Lookism: What Am I Even Doing?

Chapter Fifty-One

The Return of Daniel: (Daniel's POV)

After I was sent to the hospital for the incident at the Pool Club with Jiho, my life seemed to start falling apart. When the police demanded that we tell them who was laying down in that bed, I panicked and tried to lie to the best of my ability. Of course, none of it worked and all they picked up from Daniel Park was a picture of my real body.

But then to my surprise after what seemed to be the end, another name did show up. James Lee. And that's where the search for information about my second body began. I visited the address registered in the profile sheet and that led me to an unkept, empty apartment room that gave me no answers except for a high school jacket.

Moon High School.

There, I found even more questions rather than answers. Even though the place had been closed down and the windows were mostly shattered, there were cases and cases of trophies that all repeated one name. 'James Lee'.

231st Annual National Art Competition - James Lee.

198th Annual National President's Poetry Competition - James lee.

123rd Annual Swimming Competition - James Lee.

99th Annual Tennis Competition - James Lee.

Champion - Golf - James Lee.

Winner - James Lee

James Lee...

James Lee...

It was all James Lee.

And despite all of his trophies all I could find at that school was a picture of him and his family in front of an EH Mart. It was empty too. It's been empty for five years from what the old man who saw me break in told me. Five years...

Then, you know what happened when I found another lead? In the corner of the room there was a calendar from five years ago and on that calendar was the number 17 circled in bright red marking. Moving Day, written underneath it with an address. My address.

To top all things off, Crystal's dad already knew about all of this. He waited for me inside of my house and then threatened me. He told me to stop looking and that he would let me live but then he made me an offer. If I want more answers, I have to surpass DG. The very same DG that told me I had to unite the Four Crews. Both of them ask me these impossible things that I don't completely understand for a body that's supposed to be mine. Just what is the deal with it?

Then I did something stupid. I started pushing everyone away. I started questioning my friends and then Logan came into the picture as well. He was so determined to get with Zoe and I went back to my old ways. I became the pikachu that I've been trying to run away from this whole time. I thought I had grown but I was the same coward.

So being the coward I was, I left Zoe a letter explaining my situation. How Logan used to bully me and how I was ashamed of it. I was on the streets for a while not really having anywhere to go. I didn't want to burden my mom. Especially not after I overheard her talking with someone, someone that sounded like they made her happy.

How could I do that to her? Burden her when she's worked so hard to maintain me? That assholish me who never really cared or recognized how hard she worked? But there are lessons to be learned everywhere. While I was sleeping on the streets I got a bit more courage and I learned that good parents will always come running back to their children.

It doesn't matter how bad you mess up or if you'd hate them when they're older. A good parent wants what's best for their child and, even more importantly, they want to grow side by side with them. Just when I thought I had made the right decision to go back with my mom Crystal's sister Crystal, the tall one, she told me what was happening with Zoe.