Chapter 43: ✨100 Collections Special: Non-canon side story + Author Note✨
SIDE STORY: TODDLER DOHA MEETS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT SONG-RIK
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Song-rik looked behind himself again.
It had been a week since he could hear steps following him everyday on his way back home.
Since he was thirteen now, it had already been an year since the kidnapping incident and Jang Song-rik had developed quite a notorious reputation in the school for beating up anyone who crossed him.
So nobody really bothered him and he could just walk home now without a single problem.
But from the past week, he could feel someone following him.
I’m gonna catch that prick today!
Song-rik determined as he quickly turned the corner. He crouched there behind a trash container to catch the one following him.
And then-!
Waddle...
Waddle...
Waddle...
An elementary school cap walked into the corner. Or an extremely tiny toddler in elementary school uniform under that gaint hat.
Song-rik was startled a bit. He peeked further.
The toddler had blonde hair and golden eyes, too large for his face. His mouth and nose had been pushed to bottom of his face and most of the volume was taken by his eyes, cheeks and that massive forehead.
Song-rik had never seen a kid with a bigger forehead.
"Bere dit hyun go? (Where did hyung go?)" The toddler muttered looking as if he would cry.
"Aren’t you one ugly ass kid?" Song-rik said standing up from behind the trash container. "Why are you following me around?"
The toddler seemed incredulous at being discovered and tried waddle out of the situation.
Too bad his little legs couldn’t outrun a middle school student.
"Running away, now, are we?" Song-rik said with a devious expression as he picked up the kid from his shirt like a wet rat. "Who are you?"
"Um tori!!! Um tori!!! Wease let mi oun!! (I’m sorry!!! I’m sorry!!! Please let me down!!)" The toddler struggled to free himself by wiggling around but it was useless.
Song-rik turned around the kid to face him. He looked even uglier as he was crying. Snot was flowing out if his tiny nose and his big ass forehead was flushing red.
The eyes were dripping water like an open faucet and the cheeks seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.
"Didn’t know you could get uglier," Song-rik teased the kid making him cry harder.
"Dowa isn’ ugdy!! (Doha isn’t ugly!!)" The kid, Doha, yelled.
"So your name is Doha, huh," Song-rik walked out of the corner into the main street with Doha stiil dangling from his hand with his shirt stretching down like a hanger.
"I don’t think I’ve seen you before, so why are you following me?"
"Dat...dat izz a secwet! (That... that is a secret!)" Doha declined any answer.
"If you don’t tell me, I’m going to hand you over to the police," Song-rik said as he secretly laughed watching the kid’s face becoming horrified. "Then you can just stay in prison for following a normal citizen."
"Bud!! Bud!! Dowa didn do awythin wong... hic! (But!! But!! Doha didn’t do anything wrong...hic!)" Doha seemed convinced he would spent the rest of his life behind bars.
"But you did, ’Dowa’," Song-rik said teasing. "You kept a secret from me. You should not keep secrets from adults."
"Bud hyun iz nod a adul. (But hyung is not an adult.)"
"Spill the beans, kid or forget ever seeing the sun again." Song-rik threatened after being met with a viable argument from a toddler.
"Um tori!!! I polowed hyun becos hyun iz.... (I’m sorry!!! I followed hyung because hyung is....)"
"I’m what?"
"...pwety."
"..."
"..."
"Aren’t you too young to be following around your crush?" Song-rik teased the poor toddler making him cry again.
"No!!! Dowa izn’ jung! Mom said I wud gow bid vun day!!!"
"Some day it would be," Song-rim teased the kid. "But younger guys are not my type. Especially ugly ones."
"Dowa izn’ ugdy!! I wud becum pwetier dan hyun vun day!!"
"Sure sure. Now tell me where your house is," Song-rik asked looking around.
Doha, the toddler, was very smart and remembered every direction back to his home. He told Song-rik directions as he rode on his shoulders and was teased out of wits and made to cry several times more before they reached his home.
Song-rik put the kid down in front of the door and fished out a candy from his pocket. He waved it in front of Doha and said;
"If you say you wouldn’t wander around again I’ll give this to you."
"Canies cauze cavidies, hyun." Doha said showing his pristine set of robust white teeth.
"Do you want this or not, kid?"
"Gimme, pwease."
"Promise first."
"Hmph! I wud nod wandel alound."
And the toddler snatched the candy. Running to his front door, he smiled back as he rose his other hand with crossed fingers.
"I cwossed finders!!! So id doen’ count!!!"
And then the toddler disappeared into the house.
Song-rik stood for a while, feeling funny after being fooled by an elementary school student.
He then walked away.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Hi! This is Crybaby1.
Well, what should I say? I’m not really a famous enough writer to write a speech or something. This isn’t even such a big occasion for me to make that much fuss, to be honest. 😅😅
But I really wanted to celebrate this.🥳🥳
This is the most love I’ve received from the readers on my novel. 😖😖
I feel like I’ve outdone myself.🙂
When I started writing ’Trapped in an Omegaverse Tragedy’, I wasn’t really looking for much audience or interaction. 🤔🤔
I had this test that needed typing speed so I figured might as well write a story.🫠🫠
Since I am an avid reader of BL manga and manhwa, I figured that would be a good story to start.🤭🤭
Maybe that’s why you might find elements in the writing that imitate a manhwa-like progression.😓😓
Anyways, I wasn’t expecting such a good response and eventually even applying for a contract. 😭❤️
I know my audience isn’t as large to call it a massive success, but just know even one person out there is reading my writing is quite comforting 🥹🥹 and....
embarrassing.
I wasn’t expecting readers so I kinda wrote down whatever came to my mind, so please forgive my cheesy scenes and words as well as the mistakes in the text. 😵💫😵💫
I hope you all keep reading this novel and support me. It’s honestly like having my wildest dream come true. 🫣🫣
Thank you! 🥺☺️
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