite music is loona and things I can sleep too' Jaemin internally cooed at the small grammar mistake.

They continued, Jaemin asking as much as he could and renjun answering as much as he could, the smaller blushing every compliment Jaemin threw at him, and jaemin falling harder and harder. When the bell rung they exchanged numbers and once Jaemin was in the safety and chaotic energy of his friends he screeched at the cuteness of his crush, along with the fact that he actually interacted one-on-one with him.

While renjun was just hoping and praying that Jaemin wasn't going to leave him, cause for the first time in a very very long time he actually felt love with someone other than kun.

【end of chapter один】

My second book uwu, a short story with fluff and only fluff.