promise • jeon wonwoo

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Ssangmundong, Seoul, South Korea

8 Years Ago...

It was a chilly summer in their neighborhood at Ssangmundong. 4 group of friends were playing and their parents were talking to each other.

A truck fully loaded with furnitures stopped at a vacant house. A man in his 40's went out of the truck and helped the truck driver to unload the furnitures.

Curious Jaerin went to the truck and saw a boy in the passenger's seat.

"Hi, my name's Jaerin. What's yours?" little Jaerin asked

But the boy did not answer her. He just turned his head over to the other direction.

"Hey, I'm asking you." Jaerin poked the boy's cheek. And so the boy turned to her direction and just looked at her.

"Your still not going to answer?"

the boy nodded.

"Hmm, such a bad boy."

"I don't talk to strangers."

"W-What? But i just said my name earlier. I was the one who approached you."

"I don't trust people easily."

"You talk like an adult too much."

"Your point?"

Jaerin was shocked at how cocky the boy was. He was talking like someone who was older than her. But he looks someone who was the same age as her.

"How old are you by the way?"

"six years old."

"Wow we're just the same age and you talk like someone older than me!"

the boy just chuckled at her statement about him.

"Such a bad boy. Tsk." Jaerin rolled her eyes.

After a long silence between them the boy then spoke.

"My name is Wonwoo." while smiling.

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Present time.

December 13, 2015

Ssangmun High School

The memory of Wonwoo was still fresh inside Jaerin's mind. How they met and how he speaks like an adult to her.

She laughed at herself thinking of the memories they had when they were kids back then.

"Yah! Lee Jaerin, what are you laughing at? You've also became crazy."

One of her classmates yelled at her but she just ignored it went back to reading her book.

She is an outcast at their class.

Since Wonwoo left her, no one came to protect her not even her friends from the neighborhood. Her so-called "friends" told her that they were too scared of th bullies that were hurting her. It was a such a weak reason for her to hear that even her "friends" can't do anything.

She stood up for herself without the help of anyone not even him. Who she was longing for.

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I didn't know how to end this one :(