Almost 3 years had passed by following the traumatic incident. Harin had gone out to purchase some school supplies. After what felt like hours of being in the bookstore, Harin finally walked towards the queueing line.
Strolling around the shopping mall, Harin stops in front of a particular store. She then entered and looked at the phones displayed on the tables. "Yo, Haechan. You should buy this version, at least you could play the game for a longer time." A familiar voice said. Looking to the direction of the sound, her intuition about recognising the voice is correct. She noticed her old classmate, Jisung, speaking to his friend.
After a few minutes of her testing out the phones, she approached the staff and requested for a specific phone. As she waited for the staff to come back with the package she wanted, she noticed Jisung staring at her. Thinking nothing of it, she waited for the staff to come back and chatted with her when she overheard his conversation with his friend.
"Bro, stop looking at her. She might get weird out." Jisung's friend said as he lightly smacks his arm, making him escape from his intense staring to Harin. "She looks just like my old friend."
"Dude, it's probably just a coincidence. Maybe there's people who look like her?" Jisung's friend said. "Come on, let's meet up with Jeno and the others." The other friend said. After a few minutes of overhearing the conversation, Harin went back to what she was doing. 'Should I... buy an iPad? Or no...' She thought to herself.
'I might want to draw something in my free time, rather than just study or hangout... maybe I should buy it.' She thought again before deciding to approached the same staff in order to purchase the iPad.
"Thank you for shopping with us, miss." The cashier said after giving Harin her new devices kept in a package. Harin then left the store and walked around the mall for a few minutes before going to a cafe shop to get some refreshments. After that, she then went to a mobile store to get her SIM card, since the one she had was before the incident happened and she was worried she might get tracked by it.
—— "I'm home." Harin said upon stepping foot in her house. Her mother who was cooking, looked out to where she could see the door and saw Harin taking off her shoes and placing them on the shoe racks, before taking her purchased products with her. "Here, mom. I got your favourite iced latte." Harin added on as she placed the drinks on the kitchen counter. Her mother thanked her before going back to cooking, while Harin went to her room. As she placed her products on the side of the room, she went to the bathroom to freshen herself up and then went back to unboxing her products.
It took about almost an hour and more for Harin to fully finished unboxing all of her products. After keeping all her supplies for school and her writing materials in one corner, she then took out her new purchased iPad and phone. In the midst of setting up her phone, her mother called her for lunch.
"I'll be going out in a few hours for work. Take care of yourself dear." Harin's mother said after washing her hands before going to take a seat on the dining chair to eat her food. Harin nodded in agreement before lifting her utensils to eat her food. Harin's mother finished her food earlier than Harin.
Harin got up from her seat later on and washed her utensils and plate before going back to her room. She then continued setting up her devices and testing out several apps in her phone. After finishing all of her tasks, she then laid on her bed and just wanted to doze off when she instantly got up.
"Crap, I forgot my school uniform." She muttered in annoyance as she changed her outfit to a casual one and head out.
—— One of her favourite songs was played on loop. After listening to about 13 times, calculating an estimated duration of 39 minutes, Harin got out of the bus and walked around for a few meters before stopping in front of a store selling tons of high school and middle school uniforms. She then strolls around the store, looking for a specific school uniform for her school. When she was not able to search for it, she approached the staff who was folding the clothes.
"Miss, where can I find the XXXX High School's uniform?" Harin asked the staff. The staff told her to follow her as she walks towards where the uniform is located. Harin thanked the staff before looking at the size of the clothes.
"You again?" A voice spoke out. Harin looked towards the owner of the voice and saw Jisung looking at her. Harin let out a 'huh?' to him.
"Bro, are you okay? Did you eat something wrong? What's with you these days, staring at this... girl we met just now." His friend, presumably the same guy she saw in the phone store a few hours ago.
"Come on, we need to buy our uniforms." The friend said as he walked towards the staff to get a uniform. "Oh, the uniform is there, where the lady is at." The staff said as she points towards Harin. Jisung's friend thanked the staff before walking towards where Harin is located and looking at the uniform.
"Sorry for what my friend did. He's crazy."
"Hey, Haechan!" Jisung called out loud, making Harin let out a laughter. "What, it's true though. Am I right?" The guy whom Jisung called Haechan, asked Harin. She let out a shrug before seeing a suitable size for her and grabbed it. She then walked towards the fitting room to try it on.
—— Laying on her bed, she remembered the small interaction she had with Jisung and his new friend. "He still hasn't changed at all." She said to herself.
Out of nowhere, she remembered back in kindergarten when both of them were bickering and Jisung called her a shortie, whereas Harin called him crazy. That made him flustered and answered back 'No.' before crying. Suddenly, Harin started laughing, remembering the hilarious moments of her and Jisung bickering.
"Dear? Are you okay?" Harin's mother said after knocking the door and entering Harin's room. "N-nothing, mom." Harin answered, internally cursing herself for laughing out loud as she did not expected her mother to came back home.
'Mom's going to think I am one crazy bitch.' She thought to herself. Still embarrassed by her mother seeing her laughing to herself, she got up from her bed to switch off the lights and went to sleep.
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finally at a new chapter. i apologise for the numbers of chapter for just chapter 0
