Two Romeos, One Juliet

chapter • one

Chapter 1: An Abnormal Day For Seol Anna

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Seol Anna ~ you

Today was a warm summer day, with a tiny breeze of fall blowing into the bright sunny weather. It was the most normal day that happened with my habits of doing the same activities on and on and on. It's just what I like. And one of my rather unusual habits is liking everything without change.

Change has many different meanings. There's change as in money, or pocket change. Changes in your body is very common for all of us since we all go through puberty. There's also changes in personalities, which sometimes scares me. But the most common change I know of in my sixteen years of living experience is the change that transforms everything into something different.

And I guess I fear that, considering I'm doing something that isn't a normal thing I did with a habit.

Change is where you have to move to join your other family. Change is where you'll miss your hometown and favorite shops or that park that you've been playing in since three years old. Change is where you'll miss your old friends and maybe even some of the kind ajummas and ajusshis in your neighborhood. Change is where you'll leave your house, the one that you were raised in for as long as you remembered. And change is the completely new life that's waiting for you in Seoul.

I didn't like it one bit. Not one muscle or cell in my body was excited once I heard the news from my parents two nights ago. But I can't stop it, despite today being moving day.

And like I said, today was the most normal day you can see for miles away in our town of Busan. I said goodbye to my friends on Friday, but I didn't mean it literally.

And on Friday night, my parents surprised me with the news of moving to Seoul to live with my cousin Hana and my uncle Woo Yeol and aunt Sae Young.

Of course, being the person that disdains changes of almost any kind, I fumed and had a hunger strike. I locked myself in my room for two nights already, plus this morning as well. Today was moving day, so I figured that my parents are going to knock or kick down my door sometime during this hour. I just know it.

I opened my curtains and squinted my eyes at the blinding sun. Light rays spill into my large room, filling it with light for the first time in two days. You can say that I am extremely stubborn, but whatever to keep my family and I here at Busan, I'll do it.

And sure enough, I saw a ginormous moving truck parked outside out house along with a sleek black car that catches the attention of the people who pass by. I forgot to mention that my family is rich, but I just don't like to mention it or brag about it. It's just not me. But my parents on the other hand, love to throw extravagant parties and brag about their daughter, a.k.a. me.

Anyways, by this time, my father came pounding on my bedroom door.

"Anna! Seol Anna!" my father yelled as his voice was muffled as I quickly landed on my bed with a 'PLUNK' and forcefully pressed my ear against my silk pillow.

"You need to get ready to move sweetheart! The movers are already here and we need to leave for Seoul soon! It's already two in the afternoon, and we're supposed to meet your aunt, uncle, and cousin for dinner at six to seven. You know it's almost a four hour drive!" Plus an hour or two for food and bathroom and food breaks." he states, trying to reason with me. I don't answer him.

"Anna? Wake up or I'll open this door myself." he says as I murmur, "Go ahead."

A few quiet seconds later with the noise of jingling keys to be heard, my father is already in my room and patting my head, gently in hopes of waking me up.