Expiration Date
Description
A freshman in college.
A new culture, a new language.
Breaking friendships and building new ones.
Self-discovery.
Amber Liu, an 18 year old Taiwanese-American, is a new transferee at Seoul Institute of the Arts, majoring in creative writing. But her life is far from perfect. South Korea is nothing like her hometown of Los Angeles, California, and she quickly realizes that the culture is drastically different. As though it isn't enough, she finds it hard to make friends. Her androgynous appearance for some reason makes people give her strange looks and stray far from her, a problem she had even back home, and the language barrier isn't helping the situation. Every day, she shrinks further and further into her room, her shell, her comfort-zone. She almost loses hope in everything.
Almost.
Then some of the girls on her dorm floor decides to seek her out to fulfill their curiosity about this stranger. They become the ray of hope for her, shining on her darkening world. Hope isn't all they bring to her, however. They bring the promise of friendships and relationships she had only dreamt of.
"Even if I look at the clock
I don’t have time, goodbye now
Even if I look at the calendar
I don’t have any memories now
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads
Music that no one listens to anymore
I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater
Even if I look at the phone
I don’t have any relationships now
Even if I look into the mirror
In there, there’s no confidence now"-Tablo, Expiration Date
Foreword
Author's Note
Hello, Ambertastic_baby again, and here's the GOT7xAmber fic I promised! I had originally intended for it to be a romcom, or at least something light-hearted, but it's going to be a slightly angsty slice of life inspired by my own life, which explains this new format thing I have going on (my previous readers will know what I'm talking about haha). I wouldn't really call it angst really, since it's more of a hurt/comfort genre? But I don't know what people generally classify as angst so...yeah. Lol.
Like I said, this is based on my own life, but not quite? I'm definitely not Amber (though I sometimes do wish I was haha. I admire her personality a lot, and I think she's a true idol, not only because of her talent but also because of the way she presents herself). But some of the events that are going to be in this story have happened to me, even if some of it is twisted to situate the story better. A lot of her thoughts and emotions that will be depicted reflects a lot of my own throughout the past year and a half, and a major cause of my permanent existential crisis I've been experiencing. Which brings to me to something else.
There may be slight trigger-warnings, due to the darker nature of the characters' thoughts/emotions. However, there will not be anything graphic at all, so I don't think there's too much cause for worry? Consider yourselves warned, I suppose?
This isn't what I generally write, which some of you might already know. I've just been feeling like experimenting, despite all my other stories I have yet to complete. Ah, well. I sincerely hope you all enjoy this piece, and perhaps take a little something away from it?
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