Hello once again! I already said crap in the last chapter, so just to remind you: Comment about your ships! I don't care about the other pairings, and since I'm in progress of this, I can change them now. Enjoy!
~Rin's POV~
The room was deadly quiet, sound of silverware clinking together echoing. Normally, I'm always fighting to say something at the table, but because Len was a mute it made no matter what I said feel embarrassing, as he couldn't respond very well back, nor start his own conversations.
"Thats it!" I cried, slamming my fork and fists on the table, also making Len jump back in surprise. "We need to teach you how to talk!"
Now, I was no speech therapists nor did I know if Len could physically talk, but I mean, he can't go on forever like this. I did have speech therapy when I was younger, but it was in like 3rd grade, so I don't remember much. But I do recall playing games as they tried to make us speak correctly.
"Just a sec…" I told Len, going into the pantry to get his favorite food; bananas. Sadly, we didn't have any (Lenka and Len eat them like there's no tomorrow!) so I just got the banana chips. He loves anything banana whether it's food or merchandise, so this should be good.
I took Len, who thankfully had finished his lunch, downstairs to the conference room Leon had for no reason, where there will be no distractions.
On the whiteboard I wrote out the whole alphabet, underlining each pair of capitals and non-capitals. This will be just like teaching a kid who knows how to speak how to write, only backwards.
"Now...each of these have a sound, as you may now," I started my lecture,"So we'll start form the basics and go onto the complex ones later."
Pointing at the A, I go,"A as in Apple."
Only a silence was heard after that and I realize that he probably didn't even know how to use his vocal chords.
"Ok-this is gonna take while…" I realized, as I explained to him how vocal chords work.
~Rinto's POV~
"Rin! Len! I'm home! You guys ok?" I yelled, taking off my coat and shoes as I enter the house. I thought that the meeting was at 8AM, but it turned out to be at 1PM...weird how I got that mixed up. Anyhow, when I left I thought that Lenka and Leon were here to watch the two, but upon getting a call from both of them asking if the guys were alright, we found out that we had left them home alone.
"Rin!"I called again.
No answer.
Checking the kitchen, they were no where to be found. They weren't out back on the tramp or in the pool, mainly because it was raining. Not even in the game room…
'Oh gosh, I hope they aren't...' I thought, my overprotective brother side kicking in. They were almost adults, but were still young and stupid.
Bursting into her room, I sigh in relief to find that no one was there doing 'stuff'. That is until I hear sounds coming from the room next to this one.
"Aa~" A male voice came from the other room.
'Who could that be?' I thought.'It couldn't be len, could it? But he doesn't talk...'
Slowly approaching a little closer to hear better, I hear other male and female(as in female, I mean Rin) sounds such as,"Oh~" "ii~" "Eh~" "Uu~". What were they doing!?
"Hurry, before they get home!~"Rin cued on and after I hear a thump, giggling;"Len!~"
Sweat dropping, I begin to worry what my sister is doing… I mean, sweat old Rin would never…. Like, I waited for marriage! And if I waited, so is she!
"VIRGIN ALARM!" I yell, before my little sister makes the biggest mistake of her life."DON'T HAVE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE! YOU'LL GET AIDS AND YOU'LL DIE!"#Best Sex Talk EVER.
Then, once taking in the scene, I completely froze up, my cheeks heating up.
~Rin's POV~
"Oh, ii, eh, uu!" Len struggled to say, barely managing to whisper out.
After like an hour, I had finally managed to show Len how to use his vocal chords. At first, his sounds were quiet, squealish and girly, and I tried not laugh at how shota sounding they were so I wouldn't discourage him. But now that he had gotten a little control over his voice, like most things I've taught him, he's caught along fast, and now I realize how deep and mature his voice is.
"Hurry, before they get home!" I urged him, wanting for him to be perfect for our family when they return home. We agreed that we should surprise them.
Upon hearing this, Len choked down his banana chips, banging his hand on the table in pain, making a huge thump sound. "Len!" I semi-laughed, semi-screamed out of worry.
"VIRGIN ALARM! DON'T HAVE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE! YOU'LL GET AIDS AND YOU'LL DIE!" Rinto randomly bursts into the room yelling.
Once he looked at what we were doing, he turned beat red and was like,"Um….what are you….um….doing?"
"...I'm teaching Len how to talk…" I said, turning beat red realizing what it probably sounded like we were doing."What….did you think...we were doing?"
"Um….nothing! Nothing!" Rinto said, turning even more red.
"Wanna hear Len talk?" I changed the subject to the relief of everyone except for Len, who didn't know what we were referring to.
"OK!" Rinto eagerly agreed, wanting to change the subject as well.
"Len, go on, talk!" I command him,.
Blushing, and saying in his sexy, mature voice, he said all the vowels, along with the letter B I taught him.
"What'd he say?" A surprised voice asked from behind us, belonging to no other than Lenka."Did he really just speak?"
Proudly, I stated,"That's right, I'm a miracle worker."
"What's so cool about that?" An all too familiar and eerie voice said behind me.
Flipping around, I see that it's Miku!
"M-Miku...what are you doing here?" I asked, shocked to see her here.
She could have at least told me she was coming!
"We're going to live with you while you're still here for the next 3 months. Lenka brought us,"Miku replied, her tone monotone and her face a poker face, telling me she was being legit.
" 'We' ?" I asked, noticing that there was only her here.
"You didn't forget about me, now, did you?" A mysterious, smooth, silk voice breathed down my neck, giving me goosebumps.
"L-Luka?" I squeaked, face flushed in fear.
"That's right. Get used to it, we're gonna be living in the same house for the next 3 months," Luka said, her usual sweet voice gone into one more harsh."Now, who is this handsome young man over here? A friend? Relative? BOYFRIEND?!"
'Boyfriend?' Len typed, confused at the word.
"Um, like when….what you call the guy you're dating," I taught him.
'Well, I'm obviously not that,' Len typed, making me sigh in relief as Luka and Miku frowned.'We've known each other for like 2 weeks, it's probably around time we get engaged.'
The last part made Luka and Miku rejoice, saying things like,'The ship has sailed!' while all I did was sweat drop.
"How did you not know about what a boyfriend is, but you knew about engagement?" I questioned, giving him a suspicious look.
I got nothing as an answer except a smirk. Crap, I think he is evolving!
Sighing, I smile as I say,"Come on guys, I'll show you to your rooms."
Len's POV
'Dimwits, they're all just idiotic dimwits!" I screamed in my mind, wishing I could voice it out at my beautiful Rin, I correct myself;'Well...almost everyone.'
Gosh, why do they have to get in the way of everything!? Can't they leave us alone for a while? I had to set Leon's lab up with a small explosion and fake the time of which Rinto's meeting was just to get them all out of the house! Luckily, Lenka's friend didn't have to have an 'accident' which was originally going to be Lenka's distraction; she surprisingly left for a real reason.
And now two more idiots are in my way; they'll probably be just as easy to get rid of, thankfully as everyone in this household sees me as naive and innocent. That is except for Leon who's been catching on, and possibly Rin. But what do you expect? I was in a 'computer' or what I thought was once 'Leon's computer', that had all kinds of documents of science and chemicals that I've probably read thousands of times, being in there for who knows how long. That is until that dumb auburn haired girl sucked me into that dull boring lot of nothing. Yet again, it did lead me to Rin, so I shouldn't complain anymore...
Everyone heading off to bed, I stay up there, waiting for Rin to notice me and to call me down with her. But alas, she runs off with her friends, bidding them goodbye as they head upstairs and she heads downstairs. Heh, at least they're not on the same floor as us. Now that they were all settled into their beds, not one of them noticing me now or the whole night, I just stay there, sitting in the dark. The dark. How I despise it's existence. Although, I heard that you hate things because they remind you of something you are.
Maybe that's why no one came when I called for help. Maybe that's why they're ignoring me again. Perhaps God hates me so much that he brought me this bit of happiness, just to take it away so I can suffer Even more, knowing what I can't have.
My anger and irritation bottled up inside finally released some of its self, taking it out on the fork I didn't realize I was clenching in my fist, that is until it snapped in half.
The noise it made as the metal clinked loudly on the marble table made my mood no better. Taking the sharp end of the fork, I head out the door. I didn't know what I was looking for, or why I was doing this ,but I just ran, looking for something, the moon shining through the trees, giving off an eerie but relieving feel.
My unexpected run lead me to an old, rotting, cardboard box: filled with a half a dozen kittens, mewing for help from their mother.
'Oh, are you alone, too?' I thought as though they could hear me, let alone understand English.'I don't have anyone else to help me either...'
I thought correctly as I saw what looked like a rotting cat corpse, being eaten away by mice and insects.
'Oh, so we are both alone...wanna be alone together?' I began to pet the fuzzy creatures, mewing in surprise and interest at the new touch.
I was beginning to feel better, when out of no where I heard a huge hiss. Flipping around, I saw a cat, or more orally what appeared to be the mother cat.
'Wha-what?' I thought, turning towards the kittens.'You...you lied to me!'
The mother cat then jumped into the box, scratching my hand to stop me from petting them. She began to feed them, as memories came flashing back.
'Daddy...Lenka...where are you?'
My fingers clutch in jealousy as the kittens fight over themselves for their mother, who is there for them.
'Is anybody there?!"
My anger boils as the mother licks her kittens clean, wanting-needing her to stop.
'Somebody! Help me!'
Turning back to the mother cat, I think,'You had this coming...' as I positioned my fork to stab.
Within the next minute, I had stained my shirt with blood, as the kittens mewed loudly, having witnessed their mothers murder.
'Who's next?' I thought, an evil grin on my face going ear to ear.
Rin's POV
"Ahhhh!" I scream lightly, luckily far enough from everyone else for it not to wake anyone.
I had just been having a bad dream. For some reason I feel a little insecure tonight. Looking at the clock, I see that it's midnight, and I feel like I'm missing something. Taking everything in, I don't see anything out of order. With the OCD I have, everything was neat and organized, not a grain of dirt anywhere.
Rubbing my cold shoulders, I head upstairs to see if I forgot anything. I don't notice anything in the dining room, despite the fact that we were too tired to finish the dishes, but that shouldn't keep me awake. Walking towards the window, fear gaining it's grip on me, my foot hits something cold and metal. Picking it up, I soon realize that it was the other half of a spoon or fork.
'Len!' A voice in my mind screams. He should have been there in my room by now.
Bolting down stairs into his room, I see that he wasn't anywhere in his room. Double checking in my room, he wasn't there either. Soon checking every room in the basement, he was no where!
"Len! LEN!" I had begun to freak out, for no known reason. Something in my mind just felt like something bad was happening….
"Rin," Miku's regular monotone voice now had a tint of worry, as I saw Miku and Luka down stairs, probably woken up by my racket.
"Where's Len!" I demanded, as if they were holding him captive.
"We don't know. Maybe he's in the bathroo-" "I already checked! He isn't!" I interrupted her, panic disrupting my senses.
"I'm gonna look for him," I said, before bursting out the back door.
Ignoring their yells of concern, I just took off running, not knowing exactly where I was going. Yelling his name over and over again, hot tears began running down my eyes. I eventually find him, covered in blood but sptill alive.
"Len!" I scream, both relieved and terrified to see him ok, but in a weird position.
Around him lay 2 dead cats, one rotting away, another looked like it had just recently been stabbed to death, it's nervous system making it's dead body twitch. Sprinkled around were also dead kittens, some with stab marks, some with legs bending the wrong way and even some wounded but still mewing, barely hanging on the edge of life.
Breathing heavily, I slowly approach Len, who seemed to have the other half of the fork in his hands, his head down cast avoiding my gaze. Once I got close enough to him, I fell on my knees and hugged him, crying into his shoulder.
"Don't ever do that again!" I sobbed into his shoulder, him still frozen, probably from the shock of me catching him red handed.
"Rin!" I heard a voice call from behind me, who I assumed was Lenka.
"Rin!" Another voice called, my guess this time being Rinto.
"Hey, they're over here!" A third voice said, only Luka having such a silk voice.
"Rin, what's wrong?"
"What happened with Len?"
"Don't ever scare me like that again!"
Voices yelled at me, myself not caring as I just continued to hug Len. I don't know when, but I eventually fell asleep in his arms, everything turning black.
Regular POV
"Wow...Len must have problems…" Luka said, to Miku, staring at the dead kitten she accidentally stepped on. The others had just left, and the two stayed back to admire, or investigate the scene.
Miku, not being one to talk much, just nodded her head, while fiddling with something in her hands.
"Whatcha got there?" Luka asked, curious as to what Miku could possibly have now.
In her hands was a sleeping kitten, one who just so happened to be out of the box when Len came. It was a ginger tabby and thin, as though it's mother neglected it unlike it's brothers and sisters, but it was now the best and only surviving one of the litter.
"Keeping it…" Miku trailed off, as she began to follow the others.
"If you take care of it," Luka shrugged it off, kind of happy that at least one kitten survived.
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