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park residencebeing stuck in a wheelchair sucks. especially when you can't move your legs that much. i can't believe years had passed when it only felt like a month. no... it felt like days when i was sleeping. after that accident the pain spread through my body like how a thunder would hit the ground. fast, and painful.
mum wheeled me upstairs opening the door of my room still having the same decoration of my sixteen year old self. posters of korean boybands, music records, plushies of different kinds are still there on my cabinet. old polariod pictures of me and jeongguk still hanged on my mirror but i noticed my flowers had changed. "where are my daffodils, mum? jeongguk gave me those-why are those sunflowers?"
"you mean your daffodils? they got rotten, but he sends you all types of your favorite flowers every once in a while. when he's still in school he didn't have money so he just pluck flowers from gardens. but when he moved to france he sends these flowers, so we change it very often." my heart fluttered knowing he still cares about me even when he's a continent apart. but knowing the chance i could meet him is quite small.
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it took me atleast two months to walk and fully recover. they'd take me to parks, picnics, just so i could breathe some fresh air. until i got the hand of it and walked by myself without any assistance.
i decided to go homeschooling to advance my studies so i could graduate sooner.
"chaeyoung! come downstairs you've got a visitor!" called my mum from the kitchen. it's a strange feeling of excitement but i knew it's impossible. slipping my bunny flip-flops i hurry downstairs to see who it was. i stop my tracks on the stairs.
a girl, probably the same age as me stood on the door and caught me staring at her. she's beautiful smiling brightly, almost as if she's an actress. "hello, chaeyoung. i'm ms. kim jisoo, i'd like to discuss some matters with you." her voice is really soothing to hear. but why am i talking matters to a stranger?
or is she the one jeongguk's telling me in his letters?
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the sun, moon and stars🌙 R.K
Short Storyevery person is damaged. be it physically or emotionally. but how do you overcome it? how can park chaeyoung, a simple girl full of dreams, heal the scar from her heart and the damage she got from an accident? love? adventures in paris? or probably...