Chapter 2.
Level up.Gina met Jaebum when she was 15, 4 years ago, through an online game. The game wasn’t really popular at the beginning, so she didn’t have a lot of expectations. Only when a random guy named DefsoulJB randomly invited her to a party. She only accepted the invite because she needed help with a quest. It turned out that he was way more experienced than she was, making her feel like a total noob. And yet he helped her. She would login every day and he would wait for her, helping her with her quests and campaigns. They would share more than their game knowledge, getting to know each other more and more. She learned that his real name is Jaebum, and that he is from Korea. He was a year older than her, and he made a big deal out of it. Singing and dancing was his hobby besides gaming and he mentioned it several times that he wanted to pursue that. Playing the game got eventually boring, because there weren’t any campaigns left to do. He didn’t want to end it like that, so they exchanged their MSN e-mails. They would leave each other offline-messengers for them to read for the next day, because of the timezone and school, they couldn’t talk frequently. Telling each other about their days and lives, made it seem like they knew each other for years. Gina felt like she finally made a friend, because she had a really hard time making new friends. Atleast on the internet she could be herself. After a while, when MSN was no longer a thing, they exchanged numbers and started talking through Whatsapp. Exchanging selfies became a thing, mainly because Jaebum was a selfiewhore.
She remember the first picture he sent her. He was on an island named Jeju, which she never had heard of. He told
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