AU “What are you doing inside my head?” “You can hear me too?”
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Part 2
(Dialogue “.....” Thoughts ‘...’)
It’s 14th September, fall quarter in Kyoto High School. The Senior year is stressful with making decisions about your future and preparing for exams which will decide your future. Surprise, surprise I do not use my “super powers” to cheat during tests. Okay, maybe sometimes, but not intentionally. I still can not control my mind that well to not hear other people’s thoughts, so now and then I hear some answers during tests. However, I try my best to not, therefore I study hard in order to finish test as quickly as I can that I do not hear other people.
Summer before a senior year was a wonderful time. I spent time with my family and friends. My friend Yerim (our friend group gave her a nickname Choerry, but she doesn’t like it, we still call her that to annoy her) and I went to Osaka for a week and to Tokyo for four days. We had so much fun and looked at some universities. But, summer ended and it is school-time.
I’m a morning person; I enjoy waking up before sunrise, make myself cup of coffee and watch it rises. Kyoto may be not a big city full of life, but it has it charms, and beautiful sunrises, and sunsets. The alarm rings at 5:40 a.m. I wake up really early because school starts at 8, and I take a train to get there.
I’m going straight to the bathroom to wash my face, brush my teeth and do my “skin care” (wash my face with the cleanser, put some toner on, and apply a moisturizer). My hair do not want to cooperate with me most of the time, so I just to try to make them look decent by brushing them. Done with the bathroom.
Uniform is ready and hanging in the closet. I do not really like wearing uniform but at least I don’t need to think what to wear everyday.
“Luna, breakfast is ready,” Mina says while banging on my door.
“Okay, okay stop banging. I’m coming.”
Just need to grab my backpack and my phone. While coming down the stairs I can hear mom thinking, ‘I need to make list of groceries to get for the dinner, and Minhuyng will pick up Mina from school today.’
“Good morning, mom. Good morning, dad.”
“Good morning, Luna. Please don’t forget to feed Starlight.”
“Okay, mom.”
Starlight is our cat. She is very very white, so we named her starlight.
“Dad, can we go to the comics store after school?” Mina asked.
“Sure, only if you help your mom to wash dishes.”
“Okay.”
Wow, this girl is obsessed with comics. She got passion.
“I will be home late, me and Yerim are going to the library after school to work on our science project.”
“Okay, just be careful and don’t be late for a dinner.”
“No problem, Ma.”
All of us were finishing our breakfast. And randomly dad’s thoughts popped out in my head, ‘ I need to ask Luna what to buy for Yoona’s birthday.’
I wish I could just send a message to my dad through telepathy, however, it doesn’t work like that. Every time I hear something, but people don’t hear me back. I will just tell dad later what mom wants.
It’s 7:20 I need to head out. Grab my coffee with me and go to the train station.
“Bye everyone, I already need to go!”
“Bye!”
“Good luck at school!”
I hope Yerim won’t be late again, we all the time meet each other at the train station.
I get there and of course this girl is not there yet. If we are late because of her I will murder her. Oh, I see that purple head.
“Choerry you are late again!”
“I’m sorry my brother is a dickhead and was in the bathroom for an hour, so I couldn’t even wash my face.”
Yerim thought to herself, ‘She knows I hate when she calls me Choerry. This girl will kill me one day.’
Yeah, she gets annoyed because of Choerry, but she knows I call her like that only when I’m “mad” at her.
“No worries, Yerim. We will just kill your brother and bury him in you backyard.”
“Please do so. He is just too much sometimes.”
“Our train should come in 5 minutes.”
“Good, I was so scared that you will leave without me and I will be late.”
“I would.”
“Wow. Luna, you are so mean!”
“You know I’m joking.”
“Of course, I do. After 5 years of friendship I know everything about you.”
The train came and we got inside. I don’t like to sit on the train, so me and Yerim stand next to the doors.
“Your purple hair is fading.”
“I know, they’re more pinkish right now. Are you going dye yours?”
“Mmmm I don’t know yet, I’m okay with brown for now.”
“You should go blonde.”
“I will think about it.”
I try to not hear Yerim’s thoughts, but I feel more comfortable to hear hers than some strangers on the train. ‘There are some boys from our school.’ I turned around and saw Hyunjin and Jisung from our school at the back of the train.
I said, “I didn’t know Hyunjin and Jisung take the same train as us.”
“Me either. We have been taking this train for four years and I have never seen them.”
“Maybe we just never recognized.”
“Probably. By the way did you read Nietzsche for supplement resource for philosophy.”
“Yeah, I tried to read in Japanese, but end up reading in English because translation was bad.”
“I wish my English was as good as yours. I didn’t understand shit.”
“I will help you during lunch.”
“What would I do without you, Luna?”
“I don’t know either.”
“Bruh.”
We ended up laughing.
It is our train station. We got out from the train and started waking to school.
“How’s student government?” Yerim asked.
“It’s okay, Seungmin is on mine and Ryujin’ asses.” I’m in the student government as the club in my school. It is pretty fun, but most importantly it looks good in college applications. Seungmin is the president, me and Ryujin are Vice Presidents, Sumin is the secretary, and Jaemin is the treasurer and marketing “manager”.
“Knowing Seungmin, he is.”
“Yeah, he takes his job seriously, him and Ryujin argue all the time about whose idea is better, and I’m their buffer. It’s funny to witness those fights.”
“We almost at school. I’m not ready for the morning Calculus.”
“I have AP-Calculus and still don’t know how I ended up there. I hate math.”
“It’s a mystery.”
I can see the gates of the school already. We come inside of the school and go right to the lockers.
My head gets flooded with people’s voices.
‘I forgot to do my homework. Shit.’
‘I can’t believe my parents grounded me.’
‘Where is Jisung? I need this hamster.’
Oh, that was probably Seungmin. He all the time calls Jisung hamster. I turn around and see at the end of the hallway, Seungmin. His eyes searching around for Jisung.
“Okay, you better help me with philosophy homework because Lia got sick, so you are the only English genius I know, and that dude Nietzsche doesn’t make sense in Japanese.” Ryujin says when she walks up to mine and her locker.
“Wow, so I will have a whole lecture during lunch I guess.”
“Please do.”
“Yeah, I didn’t understand it either,” Yerim says.
We part with Yerim. I and Ryujin have AP together while Yerim has calculus.
We walk into the classroom. There is not a lot of people who take AP. It’s me, Ryujin, Seungmin, Jisung, Hyunjin, Lia, and Yeji.
I sit with Ryujin on the 3rd desk.
“I have some cheeseme (tea) to spill.”
“Oh wow I’m intrigued.”
“I will tell you during lunch.”
“Okay. You spill some cheeseme and I will lecture you and Yerim.”
“Deal.”
Mr. Chen comes into the classroom and bell rings.
“Good morning, guys. Today we will start new lesson, but first we will look at the problem on page 35.” I open my textbook on page 35 and Mr. Chen starts solving the problem on the desk in order to give is an example. Everyone is quiet. I write down the example on mine notebook.
‘Fuck, I will kill Felix and Jisung. Why the hell they posted this video.’
Who was that. I look around and think on who might thought of it. It might be Seungmin or Hyunjin.
‘Seungmin will probably help me to kill them.’
Okay, that was easy to figure out. What did they do to make him so mad.
‘What?’
Mr. Chen was done with the example, so I started to copy notes from the board.
‘That’s stuff is confusing.’
Agree with that indeed.
‘What are you doing inside my head? Who are you?’
‘You can hear me too...’
