Between The North and The South | Taekook

Chapter 2 [The Boy]

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"Jungkookie, I missed you so much! Why did you leave for such a long time?" A familiar voice spoke pouting at me, and I chuckled softly.

"I'm sorry babybear." I replied wrapping my arms around him.

He giggled and led me to our usual hangout place, a beautiful farm in the countryside. Once we reached our destination cold air hit my skin that made me close my eyes inhaling it, trying to steady my breath for some reason.

"I felt lonely without you." He whispered, "I know baby, I'm so sorry for leaving you here." I replied, with a hint of sadness in my voice.

He held my hand tighter, "Please don't do that again." He said staring me in the eyes.

"I won't baby, I promise I won't." I whispered kissing the back of his hand.

I opened my eyes and found myself crying, again.

For the last couple of years, I always had dreams about a certain boy, we'd spend time together and whenever I'm with him, I always felt very attached, very close to him, as if I knew him in real life.

And whenever I woke up from my strange dream, tears always streamed down my cheeks and I don't even know why. I tried to remember his name so I can try to find him but the moment my eyes fly open, I can't recall a thing other than how he smiled at me and how my heart fluttered everytime I saw that boxy smile.

I haven't dreamed about him for 6 months now, making me wonder why he appeared again all of a sudden.

I looked at the time in my phone and found it was 6:30am, I still have 30 minutes to wake up so I laid there staring at the ceiling, my tears haven't stopped so I tried to inhale and exhale, in an attempt to calm myself a bit.

I made my way downstairs before my alarm went off and I could spot my beloved parents chatting, making me remember the events that took place the night before.

"Good morning Mom, Morning dad!" I greeted the both of them.

They looked at my direction and smiled brightly, they seemed to both be in a good mood today.

Ah, maybe I can pretend to be sick so I wouldn't go to school today.

"Good morning Jungkookie!" My father said,
"Your mom and I have something to tell you when you come back from school today!"

I looked up confused, "What is it?"

"It wouldn't be a surprise if we told you now, would it?" My mom teased.

"Alright." I smiled and started getting ready for school.

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"June 25, 1950 marks the beginning of The Korean War, The communist army of North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea with the aid of the Soviet tanks." The teacher read out loud.

"Why did they want to invade us?" Jihyo, an idol trainee, asked.

"The leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, wanted to reunify Korea under his control, but the United States came to our rescue because they refused to allow communism to spread anywhere in the world," The teacher answered,

"On July 27, 1953 the Korean war "ended" when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement stated that North and South Korea are to be separated, marking the end of the war with no one winning in particular, and one can argue that the war did not really end." He added, "Last year, in April 2018, both our leader and Kim Jong Un met and agreed to work towards acheiving peace between the two nations."

Jungkook listened carefully and thought about how would his life be like if North Korea won the war, they would all be under the control of Kim Jong Un right now. He wouldn't even dream of being a dancer, he wouldn't dress up as he wanted or be able to even think of dyeing his hair. His family probably would die of famine and poverty, he'd wish to die every second of his life.

The classes continued like usual, with Jungkook not being able to stop his thoughts of What ifs.

"Alright class, here's your homework you need to bring after the winter vacation."

The winter vacation.

Oh.

The vacation will start tomorrow, how did Jungkook forget such exciting and wonderful news?

As he was about to leave the class, he heard someone calling his name, "Jungkookie!" Jihyo called shyly.

He turned his head and was met by a soft smile, "Hi Jihyo, what is it?" he asked as he smiled back.

"I-I was wondering if I could get your number, so um maybe we can hangout sometime this vacation?" She asked blushing.

He chuckled, "Of course! Give me your phone." He said as he typed out the number.

She smiled widely at him, "Thanks, see you soon!" she said running out.

He chuckled and made his way out the school doors.

Jungkook walked into his house and found his parents waiting for him, he figured something was up the moment he looked into his father's eyes.

"Jungkookie, come here son." His father called.

Jungkook made his way to his father and sat in the couch.

"Jungkook, as you may know for the last couple of years all of us, the members of the organization I belong to did our best to help defectors of North Korea to escape the country and assist them once they reach South Korea, we sometimes succeeded, and some other times the consequences were not as positive." His father started.

Jungkook looked at him confused on why was he bringing this up, he nodded his head slowly inticipating what he would say next.

"Yesterday, I was able to send a full detailed map on how to escape through China to a young woman there. Her escapee brother helped me and it was safely sent to her without a problem, her escape will be tonight." he continued, pride evident in his eyes.

Jungkook looked at him, his expressions unreadable as he felt pride, happiness and worry at hearing the news.

"People that are suspected to be from North Korea are immediately sent to prison there, as China and North Korea are allies. She doesn't speak Chinese so it'd be easy to spot her out." he hesitantely explained, "We need to go there as soon as possible to help her, and when I say as soon as possible, I mean tomorrow. We're flying to China."

Jungkook stared at him with no expression, after a few seconds of silence he asked, "And you want me to go with you?"

His father smiled, "Your vacation starts tomorrow and I decided to show you how I do it, you're growing up fast and I want you to take my place and help people when I won't be able to when I grow older." he said looking at his son with hopeful eyes.

He gulped staring at his father, he felt excitement and nervousness rise within him but he just grinned, "Okay, I'm ready for an adventure," he said.

His father smiled and pinched his cheeks, "That's my boy."

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