1-A fresh new start
Haneul's pov
This is it, the most important day I've been waiting for years. Today, I'm leaving home to go to my dream University, Yale University.
It's always been my number one destination I wanted since Freshman year and now that I actually got in, it's time to actually go study there.
Yale University isn't just your typical University, no it's one of those big leagues Universities. It's extremely hard to get in, only a few get accepted and I'm one of the lucky ones.
Funny enough I'm not the only one who got in and that will come to study with me across the country.
My best friend Jonathan got accepted too. He isn't nearly as smart as me but he's not too far behind, if he weren't, he wouldn't have got accepted.
Since Freshman year we were already both planning to go to that University. Yes, we are crazy to already think about college at 14 but look where it took us, we are the only ones in our school who got in.
Jonathan is lucky to have gotten in. He didn't get in at first as he was on the waiting list but I helped him do his essay for the University. Turns out it helped a lot because the members of the University liked it enough to accept him.
Through, I got in early, not surprising is it? I even got a scholarship which I gladly accept. I'm what we call a genius. I have all the smarts. I have exceptional smartness and yeah, I'm a nerd. I am dead serious about my studies. I don't have time to screw around and have fun, whatever that is.
I'd rather work and study for my future, a future everyone won't get because they preferred wasting their time by having fun.
So yeah, I'm dead serious in my studies and I never get sidelined to have fun, even if Jonathan tried to, it never worked.
I want to become a neurosurgeon. I know it's crazy to say when I'm just 17, not yet 18 but yeah I want to achieve that. Everyone thinks I am insane but I don't think so, I'll manage all those years of studies, I'm made for that job.
I don't get why people slack off so much, they aren't thinking of their future, the future is important. What you do now will impact your future.
In a way, I make sure to have the best reputation possible, when I graduated High school, I won the award for the most promising future.
Anyways, some people have asked me why Yale University and not the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Well, I think my university offers more options and gives better courses and credits overall.
I know it might seem dumb coming from me knowing I live in Los Angeles (L.A), the city that offers the best things and a bright future but I still prefer Yale University.
Yeah, moving across from the Country means going to leave in a dorm, I don't have the money for an apartment, not even if I share it with Jonathan.
As soon as I get there, I'm finding myself a job even if I will be swept with my studies. It's demanding the course I'm taking. Well, all Bachelor's degrees are hard but mine is the worst, it's a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience.
I'm glad I don't have to worry about money like Jonathan will have to but I still want a job, I need to fend for myself.
So, I can't afford to slack off in any way possible.
Ok, today it's crazy that I'm leaving the city I grew up in and my family but I won't lose such a good opportunity just for my family's sake.
I'll miss my parents and my brother for sure, even some friends of his and his girlfriend. I'm not even close to them but hey, my brother's friends are always there, I've known them since Freshman year and my brother still has the same set of friends.
He hasn't made new ones really, just his girlfriend, even though she doesn't count, she moved here from Wales to study at their University, California State University. Oh well, it's the same thing for me. Jonathan has been my best friend since day one of high school and others that came along the way are long gone. So in a way, it's perfect for University.
In just a matter of a few hours, I'll be leaving my home off to New Heaven, Connecticut, that's crazy, things will never be the same again.
Right now I'm in my room, busy packing my final stuff.
Jonathan isn't there with me as he's spending his last moments with his family but he'll be there with me once we leave for the airport, normal, he's leaving too. Through, he'll come to my house to say the last goodbyes to the others, he's close to my parents.
It's still the early morning of mid-August. The morning breeze is refreshing, I like it, I guess I'll miss that. I doubt I'll get a good breeze like that in my dorm room.
Maybe I'll miss my room too even if it's pretty plain, it'll miss my bed comforter, it won't be the same in our dorm room.
What I'll miss the most is my privacy, will I get that in my dorm? No, I have to share the dorm with another girl, what a joke, I hope she won't be too bothersome, I can't have a girl interrupt my studying.
Ugh, that'll suck if that's the case but what are the chances I'll be with a girl like me? Next to none.
I almost wish I could share it with Jonathan oddly enough but we can't, he's a guy and it's only girls in dorms and vice versa. He'll get a dormmate too but knowing him he'll either frighten that guy to death or get along with that guy, yeah Johnny's just like that.
Enough about the dorm situation, I don't want to think about that.
No one is up in the house at this time, 6 am, yeah I'm only an early bird.
Regardless, Iit'll change today, I'm getting on the plane at noon, I have no choice, I'll be 3 pm over there which is late. We'll arrive right before dinner over there, not the best but I guess it's that. Oh yeah! Another thing I forgot is the time zone change.
It'll be something having a time zone difference of 3 hours but I'll be fine. In L.A., the time zone is Pacific time and over there in New Heaven it's the infamous Eastern time. I say that because that's the only thing I hear and see those days, it's annoying. Not only New York exists.
Even if it's that, I hope they wake up soon, they gotta share the last moments with me, next time I'll see them is for Thanksgiving, that's in 3 months, that's a lot!
My brother is also a University student and he's in the last year of his Bachelor's degree in Accounting. Through, he studies at California State University just like all his friends. I could've done so too but again I'm not from the same league as them and I'm smarter too.
Regardless, he's 21 unlike me who has yet to turn 18, it'll come soon, it's in September exactly a month from then on.
Later on to my grand displeasure, my parents planned a sort of party for Jonathan and my departure to University, this means all my family will be there and my brother's friends will be there too.
It's not that I don't like them it's just that I think it's too much. I'm just leaving for 3 months and they'll see me again, why are they so dramatic?
Ugh, I suddenly have a taste for Coffee. Yeah, I better take advantage of the fact this will be the last time in a while I'll have free coffee. Gosh, the cost of living is expensive, don't remind me of that.
Yeah, I drink coffee, my brother doesn't even like it but here I am the youngest sister who likes coffee. I need coffee to put off all-nighters, how will I survive without that?
I put on my glasses or else I'll see everything blurry and then I get off my room already dressed up for the day. I walk down the halls that barely have light in them due to the sun rising just now. I head to the kitchen and spot the coffee maker.
I go to the coffee maker and start preparing my coffee, gosh, I'll miss the serene state of my house, it's so pretty.
I continue my coffee and once it's done, I pour it into a coffee mug and go sit down outside on the balcony, a balcony, I'll miss that too. Damn, I'll miss a lot of stuff after all. I basically grew up in this house so it makes sense.
I drink from my coffee mug as I hear the bed chirping and the sun rising. Why don't others like peacefulness and quietness like this?
Ok, I'm not the only one in my house that likes that, my brother isn't the most outgoing person, he's calm but he wouldn't do something like this.
My parents are just too energetic to settle down like that.
Gosh, I sound like I'm an oldie. Oh, who cares? That's who I am.
I drink some more of my coffee in the serene state of my backyard, then after a few minutes, I get surprised to hear the balcony door open. Seems like someone is awake after all.
"Oh, you're already up drinking up, why am I not surprised?" My dad says as he smiles.
"Yeah I am, you're up already?"
"I guess so, I can't stop thinking about you leaving us in a few hours." He says sorrowfully.
"Oh Dad, don't be dramatic," I say unamused.
"How can I not?"
"Shh, you're interrupting my last moment."
"Oops, sorry young lady." I glare at him and he chuckles.
"I'm not a young lady."
"Well, you are almost 18 so yeah you might as well be."
"What about Myung?"
"He's a young man too."
"Wow, ok Dad," I say faking my non amusement.
It remains silent for a few seconds before he talks again.
"I can't believe you're really leaving."
"You told me that 100 hundred times already."
"It's just hard to believe you're really living, I never had to deal with that with Myung."
"What till he gets an apartment with his girlfriend."
"Oh, please don't remind me of that." He says smiling sadly.
"I mean, it's also reality, Dad. Myung's 21, it's about damn time he moves away from home."
"Oh, Haneul." He says all concern.
"What?"
"If it weren't for your studies we wouldn't have minded keeping you home, here."
"Nice but I already made up my mind."
"I know..."
He leaves to get back inside, probably to make some coffee and eat breakfast.
Earlier when my dad was there, I wasn't talking to a dad that looks like me. He has graying blond hair and blue eyes, he's tall unlike me, and his eyes are hooded unlike me.
Yeah, he's not biologically my dad neither is he to my brother. It's not that my mom married, it's just that we got adopted. My parents weren't able to conceive so they opted for adoption.
They adopted two beautiful Korean kids aka me and my brother. So, we are both Korean but we got adopted as babies. I don't see my parents differently. For me, they are my true parents even if we aren't related by blood.
Even more crazy is that Myung isn't my biological brother either, though I've always seen him as such. My parents would have had to be lucky to adopt two kids that are biologically related in Korea.
Why Korean? That I don't know. Apparently, my parents fell in love with the people and culture there, I've never gone there through.
So, they decided to adopt Korean babies. They did it two times. They could've adopted a baby from another origin but my parents wanted me and my brother to look alike, I think they did very well because we do look alike.
Surprisingly, my brother and I still have our original last name which reveals we aren't biologically related. My parents wanted us to know our cultures and did that in case one day we decided we didn't like our American last names.
My name is Haneul Seong, Seong being my actual last name, it's in reverse over there. While my brother is called Myung Wang.
My family is quite interesting indeed.
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It's time to go now. Gosh, there are a lot of people in the house. Both of my grandparents in my two sides of the family, uncles, aunts, cousins name it. Myunn's friends are there too oddly enough and Jonathan is now there.
Through this, I decided to move from the cramped living room, backyard and kitchen.
"Hey, where are you going?" Jonathan says.
That's Jonathan Greenville. Looks wise he's quite a handsome fellow, dare I say, though very different from me. He stands at a whopping 6 ft, which is 1 entire ft taller than me, so yeah it's funny whenever I'm with him, I'm so small compared to him.
He has light brown hair and green eyes but they are hidden by glasses like me. I get the chance to see those beautiful eyes regardless. He is quite built compared to when I first met him. He has broad shoulders and a good torso but for the record, he's not mister muscle even if he likes to think so.
Even if his looks attract girls and even guys, his face says otherwise. He's scary! If I weren't his best friend, I would stay away from him but then again, I know him enough to know he's not scary at all. I know him even a tad bit too much.
Anyway, he scares people off despite his outgoing nature, that's what he gets for having such a bad temper. There I said it, he has a bad temper, I can't lie about that.
Jonathan is my only best friend and that's all he'll ever be and he knows that too...Yeah, I hate thinking that we ever went beyond being just friends but it'll all in the past and now we are back to being best friends.
Ok, enough of the past.
"I'm going into my room, there's too much people here."
"You sure? We're leaving in less than 30 minutes." He says unsure and confused.
"You can come with me."
"I guess it'll be better than being stuck with Nickolas."
"Oh yeah, Nick. You two have such bad tempers, it's not surprising you two still don't get along after 3 years."
"Hey! I have no reason to do that anymore!"
"Maybe you aren't dating his brother Felix anymore but he's still Myung's friend."
"Yeah, I know, still he pisses me off."
"He's not my buddy but at least his boyfriend Ezra is cool."
"Yeah, at least that."
We go to my room and continue to chat there for the rest of the time remaining.
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It's now time to leave and everyone tells us goodbye before we get in my dad's car.
"Hey, have fun at the University abroad, Freshman." And yeah that's Nick talking to Jonathan.
"Freshman? Why do you still use that goddamn insult? It's so dumb." Jonathan says.
"You are a Freshman in University after all." Ezra completes before his boyfriend who's pissed off.
"Ugh, I thought I could finally get rid of that nickname."
"It's not a nice nickname but Ezra is right." That's Luke, one of Myung's friends and his girlfriend's twin brother.
"Yeah, Ezra is right." Another friend Taylor says, she's holding Luke's hand.
They have been dating for 3 years already. It was obvious from the start.
"Not gonna lie, you deserve it." I seriously say.
"Nah, I like the freshman nickname, it suits you." Myung, my brother says.
"Since everyone is saying something, Myung's right, the nickname suits you." She starts bursting into laughter and almost everyone does.
That's Myung's girlfriend. She's nice but I can't seem to get over the fact she's trans and Myung is actually dating her.
"So, everyone is on my case now?"
"Yeah," We all smile brightly.
"I don't want to bother you all but it's time to go." Oh gosh...
I start moving with my language and so does Jonathan. We also hug everyone, including my mom, before we go into the car.
"Don't die at that University, freshman!" Nick yells from the front door and Jonathan gives him a middle finger and I just laugh.
"Don't laugh."
"How can I not?"
"Ugh, you're a lost cause." He says annoyed.
We get to buckle our seats and my dad starts the car.
"Ready?"
"Yeah," We both say.
And it's then we leave to go on to live our University life.
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