The Masked Stalker

Chapter 1

Woo Soomin, a student, receives one day a message from a certain "mask_boy.122" on his social media. Mask boy's message was saying that he liked Soomin's content a lot and that he looked cool, he wanted to know if they could be friends. Soomin after reading the message felt a little happy. He then accepts and both become friends. Soomin asks what's his real name. Mask boy replies that his name is Jiah and that he is 23. Soomin after reading the message, proposes to face-call because he is a little curious to see what Jiah looked like and he accepts. Soomin launches the call and Jiah answers. Jiah places the camera so we can see his face. Soomin by seeing his face, is a little questionning. Soomin asks Jiah why does he wear a mask. Jiah simply replies that he has a scar on his face and that he was insecure about it. Soomin nods and says that it was not a problem. Soomin and Jiah talk for at least 2 hours. During that conversation, Soomin learns that Jiah lives near his university, He lives 30 minutes far. Soomin hangs up after these 2 hours and wishes Jiah a goodnight. Soomin goes to bed and can't stop thinking about Jiah. Finally, after some minutes, Soomin successes sleeping. He doesn't have many friends, he only has one friend who's Minhee, his best friend. When he wakes up,he prepares himself for school and when he joins Minhee, he talks with her about his meeting with Jiah. He tells her that Jiah was one of his followers and that he thought he could be cool so he wanted to be friends with him. Minhee just looks at Soomin, she sighs and asks him jockingly while chuckling if he ever has been told that talking to strangers online is dangerous because he looked like a naive child. Soomin answers that he knew but Jiah looked different and nice. Minhee has a serious look again and says that he should be careful and to tell her if Jiah does something bad. Soomin answers that he will. Minhee nods and them both go to their lessons. After finishing their lessons, it was the week-end, Soomin and Minhee they go home. After arriving, Soomin calls Jiah. They two became very close. They played games, talked all the day ect... Soomin and Minhee started to became less close and Minhee felt jealous and betrayed. How could her best friend abandon her for a stranger ? Minhee started to hate Jiah secretly. When she was calling him, he would never answer because he was in call with Jiah. Minhee started to feel pissed off. When the week-end finished, Minhee and Soomin prepared themselves to go to school. They barely talked, everything seemed different from usually. Minhee then started a conversation and asked Soomin why him and she were starting to recede. Soomin answered that it always has been like this. Minhee started to be a little upset and replies that they always were very close and since Jiah and him are friends everything is different. She also adds that she feels like he prefers Jiah to her. Soomin still is calm and answers that he still prefers her to Jiah because he knows him since only 3 days. Minhee adds that they started to talk less. Soomin finally lets go and answers a little angrily that he sometimes needs to be aloof and breathe without her always by his side. Minhee feels a little heartbroken by hearing this but nods and they continue their way to school. When they arrive at their class, they notice a new student. He had a black wolfcut with white highlights and a red one on his bangs. He also had dark red eyes and a natural blush. When they look more, they also notice that he wears nail polish; he had black on his thumb, index and pinky fingers and red on the middle and ring ones. He also wears rings on his thumbs, both pinky fingers and on his right index and left ring finger. He also was writting in a notebook. When Minhee and Soomin gets near him, he notices it and lifts his head he looks at them and salute them. They also salute him. Minhee starts a conversation and asks him if he was a new student ecause never saw him here before. The new student nods and Minhee asks him his name. He answers that his name was "Lee Yeonjin" Minhee introduces herself to Yeonjin and Soomin does the same. Yeonjin smiles shyly, he doesn't speaks often he is very introvert and a little shy. He also has social anxiety and school phobia. Soomin a bit curious asks him why did he change school. Yeonjin answers that it was because he was bullied. Minhee and Soomin feel a little sorry for him and Yeonjin says that it was okay and that he hopes he won't be bullied again. There is a little moment of silence and Yeonjin finally continues with a smile that he doesn't think that it will happen again because people in here look nice. Soomin and Minhee smile a little and reply that people are indeed kind. Minhee then asks if he already has socialized with someone and Yeonjin answers that he did not. Minhee nods and proposes him to be friends with them. Yeonjin can not help but feel happy. He didn't have friends before, it is just like he discovered something new. He accepts and the lesson start. They three started to spend more time together and Soomin and Yeonjin started to be very close. They were closer than usually and appreciated each others company a lot. Minhee also liked Yeonjin's company. At breaks, the 3 of them were sitting on a bench; Minhee was talking with Soomin who was always drawing at breaks while Yeonjin was writting stories. One day, Soomin even proposed to Yeonjin to start making mangas together. Soomin said it with humor but Yeonjin actually liked the idea. He just chuckled and Soomin joined him while Minhee took Soomin's sketchbook and drawed a little  thing on it. They 3 ended up laughing. As the weeks pass, Soomin still talks to Jiah every evening and all the week-end's days. As Soomin was closer to Yeonjin, they exchanged phone numbers but there was something he was a little worried about; everytime he tried to call Yeonjin, the call ended at the time of 5 minutes. Yeonjin always was saying in a worried tone that he'll call him later for never calling him again. Soomin always questionned himself about it but he decided to ignore this. As the days pass, the group liked every days they spend together. It was now Friday and Minhee was absent because she was sick. Yonjin profited of this occasion to tell something to Soomin. When the school finished Yeonjin told Soomin he wanted to tell him something a little serious. Soomin was curious to know and Yeonjin took him to a park near the school. They sit on a bench and Yeonjin looked down because he was stressing a lot and when he finally is able to look at Soomin's eyes, he sighs and tells him what he wanted to say.