Jeonghan's POV

I woke up on the park bench, my clothes soaked from the rain. I peeled myself off from the metal bench which felt gross because my clothes were stuck to it since they were wet. I rubbed my eyes lightly and took a look around to where I was. I know I ran far yesterday, but I couldn't really observe my surroundings because it was so dark out. 

As I finally got myself to sit up, I pulled out my phone from my uniform pants pocket. I tried to turn it on, but it wouldn't turn on. It's probably out of battery...I need to figure out how to charge it. 

I slowly started to stand up, my legs felt weak because of all the running I did last night. I don't want to go back to the home because all the kids there are probably just going to judge me. They're probably waiting for me right now at the breakfast table, holding their chopsticks in their hands like pitchforks. 

I'm not the type of person who deals with my problems head on, I'm the type of person to run away from my problems and disappear forever. 

Where am I suppose to go now though? I don't want to bother Joshua with my problems. I looked around and sighed a little to myself. I guess I'm going to start living on the streets now? I touched the top of my head, feeling my eyes starting to water. All of my wigs, clothes...were all back at the house. 

As I was walking around, trying to find a good place to find shelter for myself I heard someone call out my name from behind. It was like I jumped out of my skin for a moment when I heard someone call out  my name. I slowly turned around and was slightly revealed to see that it was just Joshua. 

Joshua walked up to me with a confused expression on his face "Jeonghan...why haven't you been answering your phone?" He then observed me and asks "why are you soaking wet...your hair is a mess too, did something happen when you were walking to school? How did you get so wet?" So many questions coming out of his mouth all at one, I tried answering all of them in one go.

"My phone ran out of battery so if you texted or called me, I couldn't get it because my phone won't turn on." About the reason why I was so soaked, I haven't thought of an excuse for that yet. Should I tell Joshua everything? 

"Jeonghan" he says, looking at me dead serious. He continues to say, with the same serious expression on his face "what happened, you can tell me." 

I stared at Joshua before looking down, am I really going to tell him about this? I let out a breath of air to calm myself down and prepare myself for what I was about to tell him. I start off with saying "I guess I should tell you that...I don't have any parents." 

"You...don't have any parents?" Joshua repeats, sounding just as confused as I thought he would sound. "Who have you been living with then?" After asking that, he observed my clothing once again and asks in concern "have you been living on the streets?" 

"I...I'm starting to live on the streets...." 

"Starting to? Where did you live before?" 

"I was in an orphanage...that's why I didn't want you to ever come to my house. I didn't want you coming to my house and pitying me because I have no parents. Because I'm sharing a house with more than twenty kids. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable." I explain, sounding hurt that I had to lie to him. 

"Jeonghan, I would never pity you! Who do you think you're dating here? What happened, why aren't you living at that place anymore?" 

"It's a long story...but let's just say I messed up yesterday and now all the kids hate me. I'd rather run away and never see them again, then go back and deal with it." I explain, rubbing the back of my neck. I know I sound like a coward, but it's the truth. 

"Jeonghan...you have to go back, you have to deal with this. You can't just live on the streets for the rest of your life!" Joshua says, looking at me with concern on his face and in his voice. 

"Yes I can, I use to live on the street as a kid with my older brother...who says I can't live on the streets again?" I ask, just remembering those times brought tears to my eyes.

"You have an older brother?" Joshua asks, surprised. 

"Yeah...but I don't know where he is anymore. He was adopted soon after we entered the orphanage. When that happened I wanted to run away and just be a street kid again, why bother staying at an orphanage where my brother isn't there to protect me? Well now with all the kids hating me there, there seriously is no one there to help me or be on my side. I'll have to withstand the glares, and the rude remarks all by myself. I don't want to, I don't want to deal with it all by myself." I explain, a tear starting to rush down my cheek but I instantly wiped it away. 

"Jeonghan, please...please go back there. You'll never make up with those kids if you don't go back there and deal with the problem head on." Joshua explains, he walked up to me and hugged me tightly. I don't think he minded that he was getting himself wet from my soaked clothes, he just continued to hug me tightly. 

"But Joshua...did you not just hear what I-" 

He cut me off with saying "I heard what you said. I know you don't want to go back there because you're scared. But I'd rather you withstand glares then be out here in the cold rain. You're going to get sick if you stay in these clothes Jeonghan, I don't want to see my boyfriend like this. If you want me to come back with you to the house...then I will. I'll be right beside you the whole time when you go back. If you have to apologise to the kids for whatever you did, I'll be right beside you, okay?" Joshua asks, still having me in his embrace. 

I nodded meaning okay. I know he wasn't looking at me since he was hugging me, but I could tell he felt me nodding my head. 

For the rest of the day Joshua and I got ice cream, we ate, talked, and even played games to know more about each other. Joshua even gave me his uniform cardigan to keep warm. I know it wasn't much of a day, but I knew for a fact I'd never be able to forget this day...ever. 

When it was coming to the end of the day, everyone at the house was probably home but Joshua looked at me with a smile. With the smile he gave me, I knew he would be beside me every step of the way. We both walked to my house together where we saw kids at the front and Mrs.Park was watching them. 

When Mrs.Park saw me, a smile ran across her face and she instantly walked up to me, hugging me tightly. "Jeonghan, why did you run away? Did you stay out in the rain yesterday all night? You clothes are all wrinkled? Jeonghan, you shouldn't have ran away, you got me so worried about you." Mrs.Park says, a tear started to stream down her cheek but she wiped it away. 

Mrs.Park then turned her head to Joshua who was standing beside me and asks with a smile on her face "who's this?" 

I swallowed hard before answering for him "this is my boyfriend, his name is Joshua." 

Joshua bowed while saying hello to her and the smile staid on her face. "It's nice to meet you Joshua...I'm guessing you're the one who brought Jeonghan back? Thank you...thank you so much. Why don't you stay for dinner? We always have more than enough since there are so many kids here, as you can probably tell. Come in, Mrs.Lee wants to speak to you Jeonghan." 

I felt a shiver go down my spine when Mrs.Park said that Mrs.Lee wanted to talk to me. She'll probably shout at me for running away and not coming back. I sighed, thinking maybe I should just turn around and leave again before it's too late so I don't have to face Mrs.Lee, but Joshua grabbed my hand and squeezed it tightly. I knew while holding Joshua's hand that I could do anything. 

I nodded to Mrs.Park and both Joshua and I started walking towards the house. As I got to the front door and started taking off my shoes, Joshua taking off his shoes beside me, I felt a pillow being thrown at my head. I looked up to see who had thrown it, and it was Jangmi. 

"Why'd you leave....you think I was really mad at you? I would have forgiven you...you could have just come back." Jangmi says with tears in her eyes. 

"Sorry" I mumble, walking up to her and hugging her once I got my shoes off. 

She hugged me back before looking behind me and questioning "so you brought your boyfriend over?" 

"Yeah, Mrs.Park met him and said he should stay for dinner." 

"Oh he'll have fun." Jangmi answers in a chuckle. 

At the same time Mrs.Lee called out to me from the top of the stairs and she was staring down at me with a sad expression on her face. I sighed lightly knowing what I had to deal with now and looked back at Joshua. Joshua nodded to me and gave me a smile, giving me encouragement. I knew I could do it with Joshua's warm smile and I nodded back to him, walking up to where Mrs.Lee was and following her into a different room so she could talk to me.