Ji-Eun Park
November 03, 2015 8:36 PM
It's good to be back by Ji-Eun Park
Ji-Eun was super grateful for the first year orientation, and the few hours earlier it spirited her away from her parents’ apothecary and back to Sonora. Summer had been unbelievably awful. She had thought she would have one more year of semi-freedom before her mum manoeuvred her into a university in Anaheim or Aurora, or anywhere else that significantly increased her chances of meeting nice, suitable Korean boys. But it had already started.Hae-Joo Moon was obnoxious. He had chatted constantly about himself over the meal when her mother had invited him over for dinner. Had Ji-Eun been wanting to be fair to him, she might have noted that this was egged on by constant prodding from his mother - tell Ji-Eun about your studies, tell Ji-Eun about your fraternity… But she wasn’t inclined to be generous to someone she hadn’t chosen to meet. Hae-Joo had been so busy reciting his CV to her that he’d barely bothered to find out anything about her. Maybe it was because she was still a silly little school girl, so couldn’t possibly have anything interesting to tell his worldly Healerness, but she’d been left with the distinct impression that he wasn’t interested in anything about her, except how impressed she was with him. Which, after that display, was not very. Arnold was a gentleman. Arnold looked at her like she was precious and treated her like a princess. More importantly, he seemed to care what she felt. Being her first boyfriend, and having read plenty of romantic stories, she had just assumed that was what it should be like, but she was starting to appreciate that not all boys were the same.
Jamie’s advice to just rebel had been chipping away at her. She had never been able to face that possibility. But she had always reasoned that the life her mother had mapped out for her would make her happy, because she wanted to make her mother happy, and because none of it had sounded all that bad at the time. Now though… The ideas her mum had for her didn’t appeal to her at all, but nor did starting World War 3 between her and her family.
She threw herself down on the bed in the Pecari Common Room, drinking in the familiar smell of the laundry powder. Maybe she could just stay here. Even if she didn’t learn a neat little spell to freeze time, she could just shackle herself to the bed when they tried to make her graduate, or go hide in the gardens and become the crazy wild woman of Sonora. Those currently seemed like her best options.
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