Chapter 10: Rivalry

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I can't pinpoint where it's coming from.

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I tried to scour the area, but it's hard to find anything that stuck out.

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"What's going on Ha-na-ya?"

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"Uh, nothing eomma, I just got distracted haha..."

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Am I just imagining things?

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We went into the car.

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My mom started driving.

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But the feeling did not disappear, even while we're on the road.

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Are we being followed?

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What the hell is going on?!!!

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I can't see any vehicle that seemed out of order, there is no car that seemed to be following us. Every car around us seemed to be going to a different route.

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The only thing I can hear is my own heartbeat.

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I don't want to make a scene, lest my mom will worry about it, but I still feel that gaze.

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All of a sudden, a car just went crazy, it kept turning to the right as it crashed through a building.

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A traffic pole getting more crooked by the second as it fell slowly towards us.

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"Eomma! We need to go now!"

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We turned left even though we're supposed to go right.

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I knew we just needed to go, and somehow it seemed my mom felt it too.

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We're getting closer too school.

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And then...

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Birds started falling from the sky.

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The wind blew stronger.

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"Mom let's just enter the school as soon as possible."

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We went to my school.

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As soon as we entered the building the wind stopped.

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There was no birds falling and trees crashing.

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As if it was a dream.

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I'll go and get some painkillers from the infirmary.

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As I moved under the bulding, I heard a crash.

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My mom soon left the school, chalking up the weird events to some weather problem.

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What could possibly be the reason for this?

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Do I have some sort of supernatural sense of prediction or something similar?

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But it was the first time anything like that happened.

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There is nothing out of the ordinary today.

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I went to the shoot, but it was like any other shoot I experienced before.

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There is nothing out of the ordinary today.

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What a familiar sentence.

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I decided to investigate more about the first supernatural event that happened to me.

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Time Travel

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Hopefully, I would get more hints about this weird gaze.

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I went to the local library during as soon as I could. I checked the school library, but it was barren. That place is simply ridden with nothing of use to me.

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I covered my head with my bag and ran all the way through the library.

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I earned myself some questioning glances, but I paid them no heed.

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If they were in my position, they would do the exact thing.

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I soon found myself another huge problem.

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These books about time travel are either fictional time travel stories or a highly technical non-fiction books that is too much for my brain to understand.

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As for the weird gaze, I couldn't find anything about it. I suppose the feeling is too abstract to put into words.

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I want to curse for a whole minute straight.

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Maybe I would have been less terrified by this thing if I know what in the world it wants.

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If whatever that is wanted to kill me, they should just do it, no need for such long suspense.

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I switched to the computers, I searched and searched for anything that could possibly correlate to my experience.

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I just found a bunch of nonsense and movie recommendations.

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I went to the forums and tried to look for something and encountered even more nonsense.

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In the end I just borrowed a few novels, including the famous time travel book, 'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells.

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I ran back with my bag above my head.

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Seeing an electronics store, I suddenly remember something that I have been delaying.

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I went and bought a mini voice recorder.

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It was pretty and compact, really convenient.

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What if that thing strikes me down from the sky tomorrow...?

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Like an anticlimatic movie, nothing happened the next day.

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Nothing proceeded to happen on the day after that, and the day after that as well.

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About a week passed by and I thought I had fooled myself into thinking that someone is watching me.

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I just spent all that time looking like a fool.

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'Politician Han Seung-tae embezzlement rumored to amount around...'

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This guy again, how often had I seen him in the news recently?

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'Politician Kang Yoo-jin is expected to...'

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It's like he took Teacher Han's place.

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The puppeteer behind that embezzlement reveal must be in a good mood.

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Today is a special day since it will be the shoot for the scenes that introduce my character better.

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To make it even more special, it is also the airing date of the first episode of 'Spring Breeze'.

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Speaking of special days, I'm going to graduate middle school soon.

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Me and Soo-hyeon got into the same high school because we both don't have an affinity with studying...

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School is really stressful.

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We are shooting at my school today.

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For some reason it was chosen as one of the sets.

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My middle school isn't pretty, but I guess they wanted a different feeling.

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The new principal, Principal Kang, greeted us, he used to be the vice principal or something of the sort.

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He said a bunch of thank-yous and showed appreciation towards us.

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Principal Kang had a really familiar face, like I had seen him a lot recently.

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I wonder where I could have possibly seen him.

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We are preparing for the shoot, the crew is positioning the equipment across the class, making it into a crowded fest.

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Lots of people in my class is chosen to become extras, including Soo-hyeon.

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I waved at her, she seems really happy to be in a drama.

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On the other hand, I don't know what the deal is with this kid.

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The child actor who played Ki-beom, Yeon-gyeong's friend and seatmate, seemed to have some sort of hostility towards me.

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He looked at me like he had a grudge on me, he is sharp enough to let that look fade after a couple of seconds though.

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During reading and now this...

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I wonder if I offended this kid somewhere?

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I can't exactly confront him since I'll just look like the bad guy, so I've been ignoring him.

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I guess he can do what he wants.

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But I don't have to play to his tune either.

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"All actors please get ready!"

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"Get the cameras and the sound rolling please!"

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"Action!"