Of The Arts and Education (HIATUS)

Please Subscribe to read further chapters

Description

Lynnette is an English teacher at a local grade school in Seoul and is engaged to be married to Chandler, a fellow English teacher.

There's one thing coming between them and their marraige.

He has control issues and has tendancies to overact on them.

Seunghyun, a Masters student at Korea National University of Arts is working on his final semester at university while volunteering at a local children's theatre workshop as a director.

Lynnette is finally ready to stand up for herself and Seunghyun has decided to be there in case she falls.

This is a story to show that you don't need to dedicate yourself to someone because you owe a debt. 

Love cant be forced.

And that maybe, just maybe the phrase "Fall in love with your best friend," is the smartest decision you can make.

Foreword

This story is much diferent from my other stories I have written. I wanted to take on something a little bit more intense and I know the evil fiance storyline has probably been done to death but I love writing fluff and when it comes to fan fiction I have always had the mentality of "Who cares if it's been done before, if you write it well and do a good job with it than it'll entertain people...and thats what we come here for isn't it?"

So let's see how this goes.

I know I said I was going to start uploading this in July but I thrive on comments and I need your feedback to make sure I am doing well and to write what you guys want to read. So here you go...just dont get to upset if theres a month break anytime soon. Once finals come around I may die haha.

But July isn't far off and when the semester ends I'll be all over this story ahahah.

Also, this is my first story that takes place outside of the Big Bang world. I wanted to make Seunghyun a normal person for once. I hope I do well! Please let me know what you think :)

Also, I had no idea what to title it, so for now this is it. haha.

ALSO: I know a lot of you liked reading my other work because I keep it cleans and YES there will be NO in this story but there may be a bit of language. Nothing to crazy but I mean...when you have a fiance who hurts you emotionally theres bound to be a word or two. 

I myself have never been emotionally abused so I am not writing what I know about. I have done some research online and I am trying to channel what I have read from personal accounts. Please do not get angry with me if I don't get something right because honestly, everyone has diferent experiences. 

Thank you guys! I hope you enjoy the story.
 

Back to Top ↑

Comments

You must be logged in to comment
Xiossi #1
Chapter 12: Awwwww, fluffy fluffy. I love it! The chemistry between them is amazing. And this is coming from an American dating a Korean! I can retalte in so many ways. Good job! Thank you authornim, keep them coming!
loyal4ygfamily5ever #2
Chapter 10: OOOOOHHHHHHH MYYY HAPPY DAYSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I READ THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS AND THEN YOU UPDATED AGAIN AND I WAS LIKE, I DON'T REMEMBER READING THIS OH I HAVEN'T, OH I SAY!!! AND THEN i DIED AND SEUNGHYUN AND HE AND THEN.... OH WOOOOOOWWWWWW MY HAPPY DAYS NOT BREATHING WELL AT ALL OVER HERE. ahem.. thanks for updating. very much appreciated. Good Frozen quote too by the way :P
Xiossi #3
Chapter 10: Ahhhhh a kiss! He finally kiss her. This is getting soo good!!!! Can't wait for more.
loyal4ygfamily5ever #4
*Appropriately somber organ music* Here lies the story of Jillian "toptotesrulez5eva" Nadiak which, being most graciously shared with her thirsting readers did then trail sadly off after seven chapters and is now lying in the deeply regrettable state as you all see it now. This story did provide many hours of wonderful feeling and breathtaking enjoyment as well as several almost lethal heart attacks before its untimely slip into apparent lifelessness. perhaps even yet, we may see such a revival as would gladden the hearts of many a poor fangirl, not only at this present gathering but also in other places far flung around the globe.

R.I.P much beloved little story, not soon forgotten by those whose lives were brightened by your brilliance.
loyal4ygfamily5ever #5
Chapter 7: this is probably more than half not related to this story but the other night I had a really weird dream about my head scripture teacher, whatever you want to call her, and she was taking care of all these stray children and I was helping her and all this other stuff happened (it was way better than it sounds) ANYWAY. Before this story I've never thought of Seunghyun the way you're portraying him and it must be getting into my subconscious thinking or something cause I've started dreaming about bits of it for crying out loud! I've thought about Seunghyun liking kids and being a father and all that other stuff but not, like... that. and it's really annoying me cause It's so new and so beautiful but I can't imagine it properly but I really like it and I don't even know. dude, your story is giving me an existential crisis >_< anywayyyyyy, THANK YOOOOUUUUU FOR UPDATING! :D :D I don't have anything brilliant to comment, my whole life has just suddenly got about five more directions I could go and I feel lightly like hitting my head on a brick wall. so it was wonderful just to sit down and read a nice, happy, peaceful chapter about a Seunghyun that made me smile and an OC that I like. and I just noticed.... "Death grip around his bicep" my happy days do you have too????? that little kid that likes Seunghyun is scary though lol. she's the type that'd turn up at school with a machine gun to protect her property. aka Seunghyun >_<
MyDarlingLove #6
Chapter 7: Awwww cute!!!!!!
loyal4ygfamily5ever #7
Chapter 6: MY HAPPY DAYS SEUNGHYUN IN NIGHT SHIRT AND SHORTS?????? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME???????? *wrenching sobs and dying whale noises* I just walked out the kitchen still under the effects of Seunghyun in shorts and Jared says "Why are you acting bananas?" WHYYYY JILLIAN WHYYYYY???

anyway... there was something else I really liked, one of those bits I'd print out and frame. " It’s nice to know that someone is willing to fight for this relationship.
Too bad it’s no longer the people in it." I LOVED that! So profound and deep!

and I love his English how he just blurts out that she's an inconvenience but he still wanted to get to know her *loud AAAAAAAWWWWING* and then he comes out with this earth shattering "independent doesn’t mean you have to be alone" my happy days so deep!!! and it really is so true and wow how do you think of such philosophical stuff?

AND DAESUNGGGG!!!!!! aahhhhhh Daesung..... :') :') and imagine TOP just rapping not on stage just for fun... NO! and Seunghun with a tambourine.. stupid idiot what the flipping stuff do you think you're doing with a tambourine come here so I Can hit you with it! lol, I can see it so well >_< is there picture inspiration for his profile picture? and Daesung's clothing?

such a nice chapter :') Seunghyun is so nice and Daesung's existence gives me such happiness and Seunghyun in shorts is still killing me *happy sigh* looks like it's going to be a good day >_<
loyal4ygfamily5ever #8
Sooo, I've been thinking about the speech and description surrounding it and I just remembered something my Uni lecturer told us. She was talking about writing speech and she said that because we use it so frequently phrases like "she said" are almost subconscious, like our brains don't even notice it anymore when we read it. But at the same time it's an awkward phrase to incorporate into writing so we're better to try and avoid saying it whenever possible by using other terms such as she replied/shouted etc. and sometimes we don't need to even clarify that someone is speaking because the quotation marks do that, and we can give the idea of their emotion/feelings/way of talking/whatever like:

Reading The Pink Tie always made B more impatient with her little brother.
"Go away Jared! can't you see I'm trying to fangirl!" quickly she clapped one hand over and apologised. She hadn't meant to shout in his ear so loudly.

it takes up extra words but depending on how good you are (I'm pretty terrible) it reads less awkwardly and gives the sense of showing not telling the reader what's happening.

anyhoooooo.... yeah, I'll step out of your personal writing space now. I'm already missing updates :'(
loyal4ygfamily5ever #9
Chapter 5: aaand then Seunghyun's there to pick her up and hug her and it's such a nice way to end it :') lol, wow I feel like I need to write a conclusion to this essay >_< ohh and I loved reading about him and the kids. I'm preparing for when you aren't updating frequently and I'm having withdrawels, I can go back and have a couple of chapters to comment on without repeating myself >_<

crap I didn't realise I wrote so much... sorry for taking over your comment section >_<
loyal4ygfamily5ever #10
Chapter 5: I REEEEEAAALLY LOVE THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN CHANDLER AND LYNETTE! it has all this tension and shows how she wants to "be friends" still and how he gets angry again... AND dude you need a MEDAL! when I read it, I was so caught up in the actual story that Come Back Home didn't even register. every time I hear it now I start singing the song but reading the conversation it just didn't even enter my mind I was so.. focused or whatever lol. although, personally if I had been lynette, I Dont think I Would have been that nice to him cause I'm an intolerant brat lol. and then he just.... drops her and hangs up and my mouth kind of dropped and seriously I could have disabled him for life. ooooooooh!!! are you going to do a confrontation or something between him and Seunghyun and you could describe Seunghyun going all martial-arty and beating him up my happy days I'd die. anyway.

about the description of the charecter, usually it wouldn't bother me it's just cause I'm used to Jillian now I see you so... it doesn't really matter. If I read a story that has a character description I don't like I just ignore it anyway and imagine what they look like myself.

OH! I also really like how you wrote the conversation with chandler! it hasn't got any of the undercurrant humour from the narrative/main character's point of view. stuff like, when she left "Sprinting down the stairs wouldn’t be much of an understatement." I Can't find any others off the top of my head but when I Read it, it sounds... lighter? but this conversation doesn't have any of that so we get the full significance of what's happening and how serious it is and she feels it to be.
+
Back to Top ↑