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Seokjin

2 March Year 19

A damp smell came from the principal's room as I followed my father in. It had been ten days since I came back from America, and yesterday I had heard that I would be entering school one year behind, since the school system there was different. "Please take care of him." My father put his hand on my shoulder, and my whole body flinched without me realizing. "School is a dangerous place, there need to be regulations." The principal looked straight at me. Whenever the principal spoke, his wrinkled cheeks and the skin around his mouth sagged, and the inside of his lips were pure, dark red. "Don't you think so, Seokjin?" I hesitated at the abrupt question, and my father rested his hand more heavily on my shoulder. It was a grip strong enough to make the veins on his neck stand out. "I believe you'll do well." The principal met my gaze with tenacity, and my father put increasingly more weight into the hand on my shoulder. It hurt so much I thought my shoulder bones would crumble, and I clenched my hands into fists. My body trembled and I broke into a cold sweat. "You must always speak to me, Seokjin. You must become a good student." The principal looked at me with an unsmiling face.

"Yes." The agony disappears as soon as I squeezed out a response. I heard my father and the principal laugh. I couldn't lift my head. I only looked at my father's brown shoes and the principal's black shoes. I didn't know where the light was coming in from, but they seemed to shine. I was afraid of that light.