in which she moves schools and he becomes her popular, attractive classmate. but what happens when things change, and she battles an undeniable, burning attraction for him?
("with benefits" trope)
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!! tw: strong language, making out (nothing sexual...
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- EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT -
the final answer original story by @wonylattee
song of the chapter: magnolia - laufey
—— them (13+ slight violence and mentions of blood.)
IT WAS SAFE to say that life was quickly getting worse and worse for Haejin. At the beginning, it was good. She had minimum worries, minimum pressure on her shoulders. She was living a healthy lifestyle and things were just getting good.
Until Haejin hit rock bottom and fell inside a well which was choking and drowning her. It was like there was no escaping this monotonous and overexerting routine.
She was late to school almost every day, slipping inside the building just after the bell, or a few seconds earlier if she was lucky. Then, she'd cram all of her studying in during breaks, her friends worrying about her but also irritated at her persistence.
Then there was work, straight after school. Haejin would work until the early hours of the morning. As soon as she got home she would check on her dad and make him something to eat, although he wasn't eating that much lately.
And then she was forced to repeat that again.
Haejin shut the big doors of the convenience store, ducking her head to avoid the rain that was beginning to pour down. She shoved the key in the pocket of her pants.
Haejin zipped up the grey hoodie she was wearing fully, putting on the hood. As she walked down the road, the bottoms of her pants sloshed though the water that was beginning to flood.
Oh how she hated the rain. Despised it. It was like the world had held in all the pain and decided to pour it down all at once, tears streaming down uncontrollably as the sky wept. The world was supposed to be strong. It was supposed to be humans that were weak, not the world. But maybe even the world was crumbling. Slowly, yet steadily.
It was Thursday evening, well early morning Friday actually. It had been almost a week since Haejin had to adapt and find a way to solve this issue she had got herself stuck in.
Even though so many things had changed, there was one thing that stayed the same.
That strange feeling of someone's presence lingering behind her. It was present, every day as she made her way home after an exhausting day of studying and working.
