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A phone continues to ring persistently somewhere in the bedroom blaring out some weird song that always had people either give you judging stares or serious side eyes every time you were out in public, not that it ever bothered you anyways because naturally you could be quite oblivious even to glaring situations and secondly you just happen to love that particular song especially the ‘Geurae wolf naega wolf awuuu ’ part, not that you knew much about the boy group named ‘EXO’ or something ,you just heard your friend playing the song on her phone and being the weird girl you were you decided to download it and set it as your ringtone just for the heck of it. But you weren’t loving it so much right now because it was ruining your perfect sleep and if there’s was something you loved more than sleep, it was sleep itself, so having that song playing repeatedly was beginning to irk your soul. You finally gave up and rolled out of bed when it seemed like the other person at the other end of the line wasn’t going to. With your hair sticking out in all directions you proceeded to scratch your stomach while stuffing your feet into your Fluffy Mctuffy slippers at the same time before padding over to the beige couch at the corner of the room riffling through the clothes strewn all over said couch, after locating the phone you swiped the icon on the screen without looking at the name displayed on the screen and brought the phone to your ears before answering in a monotonous voice. ‘Hello, this is Shiwon’, you muttered into the phone still scratching your stomach through your Gryffindor pajama top (and yes you are a potterhead). ‘Yah, what took you so long to pick up your phone, I’ve called you ten times already and how dare you ‘hello this is shiwon’ your mother where are your manners young lady’, your mother yells into the phone. You dramatically sigh before taking the phone back to your ear, ‘Good morning to you too mom, and I was asleep when you called me because its what people do at 6am in the morning and besides my phone rang just two times before I picked’, you huffed as you padded to the bathroom to start your day as there was no point going back to sleep again. ‘Oh its 6am over there? , I never get this time difference thing correctly. It doesn’t matter anyways because even though its 6am your age mates would be awake already getting ready to go to their workplace but you just lounge around over there in Florida spending your father’s money without any remorse getting all tanned, going on cruises and taking selcies or whatever they call it’, your mother says accusingly. ‘Its selca not selcies and I don’t see the big deal, he’s my father anyways and he earns the big bucks so I can spend it after all I’m his last child so I don’t see the problem and besides he knows I love him too and I love you too’, you reply cheekily. ‘Whatever I just hope your bags are packed already for your trip back home next week, I’m sure your father would be happy to have his thrifty selcie taking daughter back home, anyways I have to go now I’m cooking dinner bye’ your mom says and you can clearly hear the happiness in her voice. ‘Yes they are mom and I can see you are clearly happy about this so I’m sure you would be happy to have this thrifty daughter back home, anyways bye and say hi to Dad for me and its selca’, you hear your mom chuckle before you cut the call. After brushing your teeth you padded back into the bedroom and started pulling out the empty boxes stacked in your closet to continue your packing which you have being in the middle of doing for the past two weeks as you had lots of stuff to pack to shipped back to Seoul which is where you actually come from. You were born in Seoul to a family of six which consisted of you, your mom, dad, two elder brothers Inguk and Howon and an elder sister So-yul who always teased you while growing up because of your weird habits and eccentric taste, still you loved them anyways and wouldn’t replace them for anyone in the world. There was a bit of an age gap between you and them because you came a bit late and unexpectedly which resulted in you being coddled by both your siblings and parents while growing up which you didn’t really like because it made you really dependent and unable to make decisions on your own and was one of the reasons why you asked your Dad to send you abroad once you turned 18 to be able to grow out of your shell and become independent. This was met with hesitation at first from your parents as they didn’t think you would be able to survive on your own so far away from home, but your siblings chipped in and convinced your parents to let you go, well strictly speaking Howon oppa did most of the pleading on your behalf since he was your favourite oppa and liked to make sure you got whatever you wanted and since your parents believed him to be the more cool headed and rational thinking one and usually trusted his judgment, they let you go and that’s how you came to live in Florida. And independent you have become after five years living on your own, it was hard at first but after a while it got better and gradually became interesting. You met lots of people and made many friends over the years and learnt to stand on your own two feet and make your own decisions, you already went to the university and graduated with good grades now it was time to return home. You were both happy and sad though; sad because you would be leaving the friends you made here behind but happy to be going back to your family. Besides, you had a job waiting for you back in Seoul which your mom said was to keep you busy for a while before you found your career path, some job at SM ent or something like that.