TO THE BONE, all of us are dead.

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄: the yu-jin and ho-sung chronicles

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Kang Yu-Jin was familiar with the saying 'if you want to be respected, you have to show respect first', she was great at english at school, however upon glancing at her desk mate Lee Na-Yeon, that saying flew out the window faster than someone's secret leaving the Lee girl's mouth. Ever since Yu-Jin had transferred over from Seoul to Hyosan High School for the rest of high school, she had sat in the same desk beside Lee Na-Yeon. The girl had gotten on her nerves almost instantly, constantly complaining and whining. So it was likely that they'd be at each other's throats every single lesson.

Which they were.

From childish bickering to shoves and insults, they were the farthest thing from friends. Thankfully though, Yu-Jin had basketball practice twice during the school day, meaning that she'd miss a few lessons, which translates to: freedom, peace and quiet. If she wasn't in class, she was playing basketball, even after school. She wanted to succeed and she'd be damned if she didn't. The Kang felt as though she had something to prove to her father ever since her parents had divorced. The plan so far was to get a scholarship to a university and either continue to pursue basketball or just go into business. Everything was planned out. It was all there.

She just had to execute it without any curveballs being thrown her way.

Her cousin, Yoon Gwi-Nam, was surprisingly quite welcoming when she, her younger brother Leo and her father moved in to his family's apartment in one of the most lavish complexes in the city of Hyosan. Though, Yu-Jin didn't fully trust him as of yet. As the days went by, he was actually quite warm and considering, offering to walk her to school and back. She even found him picking up Leo at the middle school. When his friends would come over, Yu-Jin would usually lock herself away in her room of the apartment until they were gone, which Gwi-Nam was perfectly fine with. She stayed out of his business, he stayed out of hers. But he'd pummel his friends' faces in if they said anything about her.

Yu-Jin was the embodiment of the typical try hard athlete; cold and demanding, especially towards her team. She had heard the word 'bitch' thrown her way either directly or indirectly, but she didn't care. Because she had her sights on the target she was trying to reach, and she'd hit it regardless of the carnage she'd leave behind; whether it be friendships or how people viewed her. Kang Yu-Jin did not give a shit.

On one certain jog, as Yu-Jin neared the apartment building she was calling home until her father had the money to get a place of their own, she set her gaze on a sight for sore eyes. 

Lee Na-Yeon. The bitch that was even bitchier than she was. Crying on the steps of her building.

Yu-Jin's brow furrowed as she took out one of her headphones, then rubbed at her eyes. Was she seeing this right? Did Gwi-Nam spike her green tea earlier?

"Stupid, pathetic child!"

Yu-Jin ducked behind a rectangular plant pot, the tall shoots with it's many low leaves concealing her presence perfectly, leaving enough gaps for the girl to see through. She watched an older woman yell at the girl, who's body shook every time she did so. The woman hit the girl across the face, tugging at her hair harshly and pinching her sides. Part of the Kang girl was saying that she deserved it. She was a stuck-up, prissy bitch to everyone around her, thinking that everyone was beneath her and treating them like the dirt on her stupid pink converses that she wore to school every day, constantly pointing them out for everyone less they forget that they were pink. Yu-Jin could've walked away, she could've turned around and walked into her building, she had passed it already. But she didn't.