Fan Fiction

Intertwined

by kanahrtsJAYpark

Chapter 1

[ F i r s t D a y O f S c h o o l I n K o r e a ]

Chapter One:
I woke up in the middle of the night hyperventilating. Sweat trembling down my face. Tears overflowing my eyes. It didn’t take long before the hyperventilating turned into whimpering. Then soft sobs.
I wrapped my arms around my knees. I left my knees opened at the top so my head could fit in it. This position helped me stop my sobs, and helped me breathe normally. When I was sure the last sob escaped me, I looked up at my alarm-clock. The clock glowed 6:57 am. I mind as well get up. It’s almost 7’o clock anyways.
I took a shower and got dressed in my school uniform. Then I went downstairs and prepared the hot water for mother’s morning tea. I placed the kettle on the stove and turned it on.
I grabbed a pack of tea and a cup for mother, and one for me. By the time I ripped the tea packets and placed them in the cups, the water was already boiling.
I used a towel to handle the kettle. I poured the water into my mother’s cup and then while pouring water into mine, I had a blank moment. Just that it wasn’t blank.
~~~
“Kana? We have to move.” Mother said sitting up in her hospital bed.
“Where?” I asked staring at my pale hands.
“Anywhere you can dance and sing.” She answered. “You can do whatever you want. I’m sorry I made you guys move in with me. I never thought of you and your little brother. I’m sorry.”
“Mom. I don’t want to sing or dance anymore.” I half-lied. I knew that I wanted to. At least one half of me wanted to. The other half knew for sure that it was what I wanted that put everyone in the place they were now.
“What are you talking about?” Mother asked surprised.
“I don’t want to do anything anymore. I just want to take care of you and Tommy. I don’t want to do anything anymore.” I threw my face into my hands.
Mother didn’t reply. She just sat there. Shocked.
Two weeks later.
“Mom… This is my girlfriend. Dong An Nae.” Jyu Jin introduced his girlfriend.
“It’s nice to meet you Ms. Sung.” Her voice was very melodic. Very warming.
“Kana… This is Dong An Nae. An Nae… This is my younger sister… Kana.” Jyu Jin introduced quickly.
“It’s nice to finally meet you Kana. Jyu Jin has told me a lot about you. I admire you very much.” An Nae said sweetly with a smile.
“It’s nice to meet you also An Nae.” I didn’t bother with a smile.
“I’m sorry. An Nae… My sister isn’t much of a smiler.” Jyu Jin whispered in her ear. Then I just saw her nod and then turn her attention to my mother.
“Ms. Sung?”
“Hello dear.” Mother finally greeted her.
“Jyu Jin and I have something to speak to you of.”
“Of course.”
Jyu Jin walked up next to An Nae and entwined their fingers.
“Mother, we are getting married. And we’re moving to Korea. And we want you, Kana and Tommy to come with us. We don’t want you guys to stay here with that psycho still loose out there.” I could still see vengeance in is eyes.
I quickly left the room. Then as tears started to overflow my eyes again, I start to hyperventilate. I waited until the door was fully shut before I slid against the wall all the way down to the floor. I put my head between knees and rock back and forth. I tried to cancel out all of the noise that was going on. I always trembled when anyone speaks of that monster. Then suddenly I felt a pair of warm arms around me. Quietly hushing me, and telling me that it was okay. Telling me that my brother, and her, was going to protect me from now on.
I remove my head from my knees, opened my eyes, and wiped away all of the tears. I hated it when people saw me so weak and vulnerable.
“Dong Saeng. Everything is okay now. I’m here to protect you with your brother. Don’t worry. We’ll move to Korea and never hear of the monster again. You’ll be safe. You’ll live a free life. Do you want to leave soon?” An Nae said holding me as though she was my very own sister.
“Can we? Can we leave right now? Or do we have to wait longer?” I asked between the leftover sobs.
“We’ll leave as soon as mother is better, and Tommy’s legs are fully recovered.” She assured me. “Are you okay with that?”
“Yes. Yes.”
~~~

I suddenly felt pain on my right hand. I winced at the pain and accidentally dropped the kettle on the counter where it made a loud thud!
“Crap!” I whispered. I ran my hand under cold water. It felt better after I treated it with some ointment. Then I went back and cleaned up the mess.
When I finished cleaning up the mess, and I went back upstairs to wrap my hand. I didn’t want my family to see what happened. I put the first aid kit back under my bed and went downstairs to make breakfast for everyone.
Tommy was the first to wake up after me. I heard him moving around upstairs for a while before he came down.
“Why are you up so early?” I questioned him.
“I couldn’t sleep. The bed that I slept in last night was so plush. I’m just not use to it. And I couldn’t stop thinking about the first day of school. I hope I’ll meet some really hot girl.” Tommy said closing his eyes and visioning the perfect girl. “Shipjeom manjeome shipejeom!”
“Oh my god Tommy. You are so lame.” I said taking a sip of my tea.
Then I heard everybody else wake up upstairs. Jyu Jin was going to make me late for the first day of school. I can’t believe he over slept.
“Jyu Jin! Can you hurry up please…? I don’t want to be late for my first day of school.” I didn’t want to scream so early in the morning, but I guess I had to.
After a few minutes of just staring at the newspaper and sipping my tea, Jyu Jin finally came down prepared to leave. The drive to school wasn’t really long.
“Kana. I’m just going to drop you off at the front gate. You can manage to find the office right?” Jyu Jin said stopping at a red light.
“How old do you think I am? I can manage to find the lost city of Atlantis if I wanted.” I said laughing.
“Aha. You wish. Hey! I won’t be able to pick you up after school, so just walk home. You do know that way right?” Jyu Jin said looking over at me sitting in the passenger seat.
“Yeah. Mom gave me some directions just incase you were going to say that.” I said remembering the directions mother gave me this morning. The idea of walking home alone terrifies me, but I guess I’ll have to fight my fear sometime.
The school I was attending wasn’t really big. But it wasn’t really small either. I showed the guard at the gate my transfer papers. Then he buzzed me in. He gave me the directions to the office, and I left.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I heard some screaming. I decided to check out what was going on.
“OH MY GOD!” A girl squealed.
“It’s 2PM!” Another followed the firsts’ lead.
“2-2-2-what?” I whispered. I was sure I didn’t say it out loud. But somehow every girl heard and turned around to face me.
“What?” The two girls from earlier said in unison. “(laughter) You must be new.”
They walked over to me and put their arms around me. Now this was just uncomfortable.
“My name is Ahn Yoong Jin.” Said the first girl. Her hair was a very royal red color. She was just a few inches taller than me. She had very sharp facial features. Just too perfect to be human. “I’ll tell you who they are. They’re the most powerful kingkas at our school. If I were you, I wouldn’t talk to them. Especially because you haven’t even heard of them, and because they don’t like little sassy girls like you.”
“Since Yoong Jin already introduced herself, I’ll do the same. I’m Kim Min Soo.” The second girl said looking for this “2PM” group. “And also, just a word of advice… Don’t get on their bad side. You’ll wish that you weren’t born if you do.”
With that they both pulled together and returned to their “squealing” state. Same went for everyone. This school was sort of… “special”.
~~~
The day went by very slow. I think that it’s how every first day of school is. But nothing can beat that most horrifying day. Let’s not think about it. I feel disgusting when I think about it.
It’s lunch time. This school is different from my school in America. For lunch, you have to bring your own lunch box. I didn’t know, so I didn’t bring a lunchbox or money for a school lunch. Instead, I went to sit in the courtyard.
The sun was bright. It was high in the sky. Just looking down at me. I laid down under a small tree, in front of a basketball court. It wasn’t long after I closed my eyes that a group of people started to play basketball. AISH!!! I sat up and saw 7 male students playing basketball.
“Who do these people think they are disturbing other people’s rest?” I whispered to myself.
“2PM. That’s who they are.” Someone answered from behind me. I turned around and saw a male student holding two lunchboxes in his hands.
“2-2-2-what?” I said again.
“2PM. The most popular and powerful kingkas in this school.” He said walking over to me. He just stood there. “Can’t you ask me to sit down?”
I didn’t feel right sitting next to him. It was just a hunch. But he sat down anyways. I scooted over a so there was a small, but comfortable space between us.
“I’m one of classmates. My name is Kim Bum.” He stuck out is hand towards me which made me flinch. I hesitated to shake his hand. I didn’t want anyone to touch me. AT ALL!!! Instead I just stared at it. “I see you’re not the hand-shaking kind of person.” Then he pulled his hand down. I was relieved.
“I’m… Sung Kana.” I didn’t want to talk to him. But I didn’t want to be mean either.
“Here. I know how it is to be new at a school.” Then he tossed me one of the lunchboxes.
“I-”
“Don’t worry. I have enough money for plenty more if your still hungry.” He gave me a very bright smile.
It was a very awkward 5 minutes. It sort of sucks that the lunch break is 30 minutes long. I couldn’t hold it in anymore.
“So…” I started saying.
“The tallest one is Ok Taek Yeon. But he usually goes by Taec.”
“What?” I asked. How did he know I was going to ask about them?
“Didn’t you want to know about them? (chuckles) Let’s carry on, shall we? The one that looks like Bi Rain is Lee Jun Ho. The guy that’s blocking his shots is Hwang Chan Sung. Youngest of the bunch, but doesn’t look like it. (chuckles) The one with the ball right now is Jang Woo Young. The one defending him is Kim Jun Su. The ulzzang is Nichkhun Horvejkul. He’s an international transfer student like you. He moved her a few years ago.” He stopped there.
“And the shortest one?” I asked curiosly.
“Oh, that one. He’s Park Jae Beom. He might be the shortest one out of them, but he’s the most powerful. Maybe not physically, but surely socially.” There was a nerve-racking sound to the way he said it. It sent chills down my arms.
“How- How do you know them so well?” I said still staring at “Jae Beom”.
“I’ll show you instead of telling you.” With that, he stood up and walked towards the group. I saw them shake hands and then suddenly everyone looked over at me. What were they talking about? Then Kim Bum waved me over.
NO! I’m not going over there. Then suddenly the bell that signaled the ending of the lunch break went off. Talk about being saved by the bell. I stood up, and bowed to them politely. Then turned away and walked off to class.
~~~
It was a long day, but I was glad this day was over. I just want to go home and take a nice long nap. I dug in my bag for the directions home. I took out the piece of paper mother had handed me this morning.
“These directions aren’t that difficult to follow.” I said to myself.
“Hey! Where are you going?” Kim Bum asked me from behind.
“Home. And you?”
“Home. Would you like me to walk you home?”
“No thank you!” This was getting weird. He wants to walk me home on the first day of school. What the heck is he thinking?
“Fine. How about I walk you half way.”
“No thank you.” I said before quickly walking off. But unfortunately, he followed.
“One-fourth of the way?”
Okay he was officially getting on my last nerves.
“If I let you walk me 2 blocks, will you stop bothering me?” I had to try negotiating.
“5 blocks!”
“2 blocks…”
“Fine… Fine… 4 blocks.”
“2 blocks…”
“4 blocks… or I keep bothering you.”
“3... Last offer.”
“Fine… 3 blocks. Then I’ll leave you alone.” He offered me his arm. But I refused it.
~~~

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I'm truely sorry about the "introduction" to the "evil" girls. I truthfully don't know how to sound all bitchy...
but I'll try my best!!!

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