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𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿:𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟲
Jungkook started walking towards his school on a chilly winter morning. He was wearing a long brown coat over his school uniform. He could feel the skin of his hands getting frozen although he was wearing gloves. Like most other students he couldn't understand why must the class start at such an early hour in such a chilly weather but of course he didn't had any other choice so he kept walking. As much as he wanted to go back under his warm blankets and sleep till noon he couldn't deny the fact that the morning sky was worth viewing. He walked pass the central park where he could see the younger children playing around the swing, laughing without a care about how cold it was. He stopped by the lake to feed a few ducks. He loved animals, something about those creatures made him truly happy. After he rubbed his hands on his pants to get rid of the leftover seeds he once again started his journey towards his school. He watched a few motorwagens and carriages pass before he crossed the street and stepped on the side walk. He passed a few lanes and turned to the road of his school. He couldn't take more than a few steps before halting because a heavy weight jumped and settled on his back. After he adjusted to the weight he smiled and said,"Will you ever stop doing that?" "Let me think....NO!" "You are heavy" "I believe you are strong enough to carry me" Taehyung said as he tightened his arms around Jungkook's shoulders. Jungkook smiled and walked forward with Taehyung piggy riding on his back. As they reached the fruit stall beside their school, Jungkook noticed a few women, in their thirties, staring at them with disappointed looks and whispering something to each other. He knew what they must be whispering about so he immediately dropped Taehyung on the ground and walked away. Taehyung landed on his butt and cursed Jungkook. Jungkook turned around, smirked and said,"We are getting late, get up and walk faster". Taehyung grimaced as he stood up and dusted his pants. The moment they reached the gate of their school, the bell rang. They looked at each other one last time before they ran towards their class. And thus Kim Taehyung and Jeon Jungkook were again late for their lessons.
𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 11. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟. 𝐻𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑔𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑚. 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡. 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠, 𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑔 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛. 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑎 𝑡𝑢𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟. 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑔. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑔𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒. "𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦" 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑘. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 "𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘". 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑎𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. "𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒?" 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘. "𝐼'𝑚 𝐾𝑖𝑚 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑥𝑦 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 "𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙?" "𝑌𝑒𝑠, 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑜. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑." "𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡." "𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡?" "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑆𝑜, 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑." 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟, 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑖𝑡" "𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒" 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠? 𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡?" "𝑌𝑒𝑎ℎ, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 '𝑦𝑒𝑠'. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝐺𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑢𝑚,𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦" "𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝐾𝑖𝑚 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛". 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑔'𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒?" "𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑜" "𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑒" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑌𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒.
𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛. 𝐼𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟. 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠. 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠?" 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑, "𝐷𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡? 𝐸𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛?" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠?" 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 13 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟. "𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑. 𝐷𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡? 𝐷𝑖𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑚 '𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒'? 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝑆𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒?" "𝑀𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑒" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚. "𝑂𝑢𝑐ℎ! 𝑂𝑢- 𝑂𝑘! 𝑂𝑘! 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 '𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒'. 𝐷𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑" "𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝐼 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑?" "𝑂ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛. 𝐴 '𝑚𝑎𝑛' 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑" 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦? 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘?
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡. 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑡, 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝐻𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑝𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 '𝑆𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒'𝑠 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛'. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠 15𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒. 𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ-𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑔𝑠. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒. 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑡. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔, "𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑔𝑒?" 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦, "𝑁𝑜, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑡! 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡" "𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛" 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒, 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛. "𝑆𝑜, 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢?" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑. "𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠! 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑔𝑖𝑓𝑡?" "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔" 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤...ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑡. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑘 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒.
𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑔𝑢 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑙𝑙. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑝. 𝑆𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 1 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘'𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑠. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑔, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜. 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓-ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔, ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓-𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝐻𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜𝑜. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛. 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑌𝑒𝑠, ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑟, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑟. 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑒ℎ𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡. 𝑁𝑜, ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑦.
Another year passed by. They were both 16 now and it was the last year of their school.Taehyung was walking towards their school. Chilly breeze brushing against his cheeks making them slightly red. He took the turn to the road of their school and saw that familiar figure, that tall dark brown haired boy walking a few steps ahead of him. Without thinking twice he ran and jumped on his back. After Jungkook adjusted to the weight he smiled and said "Will you ever stop doing that?" "Let me think....NO!" "You are heavy" "I believe you are strong enough to carry me"Taehyung said as he tightened his arms around Jungkook's shoulders. That was one of the best feelings, when Jungkook gave him piggy rides to school.