My Side

Family

     On the way back from lunch, we all walked together. We had begun talking about our likes and dislikes. We got to the topic of pizza and when I voiced out that I liked pineapple in my pizza I received looks and complains.

"Why don't y'all like it??! It's actually really good," I tried to defend myself.

"You have problems," Sehun responded with an expression that said 'I'm judging you'.

I turned to face them and begun to walk backward to deliver my statement. "You guys don't' underst-"

Without noticing I had bumped into someone while I wasn't paying attention and the other person was on the floor.

The guy looked up at me "Watch where you're going," he snarled out.

I quickly bowed down and said, "I-I-I'm sorry, I didn't see you it was my fault." I lowered my head.

He stood up and shook his clothes. "Do you think sorry cuts it??!" he said with a frustrated expression. "Look at my books," He said while pointing at them. I glanced at his books and he smacked my head.

"Look," he said voice clearly showing annoyance, "You made me drop them so pick them up."

I looked up at him and he yelled out, "What are you waiting for?!"

Then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see that it was Chanyeol.

"Junmyeon you can pick your own stuff up," he said while throwing the guys whose name turned out to be Junmyeon a glare.

"It was also your fault too so leave our friend alone," said Sehun as he stepped forward.

"Just screw off dude" ended Jongdae.

Then I felt Chanyeol begin to pull be along as we headed back towards our classroom.

Is this what it felt like to have friends? Cause if it was, I liked it a lot. We all walked away and Baek patted me on the back while giving me a smile. I hadn't even known these guys for very long but yet here they were backing me up.

After school was over Chanyeol and Sehun came over to our dorm to hang out. We were sitting on the couch watching some tv when my curiosity got the best of me and I had to ask.

"Why did you guys stand up for me?"

They all turned to me and I heard Jongdae chuckle. "Why would we not stand up for you?" he asked.

"I...I don't know it's just that, umm we've only known each other for a short amount of time and we don't know much about each other ." I said while looking down at my hands.

I heard Baek chuckle and raised my head to see him. "Were you homeschooled or something back at Sector D?" he asked.

My eyes widened at this "Y-yeah how did you know?"

"That makes sense then..." he said while looking down. A few seconds passed before he looked back up and began talking again. "Look Jongin, you may not have experienced it 'cause you stayed at home, but all of us, kids of the 'Evil' side were really mistreated." He sighed as he continued, "My parents were both from the 'Good' side, so my twin was always their favorite, I was often left alone and didn't receive much love or attention at all. It's a similar story for all of us, heck even parents of the Evil side prefer the Good kids better."

"What I'm trying to get at, is that we all know how it feels to be an outcast at school, events, and at home. We have all experienced loneliness before so why should others close to us have to ."

I began to feel something inside of me. It was similar to how I felt when my mom told me she actually loved me. As weird as it may sound, I felt like these people could all become more than just my friends, I felt like they could become my family.