Chapter One: Wildwood High School

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(All English quotes and actions that use words are used with Korean in the story)

                 My eyes slowly open with slight excitement for the start of the morning. As I take a slight minute to propel myself out of bet, I put on my bunny slippers at the side of my bedframe to start the day off. I lazily throw on some clothes and proceed to walk out of my bedroom. As I'm going out whilst walking through the halls, I hear a loud noise sounding like it is coming from a phone, "Ahh, mom. why must you always blast your phone on full volume when early in the morning. I ignore the loud sound on that side of the hall and walk to the other end in which the bathroom is located.  I start getting ready for a shower as I am simultaneously brushing my teeth.  

                Hello, my name is Joon Seo-Kim, but my friends refer to me as "Seo-Kim" out of Korean Etiquette. I am a second-year student in the Korean high school education system, meaning that this is my second year out of three in total in which I need to graduate. Today is the first day of Christmas break after Mid-terms, so I'm halfway through this godforsaken high school Carrer. All I can say is that I'm very glad it is Christmas break, so I can talk to my friends. Especially Woo-Suk and Kim-Lee. Most people say that "friend trios never work." but I couldn't disagree more. these people have been alongside me for so long its honestly hard to remember how long it's been. I remember I was friends with Woo-Suk first. It was in my second year of Middle School, I struggled to express how I felt about things that were happening to me at that age and I didn't talk to anyone. I always had my hair long since my mother and father never let me get a haircut that often. My mom was the adamant one on that rule however, she was very frugal with money, regardless of whether we had money or not at the time. Anyways, back to the subject. Since I barely cut my hair, I usually drifted my hair to the side. During our break periods, kids would pick on me, calling me "사이드 헤드" which means "Side-head." It really upset me, so I went to the bathroom, and I started to get watery eyes. As I was recovering trying to make it not look like I was crying, which was basically impossible, I got out and saw a young kid around my age at the time asking me if I were ok. I tried to talk, but my lungs closed up as my nose started to get blocked. Instead, I just took a deep inhale and exhale, as I shook my head up and down. "O-kay." He said, as if he didn't believe me which was honestly understandable.   

            However, he still kept talking to me about it despite my struggle to talk to him because of my social anxiety, I felt like someone beside my family was truly understanding of me. We talked for a bit and then after that we started hanging out a lot more. Learned a lot about him, such as his name being Woo-Suk.  We got really sad whenever people talked about high school during our last year of middle school, because we thought it would separate us, both me and him had parents that had our whole school career planned out including college so we just assumed that wherever we went, it would be far apart.  After middle school ended, I still had his cellular number obviously, but we talked a lot less and it was for the better. ...Now I Know what you're thinking, 

"I thought you said you were gonna' see him again. This doesn't really sound like you'll be seeing him anytime soon. " 

         well dear reader, the funny part about that is that when my mom drove me to Wildwood Highschool for the first time as I was at the front gate, I saw a familiar face. Dark hair, with a few streaks of brown, A slightly tall and thin figure. Slightly tan skin. I thought I was delirious about what I was even considering... but I walked past him slightly and then turned around, it was him. When I looked at him, he then looked at me. we understood that we were both thinking of the same thing "Is that them?". We then gave each other a big hug as we walked into the giant silver building that we would be spending our next three years going to. After orientation, they let you walk in the establishment for a while and that Is where we met another good friend of ours, "Kim-Lee." I've met so many other people after Kim. However, they don't get to me on the level that I Have with woo and Kim. Wildwood is one of the most prestigious schools in Korea, so I'm honestly shocked they allowed a "decent grades" girl like me in their school. I guess they saw my potential in the application process of getting into Wildwood after learning about what I want to major in.

        I know you all are actually dying to learn about what's happening currently in the story and not dwell on the past, so I'll make this part short. You may have noticed that I've talked about my mother a lot, but never a lot about my father. The reason behind that is because his dream job that he is currently perusing right now requires him to be outside of town very consistently.  He works as a tour guide for foreigners that come to Korea, so there could be total weeks where he isn't at home because he is out in another city touring people through Korea. because of that, I've barely been able to see my dad, and it has made my bonding moments with my mother a lot more common. Ok, now to get back to the actual story. 

     I hop out of the shower smelling like French vanilla and cherries, a truly admirable scent. I'm slightly exhausted at the thought of how jam-packed I made my schedule for this Christmas break. Today I have planned a shopping spree for snacks and groceries with my mom in about five minutes, then I need to work on a few assignments that my teachers gave during Christmas break. That doesn't even make sense to me either.  How are you going to give us work when we already have our grade. And after I finish all of that I have a sleepover with my friends, which will be SO much fun, but I'm basically expected to have a lot of energy, because I'm the party house of the friend trio and I'm not sure if I can do it all today. As well as having a full schedule tomorrow. As I'm putting my clothes back on again, I let out a deep sight and look at myself in the bathroom mirror. "You got this!" I think to myself in my head as I open up the bathroom door and walk out getting ready to make this day great.  The world isn't ready for   Joon. Seo. Kim.  and everything I can put into it.


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