Chapter 1

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You may be wondering by now what sort of events happened to lead to a tragic tale. Let me tell you this is a supernatural or as most call it a fantasy tale. Magic can not solve everything, but let's allow the course of events to tell us more.

There was once a boy, raised in a homosexual household. Being a child in that sort of family he could not but believe he was adopted especially since his parents did not deny nor accepted the fact. Raised in a stereotypical town that barely accepted his parents let's say... He was not as accepted.

Our little boy by the name of Namjoon had his books as companions and his music as toys. Boys his age can be much crueler than girls so his first years of socialisation were cruel and full of beatings. It's not like his parents did not interfere, it was the school that did not care and the police that did not want to mess with it.

Prejudice.

But don't pity our little protagonist. He found a way around his piercing loneliness. You see the school he was studying at had a forest on one side with a fence surrounding it to keep the kids out of harms sake. But being observant and rather smart helped our little friend create a tiny gap on the fence big enough to fit him.

Every day he would slip through that gap holding a notebook, his pencil case and a book. In his pocket he held his phone and earplugs, a necessity for him since he had to call his parents not too few times to pick him up from school. By the age of 12 he had learnt that part of the forest like the palm of his hand. He would sit by a fallen tree bunk, mindlessly writing or drawing, while listening to music from his phone. Sometimes he would read or bring his food as well passing his time calmly and away from troubles.

Little did he know what the forest held deeper in its darkest parts. This little town was surrounded by endless acres of forest with  the roads leading to the highway being long and made inside said forest.

But that's a matter we will encounter deeper in this story.



Would you stay with me?

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