The past & the present [COMPLITED]

How it all began

Moving to Gwangju city in my childhood days was really hard for me since everyone I knew was back in America. Even so it wasn't that sad since my grandfather lives here and the thought of us reuniting made me smile. Due to my moms job she had to come back here for a few years and John, my dad, stayed back in America. For my mom, coming back to her birthplace is really emotional and full of memories. Last time we saw grandpa 3 years ago for my 5th birthday so I was really excited to see him. Since school was supposed to start for me I ended up going to a nearby elementary school, usually as a new kid I'd just stare outside the window at th cherry tree in courtyard but this time it's different. Yesterday I met this boy named Hoseok, he looked like he was a year above me but actually he started school late and was the same year as me only by a different teacher, we ended up having lunch together every day. He would walk me home since we lived in the same street, he being two or three blocks away from my grandpas house. Hoseok and I would play outside and always be together at lunch breaks. Eventually we started developing passion for dancing and photography, he was really good, we ended up training dancing in the backyard of my grandpas place. The more time we spent together I'd always feel this warm feeling, at first I didn't let it bother me much and just have fun with him but as I grew I started realizing that I like him, not as a friend but as much more. Afraid of loosing him those feelings were locked in my heart. Time went by fast and soon it was time to start highschool so Hoseok and I met up in a nearby coffee shop to discuss about it. Since we both loved dancing we decided to go into an entertainment highschool and so we applied. Month after that we went to the school to check the boards and see if we are accepted and what classes we r assigned to. Both of us were really happy when we saw that we got accepted, we didn't go to the same class but did share some subjects together such as dancing and producing because they were short on teachers. Not long after September came and we started school, taking a train together since it was an hour trip till the school the most tired one of us will go to sleep while the other will sleep, it would often be Hoseok that sleep since he would stay up late and practice hs dancing after me dragging him through parks while taking pictures of the scenery, photography was my hobby and would calm me down a lot since mom left back to America and I stayed due to school. When school started the subjects were sure hard and Hoseok and I would usually study the whole day after school but weekend was ours to go eat ice cream and joke around, I never told him about my feelings for him so for me for us going out to get sweets was low key like a date and my heart would always flutter whenever weekend comes, but as he started to be the best of his class he gained popularity, we still did spend time between classes and on lunch breaks but one day while eating lunch I notice a couple of girls looking our way, mostly at me with angry frown faces. I didn't pay any attention at first but I started finding paper notes in my locker pinned with a gum...used one, the notes were threat type ones saying how I should know my place and leave Hoseok alone. I went to the principal after the tenth note that was pretty vulgar but they just shrugged it off, probably because the parents of those girs were some big celebrities or something.

It was Tuesday, 5PM, reason why I stayed this late was because of an essay that I was writing in the library. Going to my locker I see 2 girls, they were the part of that "fan club" for Hoseok that gave those threats, they was across of my locker so I didn't think much and just went on to put my books. Nobody was in school since it was late, Hoseok was sick so he stayed home otherwise he would write the essay too since the whole school had it and I wouldn't be alone. Opening my locker casually I see a note saying "Look behind you" and right when I finished reading that someones hand slammed against the locker beside me, this time there was 5 girls, 3 behind me and two in front of me. One of the two that were in front of me was called Mina or so and she was the leader apparently, something was shining in her hand and at the second glance I saw it was a knife, before i had time to run the girls behind me held onto my wrists and shoulders while Mina raised the knife to my cheek.