I hate school. Always have, always will, but I've made a promise to my deceased parents that I will finish off high school. Both my parents died only a couple months apart from each other last year. My mom first got really sick and was admitted into the hospital. She stayed there for months and months until her body gave out on her. Afterwards, my dad fell into deep depression. He started to come home late and he always reeks of alcohol. Finally, he got sick also and was admitted into the hospital. I stayed by his side to make sure he got better until he finally passed away unexpectedly. The doctor told me that it's possible that my dad died of a broken heart. I seriously didn't think that that was possible, but now I see that it is.
Now, i'm currently living by myself in a small apartment and nobody knows that both my parents died because I never told them. I knew that if I told anybody, a social worker would come out and try to put me in a foster home. I really don't want that because I don't want to be around anybody and I don't want anybody to claim me as their family member. I just want to be left alone.
I decided to change schools because then, nobody would really know who I am and nobody would know that my parents died. It's a great way to start over and plus, I want this new school year to be as quiet as possible. I want to be invisible to everybody. I don't want anybody to acknowledge me in any way.
The school that i'm enrolling in is only a bus ride away, but it's not just any ordinary high school. It's an all boy prep school. The reason why I feel like this is better because there are no whiny girls so if something happens, I won't have to hear them cry and pity me or have any of them acknowledge me in any way. I can just become invisible in a wave of male students.
I got up early this morning and had a little breakfast before setting out to my new high school. My uniform hasn't arrived yet because i'm a little paranoid about giving my actual address to the school. I don't want something to happen where one of my teacher's shows up at my doorstep and asks to talk to my parents about my grades. That's why when I talked to the teacher who was gonna be my homeroom teacher for this year, I told him that i'll simply pick the uniform up at school and wear it the next day.
At first, he was a bit hard to convince, but I managed to get him to change his mind and he gave me the okay to wear street clothes for just today since i'm new, but after today, I have to start wearing my uniform like everybody else.
When I got to the school, I walked inside and headed straight to the teacher's room. When I walked in, I saw a lot of the teachers sitting at their desk before some of them got up to go teach. I looked around the room, wondering who the teacher is that I talked to on the phone previously.
I should have his name...
I started fishing through my pockets for the slip of paper with my homeroom teacher's name on it when suddenly, a man stood up and started waving at me.
"Park Hae Jin!" He called out.
I looked up and narrowed my eyebrows, wondering if that's my homeroom teacher.
"You're Park Hae Jin right? We talked on the phone the other day." He said.
"Oh. Yeah." I said, nodding then walked over to the teacher's desk.
"Here. You can sit down in this chair." He said, grabbing a chair and set it next to his desk.
I sat down in the chair and faced my teacher.
"You'll receive your uniform after school so make sure you come back here so I can give it to you." He said.
I nodded. "Thanks again, Mr..."
"Call me Coach Shin. I'll also be your gym teacher." He said.
"Oh. Okay." I said and nodded.
"Now, I have some paperwork for you to sign..." He said then slid me sheets of paper and a pen.
"Just sign on the line." He said and I nodded then began to sign the papers.
"Though, I don't see why your parents can't come down to do this..." He started.
"My...My parents work so...And they said that since i'm getting older, it'll be good practice for me to start signing papers." I lied.
Though, Coach Shin was definitely buying it.
"Ah. That makes perfect sense. My dad was pretty much the same way." He said.
I finished signing the sheets of paper then I handed them back to him.
"Great. You're all set. Now, let me show you to your classroom." He said then stood up.
I stood up also and followed him out of the room.
"Would you like me to show you around the school?" He asked.
I shook my head. "No. I've got it." I said.
"Okay. Here's your homeroom. It's also time for me to start teaching these delinquents." He said then slid open the classroom door and stepped inside. I followed in after him.
"Okay, class. We have a new student. Would you like to introduce yourself?" He asked me.
I turned to the classroom, not really making eye contact with anybody.
"Hello. My name is Park Hae Jin." I said then bowed before standing back up.
"I hope you'll welcome me here." I finished.
All of a sudden, I started to see and hear everybody whispering about me and staring at me. I didn't really care since i'm used to it. I only want to have a quiet year here at this school.
"Enough. Now, open up your books." Coach Shin said as he stood in front of his podium.
"Hae Jin, you can sit in that seat in the back." He pointed.
I nodded then started to make my way over to the lonely seat in the back, avoiding eye contact with the class. I sat down in the seat and took off my backpack.
So far so good, Hae Jin..
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