Busy feet roaming around, neon lights glowing, and smiles are in a dancing wave among the people joining the parade holding colorful lantern lights as they walked around the streets of Suwon, Seoul. It was an annual Lantern Parade celebrated by the citizens of the place, and even outsiders and foreigners every year. It was a very colorful and happy night for the people who witnessed the celebration just as smiles were seen among them ─ well, except for one. He's Chris, a 20-year old boy living life in a mess.
He can't understand why people find joy in lights, colors, and flying lanterns where he sees them as mere objects and don't mean a thing. Probably because he came from a broken family, living in his father's side with two half-siblings and not receiving love at all. He has a dark side and was living in a delinquent life.
Looking up at the sky away from the crowd as he uttered, "Those things are so useless."
"I don't think they are," a voice butted in.
Chris was flabbergasted from the familiar voice behind him so he turned around and faced her. "Well, I think they are. Lighting lanterns, sending them off to sky, you feel happy for a few hours, then gone while contributing toxic the next day," he said.
The girl was already expecting the answer but didn't lose her stance, "You don't understand the feeling─ may it be happiness, hope, or love, it gives to the people. You don't understand because you have no heart and you won't ever understand."
"Oh, and you think you know me?" says Chris in a challenging tone.
The girl took a few seconds to answer and sarcastically laugh, "Dear Chris, I'm the only girl in this whole universe who know you... capital K-N-O-W, since the day you hated the world. And let me remind you, that was a flashy seven years ago."
Solved the puzzle. The girl was Casey, Chris' most trusted person in the whole wide world.
Chris then finally burst into laughter. "Yeah, thanks, I'm reminded." His eyes scrutinizing her from head to foot, "Since when did you arrive?"
She went beside him and curled her legs as she sat on the pavement. "Just now," a smile flashed on her face.
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Killing Me
Fanfiction"I was thirteen since I lost hope in this world, and that was also the time when I resurfaced from the brink of killing myself, because I met her." Chris found his reason to live when he met Casey ─ the only person that he trusts in the whole world...
