Short Stories

Gyeongsang Minjoon

It is the second Monday since Park Jimin has started school in Seoul. He left his beautiful city of Busan where he would travel to the beach after school with his friends and enjoy the cool ocean breeze until sunset for busy central Seoul where technology is everywhere and the adults are busy with work and the kids are busy with school. 

It wasn't easy to adapt to how the Seoul kids speak and act and they weren't very nice about it either. He knew it would be like this when he got introduced to the class and told them he came to Seoul because his mother got transferred for work to Seoul and they would laugh at how he said mother. Eomui and not eomeoni. Every time he spoke they laughed so he stopped until today. 

His teacher wants the class to work on a duo project on the Korean language as soon as the teacher tells the class to find a partner no one went to him. Mostly everyone went Kim Namjoon their class President who was declared the smartest kid in the school. He paid none of the kids any mind and went over to Jimin who was very quietly and slowly starting the project by himself. He continued as Namjoon sat in front of him. He slid his phone onto Jimin's notebook and told him in Gyeongsang dialect, I'm from Ulsan so I know how you feel. Namjoon winked and Jimin's cheeks turned pinker than it was already.

For the next week, they spent time walking to Namjoon's house to do the work and Jimin would walk home alone after. Jimin hardly spoke a word to Namjoon and Namjoon wanted to fix that. So on the last day of the project, Namjoon set a plan to walk Jimin home and so he did. He tried everything in his power for Jimin to say more than five words but it didn't work and he got frustrated. Park Jimin Jimin stops at Namjoon's sudden outburst I just want to talk to you I don't mean you any harm and I showed you that for a week so what will it take for you to like me back? Jimin panicked I-I'm sorry I ca-can walk home from here. Jimin hardly takes a step and Namjoon yells damn it as he softly grabs Jimin's soft puffy cheeks and put his lips on Jimin's soft puffy lips. The peck turned into a kiss which lead to Jimin smiling for the first time in weeks.