Best friends with a demi-god

Being a demi-god was difficult. Being the son of Zeus was even more difficult. Being the best friend of the son of Zeus while being an ordinary human being was the most difficult of all.

I know. I know it all too well. I’m that so-called best friend of Yoon Dowoon who’s the son of the god of thunder.

Don’t even get me started what it cost me to be best friends with him. It almost cost my life after all. It’s not easier nowadays either.

On the other hand, I would fight everyone who says that Dowoon is a complacent jerk who doesn’t care about anyone because he’s the sweetest person I know. While it’s true that he looks a bit intimidating at first, I swear he’s a wee kid at heart. He just needs time to open up and trust people. He was already used and betrayed so many times, not to mention all those cases when people made fun of him just because he was the children of Zeus. He wasn’t physically as strong as his father but he could beat everyone mentally.

Considering that he was already used to all kinds of humiliation, he learned how to stand up for himself. He learned how to tell someone off and he also learned how to fight. He may not have been the best fighter in the world but he could throw a proper punch. He was still stronger than anyone I knew but he said there were way stronger demi-gods than him.

Truth to be told, I’ve never come face-to-face with another demi-god except Dowoon. He claimed that he didn’t meet a lot either because his identity was kept as a secret. He only knew from his grandmother’s last letter that he was the son of Zeus and his mother didn’t even know he knew about it.

If you wonder how I got to know that he was a demi-god… well, that’s a pretty exciting story. The only really exciting story in my utterly boring life.

It started like any other day and it almost ended like one. I was about to bid my goodbye in front of Dowoon’s house (because mine was further from school than his) when all of a sudden a totally unfamiliar figure showed up and attacked him. He ended up with min