Chasing After The Wind [P.JM]

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KIM YUNSEO'S POV

오후 8시 24 분

I was right in front of our house, fixing my posture and clothes. It's always like I'm an entire new person when I face my parents, because that's what they made me into. They have their standards that I always have to meet either way and I'm seriously getting sick of it. As I entered the house, both my parents were there to my surprise. "I'm home, mother, father." I greeted them formally as I leave my shoes right beside the doorway. "Mhm, come eat with us when you're done." My mother glanced at me while both of them were eating.

Quickly climbing up to my room, I sat on the bed and took off my bag, changing into sleepwear before going back down. So it goes again, I have to be who I'm not. I just hope this one doesn't take too long. Sitting across them, I began filling my plate with the dishes set in front of me. "I heard you got the highest score in your Mathematics class. You're such a genius like your father!" Father complimented, while I forced a smile in gratitude. Getting a high score is not new to me at all. I just wish I could get other compliments rather than them being all about my grades.

"You're graduating soon.. so, we've talked about the company and your takeover soon. You knew that, right?" My mother brought up in the middle of the conversation. I just kept nodding at whatever they spoke. "And you also know you have to keep doing well until you finish college, right? Your father's friends are already having their children taking over their business even before they graduated but we let you spend college on your own because you wanted to. You better do well, alright?"

They only talk about either business or my grades. I've never enjoyed school just because they set high standards that I always need to meet. Since middle school, I got used to studying so much that it became unhealthy. I would spend sleepless nights just to ace the test and even got hospitalized one time. But even with that, not even words of encouragement or care came out of their lips. Instead, they told me to recover so I could get a high score. I was scared to disappoint them, and wondered why it was so important to them that I get high grades. They never asked me if I was fine though. I was suffocated, and until now I am.

After the dinner than felt like forever, I finally had the chance to be on my own, inside my room. Then again, I was studying. This time I didn't spend too much time with the books. The test was still in a week so I still had plenty of time to study. Laying on the bed, I tried my best to sleep, burying my face into the pillow. For minutes, I struggled to fall asleep, until it became hours.

It was almost morning when I opened my eyes after a very long attempt to fall asleep. My phone was beside me, so I thought, what better thing could I do than just... get on my phone until I got sleepy. When I opened it, the gallery was still open from earlier. I looked at my photo with the stranger again and giggled. Out of curiosity, I opened my social media account and searched his name although I could barely remember what Yeoji said.

Park Jae Min Dancer. I searched it up and instead of a Park Jae Min, it suggested that I searched for Park Ji Min. And so I did. A profile with the same name who also happened to work at a dance studio appeared. I opened it and looked through his photos. "Damn, my boyfriend's pretty handsome."