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October 5: Chemistry Mom gave me a diary. She refuses to call it a diary, saying it’s a pensive journal for all my thoughts. I call that crap. She gave it to me because she’s dating my math teacher. You go to a parent teacher conference to talk about the student, not to discuss life plans and hobbies, and especially not to get a date out of it. Mr. Choi isn’t a bad man. He’s funny. Sometimes. But he knows I can’t count to save my life and now because he’s trying to get on my good side he’s been calling me out to answer the questions on the board. I AM DUMB. MR. CHOI! Let me live please. Oh, Ms.D is looking over, okay later.
𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓲𝓷.
October 5: Gifted and Talented Must be nice being gifted. Or talented. Or both really. Mr.Choi requested that they should take away my study hall for this to get help. I understand that y= mx+b is a simple concept to you, Mr.Choi but when you actually add in numbers, that’s where it gets complicated. Maybe this is gonna be a hate journal to Mr.Choi. I love when plans backfire on my mother. Well, since I’m at Gifted and Talented today, let me describe it to you pensive journal . It’s this room at the end of the Arts hallway. It’s only there because the principal didn’t know where else to put a bunch of gifted and talented students. That and they’re noisy. Possibly the only good thing about this class, is the fact that my best friend is in here. Kim Dahyun is as weird as you can get in a private school. Principal Ann refuses to let Dahyun roam the halls with a different protest every week, so she decided to count protesting as a talent. Currently watching Dahyun, she is stuffing poor Min Yoongi into the supply closet. He’s new and doesn’t really talk much, but he has one of those guitar pianos that nobody has seen since 2005 and as loud as the students seem to be, there has been a unanimous agreement that Yoongi is way louder and we should lock him away. I love Dahyun. She’s very loud, obnoxious and has a great big ego, which contradicts my personality since I try to be as humble as possible. But she somehow accepted how quiet I can be and ever since day 1, she brought me into her hectic life. I’ve gotten very close to her family over the years (although her older brother Taehyung is just rude to me) but Doctor Kim and Kim are very nice and knew sometimes I had to leave the craziness of my mother’s art studio for the peace and quiet of their penthouse. Speaking about the Kims, Dahyun is calling me over and I will not let her see this pensive journal so I’m hiding you in my bookbag until later.
𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓲𝓷.
October 5: Kim’s Penthouse Currently I am in the bathroom. Dahyun questioned me as I ran away with you, journal. But she wasn’t there. She Did Not Suffer What I Just Suffered. Earlier during G&T (I’ve decided writing out Gifted and Talented is too long), Dahyun invited me over to record her public broadcasting show. I don’t mind really helping out , she wants to spread her thoughts out and sometimes afterwards we mess around and record dancing videos. And this works out for me, since Mom and Mr. Choi are out for a drink. And god knows what old people do after that. But that’s not the case! She left to make popcorn, a simple task that should take no human more than 3 minutes round trip. And yet Satan came in the form of Dahyun’s brother, Kim Taehyung. He’s an artsy guy, always taking pictures, lounging around the computer labs, so explain to me GOD, why he has the body sculpted by Michelangelo. A guy who spends all his time doing nothing, would never have abs. (Key Fact: I don’t ever think I established my sexuality, but in that moment, I think I have settled that maybe being completely the other team wouldn’t be that bad.) He had come in to ask a dumb question to his sister and instead just found an empty room with just me, Park Deer Eyes Jimin, staring like a lunatic. He had recently gotten out of a shower, his brown hair clearly wet and only wearing a towel around his waist. In reality, I never saw Taehyung that way. My heart solely belong to the soccer captain, Jeon Jungkook. But maybe Kim Taehyung should start dressing up more. He could probably get as many people to hit on him as Jungkook gets in a week. So back to the situation, he looked over at me, and asked where Dahyun was. I barely got a response out but somehow I said she was downstairs. He had smiled and said later. And when he turned around, I had perfect view of his back. It took the living breath out of me. But this is Dahyun’s brother we’re talking about. And I started panicking. But I can’t tell Dahyun about how suddenly her brother got hotter from the last time I saw him. We barely see him as it is, and the last I saw of him shirtless he had a little belly (which was only 4 MONTHS AGO!!!) So we’re panicking right now. Who else was I supposed to tell except you. Okay now she’s banging on the door. I think my time is up in the bathroom. If I don’t survive tonight, well it was a nice day with you journal.
𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓲𝓷.
October 6: Homeroom Last night after my anxiety session, I obviously had to go back to Dahyun. She was confused as to why I was locked up but I told her I was just feeling under the weather. After that though we didn’t see Taehyung once, so I could finally let the red out of my face. We ended watching dance covers and just talking about the school week. But I have more to tell you than this. My mom had left me a weird message asking me to pass by the house before school. Really, I don’t mind. But that required me waking up earlier than the Kim’s and heading out back to the studio. It honestly worked out, I had to feed my puppy, Chimmy, anyways since knowing Mom she would forget. As I get there I see a limo parked in front of the house with these little flags. My neighbor Mr. Lee is a writer and self-proclaimed actor. (Not very friendly either, he likes to keep to himself a lot). And I had thought that maybe he got his big break or something. What I did not expect was to walk into the flat and see my mom and Mr.Choi in bathrobes (Mr.Choi obviously doesn’t live here so he was wearing a pink flowery robe which is so weird cause I had to see him later on the day) and an old lady to be sitting at my kitchen table. My mother looked quite awkward sitting there as I stared at the old lady. She vaguely looked familiar but in that moment I really couldn’t put my finger on it. Mom had looked over at this empty seat, gesturing for me to sit there (and who was I to refuse my mother?) She coughed and then started explaining the situation. Here’s the recap:
The woman sitting at my table was my grandmother. She came all the way from this small island located somewhere in the East Sea.
She didn’t want to be there. My father forced her to come over and spend time with us.
My father who I was told was dead for the last 16 years of my life is actually very much alive and breathing, running a successful market in 꽃섬 (which roughly translates to Flower Island) where he currently resides and had no idea of me existing until four weeks ago.
Grandma is sleeping in my room.
When I said Hi Granny, my grandmother threw a fit and quickly told my mom in Korean that I have to call her “Halmeoni” when speaking to her.
My mom then apologized and mentioned that she never really taught me the Korean language considering the fact that she grew up in New York and how she didn’t know it too well to teach it to me, which caused my grandmother to yell about how her life wasn’t supposed to end up like this and storm off to my room.
The limo is hers, my father bought it for transportation in case she ever got bored.
And the reason why she looked familiar was because we share the same eyes, although hers look a little mean.
So it was a rough 20 minutes of my life. Even though I’m still in shock, finding out I had a father was pretty exciting. Hopefully he’ll come visit and take my new found grandmother away from us. Also there is two minutes until the bell, and that’s when I’m gonna have to face Mr.Choi again for the second time today so I guess journal wish me luck.
𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓲𝓷.
October 6: PE Coach Henry quit so they’re combining his class period with ours. And Taehyung is in his final block. So that means Taehyung is now in my P.E. class. Which means me trying to not pay attention to him will not work out. Also in Coach Henry’s class as I’m seeing right now is Jungkook. So maybe this is a blessing and a curse. Maybe just maybe it won’t be that - Okay Tae legit just threw that soccer ball at me. I lied I’m gonna hate this period𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓲𝓷.