Nails ~ Gongfourz/Taehan

nineteen: Han Taesan²

As his high school days continued with no friends. After that sudden left of his only friend—Janhae, Taesan became the outcast .

Come to think of it, how can liking your own friend disgusting? It's your heart, you can't control it.

It's your heart and brain against this world.

Taesan came home, early as always but when he had Janhae— he always got home either late nights or afternoon.

But this time, after school he immediately rode in his bicycle and went back home. It's always those loops. He wakes up, go to school, eat, home, sleep then all the way around again.

Will there be even an end of his boring and uncomfortable loop? Will someone be?

One warm afternoon, Taesan rode his usual bicycle back to home but suddenly he lost balance and fell, causing a scratch/wound form his knee.

He took a gaze at it before trying to get up. Not even a second after getting up, he immediately felt pain and just sat down by the side walk.

Taesan glanced left and right through the road and pulled his bicycle Infront of him. He sat here for awhile, trying to think of what to do.

His phone was dead but even if it's not dead, who will he call? He doesn't have a single friend, his father? No, he never answers even one call from his own son. His grandmother? She doesn't have a phone, she's busy knitting.

He thinks for awhile and a sudden (probably) same age male approached him and kneeled down to check the wound.

"Hey, what happened?" He asked. Taesan eyed his bicycle. The male then hazed behind and thought a while as he nods. "You fell?" He asks.

Taesan nods. "Can you wait here? I can run to the near store to buy some to dress your wound" Taesan thinks for awhile and after, he agreed.

How kind this stranger was.

Stranger?

Minutes later,the same stranger ran back to Taesan and kneeled down again. He puts a plastic bag on the floor and grabbed a cotton as he gently tapped it on the knee of Taesan.

After that, the stranger beckons Taesan to stand up if he can. Taesan tried and felt a sting of pain but he can (a bit)

The stranger thinks and stood up next to Taesan. "You can go by yourself, right?" He asked and Taesan nods.

"Be careful, I'll get going now" The stranger bid a farewell and left. Come to think of it, Taesan noticed the stranger wasn't wearing a uniform.

"Hm, does he even go to school.." he muttered but brushed it off as he grabbed his bicycle and rode it again.

Remembering what this stranger said, he tried to be careful but he kept feeling the pain of his knee. He couldn't even pedal right, he kept stopping time by time.

After, he arrived back home and walked inside the house. Ofcourse, his grandmother Fell asleep while knitting. Taesan smiled a bit and walked upstairs to his room.

Same doing, he does his homework and scroll through nonsense in his phone. Next year he'll be at 9th grade(that's their present grade)

At dinner, Taesan sat down next to his grandmother and grabbed his fork and spoon to eat the served food his grandmother cooked for he and his father.

The dinner was unusually quiet not until his father spoke. "Dongmin, you're switching schools" Taesan looked at his father with a confused with a mix of shock.

"Right now?" He asked. His father nods. "You'll leave that school next week" he answered. Taesan raised a brow. "Im switching at the middle of a semester? Why?"