Geek's Obsession

Day 5- Friday

He's experienced bullying for his smartness, which he found extremely odd. In South Korea if you wasn't smart you were mocked and picked on. He didn't dare tell his parents, because they would beat him for caring about a matter so small. He was at school to learn, not to make friends.

Registration in the morning went by as normal, as people made the odd joke about his smartness. He however read his book about black slavery in the 17th century. He was two chapters in the gigantic book and wanted to cry. He thought, people think of black people to be bad, but look at how they were segregated and abused and slaughtered! If anything they have every right to be bad. The more he read the more lessons he learnt. By the end of the second chapter he learnt: to suppress hatred, keep quite and move on in life, how and when to bare any pain, and understanding.

First lesson was maths, which he enjoyed in general, but at this school this maths was like 8 year old maths. He finished an hour's lesson in ten minutes. The teacher gave him harder work and he finished it instantly, so she just called office and told them she can't have him in his class.

The teacher was middle aged with dark brown hair and brown oak skin. She looked south Asian in his eyes. She wore a green blouse, a dark oak brown skirt and black heels. She had her hair in a semi-high ponytail. She had acne scars all over her cheeks. However if she had looked after her skin she would have been beautiful, thought Jaesung.

"I can't put him in a top math's set, because he is in it already." Said the teacher who sounded panicked.
"Fine, at lunch I'll make his sit a GCSE mock to really find out his ability." She finished off. She wasn't the only teacher who said this, Jaesung's english teacher, biology, chemistry and physics teacher said this, and his music teacher.

So on that same day he took all the exams during and after lunch, skipping any other lessons he had. If he was taking all these test, it should've taken him until 5pm and the whole of Monday to finish, which was when after school activities ended. His parents were informed that Jaesung me be at school due to his exams, but Jaesung's parents told Jaesung -in Korean- to be home at 3:45 the latest. Obviously the boy obeyed his parents, but what shocked all the teachers was he completed 14 exams in under three hours. To him these so called year 11 mock GCSE exams were still a piece of cake. So he left school the same time as other students and made it home by 3:40.

He greeted his mother and father with a bow before pecking his mother's cheek. His mother said there's cheesy pasta, some sort of weird chicken and chocolate rum cake in the kitchen. He nodded his head and headed towards the small kitchen, but his father pulled him back. He looked up at his bearded father with fear and confusion.

"Why is your bookshelf full of slavery books, or autobiographies/ biographies of black figures in the worlds society? What's happened to your history books? Your action books and so on?" His father said in Korean, sharply.

"What?" Jaesung asked confused.

"Blacks are not as innocent as you may seem. They kill each other. They're in gangs and do very bad things. Trust me boy!" His said with venom. He slowly let go of Jaesung's collar and took heavy breaths.

After his father said 'trust me boy!' Jaesung knew for fact that he's lost his father. He doesn't know how or why, but this wasn't his father's behaviour. He could never trust his father again. His father was ignorant and unloving and Jaesung blamed England for taking his father away.
There's good and bad in every race or group in society. We're all human! He thought in his head, whilst he dished out the macaroni cheese, 'weird' chicken and.. dumplings? They looked fried and were hard. He heated it up, before taking a picture of the 'weird' chicken on his father's phone and asking what kind of chicken it was. The name of it was jerk chicken, which originated from Jamaica. He doesn't know anything of Jamaica, but his brain is signalling that the current book he's reading is called The Caribbean and that his eyes skimmed across the noun before.