“Hey Lian! Hurry up or we wont get good seats. We paid good money we want to be as close as possible and in the middle.” came the voice of a young girl around the age of sixteen with bright blond hair.
Standing ten feet away was a girl about five feet and six inches with dark brown hair and fair skin that glistened when the sun hit her. She stood next to her mother getting the tickets from her. Hugging her mother she kissed her cheeks and walked over to her young friend that just called her by her name, Lian.
“Julie you really should calm down. Being the adult I am responsible of you. We will get good seats either way and I got a slight surprise for you.” Lian said to her friend pulling out their tickets and holding it over the girls head.
One would take a look at the two and think that they were sisters because it was obvious that Lian was nineteen years old and Julie was only sixteen but in reality they were best of friends which wasn’t a common thing even in America.
“What is it Lian?” Julie asked jumping up trying to take the tickets from Lian but was unsuccessful.
“It is our tickets with a surprise from my mother. We got backstage passes due to our connections!” Lian teased and handed Julie her ticket while throwing her arm around the younger girl leading her to the gates.
“How?” Julie asked in surprise as they reached the gates.
“It is a secret!” Lian said with a small wink to the petite blond.
When it was their turn to enter the arena the ticket masters checked their ticket and seeing as it was different from everyone else, at first they were confused. One of the Korean managers walked over to the American ticket master and looked at the tickets. Identifying the tickets immediately he went into the booth and pulled out two lanyards with VIP cards attached and handed it to them. The American was about to question but decided to keep quiet and just held onto the tickets like his job specified.
“You really got us VIP passes? I can’t believe this you have to tell me how.” Julie said admiring her pass as an usher was escorting them to their seats. “I will be able to meet Taemin Oppa because of this!”
“I’ll tell you some other time… all I will say now is that I got it because of my mother and who I use to be but that part of me died and is buried in the past now. If I could dig that part of me back up I would but LA does stuff to you…… I’m just glad you flew in with my parents from the east coast for this.” Lian said putting her back stage pass around her neck as she remembered some of her childhood days.
FLASH BACK
“Lian your better now and your father has to go back to work so we will be moving back to New York. What should we tell the Lee family?” Lian’s mother asked as most of the boxes in their house were packed.
Little eleven-year-old Lian looked down at the ground as tears filled her eyes. She just got back from the Hospital and was flying to America the next day after living in South Korea for five years. Trying to hold back her tears Lian said, “Nothing, it is better to just not say anything. I’m going to go live with Auntie in California aren’t I? It is because I am not healthy, and I want them to remember me before I got sick.”
These were harsh words spoken by such a young girl but she knew she had to be strong and preserve her image. She didn’t want her best friend and first love to come looking for her when she wasn’t mentally stable. Lian’s family was going through some hard times and her parents on the brink of divorce because her father found out that she wasn’t really his child. Not only would she loose her friends and place in South Korea but she will be separated from her parents in America because her father couldn’t deal with seeing another man’s child in his house.
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