Boy Meets Evil

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Kore walked towards the path that leads to the big tree and Hoseok follow behind her.

"How about you? What's your family like?" Kore asked and sit on the swing chair.

Hoseok sit beside her and leave a space between them. Hoseok looks up and his lips form into a thin line.

"Hmm... well, for starters I'm an orphan. Was an orphan i mean. I got adpoted when i was in highschool. But growing up in an orphanage is not so bad. I actually enjoy it. Nothing seems to be missing until i started to go to school and learned about the importance of parents. I often see my classmates mother and father and i start to wonder why some parents leave their child like they are just animals. I don't know anything about why they abandoned me or if they are dead or something. I just don't want to know. All that is important for me is that, me being an orphan have it's pros because i met Jin hyung and Jimin. The family that adopted me are a nice people but they often leave me alone in the house because they always have a business trip so I'm often alone. The time that i cheer up was only when i have to go to school because i could be with Jin hyung and Jimin. But at the same time i don't like going to school." Hoseok look at Kore who is already looking at him and listening silently to him.

"As i said earlier, Jin hyung and Jimin often protect and rescue me because i always got bullied by my classmates. It got to a point where they beat me up and i couldn't do anything but to beg them to stop and cry. I feel so helpless and i wondered why do i need to experience this when i am an unfortunate kid since i was born. Is being unwanted all my life is not enough punishment? Do i really need to suffer for the rest of my life?" Hoseok bitterly chuckled.

"Pathetic huh?" He asked Kore while looking at the flowers in front of them.

Kore clinched her teeth, she doesn't know why all of a sudden she wanted to kill those kids who beat him up.

"No its not." Kore answered through gritted teeth making Hoseok look at her.

"It just shows how strong you are for enduring all of it. Not being able to fight back makes you weak, it just makes you human and because you just chose not to do anything doesn't mean you're afraid but because you don't want to become like them and stoop to their level." Kore said in a monotone voice and poker face.

Hoseok open his mouth slightly. He didn't know what happen but those words that Kore said makes his heart melts and he feels warm inside. She is the first and only person who said that to him about his traumatic experience.

It's as if she makes his horrible and dark experience into a beautiful and colorful life lesson.

"H-how can you be sure I'm not just a whimp who are helpless and pathetic?" Hoseok thoughtlessly asked.

Kore turn her whole body to hoseok. "Hoseok, you just told me earlier that you killed someone just to protect the people that are important to you. Didn't just a solid proof that you are not a whimp?" Kore asked slightly smiling.

"And you said you didn't just become an assassin to proof to yourself that you are strong but you become one to protect the people you care about. And by that i think you are not weak. You just use that weakness to become your strength." Kore said and reached out to wipe a tear that escape from Hoseok's left eye.

Kore smile softly at the black haired guy caressing lightly his cheek. "We both had a difficult and awful life before become an assassin but at least we passed all that and we're still alive."

"But that doesn't make us a bad person." Hoseok said while leaning in to Kore's touch.

Kore sadly smile while looking at Hoseok's face who have his eyes close and peacefully feeling her touch. "No. That doesn't make you a bad person." Kore said.