December 2012

‘Um.. Mark, do you know Jackson?’

Mark looks at Jinyoung with raised eyebrow.

‘Why you ask for him?’

‘I-I just want to say thank you.’

Mark glances at the bag Jinyoung hold.

He feels angry all of sudden.

‘For what?!’

‘Uh-yesterday Um.. He-‘

Jinyoung feels really scared.

Mark really looks angry.

‘Is it for him?’

Mark points at Jinyoung bag.

‘Ye-s’

Jinyoung nods.

‘He’s in class 2C’

Jinyoung looks at Mark who is now smirking.

‘T-thank you.’

Jinyoung leaves quickly.

He never knows Mark can be this scary.

Is he the right Mark Tuan he knows?

As far as he knows Mark Tuan is kind person.

The person who doesn’t judge him even when he wears skirt.

The person who give him Jackson, his favorite bunny.

The person who help him when he slips

But then just now who’s the Mark Tuan he just meets?

Jinyoung feels like he’s meeting the different Mark Tuan.

--

‘Mark, isn’t Jackson in class 2E?’

One of Mark friend asks him after Jinyoung leaves.

‘Yeah, I know.’

‘Then why-‘

He picks the lunch box Jinyoung just give to him and dump it at the trash bin.

Mark looks at his friend and smile.

‘I don’t like ugly things.’

His friend looks at Mark in confusion.

--

Jinyoung stand in front of class 2C.

He peeks inside and his eyes meet one of the girl.

He quickly turns around.

A minute after the girl come outside and pokes Jinyoung.

‘Hi, do you searching for Jackson?’

Jinyoung looks at the girl in confused.

‘Yes, how did you know?’

The girl smiles and takes his hands.

‘Ah, my friend told me. Come, follow me.’

'F-friend?'

Jinyoung can't help but follow the girl.

They walk to the back of the school.

‘Here. Wait inside. I’ll call Jackson.’

‘Isn’t it storage room?’

Jinyoung asks the girl.

‘Yes it is. I’ll call Jackson so just wait inside.’

The girl pushes Jinyoung inside and close the door.

Jinyoung feels something bad will happen to him.

--

‘Hi Mark!’

Jackson clings his arm around Mark.

‘Hey’

Mark smiles at his best friend.

‘Where is my lunch box?’

Mark smiles quickly vanish.

‘I don’t know. He doesn’t give it to me today.’

‘Why?’

Mark scowls.

‘How I supposed to know?!’

‘Hey, Mark calm down. Did something happen?’

Jackson takes Mark hand.

Mark is huffing in anger.

‘Mind to tell me?’

‘Not today Jackson.’

Mark lets go of Jackson’s hold and leaves.

Something did really happen to Mark.

--

‘Help!’

Jinyoung knocks at the steel door for the hurndred-th times.

His throat feels sore and dry.

His hands feels hurt and sting.

‘it’s hurt.’

Jinyoung yelp.

He’s being locked at the storage room for almost five hours.

After the girl pushes him, he tries to get out but only find he’s being locked.

Jinyoung wonders why that girl lock him here-

Mark?

The girl said she know Jinyoung search for Jackson from her friend.

And the only one who knows it is only Mark.

Why he do this to me?

Is he that angry?

Why?

--

The sky slowly becoming dark.

The storage room doesn’t have any light.

‘Mommy, Jinyoung is scared.’

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