On reaching the stage, we saw DG the idol speaking to the audience.
He was pointing at Daniel and asking him to come onto the stage and join Inspirit in their performance.
Everyone was surprised to see that DG knew Daniel.
I wasn't as surprised because I knew from before, all that drama that took place with Aru that day.
'That reminds me, DG knew Charles Choi too.
He could be involved in all of this as well.'
'But since he has such a clean public profile, I doubt it.
Or they must be good at hiding all these...'
My thoughts were cut off as Daniel made his way onto the stage.
He performed with them well, he ought to be familiar with all the moves from his time at the agency.
After the performance, there was a commotion as DG made his way out.
I turned to Jiho.
He was looking at the others - Zack, Mira, Jay, Joy, Daniel, Zoe - as they were posing for photos.
"Do you want to take a photo too?" I asked him.
"They are not gonna like me joining them."
"You don't know that."
"Zack told me earlier not to bother them."
'Ohh that's probably because he wanted to be alone with Mira.'
"Well, we can take a photo if you want.
I am not very good at posing though..." I offered.
"Really? Can we?"
"If you want."
I took out my phone and we posed for a selfie.
It came out unnatural at first, I kept on staring with my eyes too wide open.
But at last, we managed to get some proper ones.
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We got back on the bus.
I sat on the window seat.
I liked the feeling of the wind against my face.
I sat there lost in thoughts when the girl next to me said something.
Her name was Jasmine if I remember right.
"Sorry, I couldn't hear you. What were you saying?"
"My watch, did you see it? I had it on a while ago, but now I can't find it."
"No, I didn't.
Did you perhaps lose it at the theme park?" I asked. "If that's the case, I don't imagine it to be easy finding it again."
"I don't know.
My boyfriend gave it to me when he came back from the military. It was so beautiful and expensive..." She explained.
"I'm so sorry you lost it." I didn't know what else to say.
"Actually, it's okay. I can ask him to get me another one. He will get me anything I want because he loves me. And he's rich."
"Ohh... okay😳."
That's weird. She looked so sad and worried but in like a split second her expression changed.
Aaahh whatever, I'm too exhausted to think about it now...
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"Kyra, do you have an extra pen I could use?
Mine ran out of ink." Hana asked me.
We were in the middle of an exam.
"Sure, here you go", I handed over one of the many pens I had with me; I keep a lot of them because I write a lot, and I like to be prepared just in case.
After the exam, she walked up to me.
"Thank you for letting me borrow it. I didn't expect you to."
'Huh? It's just a pen isn't it?'
"It's okay, but don't you need a pen for the rest of the classes? It's fine for you to keep it, I have more."
"That's true, but don't you dislike it when other people use your stuff?" Her face looked as though she was... afraid I'd get mad at her?
"No, I'm fine with it.
I mean, it's just a pen."
"Ohh, it's just that, I've heard you are uncomfortable sharing your stuff with others.
But now that I'm talking with you, I don't know if they were right.
You don't exactly seem to be like that."
Brrrring!
The bell sounded and she hurried over to the next class.
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I was at the locker, trying to find my history textbook, I could well remember putting it here, but couldn't find it anymore.
Something suddenly flew in the air and landed on my forehead.
"Were you looking for this?"
I picked it up from the floor to find that it was the very textbook I was looking for.
Inside it, was the pen I gave Hana earlier today.
"So what? You suddenly decided to be generous?
You weirdo, I asked you for an answer the other day and you acted so high and mighty, saying it was wrong to copy?
She asked you something else, and you just gave it to her like that?
You can't help one of your classmates, but you can help another?
What a weirdo!"
The results of the class test came.
We didn't have an objective scale at our school. Everyone's marks were determined by comparing it with everyone else's.
I used to score marks not low, but I didn't know I was going to get into trouble for that.
"You know, our parents send us to school so that we get good scores. They have very high hopes for us."
'Yes, I know.'
"We write exams, only for our scores to go down because of you?
You f**king weirdo, you have disappointed our parents.
What are we gonna say to them huh? That someone couldn't stop being the smartypants because of which we failed our exams?
Is that what you expect?!"
'It's not my fault.'
"What are you thinking? That it's not your fault?
Keep telling yourself that.
But we all know better."
"Our parents are sad because of you."
'That's not true. I did nothing.'
I kept my head down, looking at the floor.
Something was odd, the tiles are different.
Wait, am I at J high? I thought I was at...
"Kyra, is that true?
Did you hurt their parents? Are they sad because of you?" Daniel looked at me, disappointed.
"I heard them saying you don't like being with your classmates.
Is that true? Then are you pretending like you like to be with us? Are we not your friends?" Mira asked, concerned.
"I thought you said you'd be my friend. Was that a lie?" Jiho looked sad.
'No, it was not a lie. What they're saying are lies. They bully me saying bad...'
This is a dream!
Ohhh god stop this dream.
Wake up, Kyra.
Everyone suddenly started screaming the word "weirdo".
WAKE UP!! OPEN YOUR EYES!
I woke up on my bed, sweating. I felt hot, so hot I was practically burning.
"That... was a terrible nightmare..."
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