Achara headed to school one morning and on her way, she saw a dog running astray. such a cute dog, I wonder if it got lost, she thought. It came next to her and sat down wagging its tail in front of her.

"Do you want it?", she asked giving some crackers to it. The dog wagged its tail and happily ate them.

"Tara, what are you doing here!??", a tall man came running towards her. "I'm so sorry, did she trouble you?", he spoke in Korean.

She was not good at Korean but managed to understand him.

"Umm can you speak Korean?", he asked.

"Oh, yes a little, haha", she replied awkwardly. Achara realized he didn't look Korean either.

"You don't look like your from around here..,".

"Yes, I'm here for college", he told.

His accent was so unique, she thought. she liked how he spoke.

"I study in Jinhae college, by any chance do you go there?", he asked.

"yes, I do, how.. did you know?", she was surprised he knew her.

"No wonder you seemed familiar. "Don't you remember? On the first day we met during book collection?", he asked. He was surprised at how much she could carry on that day.

"Ahh, you were the one who offered me help to carry the books? I'm sorry, I didn't see your face at that time".

"Are you going to school now?", she asked.

"yeah, I'll head to school right after I leave Tara back at home", he said.

Achara had already fallen for Tara. She always wanted a puppy but sadly Her father was allergic to animal hair so they could never get one. So she was excited to see a dog in a long time. In fact, she was playing with Tara while talking to him. He could see how much she liked Tara.

"If you want you can accompany us", he offered.

"Really?!!, I want to walk her!", she was so excited grabbing the leash from. "By the way, my name is Achara and I'm from Thailand", she said bowing.

"Hello Achara, My name is Harsh, I'm from India", he said.

They began walking towards his house after introducing themselves.

"So which part of India are you?", Achara actually had a huge interest in India from when she was young. Her grandmother used to tell Achara and Rune so many stories about Indian princes and princesses.

"I'm from Tamil Nadu, Chennai, I doubt you know about it", he said.

"No, I know a lot about Chennai. My grandmother had a friend from Chennai who told her about India and she would tell all of it to us".

Harsh was thrilled to hear it. He always had to explain his origin in Jinhae because most people weren't aware of India. After a long time, he was happy to meet someone who knew where Chennai was!

"Let's hang out more at school. You seem like a fun person'', Achara said. He also agreed to meet up during breaks. They dropped off Tara and headed to school.

Different cultures meeting together is a beautiful thing, Achara thought. All the diversity within India and around the world was amazing to Harsh. Even though there were moments when people were racist but at the end of the day there were more amazing people in his life.

At school, Rune and Kwan were practicing in the music room.

"Kwan that's wrong". Rune went over him to teach him how to play certain chords.

Holding the guitar, he gently placed his hands over Kwan's and told him the exact placements. Both of them looked at each other and smiled. From that day they had been practicing every day for the competition. Its almost been two weeks since Rune and Kwan got together. Rune had almost forgotten what his friends had told him.

He trusted Kwan. Even if he beat up people in the past, he was not the same person. He was really nice to Rune. Kwan was happy with Rune and never wanted to go back to his past self either. But how long can he be contained before he explodes?