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City Wall | K.Sn

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Book Name: City Wall

Looking up from my book and out the window I was immediately faced with the grim reality I was living in, probably why I prefered to read my books in which I could disappear into the world I wish I was living in.

Outside my window and meters down I could look over the so-called 'No Man's Land', the empty and dull part between the walls that separated the city center. The windows on the floors below us had been bricked up when the walls had been built, mom said so. It ws in order to make sure no one escaped, I surely never did, a jump from my window and down into No Man's Land would be fatal no matter who you are, probably why my window and the windows upwards hadn't been bricked up with the rest.

I had always wondered how it was on the other side of the wall, in reality we were only allowed to pass between the two walls by one train that ran from the nearby station. Only on clear days could I see it go back and forth. But the problem was... you had to have a valid reason to visit the other side of town and be back before dark falls. I didn't have a valid reason nor do I think I would be able to be back before dark falls if I was to go to the other side.

Our neighbor often goes to the other part of town, she has an old granny she visits once in a while, being the last relative left in the family. She speaks so nicely of it, so much freedom and no police patroling every street corner you turned. 

Looking down at No Man's Land a thought immediately popped into my head. The boy who lived in the room across from mine, across the city wall. We had made eye contact the other morning before I had to go to school. He looked so kind and so warm, something I felt like I longed for every day in this part of town.

I immediately looked to the window I had seen him in and immediately saw him. It seemed like he sat bowed over a notebook of some sort, he was surely sitting by a desk that seemed to be pressed up right under the window. I quietly tapped on my window, even though I knew he wouldn't be able to hear it. Only the birds flying by would be able to detect the quiet taps.

But somehow it seemed like he sensed that I was trying to get him to look up, not too many seconds passed before he looked up and we immediately locked eyes. His lips immediately curled up into a smile that truly warmed me up from the pit of my stomach, and turned his eyes up into small crescents.

Within a split second an excited expression immediately spread on his face before I could see him get occupied with something and a notebook soon was pressed up agaisnt the window with a small word on it.

'Hello'

I smiled softly at the sight and immediately scribbled down my reply to him on a nearby notebook, making sure to make the letters big enough. In a way it felt unreal that a person from the other part of town would want to talk to me. ME.

'Hi'

The boy immediately smiled as I pressed my notebook up against the window and poked my h ead out from the side only to see him quickly bend down and watch him scribble down some more.

'I'm Kim Sunoo'

I smiled even wider at the fact I now knew his name. He was so warm and kind to look at and now he even introduced himself to me. I quickly scribbled down my name and pressed it up against the window for him to see. Incredible how safe and warm he made me feel.

'Nice to meet you'

I let you a small laugh at his reply only to hear him. I continued to sit and write my messages back and forth to him for a while. It was almost like I was living myself into all those fictional worlds I've only been dreaming myself into through my books.

He made me feel warm and secure, even if I was in the cold and dangerous part of the town. It made me wish that one say the wall would fall and we would get able to meet each other in real life. 

I wanted to hug him, to talk to him, to see him up close. 

Most of all I wanted to hear his laugh.