Chapter One

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Date : August 18th, 2020 | Time : 7:23 | Person : Kang Ho-yeon

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Date : August 18th, 2020 | Time : 7:23 | Person : Kang Ho-yeon

It's the first day of high school. I'm not that excited but I guess I'm almost done with school. I don't really care about friends, popularity, or clubs. I mainly just go home and sing by myself.  I hop onto the bus to school and just listen to music. Since I'm a very quiet person who never had friends, I didn't care who sat next to me, as long as they were not older than 21 of course. As I was humming to a song, a boy tapped me on my shoulder.

"Is this seat taken?," He said, smiling slightly.

"It's not, go ahead" I said and shook my head to say 'no,' and slowly turning my head to the window

The boy looked around my age, 14. He had blonde hair perfect skin, and had the same uniform as me. The only thing that seemed off was that he looked kind of lost around Korea, maybe he's a exchange student? I stopped caring and kept listening to music.

"What's your name?" The boy said, making sure I was comfortable with it because he thought it was a very weird question to ask, especially because the girl was quiet.

"Um.. Can you go first?" I asked, quietly. I guess he has super hearing because he heard me, even though I ave a very quiet voice.

"Okay! My name is Nishimura Ri-ki! I just transferred to KINS high school! I lived in Japan before though." Riki said, smiling at me and staring into my eyes. "What about you?"

"My name is Kang Ho-yeon, not very special since many people have the same name. Um.. I was born in Korea but I moved to New York when I wa 7 for 3 years. I came back to Korea in 2018." I said, then when to look outside through the window.

"That's okay! I still think it's a very good name! And you lived in New York, lucky!" Riki told me, saying my name is good but I think his is amazing.

"You're name is still very creative, mine is normal in korea. And it wasn't very fun in New York since I was a very quiet person in a very busy town." I said, turning my head from the window, to Riki.

"Do you go to KINS high school?" Riki asked, "I noticed your uniform is the girl version of mine!"

"I do go to KINS, it's my first day there." I said, "Is it your day too?"

"Yeah! Do you um.." Riki said, stopping.

"Hm?" I said, looking at him.

"Do you want to be friends?" Riki asked quietly, I heard him somehow though.

"You want to be friends? Really?" I asked him, confused.

"Yeah, I really like your personality!" He said, smiling at me.

"Um.. Okay! Let's be friends!" I said, smiling back at him.

"Yay!" He said, happily.

We kept talking to each other and our stop came to our school. I was very quiet and listened to him talk. I liked that we were like a black cat and golden retriever mix. I like him as a friend and think of him as my best friend, just from meeting on a bus. If he wasn't on my bus, would I have met him? Well.. Here's what I have to say to him.

Thank you Riki, you're my best friend.

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