December 2004

‘Jackson.. Jackson look at me!’

Mark shakes Jackson’s body when the boy starts day dreaming again for the –th times.

Jackson jumps when he sees his apple of eyes.

Jackson never meets a girl like her.

She is so cute and innocent.

Everything in her is pretty.

‘What are you looking at?’

Mark follows Jackson gaze only to be landed on the rabbit boy.

Ugh.

‘Do you like him?’

Jackson turns his face to Mark.

‘Him?’

‘Yes, the rabbit boy, right?’

Jackson blinks four times.

‘She is a boy?’

‘You think he is a girl?’

Jackson nods.

‘He is a boy. That’s why I called him weird. What a boy wearing girl stuffs?’

‘But she- I mean he is really pretty to be a boy.’

‘What?! What do you say?’

Mark stands up.

‘I said he is pretty.’

Mark looks at Jackson in disbelieve.

Jackson turns his head from Mark when he sees the rabbit boy looking at him.

Jackson waves at him.

‘NO! HE’S NOT PRETTY!’

Mark runs leaving Jackson who is confused with his friend outburst.

Why is he angry again?

Is he like the rabbit boy too?

Then why is he called him weird?

--

Jinyoung looks at ‘Mark’ who waves at him.

Jinyoung waves back a little but dugs his head afterward.

Maybe today is his last time seeing ‘Mark’.

His mom decided to move Jinyoung in a new school.

Jinyoung hates the idea but his mom seems to have problem with his teacher.

He hates to see his mom sad after receiving calls from his teacher.

What teacher said that makes mom sad?

--

Jinyoung waits for ‘Mark’ in front of the school.

He wants to give something as exchange of Jackson doll.

He already makes braided bracelet for him.

Oh.

 The blue knot is undone.

Jinyoung about to tie back the knot but the bracelet being taken from his hand.

Jinyoung looks up only to find the boy who once throwing blue paint in his skirt.

Jinyoung tries to take the bracelet but the boy lift it up high.

‘Give me back. It’s mine.’

The boy pushes him so he is falling to the floor.

Jinyoung looks wound in his knee and his palm.

He starts to cry.

It hurts so bad.

The boy throws him his bracelet back and yell,

‘You’re so ugly! I hate you!’

Jinyoung looks at the bracelet that is now have a lot of thread being undone.

He is crying harder.

He hates the boy so much.

--

‘Why are you crying here?’

Jinyoung looks at ‘Mark’.

He helps Jinyoung to stand.

‘Are you okay? Is it hurt?’

Jinyoung nods still sobbing.

‘Get in my back. We need to go to infirmary.’

Jinyoung hops in ‘Mark’s’ back.

--

After teacher treats Jinyoung’s wound, they are leave alone in infirmary.

‘Are you okay?’

Jinyoung