K.I.S.S
Daeho and Junhee were just sitting on their couch scrolling on tiktok in silence. The two siblings a few weeks ago had applied to a school called K.I.S.S. Their mother had died when they were both really young. Which made them learn little to nothing about her, but from the white side of their family ( their father ) they had learned that she went to a school in Korea called K.I.S.S.
The boy twin had originally thought of the idea to go learn more about their mother and decided to go there taking Junhee with him. But, they both knew little to no Korean. Junhee being as determined as she is, she said they can just wing it when they get there. In quotes she said to Daeho “The school is international anyways, they mostly speak English over there. It won’t be too hard right?”
The father of the two questioned them, mostly because he’ll probably be lonely without the two in the house.
The silence lingered throughout the house just hearing the audios from one another’s phone. But, it didn’t take long for a ringtone to disturb the peace. It came from Dae-hos phone. Him being annoyed as he was since he was interrupted. He read the caller I.D. “K.I.S.S district”.
“OH MY GOSH, JUNHEE. IT'S THEM IT'S THEM!” Daeho squeals with joy jumping up from his original seat. “WHOSE THEM??” Junhee yelled in his face standing up next to him. She read the phone, her face lit up. “OH MY FUCKING GOSH DAEHO IF YOU DONT ANSWER THE PHONE RIGHT NOW.”
Daeho clicked the answer button and put the phone near his ear. “Hello, Kim Daeho speaking.” For some reason he had his moms last name instead of his dad. But he never questioned it, he could just lead on the Kim legacy i guess?
“Hello Kim Daeho, we would like to welcome you into K.I.S.S and your scholarship as well as your sister, Kim Junhee. Do you accept going?” He smiles looking at Junhee. She stares at him back smiling wider than he could ever.
“REALLY? I mean uhm yes ofc we’d totally accept going.” He squeals. “Okay, we have a flight assigned for you in 24 hours. Is that alright with you?” the girl says on the phone.
He puts the phone down and covers the speaker, “is going to Korea in 24 hours fine with you?” Daeho asks. She nods uncontrollably.
He brings the phone back up to his ear and says “Yes that’s fine!!! Just please email us a time.” The girl says okay will do and hangs up on him shortly after.
“WERE GOING TO KOREA!!!” Daeho screams. Jumping up and down uncontrollably in excitement, “OH MY GOSH WE'RE GONNA LEARN SO MUCH MORE ABOUT MOM!” She yells back at him but obviously, not in a yelling tone.
Junhee stops jumping tho, “wait. How are we gonna tell dad?..” He stops as well, taking a breath. And thought for a while.
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The family sat on the couch, “so dad.. you know how we applied to K.I.S.S to learn more about mom?” He nods to Junhee's remark. His face lit up with a thought, “wait, DID YOU GUYS GET IN?” Their dad yells, smiling and happy for them.
Their dad was always the smartest and could figure things out easily. I guess that’s why Daeho is the way he is, let’s just say Junhee got her smart genes from her mom..
“YEAH!! But, before we go, we obviously have to ask for permission from you.” Daeho says, kinda scared for what he will say. “And no pressure but we kinda might’ve already said yes tho..” Junhee adds, Daeho nudges her with his elbow and she falls back.
“Oh.. well, if you kids really wanna go, then I think you should. You're not gonna learn anything from me, especially about your other culture.” He smiles, Daeho knows he’ll regret that decision, and he’ll be lonely.
But, he knows he’ll gaslight them into going and saying that it doesn’t matter about his opinion. So, he doesn’t fight it. Junhee interrupts his thoughts and gives their dad a big hug. Saying thank you thank you repeatedly over again.
He hugs her back and says “your welcome your welcome.” Patting her back. He looks at Daeho smiling at him.
Daeho just mouths the words thank you. His phone dings, he looks at the phone. Reading the notification “K.I.S.S District, Hi Kim Daeho, here is your time to board your plane and your translator and your tour guide. And there are instructions below on where to go after you arrive. We welcome you and your sister at K.I.S.S can’t wait for you to arrive.”
“Hey sorry to interrupt this stellar moment, BUT our flight is tomorrow at 6:30 AM. I think we should go upstairs and pack, but that’s just me tho!” He says to Junhee, “OH! Yeah! Okay I’m gonna go upstairs and pack thanks dad bye!!” She says then rushing upstairs.
“Bye dad, I’m gonna go too.” Daeho turns around and attempts to follow Junhee. “Dae, take care of Junhee please. And take care of yourself, don’t get into any trouble, okay?” He hears from behind him.
Daeho turns his head around and smiles at his dad, “okay, I will don’t worry.” Then he slowly walks up the stairs.
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*RING RING RING* Daeho slams his hand on his desk. Turning off the alarm, he slowly opens his eyes and rubs them.
He sits up looking at the time, 4:30 am. Shit he needs to get ready.
“JUNHEE, GET UP.” He yells, she groans in response and did a quiet “IM UP”
The boy gets out of his bed and walks to his bathroom. Looking at himself in the mirror. Thoughts ran through his head, he can’t believe it will be his first day at K.I.S.S. He can finally figure out who his mother really was.
And boy was he excited.
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The two are on the plane, hours in. The flight was about to end soon, and then they’ll be in Seoul not knowing a single word of Korean.
He looks to the window side and sees junhee, watching a movie with headphones in. “Hey Junhee, how much do you wanna bet that you’ll get into some crazy relationship?” She looks at him with a daring smirk
“Okay my proposal is that you’ll get into some crazy relationship.” She says, he looks at her with a smile. “Okay I bet 100 dollars you will.” Daeho said that with confidence.
“Mkay, same for me as well. Now let me finish my movie before we leave the plane in 5 minutes.” Daeho just laughs and goes back to dozing off.
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The two are now in Korea, at the airport standing with their baggages. “So.. what do we do now?” Junhee turns around to the taller. “Let’s go to the bus’s area. There should be a bus labeled K.I.S.S and we need to get on there.”
Daeho starts walking and Junhee follows. They start walking to the bus area, “Wait, so the credit cards dad gave us he’ll keep adding on to it?” He looks at Junhee and nods.
“Yeah, but we should get jobs. We can’t just take from dad even though he's filthy rich.”
They arrive at the bus terminal and see the K.I.S.S bus. And boy did they run, they were already boarding and it would be a shame if they missed it.
Luckily, they didn’t.
They both sat together, and their baggage was in cargo. Daeho was scrolling on insta. Specifically, K.I.S.S’s.
Scrolling through the events, looking at all of the students. There were a lot of foreigners attending K.I.S.S which was cool. So he doubted there would be that much Korean speaking over there.
He closes his phone and stares outside of the window.
Junhee was still addicted to her phone, texting her friends that were in America.
He wondered what it would be like once they arrived, maybe it’ll be like those cringy k-dramas. who knows. They got their positions really late and classes start in two weeks.
They both were definitely not ready to start classes already but it’s whatever. “So.. how do we start with trying to find more about mom?” Junhee breaks the silence.
“Did you bring the photos of mom in your backpack? like her friend's album?” Their mom had a photo album with pictures of all her friends together.
She nods at him, “oh I know! You wanna try looking to see if we can find any of moms friends!!” Junhee starts smiling, daeho nodding rightfully.
Finally they had arrived at K.I.S.S. Junhee stood right up and ran off the bus, Daeho tryna catch up to her.
“You almost knocked down like a million people!” They are now standing right infront the stairway to go up to the entrance. “Sorry!! I’m just really, really excited, we are like living in a k-drama.” She squeals.
He grabs both of their luggage and smiles at her. “I know, but we need to calm down, you don’t wanna leave a bad first impression.” Daeho starts walking, lifting up his luggage to go up the stairs.
Junhee follows behind him struggling to lift her luggage up. “I don’t know how you do this so effortlessly!” She yells at the boy in front of her. “Well maybe if you didn’t pack so much it would be easier to lift up.” He chuckles at her.
“Well, we’re basically living in a whole other place so maybe I packed the right amount unlike you!” Junhee yells at him.
They reached a flat surface and arrived at the entrance. Daeho opens the door and walks in, obviously holding the door open for his twin sister.
She walks in, admiring how big the school was. Daeho closes the door behind her and starts admiring as well, they both can’t believe they're gonna live here for the next year. “Soo.. where do we go now Dae?” Junhee looks at him with a confused face.
“Oh right! We have to go to the receptionist so we can get into our dorms and get a flyer so someone can tour us around the school.”
Daeho starts walking to the receptionist, and Junhee follows behind like always. “Hello, your names?” The woman asks the two. “Kim Daeho” Daeho nudges Junhee to get out of her daze “oh! uhm Kim Junhee.”
“Will you guys be living in the dorms?” They both nod, and she gives them a key and some flyers with information on them.
Daeho turns away and starts walking, and again Junhee follows. As Junhee follows him she runs into someone by accident. “Sorry! I didn’t see you there.” Junhee extends her arm out to pick him up.
He had black hair, with bangs almost covering his face. “No it’s okay! It was my fault anyway.” He grabs her arm and stands up.
“Oh, uhm are you new? I haven’t seen you guys around campus before.” Daeho turns around to look at the boy, and Junhee smiles.
“Ah! Yes I’m Kim Junhee, this is my twin brother Daeho. We just transferred here.” She says to the boy, “oh! Hi, my name is Park Minsu.” Slightly bowing, “it’s nice to meet you guys but I have to get going.”
And then like that, the boy left.
“That boy was nice, hey maybe he’ll even be your roommate!” Junhee says while nudging Daeho with her elbow.
“Yeah he seems nice.” Smiling at the shorter girl. “Okay dae, I’m gonna go to my dorm room. You should too. If you need anything, text me!!” She says while running off with her backpack and luggage. He laughs looking at her run. She was never the best runner.
Well, Daeho was alone now. And it’s time to go to his dorm room. Scared for what his roommates will think of him.
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Daeho inserts the key into the doorknob. Twisting it and unlocking the door. He walked in, the dorm was pretty big. Three rooms, one bathroom, living room, and a kitchen.
It was almost like an apartment basically, there were two pairs of shoes already near the doormat. Which probably means he had two roommates.
Daeho swiftly takes off his shoes and looks around in the rooms. There were two beds in one room, one bed which wasn’t taken. And in the other bedroom there was a single bed. Taken already.
So, the boy had to sleep in the same room as someone. He can’t complain, he came very late.
He walks in the room with two beds and sets his stuff down on one. Seeing someone laying on the bed. The boy was on his phone.
He looks up from his phone and sees Daeho. “Oh sorry how rude of me! I’m Lee Myunggi. I’m guessing you're new?” Myunggi says.
“Yeah I am, my name is Kim Daeho. If you don’t mind me asking, who's the boy in the other room?” The boy sits up from his original position, “Park Minsu. Him and I have been roommates since freshman year. I think you’ll get along with him, he’s pretty nice.”
So Junhee was right, the boy was gonna be his roommate. “Oh yeah, I met him on the way here.” Myunggi smiles at him, “sorry you didn’t necessarily get to pick where you slept. I didn’t know we were having another roommate and Minsu always takes the single bedroom.”
Daeho sits on his bed, “Hah no it’s fine, I came late anyways” Myunggi smiles at the boy.
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Junhee walks into the room, admiring how big the room was. She takes off her shoes near the doormat. And sees another pair of shoes as well. She smiled, Junhee couldn’t wait to find out who her new roommate was.
She dragged her luggage with her and went to the single bedroom. Which was great because it wasn’t taken. Junhee sets her stuff on the bed. And sighs in relief she doesn’t have to carry it around with her anymore.
“Hey new roomie.” Junhee hears from behind her. She slowly turns around. There is a girl leaning on the doorframe. She had a nose piercing and short hair. “Oh hi!! My name is Kim Junhee.” Junhee smiles at her.
“The names Semi. Just to let you know we have another roommate coming, she’s just always a bit.. late” Semi chuckles at the remark she just said. “That’s nice! If you don’t mind me asking what’s her name.”
“She has the same surname as you, Kim Youngmi.” Junhee smiles at that, “Oh my gosh that’s so cool!!!”
“Are you going to the welcome party tomorrow?” Semi asks her, Junhee's smile faded away and her expression turned into confusion.
A thought filled her head, there was a welcome party?
She eventually said it in real life and Semis' response was “Yeah, they have one every time a new semester starts. You should totally go. I can help you make new friends.”
Junhee laughs, and then a door slams open and someone says “AHH! Sorry semi that I’m late! I got stuck in traffic.” Running to Semi, “oh look what the cat dragged in. And it’s fine youngmi, don't worry about it.”
“Oh me gosh! We have a new roommate?? Hi, my name is Kim Youngmi!!” The girl squeals. “Hii!! My name is Kim Junhee.” Her eyes lit up with joy “WE HAVE THE SAME SURNAME THAT'S SO COOL!!”
Youngmi starts jumping up and down uncontrollably, “is she always this hyper?” Junhee asks semi, “oh all the time.”
“Okay youngmi, let's leave Junhee alone. She has to unpack and you do too.” Youngmi waves bye to Junhee and runs off with her luggage. Semi following behind her.
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Junhee: You didn’t tell me there was a welcome party tomorrow.
Daeho: a what, what what?
Junhee: a welcome party! It's basically just a party for all the new and returning students.
Daeho: Well sorry for not telling you even though I didn’t know myself!
Junhee: 😑
Daeho: also you were right about that minsu guy being one of my roommates.
Junhee: told youuuu!!
Daeho: whatever, that's just luck.
Junhee: anywhoo, are you gonna go to the welcome party with me? My roommate semi said she can introduce us to new people to make friends!
Daeho: yeah yeah whatever just send me a time tomorrow.
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