WALK THROUGH WALLS

TWENTY TWO

We found a cool place to sit then Cai had to make some adjustments to the guitar strings.
" So how is your room?"
" I can't complain. I am with two guys, one from Thailand and the other from here. They are not that bad. The Korean one looks like dad. When I saw him, I was shocked, I even had to call dad to confirm just imagine."
" Are you serious what you you are saying?"
" True mum. Just wait during the open night, you will see. His name is Eugene or something. The one from Thailand also is not that bad. The name is tricky but all I know is that he is representing the Thai arts talent Academy. He is more outgoing than Eugene. Anyway what about your room?"
" For me I have a Taiwanese girl, Aggie and Vietnamese girl Thuy something like that. Aggie is not talkative but she is nice but the Thuy girl, well, her attitude stinks. Imagine she was the last to join the room, came in, put her things and started working on her laptop, underline, PINK laptop. Damn, I have never seen so much pink in my life. The girl is like a walking pink crayon. Everything on her is pink. My, come to think of it, when we left the room, she had switched on a song by Blackpink."
" Oh no, I know how you hate pink, how are you going to survive?" Cai asked while laughing at me.
" Grrrh, I don't know but.. anyway, let's start our practice. Give me the key over should we warm up our voices first.?"
" Warm our voices. We have not sung together for so long."
" True, then let's sing your dad's song Filter. We will harmonize it so that we sing all the parts together."
" Ok mum. I guess we will not be needing the guitar for that or...!"
" If you are confident just play it."
" I have not played it on the guitar for long, let's just sing like acapella."
" Ok then."

We sang the song much that Cai found himself playing the guitar without realising.
" I thought you were to sing acapella!" A voice came out from behind a water tank. The owner emerged and I was shocked to see that the person standing there looked like Jimin. It came back to me that Cai had told me of a guy who looks like Jimin." Ah Eugene, how long have you been here?" Cai asked
" So long to here you gossiping about me looking like your dad."
" Oh, that long. Well then meet my mum Lensah. Mum this is Eugene my roomie.  He looks like dad yes?"
"True." With that, a took a photo of him and immediately sent it to our chatgroup with the words,' JIMIN'S LONG LOST TWIN BROTHER FINALLY FOUND.

I knew that I had just poked a bear with that post so I decided to switch off my phone for the time being. I learnt that the Eugene guy was here without any backup company. For the open night activity, he was going to dance to Taemin's Move. It was funny because I could already see Tae's face when he sees someone imitating his moves. We decided to help each other out. Cai and I helping him with the moves especially where we saw that he was not moving well while he helped us with the pitch of our song. At around 12:30 pm, we had a bell that informed us that it was lunch time so we rushed to the cafeteria. It was being in school again. We served our food and found a place to sit. At that moment, Aggie came and sat with us, thus making us a clique of four, a Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese and African Korean. Two girls and two boys. I also realized that the way people sat in the cafeteria,there was some kind of grouping which I came to learn later that it was according to the companies and schools they were representing.

" Hey Lensah, do you know that everyone is talking about you!" Aggie broke the silence.
" Me.. why?"
" Maybe because you are the only African in the competition." Eugene said while nibbling on a chicken leg
" Ok , that. Let them speak as long as I know what I came for, they can even hold a press conference for all I care."
" Hey mum, cool down ok. We are here for you and I know you can understand all the languages represented here so ..."
" Wait, you can understand all the languages here,?" Eugene said while drinking water because he was about to choke.
" Yes, I am multilingual so I can understand English, Thai, Korean, Tâi-gî, Japanese, Chinese, Swahili, Dholuo, Kikuyu, Portuguese, French, Spanish and the list is endless."
" Wow! How did you learn all that." Aggie asked
" My dad worked for different Kenyan embassy to different countries so being that he is also multilingual, I challenged myself and yes, the rest is history."
" And you Cai?" Eugene asked
" I understand most of the Asian languages and the international languages but not African languages. Damn, that continent has so many languages to learn but I am learning Swahili from my sister." Cai said.
" Ok, sorry for prying so much  but how are you two related. Cai calls you mum and you call him son how?" Aggie asked
" He is my sworn son. I used to take care of him while he was young and his parents had come to South Korea for vacation."
" Oh, that makes sense." Aggie said.
" So you lived in South Korea also?" Eugene asked.
" I have dual citizenship of Kenya and South Korea. I studied my elementary and junior high here then went back to Kenya for my o level and university studies."
" Wow, your life is a roller coaster."  Aggie said
" That's not even half of it..." Cai said before being cut with a phone ring. He excused himself and walked out to pick his call. We continued eating while making jokes here and there.

Aggie told us about Taiwan and even invited us to visit her there one day. Cai came back and handed me the phone saying that I was in a hot soup because my brothers were looking for me. The one who called was Kai. He told me to switch on my phone because we had a forum. He also informed me that Tae was joining the forum. Kai has always known that I can be rebellious to everyone, even my parents, but not Tae. Taemin had a hold on me much that I have always been afraid of making him angry.

I promised to go online but later because we were informed that after lunch we were to have a meeting before we went back to our rooms to wait for open night after dinner.