Euphoria

c a t h e r i n e The hallways before our first class never fail to be so busy and noisy. Students from here and there are flocking, always got something to tell each other. But today is different because their eyes would so often drift at me. I am not totally unaware that I am still the subject of their shameless gossips. The consuming chaos is exhausting me by the second, so I made my way out of the crowd to get to our classroom, which is wide empty thirty minutes before class. There, I made the phone call to Vernon that I have been meaning to do since yesterday.“Hey." I forced energy. I am never an enthusiastic person, but just to be more interesting, I feigned the vitality. There was nothing from the other line but the soft whiz of the city breeze and of Vernon’s subtle breaths. Realizing that he is not speaking, I continued. “Uh, since you were suspended because of me, I

Last Updated : 2020-10-29

“I can’t remember, sir.” “Here are your photos.” Mr. Jung push

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v e r n o n“Good for you, you’re suspended,” Mark mumbled in between munching his gimbap.

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My walk towards the principal's office took me to the far memories of my relationship with my father. Along the corridors echoed my mother's dialogues to me when I was a child."It's not that your father doesn't love you, Catherine.." Mom would often say every time my dad scores so well in proving me unimportant. Both of my parents were just 16 when they had me. They were never married, of course. Eventually, both of them had their own families. Often, I would feel like I am stuck in the middle like I belong nowhere. I feel like I wasn't supposed to exist in the first place.My mom took custody of me. My dad, on the other hand, promised to fulfill his responsibility to me but they remained just that--promises lacking actions. His consequent absences on all of my birthdays and all of the other special occasions are just the surface of his failed parenting. "It's just that he has a hard way showing it. Love can be tough, you know?" Mom, in her e

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In my attempt to understand his sudden impassivity, my gaze lingered on the resurrection of Vernon's ice-cold facąde. He seemed a master to putting on and off the mask of joy and apathy, I noticed that too well. It seemed to me as though such emotions are nothing but accessories which he'd purpos

"Was it because of me?" I asked the obvious. Vernon was quick to shake his head. He tried to act non-chalant but it came out as a struggle. Beneath his hazel brown eyes was the concealed dismay, and perhaps, the overbearing sadness. Funny how I read him now. Days before, I would have

c a t h e r i n e We were utterly quiet in class. For everyone, it was a surprise to see Vernon back in the classroom. To me, it was rather tormenting. I couldn’t get myself to comprehend what the teacher was speaking. Vernon’s

c a t h e r i n e Vernon held me under his gaze. All the while, I felt the bloom of wildflowers in my throat. Frozen air and weeping skies lined the dead silence that accompanied us for seconds. The gruesome hail outside the glass windows competed with his st