Walking towards the halls as a kid wasn't easy. Some Protagonists start with a horrible childhood. For example Being dumb,poor, and weak. Well, in my situation... As a kid I always attract attention. Like "Awww, isn't this my Adorable niece!" and "I envy how adorable and smart child you have!". It isn't just the grown ups that say that.

"From now on you are my Rival!" yeah and "I won't lose to you!" How did children at that age even learn how to get jealous of Popularity? And... My name is Dong Jin-ho, you can call me

Well... Growing up didn't do me any good. "Who's he?" and to top that they say "What?! You don't know him?!" "He's the one who aced all our classes and even became the most athletic person in school!" but I hate they're last lines in everything they say "HE HAS AMAZING FIGURE DOESN'T HE?"

Yes, I hate it when people talk about my figure or anything related to my body. It just feels weird an uncomfortable.

But, that doesn't change anything when I get home. Unlike any rich protagonist, I have a close relationship with my father and family.

"Jin-ho, dear. Dinner's ready!" As mom sits down to call Ryu and Dad. He takes a sip of his coffee taking a quick peek at me. What in the- I mean he does know that it's blindly obvious that I can see him right?

"What is it now Dad?" He puts down his coffee pot and looks away acting like I did something wrong. What the hell? He's acting like a kid In front of us?

But don't be fooled by his side of being a child. For when he's at work, IT IS LIKE HELL. He won't even give mercy to his close friends or personal secretary. I mean I understand why. Think about it having a Company on top of the world, everyone would want to take it to bankruptcy or Snatch it away.

Gosh, and because of that ever since being a child I had to be Ya know? Not perfect but better than anyone. Actually they didn't need to force me, because I'll do it myself.

☾︎𝙁𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙃𝘽𝘼𝘾𝙆☽︎

"Dear... Your father wanted you to t...take, Extra class...es" With a slight quiver coming from my mom with her hesitant words. I knew already why, she didn't want me to feel down and tired about having extra classes. I mean not every mother cared about having their children Overwork, so she thought I would misunderstood her for making me have classes because she wanted me to be at the top.

"Yay!" With a confused face sticked in my mother, I bet she's thinking why am I supposed to be happy. "I asked Dad if I was allowed to have extra classes! I'm so excited to have more teachers!" I acted as if I loved the idea of having more classes, even though I was annoyed by the fact that the teacher would expect me to be dumb or stupid as a Kid who was only at Second grade. Yes, I'm still 8 at that time.

My sister would go around complaining to my father that she was so lonely without me, but I just convinced her that I loved my classes even though it was too easy and boring for me.

I was always not listening and bored my teacher even thought that it was a miracle that I get straight A's. Cheating is the only explanation but there was no place to peek at not even my clothing, cus anyone would notice.

Because of this even my father was impressed. Well behind mom's back for some reason me and Dad stay up all night to play video games, we never got caught because of my calculations. My Mom and dad gets in bed at 9 to 10 pm, Ryu sleeps earlier at 8 while my sleeping limit was supposed to be 9. So the perfect timing was at 9:35, because even if my Mom falls asleep she would be easily disturbed due to not on the stage of Deep sleep. So 30 minutes more of the time would work, 5 minutes are added to make it solid and confirm that she won't be disturbed.

My sister is not a problem because she is a Deep sleeper the minute she lays in bed.

We always head to the room next to dad's study because it was at the first floor, and so the noise won't reach mom that easily, well all my calculations would've been useless anyway because my mom wouldn't think much of it and we could've just head to the study the minute she falls asleep. Cus she would think that Dad just went to the bathroom and at the time of her thinking that she'd fall into a deep sleep and that would've been easier.

But yeah... That kept going for atleast until I turn 10.

☾︎𝙀𝙉𝘿 𝙊𝙁 𝙁𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙃𝘽𝘼𝘾𝙆☽︎

Guess what? I'm turning 10 tomorrow. And I'm also going to study 7th grade abroad. Why? you ask, well because I want to be atleast you know, not dumb and knows something outside the country.

The door slams open and someone crying was running towards me. "Bro... Brother! Why are you leaving me you stupid! You already left me for taking classes an now you're planning to leave the country for how long?!" She cuddled me so hard while hitting me, I got some snot but that's fine. After all it's my bad. "It won't take that long" I patted her slowly while she keeps on hugging my stomach. "But still! you have to come back fast or else I'll come after you!" I just chuckled on how she said that while holding her tears. "Okay okay fine, I won't take too long", even though I'll be back by the time I turn 16. My bad sis, but I had to lie to Ryu. If I didn't she wouldn't had let me go. I packed my stuff with help from Heo. Yeah, I haven't told you about Heo. His full name is Heo Hyun, almost everyone is fond of him. Because of his Charming and cute looks. I mean both of us are still 10 after all. I'm just 2 months younger than him. Even though I'm more like a teen reincarnated as a kid. Well he doesn't ace at being Athletic, but he has high grades. Smartest dude in school. I don't know how he's doing. I don't Attend school because I thought it was a waste of time and the classes were too easy for me. The reason is when I was at nursery I've read every single lecture book available in the Library. That made me think that I didn't need classes anymore. So I was Homeschooled.

Having excellent teachers are boring, cuz they always looked fantasized by how I learned anything they told me the moment I read it. Sometimes I want to run everywhere for no reason.

"Hey, why do look spaced out?" I came back to my senses after thinking back to the past. Let's go, I have to get ready before dinner. "Maybe your in a rush cus you want to talk with me more? Hehe, don't be shy talk to me" That sly look on him makes me annoyed. "I don't" as I looked straight to the Car. "How cruel of you to not want to spend your time with your best friend! Humph!" He just looks away with an Upset face.

I can still remember the day of how we met. He was just 5 at that time, he always loved to wear the same gray cap on his head everyday. I didn't know why. I was with him on the playground every day after he got out from school, he didn't know me. But he still glanced at my direction and wave at me smiling.

I experience this everyday. But one day, I didn't see him. So I decided to atleast take a peek at his school. It was February 2nd, I saw him but he looked so down. I didn't go to him because it would feel weird because he just smile and waves at me everyday. When I turned around to take a peek, he was looking at me and walked towards me. He wanted me to go with him somewhere. I thought it was quite troublesome, but I came anyway. I realized why, February 2nd... On the news 2 years ago. A teen spotted standing at a bridge committed suicide in front of his family, left behind a gray cap...

Ever since I became his Friend.

"Are you really taking this much stuff with you?" as he looked at me with a confusing expression. "Yeah, why? Is it too much?" He walked towards me and shaked me as if I did something wrong. "What do you mean too much?! You only packed 1 clothing and the rest were your stuff!", "Is that so?" well I guess I learned a lesson, bring more clothing.

The next day after my birthday I had to leave. Ryu hugged me tightly with mom and Dad. "Be sure to get there safely" My mom said in a soft tone which mad sense, "Get back here quick!" Ryu held me tighter, "Don't let anyone overpower you" Dad said while patting my back. "Try going to school with me when you get back!" Heo grinned.

"See you... I'll be back!"

I thought life back in Korea was harder. But I over estimated how life in the US was like. I never thought that- "𝑱𝒊𝒏-𝒉𝒐, 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?", "𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒐𝒏𝒆", "𝑲𝒚𝒂𝒂𝒂! 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒑𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒎𝒆, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝑱𝒊𝒏-𝒉𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕!"

Yeah, literally I just wanted to have a peaceful day because I have never went to school. They said that at school you make friends but-

"#$!@!!!!" I just don't know if I can continue on with this. If there is someone out there... HELP ME!

𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿...

"I'm back, Home"