Run away to Korea

1. Planning

Here I am again.. on my bed.. staring at the plain, dull ceiling. My earphones were plugged in, so I couldn't hear my father screaming useless things while being drunk. My door was locked, just in case he'd barge in and do something like what happened yesterday.

My name is Ye In, Jung Ye In. I am 16 years old and I'm Korean but I live in america. My life is pretty much ruined as you can tell. I go to school and I hate it there, even though its better than going home, I get bullied everyday by a girl called Abby. She's always saying rude things to me about my dead mum. But I like the atmosphere there. I love studying and reading. I'm not a nerd but that's the only thing I could do in my life. My dad hated me, he wouldn't care what I did. Even if I died, I don't even think he'd realise.

I get abused and screamed at everyday by my idiotic dad. I have so many marks on my body. My mum committed suicide 8 years ago because of my father. He used to cheat on her. He used to bring in women to our house and sleeps with them in front of my mums eyes. She used to sleep on the couch in the living room and she stayed quiet.. she was scared of him, just like I am. Until one day, she couldn't take it anymore and she lied to me saying she was going to the grocery store and she didn't come back for hours. They found my mums body in a river...she jumped off a bridge. I cried my eyes out for weeks, I stopped eating, I stayed in my room, I stopped going school. My dad had to go court and he was pronounced not guilty. That's pretty much my life.

I get up and sit near the window. I look up at the sky, "Eomma... bogosipeosseo... are you happy up there? You just left me alone like I was nothing..... Aishh"  I started crying.

I thought, I thought about so many things, so many thoughts ran across my head that I couldn't catch up with them. Then the right thought came into my head, 'Run Away'. Run away? To where? Run away to my birth country......... KOREA!! Yes yes yes!

I don't even think of the disadvantages of running away and quickly dash to my desk which had

 my laptop on it. I search for flights to Seoul. I found a flight. It was on Sunday at 4:45am, I grabbed my phone and checked the date 'Saturday 4th November 2017' and the time is 5:04pm. Plenty of time, I thought to myself. The flight needs 12 hours to get there.. woah. The ticket was $567, I paid for the ticket using my online credit card and printed it out. I work part time jobs so I can earn more money and it really helped.

I decided to pack now before my dad would come upstairs and catch me. 

I quietly unlocked my door and tip toed to my dads room. I found the suitcase that was on top of the cupboard. I was on the tips of my toes, trying to reach for the suitcase, I was really short hehe. I quickly grabbed it and and held it with my two hands. I ran quietly to my room in case my dad would hear. I locked the door and breathed out in relief.

Its been an hour and I'm fully packed now. I decided to leave my house at 1:00am since the flight was at 4:45am, just so I could have enough time to get checked in and eat. I was in the best mood. I've never been this happy. Before my mum committed suicide, she left me all the money she had, and a note. I kept them in my drawer which was locked. Nearly everything I own are locked.

I went to look for the key which was under my bed in a envelope. I knelt down and grabbed it. I unlocked the drawer and took the envelope filled with money and a note. I found about the money a year later after she died. In those past eight years I've used about $100 and the money in total right now I have is $1400. I unfolded the note that my mum wrote me before she died.