“Why did I leave you be before? I allowed myself to lose you. My efforts were futile; I lost, in the end.”
- A translation of Alumni Homecoming by Parokya ni Edgar

I wanna go home.

That was all I was able to say as I watched the nth person arrive in the hall. Of course, my idiotic friends, Eunkwang and Jinyoung, had to welcome the other Alumni. Seriously, this is getting boring. They promised to drink with me! Not drink off from the others’ stories!

Listening to Kim Yongsun was already boring in a sense, all she had to rant about is Jinyoung being an in the office. Listening to Hyolyn was also boring. She had all these record labels wanting to sign her – that’s not new. Record labels have wanted to sign her since 2006 – twelve years ago. Back when the K-to-12 program is still not implemented, back when of course, we were sixteen. Listening to Irene is also boring – she’s been living the housewife-CEO life. We all had it coming, the one who was going to marry her is going to have to live the hard way, anyway. Don’t get me started with the guys – they’re twice as boring as the girls. Hoya’s divorced his first wife to marry his to-be-second wife, Eunkwang’s doing musicals and Jinyoung’s just writing songs.

Me? I’m thrice as boring as the guys. I’m stacked with cases to solve EVERYDAY. If it’s any consolation, I should be glad that I still have a job. Twelve years, and now, I finally made my dream into ending up in the