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Euijoo wakes up every single day at exactly 6:00am. He keeps his routine simple, and follows the exact same routine every single day. He wakes up at 6:00, gets out of bed at 6:05. Goes to the bathroom, weighs himself, opens his journal, writes down his weight and starts getting ready for school. This has been his routine for the past 2 years.
Some days are harder than others. Some days Euijoo can’t get himself to get out of his bed, meanwhile on other days he can’t wait to get out of the house. Going to school means two things for Euijoo. The first thing means that he has to go out and socialise - which he doesn’t want to do. He doesn’t have any friends in school, but however he doesn’t like people looking at him - seeing how disgusting he is. The second thing is that going to school means having a distraction. He’s not too sure what he needs distraction of, though. Whether it’s his sick mind, his disgusting body or his home situation. He isn’t sure himself.
Today isn’t any different. Euijoo’s alarm goes off at exactly 6:00am.
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Every time Euijoo arrives at school he gets reminded of his past— of his old self. As he walks through the doors of the school he sees his old friends hanging around the lockers. They look happy together. They always have been happy together, but for some reason Euijoo thinks they look happier now without him around them anymore. Euijoo can’t help but miss his friends, but they’re better off without him, he thinks.
As Euijoo walks past the four guys, which he used to call his bestfriends they still try to reach out to him.
“Hey Euijoo, how are you feeling today?” Kei calls out from behind him. Euijoo pretends he doesn’t hear him, he also pretends not hear -who he thinks are Fuma and Yuma- sigh loudly.
“Kei-hyung, I think it’s time for us to accept he doesn’t want to talk to us anymore” Taki almost whispers, yet Euijoo still is able to hear him. Euijoo can still hear Kei’s, Fuma’s, Taki’s and Yuma’s conversation going on about him as he walks off to his classroom.
As Euijoo reaches his classroom he can’t help but notice a certain guy standing in front of the classroom with his homeroom teacher. The guy is wearing the school uniform, but yet he manages to stand out so much more than anyone else. He has long black hair in the back— mullet like, and his bangs are down to his eyebrows. He’s wearing tiny silver earrings, and has matching bracelets around his wrists.
Euijoo has never seen this guy around before and so he takes a good look at the guy before he goes through the classroom door.
Euijoo sits down at his desks, all the way in the corner next to the window on the left side of the classroom. He likes his seat as he’s completely isolated from everyone. The guy that sits in the row next to him is never in class, and there’s an empty seat infront of him. He likes it this way. No one to bother him.
As he sits down and starts taking out his notebooks, his homeroom teacher Mr.Kim walks into the classroom with the same boy he just saw outside of the classroom next to him.
“Goodmorning students, I want to introduce our new transfer student to all of you. Please will you introduce yourself to the class?” Mr.Kim says with a smile. The mystery boy looks a little uncomfortable at the words ‘transfer student’ but yet he greets the class with a warm smile.
“Goodmorning, I’m Nicholas it’s nice to meet you all”. Euijoo tries not to look at the boy - which he now has learnt is named Nicholas - but for some reason he can’t keep his eyes off him. Nicholas notices him, and it seems that neither he is able to look away from Euijoo. They keep staring at eachother for a few seconds when Mr.Kim interrupts their staring session and asks Nicholas to take a seat.
Of course, Euijoo thinks. Of course, Nicholas’s seat had to be in front of Euijoo.