ASTRAY- LEE KNOW

Chapter 1

Samara

present day

This is me. Just an ordinary half Australian, half Indian girl with an ordinary family and ordinary friends and...quite an extraordinary life. That's safe to say because of my...quirky personality I guess. Well, people think I'm quirky because of my unhealthy obsession with Korean music- before you say, not K-pop. I think K-pop's hella overrated. Like bro, it's not even that good...I've only listened to some girl group songs and...I'm just not a big fan.

By Korean music, I mean hip-hop and RnB. Think XG, think PENOMECO, think BIBI, hell yeah!

And it just happens to be that it's two days before my 16th birthday, and I'm celebrating by going to South Korea for two weeks with my best friends, Leila and Baylee who are K-Hiphop fanatics just like me. The reason why? Not just because of the amazing food and city, but because my dad bought me three tickets to XG's concert in KSPO Dome AND three flight tickets to Seoul! XG just had their comeback with GRL GVNG, and oh my goodness I'm kinda addicted! I'm so excited, I've started packing already!

But there's another reason why I'm going to Korea. A reason personal to me, that I can't even tell my own father and my friends. Don't get me wrong, I love XG, and I cannot wait to finally see them live in person, but yeah. There's something else I want to do...

2 weeks ago

I'm on my way home from school, sitting on the bus with my airpods in.

we go hard every day

me and my girls ain't here to play

if you ain't tough, can't join the club

yeah we only got room for the baddest

made of winners, my team go ham with it

This song has been on my repeat since yesterday, when XG had their awesome comeback. This song has been running through my head the whole day, and I haven't been able to focus in classes like I usually do. It may be a bad thing, but for now, it's a good thing.

The bus arrives at my stop, and I get down, trying not to sing along to my joint playlist on Spotify with Baylee and Leila.

When I get home, I'm greeted by my dad, who has a kinda unnatural smile on his face. It's like he's hiding something...but he also looks happy.

Happier than all this time, after my mum...went. She disappeared almost three years ago, but I haven't been able to get over it. There was something wrong with her. Something wrong in her and my dad's relationship. Things...just didn't end well and she left. And never came back. Till this day, I remember the memories that I made with her in my childhood, and now I'm almost grown up. I don't necessarily need her, but I want her. And I'll do almost anything to get her back.

I know it was a long time ago, but my heart aches for her. I don't know how she is right now, and I don't even know if she remembers or ever cares about me. But something inside of me tells me that I need to find her.

Only problem is...

I don't know where she is. If she's alive or dead. I know nothing. So that makes it a bit harder for me.

Well, not just a bit harder. A lot harder.

Hiding my thoughts away at the back of my mind, I go to my room, throwing my bag down and basically shoving myself onto my bed, landing with a thump. I need to relax. It's been a long and tiring day at school.

I take out my phone and open Instagram, and scroll. 

When something catches my eye.

A picture.