Every child of my age celebrates their birthday with friends, but it's different for me. I have no friends. The reason? I never left the house. My father has some interesting business (or so he calls them) and always says it's too dangerous for me to go out.
I didn't even go to school, I learn at home, a teacher comes and teaches me everything I should learn in high school.
When I was little I wanted to go out to meet new persons, to see what a friendship means, to see exactly what a friend's evening until late means, but I don't know other people than those who work for my parents and ... the new employee, a new bodyguard, his name is Kisu and he looks very nice, and young.
Every time I look at him, or every time we talk, I feel a strange warmth in my cheast and my heart beats crazy. I don't know what this feeling means, I've never had it before, but I like it.
In any case, let me come back. While I was spending my birthday with the speaker maximized on the 24K song, my mother knocked on the door.
- Yung-gi, turn down the music! she screamed as long as her lungs held.
I pretended not to hear her, as I usually do, but ... Mom went into the room followed by Kisu.
The sound of Kisu's shoes made a scary atmosphere...
- Yung-gi, we need to talk, she tells me very clearly as she analyzes the disaster in my room
- Okay ... okay ... I start cleaning now! I say and roll my eyes.
- I think ... you should go to a private school !!! she says breathlessly and fills her eyes with tears
- Haha. You're really funny, I tell her and slap her on the shoulder in a friendly way.
She looked at me with a very strange expression, I couldn't decipher it. I didn't understand if she was nervous or upset.
- You're not kidding, are you? I tell him as I swallow in sec.
I turn to Kisu disoriented.
- You're not kidding, are you?
He looks at me and smiles a very forced smile.
- Your father and I think it would be better for you, she tells me.
-I don't even think about such a thing !! I scream, going out of the room, pouring and flashing, then slamming the door behind me
- Kisu, you should talk to her, she listens to you, her mother tells him and pats him on the shoulder, trying to make him smile.
Kisu catches up with me and I see that he is trying to tell me something.
-Don't try to convince me! I yelled at him.
-Okay, I'm not trying, he answers trying to look scared.
- I have been closed all these years and now they wake up to send me to school ?? bang
- It's for your own good, he tried to encourage me.
- Sure, I say sarcastically
- Say honestly, you weren't bored of so many teachers coming to do so many hours at home ... Alone like a lonely depressed person?
- I like the taekwondo class, as well as the gun shooting hours, but I would like to beat the math teacher, I answer him trying not to show that I feel like crying.
Kisu sighs and laughs at the same time.
-But yes, I would like to go out to meet other girls ...
- Nice boys, Kisu says with a laugh.
- Exactly! I light up
-School is the right place for something like that! He encourages me
- I'm not sure.
We lay on the grass and look at the stars. It was so reassuring, I felt free, I just wanted to scream as long as my lungs could hold that could say that I was tired of all this jail.
At one point Kisu takes something out of his pocket.
- This is for you! He handed me a nice little box
-Thank you .
I opened the box and there was a knife inside. My eyes were already shining.
-It's the coolest gift I've ever received!
-Ahh ... how glad I am that you like it, says Kisu relieved.
-Ooo, thank you from the bottom of my heart. It's the most beautiful gift, the only fact, I say it with disappointment.
-I'm glad you like it, he says and smile.
-I don't like it, I adore it.
I stayed a few more hours because he taught me to use the knife, I didn't know he was good at something like that ...
At one point Kisu breaks the silence.
-And....?
- And what? I interrupted him.
- Are you going to school? he asked me with a fear in his voice.
- I don't know what to say, it's a big change.
- I know, but if you don't accept, your mother will kill me ... so ....
- Let's just say I'm going for your sake, okay? I tell him laughing.
Kisu breathed a sigh of relief and then stood up.
- I'm going to break the news to your mother, okay?
- Oh ... well ... I said a little upset.
- You should go to sleep, tomorrow is your first day of school!
I don't understand why he was so happy, I feel like everyone is hiding something from me, and I can't wait to leave, but I prefer not to think about it now.
I went up to my room and took my pajamas from the closet and then went into the shower, I let the hot water wet every dry and cold particle in me, I stuck my forehead to the cold tile and sighed ... tears began to trickle down my cheeks and I don't understand exactly why, but it's okay, it often happensI Cry and I don't know why. After I go out I wrap my hair in a towel .. But while I was taking my robe I heard a noise that seemed to be from my room, I got dressed as fast as I could and then I ran to the door. When I opened it I noticed that the window was open ... but I knew for sure that I closed it. I put my head out the window to analyze, but I didn't see anything. Kisu quickly enters the room
- What was that noise?! hold the pistol tightly in your hand and breathe hard.
- Kisu, it was me ... stay calm.
- I still have to check the camera.
When I look back at the closet I see that someone was inside, I panicked. I should have warned Kisu ... But something was holding me back.
I grab Kisu's hand.
- It's okay, no one's here, I'm going to sleep, I have school tomorrow, I give him all the reasons to go out while I push him to the door.
-Are you leading me? he says in such a nice voice.
I was looking at the person in the closet but I didn't want to give Kisu any reason to suspect, so I went with him.
As he closed the door of the room I burst out hoping my room, when I opened the closet, was empty. That person escaped, I was so nervous about myself, I don't know why I hide this from Kisu, who knows what made me .... God ...
THE NEXT DAY
Today is Monday . Stay in front of the door with backpack and legs shaking.
-Are you ready? Kisu says enthusiastically.
-If I say no, will I stay home ?? I answer with a fake smile on my face
-No, says Kisu laughing.
I got in the car and looked out the window. There were a lot of kids on the road. Some with their parents, with grandparents. I sigh without saying anything ... I was so nervous that they couldn't make time for me, but, as I said, I was used to something like that.
- They were busy, says Kisu, trying to make me feel better
-They are always too busy for me, I answer with hatred
-Don't say that, they love you.
-Yes ... me and the math teacher
-I've arrived, and ... she's a really nice, Kisu spree while he parked.
It was an interesting school ... not pretty. Since it's a private high school ...the parking lot was littered with luxury cars, chic girls and well-groomed boys that would drive any 17-year-old crazy.
- Kisu, A school will never be nice, remember that.
Kisu started laughing.
-Have a nice day, he encourages me.
-Yeah.
I took my backpack and went to the office, the principal was waiting for me there, he introduced me to the school and then he led me to my class.
When I entered she was amazed, so many children, my God .... I felt so weird ... All the girls were so pretty and I looked like a walking grove.
I put my books on the bench and waited for the teacher to come in, and what a miracle ... math teacher.
But instead of the professor he entered ... that is .....instead of a teacher, a boy came in, and the nun what a boy! He was of average stature, dressed in a yellow sweatshirt and a coat of torn blue jeans. He ran his fingers through his silver hair and then put his hood on his head.
He stood in front of the class and looked around and came to me
- Is it free? he asks me as he puts his hand on the empty chair next to me.
-Yeah, yes, it's free, I stammered.
He put his backpack on the chair and sat down.
-I'm William.
-I'm Yung-gi, while I was talking to him ... I felt that warmth in my chest again
- Yung-gi ..., he said in a whisper.
( I blushed)
I looked at him and then at the door that opened. It was the teacher
He made us introduce ourselves one by one and then he said that he has some things to do and we can do what we want but quietly, interestingly ... I didn't know that this is how it is done in high school ... but in the end.
I took out my MP3 player and before I put on my headphones William tells me:
-Your name means "courage" in Korean, am I right?
-Yes..I answer.
-How nice .
-Yeah ... well, Cory chose my name.
-Who?
-Cory, my godfather and my bodyguard.
- Bodyguard?
-Actually two, Cory and Kisu, but Kisu is better, I tell him trying to make everything look more fun.
-What a crow. Actually not like I wouldn't have but they're not after me or anything ... And we're not close either.
-Aaa, but I'm not after either. Actually, Cory doesn't stay. Kisu has his eye on me, but I like it.
-I think it's good ... right? he says laughing.
-Yeah.
I put my headphones on and then flipped through some pages of my diary.
After a few minutes he called for a break.
A child came to my bench and pulled my diary in front of me.
-Uuu ..., how interesting, says the boy. Who is Kisu?
All the children in the class started laughing.
- Hey! Give it back to me !!
- If you want it, come after it.
Then he slammed the door. I felt a huge rage inside me, and I didn't understand why.
At one point I tripped on the stairs and fell.
- Are you okay? Someone behind me asks.
The voice was familiar.
I looked up and saw that it was William.
-Yes I'm good .
Then I got up and started running after that boy.
Tears streamed down my cheeks, but I didn't want anyone to see that. I was so nervous about myself that I let something like this happen.
We arrived in the schoolyard. He stopped by a large puddle of mudd.
-Give me back my notebook
-You want it ?? Then come and get it.
When he was about to let go, someone grabbed his hand and snatched his diary.
It was William.
- Here, Wlliam said and threw the diary straight into my arms.
- What are you doing? the boy says.
-Hui, ready! William shouted and slapped him in the face, causing a little bleeding.
At some point the directory appears
- Problems? He says sternly.
-No, everything is fine, says this Hui as he wipes the blood from his nose.
-Very well then.