Caught || Lee Know fanfiction

14

"I saw your grades."
So it's the grade one.
"Oh," I didn't know what to say after half a minute of silence.
"The grades are your future. You should try as much as you can to have good results. And we, as your parents, should too."
"Dad, I really am trying to. I promise."
"I know. And it has its own value. That's why I wanted to talk with you. You're too good to go just to a normal school.
You should go to a much better school."
"Thank you, but I'm okay. Anyway, they're probably full and not going to accept me."
"Don't worry, I'd already applied you, and you got accepted."
"Oh, and how far is it?"
"It's probably as far from house as your current school. It's one of the best schools in Japan."

My heart fell into my stomach.

"So I have to move to Japan?"
"Yes, you'll live with me. We're leaving on Sunday."
I couldn't believe it.
"And what about..."
"About what?"
But I couldn't tell him what situation I'm in. Even I didn't know it clearly.
"Never mind." I went to my room upstairs.

I couldn't believe what had just happened.
I'm going to move to Japan.
I will leave everything here. I have to.
My home, my mom, my school, my friends and... Minho.
And yes, I can speak Japanese, but I can't imagine speaking Japanese every day for a few years.
And I completely can't imagine not seeing Minho.
From There, to our talks and going to the park.
I will miss it so much.
I will miss him so much.
Tears started appearing in my eyes.
I couldn't even think of it.
I have two days left.
Only two.
And not even that.
We're flying on Sunday.
What should I do?
Maybe I should say goodbye. But I'm too tired right now. I should get some sleep and say goodbye tomorrow.

I lay down to my bed, and a tear fell on my pillow.
And then another, and another.
I started crying.
I don't want to go there.
Not even a single part of me does.
Not even for my future.

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The next day:

I woke up knowing that I have to say goodbye. To everything.
It's not like I'm never going here again, but I think that I'll come here no sooner than next Christmas.
And it's only the start of June.

I texted Yujin and Winter.

Soojin: Hello!

Yujin: Hi

Winter: Hey, what's up?

Soojin: Can we hang out today? I have something important to tell you.

Winter: Sure!

Yujin: Okay, when and where?

Soojin: Wanna go to that café?

Winter: Which café?

Soojin: the café we used to like years ago

Yujin: Oh, I know which one!

Winter: All right, 2 p.m. is good?

Soojin: Yes, see ya!

I went down to the kitchen.
My mom was already there making breakfast.
"Hi, sweetie." she said as soon as she saw me.
"Hi, mom." I sat down to the table.
She'd put a lot of food in front of me.
"You skipped dinner yesterday. Did your dad tell you the news?"
"Yes, I was stressed out a bit."
"I know. Do you wanna go to our favourite restaurant for lunch?"
I smiled: "Sure!"

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I packed some of my stuff, and later, we went to that restaurant.
I couldn't help but smile when we got there. I loved this place when I was 10.
I even have a photo from this restaurant. We were going there like at least once in two weeks. But I don't know why, but I haven't been here since I was 12.

We sat down to the table where we used to sit. It hasn't changed a lot. It's still a small Korean restaurant with wooden tables. It's specialised for shrimps. The menu was already at the table, but none of us had touched it.
Mom looked at me: "Like always?"
I smiled. The waitress came to us.
"One shrimps grilled on gochujang with extra soybean paste on the top," then I looked at mom, "and one tuna salad with ricecakes and a cucumber lemonade with two glasses."
Oh, cucumber lemonade. We always used to share one. And I ordered a food that I used to love. And mom also ordered a food that she used to love.

"They have a new waitress." I said. "What did you expect? We haven't been here for almost 5 years." mom laughed.
Then she looked around: "But except for the waitress, it hadn't changed a lot."
She was right.

She looked at me: "How are you feeling?" I think she saw that I'm upset.
"I mean, it's strange to move to another country..."
"You know, I didn't choose you to go there."
"I know, none of us can do anything with  it."
"Will you miss it here?"
"I will." I sighed.
She took my hand and gave me a sad look.

Then our food and lemonade came, so we stopped holding hands.
"It smells delicious." I said.
We both took chopsticks and started eating.
"Wanna try some?" my mom pointed at her plate. I took a little of her food, and she took a little of mine.
"It's delicious!" I said with a full mouth.
"Delicious as always." she smiled and poured the lemonade into glasses.
She took a sip: "This one too!"

"What are your plans for today?"
"I'm going out with Yujin and Winter."
"And are you also going out with that Minho?"
"Oh," I can't say I didn't think of it because I was avoiding this question in my head. I didn't want to think of it.
I just don't know... how.
"I don't know."
"Come on, you should at least say goodbye."

After lunch, I went to the café where we were supposed to meet. I looked at my phone. It was 1:58 p.m.. I sat down to the table for 3. While I was waiting for them, I texted Minho.

Soojin: Can we meet at the park at 7 p.m.?

Then Yujin and Winter entered.
"Soojin!" Yujin came to me and hugged me. We ordered our drinks and sat down.
"So, how are you guys doing?" I asked.
They looked at each other.
"Quite ok. And you?"
I didn't answer the question.
"It's been a while since we've last been here, hasn't it?" I looked around.
"Yes, we stopped going here, hmm..."
"When you started hanging out with Minho." Winter continued Yujin.
I froze. I... ruined our friendship because of Minho? No, I didn't. Or did I?
"So, what did you want to say to us?" Winter took a sip of her iced americano.
"That you and Minho are dating?"
I nearly choked on my matcha latte.
"N-no, we're not."
"Please, don't be silly."
"So...?"
I took a deep breath.
"I'm moving to Japan.
Now, they almost choked on their drinks.
"But why?"
"I'm transferring."
They both hugged me. It wasn't tight. It was just, girly?
"When are you moving?"
"Tommorow."
"Well, I hope you'll enjoy it, find a lot of friends and that it won't be too hard to study in Japanese."

Oh, I didn't even think of it.
Studying in Japanese...
But, it will be hard.
And not because of Japanese.

Then we spend a few hours yapping.
After they went home, I checked my phone. No new messages. I went home for dinner. Should I go to the park?
Why should I? Minho won't be there. Why would he?

Anyway, I put on a black hoodie and went to the park.