Dreadful - Lai Guanlin

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Hey, I made things a bit more dramatic that you'll be surprised. 

P.S. 

This is going to be long but it will be worth the read. 

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The walk to your school felt dreadful, you never wanted to go there anymore. It felt like a place where you did not belong to because nobody ever stood beside you, nobody liked you. You could only whimper in distress when the school gates appeared to your sight. With every step that you took, it was like a chain got tied to your neck  and it keeps on tightening. 

It was suffocating. 

"Hey, it's her! The girl who pushed Nami on the stairs." You heard hurtful words when fellow students pass by you. 

"She's so heartless, she can still come here even after what she did." The tears were about to pour out from you but one thing was holding you back, you never wanted to look pathetic in front of the people who judged you for what they saw and not the real story about it. 

Nami? Well, she was one of them too. But you never resented her for what she did, for shaming you in front of everyone.

You wanted to leave so badly but the thought of facing your mad Father scared you even more. If only your brother came back, if only he knew what was really going on. 

When he left,  your Mom passed away and he couldn't afford to buy tickets to come home to Korea. He was new to his workplace, and he was just starting his life independently. It was that moment when everything started to crash, problems arose one after another. You were left with a father who turned to gambling for comfort. 

School became hell too, Nami and her friends were already not on good terms with you when the teachers found out about them bullying you. But you had your brother to take you to school before, to always be there for you. And now he was gone. 

You knew that you were in a lot of stress, but you did not have the courage to admit to yourself that you were drowning in all the mess because you promised your brother that you'd be strong. That you'd keep your life straight and that you'd stand up for yourself. 

But fighting for yourself turned out to be worse for you. Nami stormed to you one day in fury, you finally spoke up to her and that was when everybody laughed at how shocked she looked like. She blamed you after that, and it got too physical that you accidentally pushed her until she fell on the stairs. 

It was horrifying to see, and everyone blamed you for it. No one ever stood up for you, because Nami came from a rich family and she supported the school as much as her parents could to make her life as pleasing as possible. 

"Hey you stupid! Why are you still coming to school?" They threw nasty stuffs at you, and you prepared a couple of clothes to change into because they attack you multiple times everyday. 

"No one likes you, stupid. Just fall on the staircase to be fair with Nami."  When someone said that, you couldn't take it in anymore so you rushed to the nearest bathroom.

It's been years, oppa. Where are you? I need you. 

Tears poured out from your eyes nonstop, everything hurt and you felt like you had no value anymore. The only person in this world who made you feel important was your  brother, but he never showed up after he left. Not once, he never came back. 

When the bell rang for first period, you wiped the tears away and went out of the bathroom stall, the other girls were looking at you disgusted for how you look like. You were a mess, your clothes was not even ironed. 

You were a complete mess. 

You went out of the bathroom disheartened,  Mrs. Kim had already started to distribute your grades for the semester and you claimed it without raising your head.

When you saw your grades, you felt even worse. The A's and B's that illuminated your paper is gone. It got replaced with D's and C'S that you never knew would ever come to you. 

There were times when teachers would reach out to you, but you did not want to assume that someone would care so you completely shut yourself down from anybody. 

It was the last day for the first semester, you bit your lip in worry when you thought about how your father would be like when he saw your grades. He'd be furious. 

"Hey stupid! A group of teenagers like began to spat words that you thought would not hurt you anymore. Because you've turned so numb that you couldn't remember when was the last time that you felt happiness only. 

You were making your way near the stairs in fast steps so that you could finally go home. 

However, a sudden impact made you lose your balance. There was a student who was running and he stumbled upon you. Just like that, you fell from the very stairs where you accidentally pushed Nami. 

"Oh my! She fell!" It was the last thing that you heard after blacking out.

"Please wake up princess, please wake up." A voice made echoes for you to hear. 

It was desperate, full of worry and impatience.

You recognized who it was obviously.

"Oppa?" You opened your eyes to see him clutching your hand like his life depended on it. 

"Oh God you're finally awake." Relief washed over his face, he constantly caressed your hand and kissed your forehead and he had become frantic. 

"You came back, Guanlin oppa." He vigorously nodded his head. 

"I am so glad that you are finally awake." He was constantly patting your hand and tears were visible in his face. 

"Be careful, don't move yet." He exclaimed when you tried to move a bit. 

"What happened to me?" 

"You fell into a coma after Nami pushed you to the stairs." You stared at him confused. 

"What? Nami pushed me? But it was me who pushed Nami." You were bewildered. 

"What are you talking about? Nami was the one who pushed you down the stairs." 

"But it was me, I even got blamed by everyone for doing it to her." 

"No, Nami was not the one who got pushed, it was you." 

"I don't understand." 

"Just relax first, okay? I'm going to call the doctor." Guanlin oppa disappeared right after, the excitement was in his voice but you were just totally confused. 

"You are finally awake, dear." The doctor came a few minutes after with Hyunbin tagging along.

"I fell into a coma?"

"Yes, after the incident happened."

"How long?"

"6 months." 

"What?"

"Yes?"

"What about Nami? Where is she?" 

"She's gone, she couldn't take the weight of the events." 

"She's gone?" 

"Yes, but don't think about that right now.You have to rest." Guanlin oppa kissed your forehead and sung you a lullaby so that you could ease your head. 

But that was when it hit you.

Everything was a dream, or was it not? It felt so real when everybody blamed you. It felt like it really was you who suffered, and who pushed someone off to fall down the stairs. 

Was it Nami? Was that what Nami went through after she did that to you? 

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Did I confuse you all? 

Did you enjoy it?

I hope you did. 

-Authornim 


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