1st person - Junsu
I came back into my room around 5:30, and it was a terrible day. I missed my morning exercise today. Because of this, I was in a terrible mood for the entire day. I asked my roommate Minho to wake me up this morning but he didn’t. Was he so apathetic to forget my request, or did he ignore me on purpose? It would probably be the latter. I feel that all he cares about is studying and his grades. As I walk through the door, I see another roommate, Han. He is doing something with his computer. He is so pathetic. How can he be so lethargic and stupid? Then I see Minho. He is studying. I am really amazed. He is like a studying machine, and he doesn’t need to rest. I feel a little disgusted. Minho sees me and asks, “Did you check Mr. Kim’s essay grades? It’s posted on the Internet” “Why do you ask?” I reply abruptly. “I just let you know” He answers. Then I speculate that he is asking because he got a good grade, and he wants to show off.
Originally I planned to take a little nap before I eat dinner, but animosity and jealousy against Minho makes me sit in front of the desk. Ok. I determined to study, but what should I do? Suddenly, I remembered like a week ago, our math teacher Mr. Hickson has announced that he would be collecting our math notebooks to check our homework tomorrow. I studied for a while, and left the notebook on the desk and when to the cafeteria for dinner. After I returned from cafeteria, I tried to work on the homework again. However, to my surprise, my math notebook was not on the desk! I looked around to find it, but I couldn’t find it. Then, the person immediately came up in my mind was Minho.
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3rd person – Minho’s point of view
Minho skipped his lunch and stayed in the room. As Minho is studying, Junsu comes in and searches for something. After a while, Junsu turns to him and accuses him with a very excited face. “Where is my math notebook?” Minho replies, “I don’t know.” “Oh, really? You don’t know?” Junsu is very persistent and makes a sarcastic comment. Minho’s face is turning red and he reacts with irritated voice “Are you suspecting me? “ Finally, Junsu is very angry and shouts at Minho. “I know that you are selfish and have a strong sense of rivalry, but you shouldn’t ruin other people’s work!”
Minho doesn’t reply to that. He seems like he has something to say but he does not say anything. Minho opens the door and gets out. After a while, Junsu gets out of the room too.
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2nd person - Han’s point of view
You are surprised watching them fight. Yesterday, you asked Junsu to borrow his math notebook, but he rejected you. You were very humiliated. Even before that moment, you felt alone and ignored by your roommates. You are not good at studying then your roommates were, so they implicitly ignored and belittled you. When they were talking about grades or academic things they naturally excluded you because your grades were bad. So you decided to put him in a trouble. You stole Junsu’s math notebook when he was eating dinner and hid it in your secret place. You were so careful that Minho didn’t even realize that you were stealing Junsu’s notebook.
You didn’t expect that this was going to get this big. You are surprised with Junsu’s reactions and how Minho responds to it. Junsu immediately speculates that Minho stole his notebook.
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1st person – Junsu
The next day, the math class began. I couldn’t find my math notebook. Minho must have stolen it. I still can’t forgive Minho. Mr. Hickson came in and began talking about the homework. I began to sweat, and I feel so nervous that I can barely listen to what Mr. Hickson is saying. Then I see Minho’s face in front of me, and I swear to god that I will revenge him. Thinking of Minho, I was filled with anger again.
Then he realized that the whole class began to cheer. They were so happy that they were even shouting. “What happened? What are you cheering about?” I asked. Somebody answered, “He won’t be collecting our homework anymore. He said he would just leave it to us”. I am so relieved. Suddenly, I felt sorry for Minho. Maybe I was too harsh on Minho. When I return to my room, I will say that I’m sorry to Minho
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2nd person - Han
Junsu could never find his notebook. I never gave his notebook back. However, they soon made up and became friends again. Didn’t they fight because of the notebook? I wonder what happened.
