ASCLEPIUS

19

"Stop! Don't you know it is illegal to look that fine?"
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--------------------10 years ago-------------------

"Woah, you made these?!" You exclaimed gleefully as you stared at your classmate's wrists in awe.

"Mhm! I had so much time in the hospital so one of the nurses taught me to make a friendship bracelet. Here's yours!" Your friend chirped as she handed over a cutely made bracelet.

You had known Sua for a month now and you two were already good friends.

She had long black hair that were held up in two pigtails. Her cheeks were slightly chubby and she wore big round glasses.

The poor girl had to move away from the city and come live in the countryside where the air was much more clean.

She had the same illness as your mother and fortunately after moving house, she was getting better.

It was sad to see that your new found friend always had this red glow coming from her chest.

You hated the colour red.

It always reminded you of your abilities.

"Thank you so much! I'll wear it now!" Without wasting anytime, you placed the bracelet on and admired it after lifting your hand in the air.

The both of you were sitting on the playground bench during playtime. All the children were out playing whatnot and enjoying their short break before they would head in and be cooped up in the school building.

"It suits you!" Sua gleamed.

"Right? You should teach me how to make one-"

"Hey, Sua" suddenly, a new voice spoke up in front of you, making the both of you turn to see the most popular girl in the class along with her clique.

Her hair was in a braid and reaching to her waist and anyone could tell that she was treated like a princess.

Once upon a time, you two were best friends but after your mother found out about your abilities, rumours quickly went round saying that your mother was crazy and that she was sending her daughter to the shamans.

Parents were afraid that your mother was in to curses or perhaps possessed so they warned their children to stay away from you.

Realising that she was looking at Sua, you turned to see how she would respond.

"Oh, hey Minji" she greeted. Sadly, you knew what was to come next.

"You know you can't play with Y/N, right? Didn't your parents warn you?" You felt the glares coming from the other girls as they made sure to keep their distance.

Sighing to yourself, you couldn't help but look at Sua with hopeful eyes.

Perhaps she wouldn't believe in curses and still be your friend.

"Don't play with Y/N? Why?"

"Of course you don't know, you only transferred a month ago. Y/N's Mum places curses on people so if you hang round with Y/N, you might get cursed, too. Who knows, you might have a curse on you now- you were at the hospital recently, right?" you rolled your eyes at this. Residents who live in the countryside had very old beliefs and it annoyed you.

"There's no such things as curses!" You yelled, having had enough of being treated like this.

The girls gasped and immediately stepped away, worried that they might get cursed by you.

Minji scowled at this before reaching over to Sua and pulling her away from you.

"Come on, Sua! She's going to curse us!" You stood up as you watched the girls run off with Sua who looked back at you once more before running alongside them.

You felt your heart ache as the feeling of being alone came crawling back.

This wasn't fair.

You didn't get to choose to get these abilities.

So why were you being treated like an outsider?

Your jaw clenched and soon after you swiveled on your heel before running off towards the school's quiet library where you could be alone while making sure to throw away the bracelet on the dirt floor.

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A/n: right, I'm not much of a fighter but I've got a beak that I can peck with, anyone want to beat up some kids?🤜