"Will you go out with me?"
"uh?"
I thought it was a joke. Because we just met yesterday.
But he was weird. He was so weird about me for a first time seeing him yesterday.
I see. You seem to really like me again.
"Have we met before?"
A strange sense of foreboding I felt when I first saw it. I asked without realizing it.
It's over. It feels like we've known each other for a long time.
"No. We first talked about it yesterday."
"But why do you like me?"
It was a question with pure intention. I was genuinely curious.
I'm not good-looking, nor am I good-natured.
The only thing I'm good at is studying, and that's because my parents forced me to.
A model student with a dirty personality, like there's probably one in every class.
Why do you like it?
Park Jimin chuckled at my question and spoke without hesitation.
"I can know my destiny."
"But that's you."
I thought he was joking... but his expression was completely serious.
- I should have listened to Jimin back then.
If I had been more perceptive, if I had noticed, I would have said that
I should have understood. But I couldn't have. I was too young.
I don't know why. Maybe it was because I was frustrated with only studying.
I think I wanted to escape from the suffocating daily life.
When I get home, my mom uses violence to make me study.
The teacher who puts pressure on me.
Somehow, if Park Jimin is next to me in this hell
I felt like I could escape.
"Okay. Let's date."
I thought he would be flustered, but Park Jimin didn't panic and came to me.
He approached briskly. Then he bowed his head slightly to meet my eye level.
'Are you trying to kiss...?'
I closed my eyes tightly.
Po-ok-
Park Jimin hugged me tightly in his arms. I was embarrassed, but
I patted him because he was shaking. And he seemed to be talking to himself.
He muttered. He spoke so quietly that the first part was hard to hear.
"...I'll save you."
'What are you trying to save?'
That's how our first love began.