Chapter 56: {First Set of Finals}

December 20th, the first day of the last week of school until January 4th after winter break. I'm gonna absolutely HATE going to school tomorrow. Now if I were to be going to college, this would be an issue.

"I kinda just want to spam guess on all our finals." Jugyeong says.

"I mean graduating is kinda necessary."

"Why can't we just drop out?! I'M SICK OF THIS BULL!"

"We've already wasted most of our lives at school, might as well finish the course. It's necessary to get the placebo effect that we didn't spend 11 and a half years of our lives for absolutely nothing."

"You're right. Just man, sometimes I feel like choking someone at school. Why do I need to know about the South Korean economy?"

"We're business owners in the country with the weirdest laws. They barely made it legal to post on social media about catching someone that assaulted you. They also barely made 18 an adult in the wartime too. I hate this country."

"If our business wasn't here I'd say we should move to the states."

"You kidding? At that point we should go to Australia."

"I just wanna be able to watch football games in public."

"After the war, I think Australia is just fine. If you really wanna go to the west to a country to watch football, England and Scotland has the London Knights and Edinburgh Highlanders."

"We can decide this later."

"I'm not getting drafted."

"We can dip after high school maybe? To somewhere cheap?"

"I don't care, I just don't wanna serve for the South Korean military."

"Don't blame you."

"NOW LET'S GET BACK TO STUDYING. YAYYYYYY."

"We're probably the only couple from Korea that actively speaks in English, so we don't need to really study that."

"Yeah, no math either."

"It's mainly Psychology we need to study."

"Do we really have to though? Man is just gonna give us a philosophical question to answer and based on our answer he's gonna determine how mentally ill we are."

"True Boskanovich is a weirdo. Only thing he has good taste in is music."

"Hardbass."

"Cheeky Breeky Dah!"

"You're not Russian, please don't do that again."

"You really like to spoil my fun."

"I'm you're fiance. It's my job."

"Kinda sad that it is facts."

"How much cash we got saved up?"

"About 56,000 USD."

"Wanna emigrate to Italy? Dirt cheap real estate We'd have a lot of time to get back on our feet and stuff."

"What really? Why did you suggest English speaking countries then? Hell yeah! Germany is right there too with their Berlin Football team."

"Guess how much some houses are over there."

"What? Like 20,000 Euros?"

"Psh nah, unrenovated real estate goes for 5 euros as long as you fix it up within two years"

"We're moving to pasta country."

"Remember the connection? Just like Korea."

"PFFFFT."

"Poor, pasta-loving, pork-loving peninsular people that castrate their pretty teenage boys so teenage girls can spend thousands of dollars to go to one of their concerts."

"PFFFFFFT. I forgot about that stupid joke you made up."

"It's funny ain't it?"

"I wanna move there more now just to see if that's true."

"And we could just drive if we wanted to go to Vienna or Naples or whatever. Public transportation in Italy is crap compared to most of Europe."

"When was the last time y'all went again?"

"Like 8 years ago, visited Switzerland too there."

"I'm gonna have to study up Italian."

"Remember this is your desire, so if you hate it, it's your fault."

"Eh, probably won't hate it."

"We're probably gonna have to restart our business though. Or would you rather live in South Korea? I can just take the 2 years of jail."

"Let's hope they change legislation, because yeah that's hard."

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The next day...

Final 1: English

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"That was easy as hell Mrs. Lim." Jugyeong says bugging her.

"That's because you're first language is English."

"Cantonese actually, learned English little though."

"Eh same crap."

Final 2: Psychology

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"Alright kids, on our way back from winter break, you will be reading these aloud." Mr. Boskanovich said.

Man my response to the question was kinda edgy.

Final 3: Government and Economics.

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What the hell was that test.

Memorizing weird laws is the absolute worst.

"It's for all of y'all's safety in this stupid country, if it didn't pay more than Russia I'd be out of here too."

Final 4: KLA

Hell! Another bull crap essay. WE HAVE TO WRITE IN HANGUL FOR CRYING OUT LOUD THIS IS GONNA TAKE FOREVER. (Hangul is the easiest writing system to learn, not write. That goes to latin alphabet cursive.)

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"Did you finish babe?" I ask Jugyeong.

"Barely. You babe?"

"No. Was on my third body paragraph."

"Well let's hope it didn't ruin our grades..."

Lunch:

"Hey Suho! How'd ya do on the finals so far?" I ask him.

"I feel like I did crap, how about y'all?"

"I feel confident on 2." Jugyeong says.

"One for me." I say.

"What's the Psychology final?" Suho asks.

"He gives you a question and we have to read out our personal response to the class the day we come back. We're apparently gonna assess each other's sanity." Jugyeong says.

"Dang man that's funny."

"Not joking. Ask Hyun."

"What she said."

"OH GOD." Suho says.

"Yo have you been modelling still?" I ask him.

"I got a deal with a couple companies, bolstered my Instargraf. Apparently a hot guy with tattoos is what the people want."

"You got a new one bruh? Lemme see."

He got a neck one last month. That's a rose bush limb.

This one's on his face, it's a small spider.

"Thought you were arachnophobic?" I ask him.

"I was, but Sangah's tarantula grew on me, we got matching tattoos."

"Did y'all get em this weekend?" Jugyeong asks.

"Yeah. My cousin did em for free."

"That's cool."

"Hey wanna come to the arcade with us during winter break? Bring Sangah. We invited Dowoon and Kiara too." I ask Suho.

"I miss Dowoon, hope he comes with. Yeah I'll be there if it's a Sunday." he says.

"Always is."

"Aight."

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Final 5: PE

"Just run 3 miles today. That's your final. If you complete it by the end of the period, you pass, if not, you fail." Yoo-ji says.

"Pain." I say.

"I've made you do worse what are you talking about?"

"Cardio."

"Beat up a 300 pound man, normal Tuesday. But running isn't for you?"

"Hitting people requires less."

"Whatever just run."

"Fine. Also I know this guy that's a foreigner if ya want me to introduce you to him."

"Does he speak English or Korean?"

"Both. And he works out at the gym."

"Send me his number."

"Don't mention me."

"Fine. Go run lazy."

"Babe we gotta do this come on!" Jugyeong says.

"I hate running."

"JUST DO IT. Or no fun on our honeymoon."

"You're the one that would be tortured there, not me."

"How about-"

"You already said it."

"Also I'll throw away you're pillow."

"Okay that's cruel. Fine I'll run."

"You wanted me to try on the finals, so now you have to."

"Fine."

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HOLY CRAP WE DID IT! Hah. Hah. Hah.

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The next week...