Kim Sohee has just moved, and thinking she won't make any new friends at school, she meets the most popular group in school. She immediately feels a bond with Park Sunghoon, who has a similar past to her.
𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱: 17 august 2023
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THE TIME HAS come to leave this house.
Seeing all those cardboard packages containing all my items and clothes makes me feel empty in my chest. All those memories that would be better forgotten come to mind. Those nostalgic but painful memories that make you want to start all over again.
Yoon arrives. I run towards her and hug her as tight as I can. Yoon is my best friend. We've known each other since we were little, she knows well all the difficulties I've overcome or haven't completely overcome yet. Ours is a genuine and true friendship.
After putting all the boxes in the car, I hug Yoon one last time. Then I get into the vehicle with Aeri and Minjae and we leave. After a long journey we arrive at my new home. While rearranging things in the house, I take out a photo, or rather, the photo, from a box; the last one was the whole family: me, Aeri, mum and dad. I take it with my hands that exude pain and place it delicately on the nightstand next to the bed.
Once it was evening, the two spouses had to leave. I hug Aeri. She knew that it wouldn't be easy for me to be away from her, but it would also do me some good.
<You say I can do it? That I can get along without you and Yoon?> I ask, intimidated by the situation. <I'm very sure you will make it. You are mature and intelligent. And never forget not to let anyone push you around. Understood?> I nod. Then my sister leaves a kiss on my cheek, marking it with her bright red lipstick. She grabs her leather bag and walks out the front door, holding hands with Minjae, who give me a flying kiss. How stupid.
Aeri is so beautiful, mature and available to everyone. I would also like to be like her, but how could an incompetent person like me ever be? I think, making a face of disappointment.
I fall onto my soft new bed, and with tears in my eyes I think that I would never have made friends in that new city. The only one is Yoon, all the others have always avoided me because of my story, that of my family, that misfortune that had befallen a small, fragile and defenseless little girl.
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It's the first day at the new school. I'm not excited because I already know how things would have ended: me sitting in a desk alone, people would have learned about my past.
These are the only thoughts I have as I walk the route to school.
The bell has just rung when I enter school, so I run up the stairs, almost killing myself, and finally arrive at the door of my classroom.
