2-5-26:
It felt like it was any other day, except it wasn’t. It was the last day of my Sophomore year at KNUA, and the day of my commencement. I decided that after greeting my loved ones and receiving congratulatory praises from other students, I would leave. And so I did, I headed to the nearest 7-Eleven to grab some cheap food supplies for my empty dorm. I was used to being alone in this dorm, but a change would be nice - a new friend, perhaps. “As if that would be possible, Chris,” I whisper to myself, as I reach for the not-so spicy Ramyeon. “hopefully this year I’ll make some friends” I add, walking towards the register, I set all of my items to the counter, and the lady, Sae-yong, as her nametag reads, is saying the total, “Sir, that will be 15,000₩, how would you like to pay?” I hand her a 10,000₩ and a 5,000₩ bill as my payment, then I head out.
As the door rings to a close, I step out onto the pavement, feet dragging along to the sound of a busy street, I suddenly feel a cold presence near me rush past, like a sudden hurriedness of someone who is late for a very important date, then I feel the air push out of me as someone knocks heavy into me as the say a lazy ‘sorry’ and rush past, golden hair flowing in the wind as they run, then my wrist starts to glow golden too.
3-25-26:
The dorm was quiet, but the good kind, Felix and I were inside my dorm, my roommate nowhere to be seen, probably already in class. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, when I heard Felix yelp, I rushed out of the bathroom to see what’s wrong, and he’s laying on the floor like he just fell. I laugh at him and say “You look so stupid right now, Lixie” as I pull him off the floor. “Shut up, hyung,” he says, his voice getting deeper. Then he adds “I need help, I don’t know what to wear, and I tripped heading to your bedroom to find something to wear.” I give him a white t-shirt, a grey sweater, and black sweatpants to wear. I head back to the bathroom and spit the glob of toothpaste out and rinse my mouth, and then wait for Felix to be done. He steps out of my room, and we walk out the door. I look back one more time at the dorm of my dream school, while Felix and I head our separate ways to class.
I look at my phone one more time to make sure I’m in the right room, sure enough room 915, I open the door and see that Minho is in this class too. I casually walk over to his seat and sit right next to him, “Lixie, why are you sitting right next to me? it’s by first name, not last name?” Minho whispers to me, “Can’t I sit next to my favorite brother, Nathan?” I replied back to him. “Don’t you dare call me that, Lee Felix Yongbok” he whisper-yells, just then, I hear the door open and immediately get up from the seat to ask where I sit, as I’m standing up I see the most gorgeous man ever walk into the room, and my scent spikes. “Jeez Lixie, calm down, it smells like saccharine strawberries and vanilla over here.” Minho says, fanning the air. “Sorry, Hyung,” I say back, quickly gaining my composure. “The name’s Hwang Hyunjin” the voice says to the professor, and I hurried to introduce myself to them. “Hi, I’m Felix, I heard your name’s Hyunjin?” I say trying not to stutter, “Yeah that’s me, who’s that over there? I saw you guys talking earlier.” he says pointing to my annoying brother, Minho. “oh, that’s no one important” I lie, but out of nowhere I hear a voice saying to me ‘tell him the truth, Felix, who is he?’ I do as it says without meaning to. “Oh him? He's my brother, Minho. His English name is Nathan, we come from Australia, but we traveled to Korea to go to KNUA for our degrees in professional dancing.” I finish, suddenly feeling weird why I said all of that to him. Hyunjin just nods and sits down near the front of the class, I walk over to the professor to ask where I should sit, and he just points next to Hyunjin. I walk over, and sit down next to Hyunjin. I wait for the professor to start the lecture, but a few seconds later, students start pouring into the classroom and take their seats. There was this one guy in particular, Jisung, who also sat next to Hyunjin. The lecture started after that, it was quite boring, we just learned about the syllabus, grades for the year, major assignments, and presentations. Soon enough, class was over, I started to walk out of the classroom, when Han caught up to me. He said “You’re Felix right? I’m Jisung, wanna be friends?” I look straight into his eyes to read his mind. All I hear is: ‘I seriously need some friends, my mom is getting too worried about me, Felix looks friendly enough.’ I feel bad for him. “Sure, wanna go get drinks at a cafe?” I answer him, he nods and I head the opposite direction, towards Minho’s dorm.
As I wrap up the tour around the school for my family, I rush back to my dorm to get ready for lunch. I’m really excited to finally have a roommate, the one I’ve been waiting for since freshman year. I turn left, and stop right outside my door to fish for my key. As the lock turns and I open the door, I see a boy with brown hair, feline-like eyes, sharp nose, plump lips and light freckles talking to a boy with blonde hair, softer eyes, smaller nose, plump lips, and more noticeable freckles. ‘he’s pretty’ I say in my head, and just then the blonde one looks at me, and his skin turns slightly pink. “Who are you?” I ask, pointing to the taller one, “My name is Minho, this is Felix, my brother.” he says coldly, looking at the blonde one. Just then Felix rushes out before I can even say hi, ‘weird’ I thought. “I’m guessing you’re my roommate Bang Chan?” Minho says his face completely stoic, “Yeah, but you can call me Chan” I respond back, “So where’re you from?” I ask, desperate for the tension to be less constricting. “I’m from Australia,” He says nonchalantly, my eyes immediately light up. “You’re from Australia, too? Finally someone who’s also aussie” I reply back excitedly. “So, Minho, what’s up with your brother?” I ask, wondering why he rushed out as soon as I came inside. “He had something else come up. I think he’s going on a date.” and my smile falls.
I search for a good outfit to wear while phasing through my closet, so I can look good in front of my new friend, Felix. As I’m halfway inside the wall of my closet looking for a plain shirt to wear, I turn my head and see Felix inside my bedroom looking gobsmacked. I try to scramble out of the wall, but instead I hit my head on the back wall, ‘ow, that hurt like a *****, do I have a bump on my head? Owww, now I have a headache, I think I need an ice pack’ I think, “Are you okay, Jisung? let me get you an icepack” say Felix scrambling out of my room. “Bad news,” he says, “we don’t have ice packs, but I have a metal water bottle, want me to put it on your head?” he says, handing it to me. I take it with thanks, and gently place it on the back of my head, “So you can phase through walls?” he asks, gently patting my head. “Yup, I can also be invisible,” I respond, clicking my tongue, and sighing. “I can be really fun, but it’s also a pain in the ass, because when I get panic attacks I start to glitch in and out of sight,” “Oh, that sounds so cool! All I can do is read minds and absorb the powers of others” he says nonchalantly, “that’s literally so awesome! Can you absorb my abilities? for how long?” I responded back. “I’ll tell you when we get to the cafe,” he says. We head down the road to the cafe near our dorm, and order our drinks. Felix gets a Strawberry-mango smoothie, and I get a Vanilla Americano. “Ew, you can actually drink Coffee?” Felix says, face mocking disgust. “Yeah Americanos aren’t that bad, actually” I say, pushing up my metaphorical glasses. “Yeah whatever, mate” He says and I notice a slight accent change. We talk for a while about anything and everything, deciding to take the conversation back to the dorm. “And you know what he said to me?” He continues, “What?” I responded, “He was like ‘You’re so rude’ and I was like ‘boy, does it look like I could care? I couldn’t even care less!” he finishes, laughing about the time his brother Minho told him he was being rude. I laugh with him, my smile being more gum than teeth, Felix says it looks cute, and kind of squirrel-ish. I’m glad I finally made a new friend today.
It felt like it was any other day, except it wasn’t. It was the last day of my Sophomore year at KNUA, and the day of my commencement. I decided that after greeting my loved ones and receiving congratulatory praises from other students, I would leave. And so I did, I headed to the nearest 7-Eleven to grab some cheap food supplies for my empty dorm. I was used to being alone in this dorm, but a change would be nice - a new friend, perhaps. “As if that would be possible, Chris,” I whisper to myself, as I reach for the not-so spicy Ramyeon. “hopefully this year I’ll make some friends” I add, walking towards the register, I set all of my items to the counter, and the lady, Sae-yong, as her nametag reads, is saying the total, “Sir, that will be 15,000₩, how would you like to pay?” I hand her a 10,000₩ and a 5,000₩ bill as my payment, then I head out.
As the door rings to a close, I step out onto the pavement, feet dragging along to the sound of a busy street, I suddenly feel a cold presence near me rush past, like a sudden hurriedness of someone who is late for a very important date, then I feel the air push out of me as someone knocks heavy into me as the say a lazy ‘sorry’ and rush past, golden hair flowing in the wind as they run, then my wrist starts to glow golden too.
3-25-26:
The dorm was quiet, but the good kind, Felix and I were inside my dorm, my roommate nowhere to be seen, probably already in class. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, when I heard Felix yelp, I rushed out of the bathroom to see what’s wrong, and he’s laying on the floor like he just fell. I laugh at him and say “You look so stupid right now, Lixie” as I pull him off the floor. “Shut up, hyung,” he says, his voice getting deeper. Then he adds “I need help, I don’t know what to wear, and I tripped heading to your bedroom to find something to wear.” I give him a white t-shirt, a grey sweater, and black sweatpants to wear. I head back to the bathroom and spit the glob of toothpaste out and rinse my mouth, and then wait for Felix to be done. He steps out of my room, and we walk out the door. I look back one more time at the dorm of my dream school, while Felix and I head our separate ways to class.
I look at my phone one more time to make sure I’m in the right room, sure enough room 915, I open the door and see that Minho is in this class too. I casually walk over to his seat and sit right next to him, “Lixie, why are you sitting right next to me? it’s by first name, not last name?” Minho whispers to me, “Can’t I sit next to my favorite brother, Nathan?” I replied back to him. “Don’t you dare call me that, Lee Felix Yongbok” he whisper-yells, just then, I hear the door open and immediately get up from the seat to ask where I sit, as I’m standing up I see the most gorgeous man ever walk into the room, and my scent spikes. “Jeez Lixie, calm down, it smells like saccharine strawberries and vanilla over here.” Minho says, fanning the air. “Sorry, Hyung,” I say back, quickly gaining my composure. “The name’s Hwang Hyunjin” the voice says to the professor, and I hurried to introduce myself to them. “Hi, I’m Felix, I heard your name’s Hyunjin?” I say trying not to stutter, “Yeah that’s me, who’s that over there? I saw you guys talking earlier.” he says pointing to my annoying brother, Minho. “oh, that’s no one important” I lie, but out of nowhere I hear a voice saying to me ‘tell him the truth, Felix, who is he?’ I do as it says without meaning to. “Oh him? He's my brother, Minho. His English name is Nathan, we come from Australia, but we traveled to Korea to go to KNUA for our degrees in professional dancing.” I finish, suddenly feeling weird why I said all of that to him. Hyunjin just nods and sits down near the front of the class, I walk over to the professor to ask where I should sit, and he just points next to Hyunjin. I walk over, and sit down next to Hyunjin. I wait for the professor to start the lecture, but a few seconds later, students start pouring into the classroom and take their seats. There was this one guy in particular, Jisung, who also sat next to Hyunjin. The lecture started after that, it was quite boring, we just learned about the syllabus, grades for the year, major assignments, and presentations. Soon enough, class was over, I started to walk out of the classroom, when Han caught up to me. He said “You’re Felix right? I’m Jisung, wanna be friends?” I look straight into his eyes to read his mind. All I hear is: ‘I seriously need some friends, my mom is getting too worried about me, Felix looks friendly enough.’ I feel bad for him. “Sure, wanna go get drinks at a cafe?” I answer him, he nods and I head the opposite direction, towards Minho’s dorm.
As I wrap up the tour around the school for my family, I rush back to my dorm to get ready for lunch. I’m really excited to finally have a roommate, the one I’ve been waiting for since freshman year. I turn left, and stop right outside my door to fish for my key. As the lock turns and I open the door, I see a boy with brown hair, feline-like eyes, sharp nose, plump lips and light freckles talking to a boy with blonde hair, softer eyes, smaller nose, plump lips, and more noticeable freckles. ‘he’s pretty’ I say in my head, and just then the blonde one looks at me, and his skin turns slightly pink. “Who are you?” I ask, pointing to the taller one, “My name is Minho, this is Felix, my brother.” he says coldly, looking at the blonde one. Just then Felix rushes out before I can even say hi, ‘weird’ I thought. “I’m guessing you’re my roommate Bang Chan?” Minho says his face completely stoic, “Yeah, but you can call me Chan” I respond back, “So where’re you from?” I ask, desperate for the tension to be less constricting. “I’m from Australia,” He says nonchalantly, my eyes immediately light up. “You’re from Australia, too? Finally someone who’s also aussie” I reply back excitedly. “So, Minho, what’s up with your brother?” I ask, wondering why he rushed out as soon as I came inside. “He had something else come up. I think he’s going on a date.” and my smile falls.
I search for a good outfit to wear while phasing through my closet, so I can look good in front of my new friend, Felix. As I’m halfway inside the wall of my closet looking for a plain shirt to wear, I turn my head and see Felix inside my bedroom looking gobsmacked. I try to scramble out of the wall, but instead I hit my head on the back wall, ‘ow, that hurt like a *****, do I have a bump on my head? Owww, now I have a headache, I think I need an ice pack’ I think, “Are you okay, Jisung? let me get you an icepack” say Felix scrambling out of my room. “Bad news,” he says, “we don’t have ice packs, but I have a metal water bottle, want me to put it on your head?” he says, handing it to me. I take it with thanks, and gently place it on the back of my head, “So you can phase through walls?” he asks, gently patting my head. “Yup, I can also be invisible,” I respond, clicking my tongue, and sighing. “I can be really fun, but it’s also a pain in the ass, because when I get panic attacks I start to glitch in and out of sight,” “Oh, that sounds so cool! All I can do is read minds and absorb the powers of others” he says nonchalantly, “that’s literally so awesome! Can you absorb my abilities? for how long?” I responded back. “I’ll tell you when we get to the cafe,” he says. We head down the road to the cafe near our dorm, and order our drinks. Felix gets a Strawberry-mango smoothie, and I get a Vanilla Americano. “Ew, you can actually drink Coffee?” Felix says, face mocking disgust. “Yeah Americanos aren’t that bad, actually” I say, pushing up my metaphorical glasses. “Yeah whatever, mate” He says and I notice a slight accent change. We talk for a while about anything and everything, deciding to take the conversation back to the dorm. “And you know what he said to me?” He continues, “What?” I responded, “He was like ‘You’re so rude’ and I was like ‘boy, does it look like I could care? I couldn’t even care less!” he finishes, laughing about the time his brother Minho told him he was being rude. I laugh with him, my smile being more gum than teeth, Felix says it looks cute, and kind of squirrel-ish. I’m glad I finally made a new friend today.
