[Chapter 1]-introduction
"You sure you want this one, kid?" The game owner asked with a mix of worry and something else. "Oh definitely! It's sold out everywhere!" Jae-young said with sparkling eyes as he looked at his new game console. Jae-young walked out of the store, grinning from ear to ear. He was the first out of all his friends to buy it. "Losers! I'm going to be the first to play "the last of us."" He texted his friends, bragging. Later that night Jae-young is setting up the game when his stepfather calls for him "GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE YOU UNGRATEFULL LITTLE SHIT!"
Jae-young freezes his face growing white, "no, why is he back" Jae-young mumbled under his breath. "GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE BEFORE I MAKE YOU!" His stepfather yield one last time, his patience running thin. Jae-young runs downstairs before his stepfather gets angry. "Y-yes sir?" he asks his stepfather cautiously. "What did I tell you about leaving your shit around the house!" Jae-young's father yelled while holding an empty beer bottle again. "I'm warning you, if you keep this up, you'll be living on the streets like your rat mother did."
Jae-young scrambles to the floor to clean up his textbooks while his stepfather sits on his couch to watch, "You look a lot like your mother, you know that?" After picking up his stuff Jae-young goes to his room "At least mom doesn't have to look at your drunk ass everyday" Jae-young mumbles under his breath secretly as he passes his stepfather passed out on the couch with empty bottles of beer beside him. "No wonder mom left you; she should have taken me with her too."
"Lee Hajin? Here! Kwak Seojun? Here! Park Jae-young... Park Jae-young wake up!" Jae-young's home room teacher shouts during roll call annoyed. "Let me guess stayed up playing video games again" Yi-Seo laughs. "Your probably right" Yi-Seo's desk mate adds snickering as they turn their chairs back to face the teacher who is glaring at them "you three see me after class!" all three groaned in their seats annoyed.
Yi-Seo, Ha-yoon and Jae-young stay seated as the bell rings for students to have lunch, their classmates start packing up and leave to go to lunch. Jae young crosses his arms annoyed "sir I didn't do anything, why am I staying back!" Jae-young's teacher takes off his glasses, rubbing the bridge of his nose "this is the tenth time you have slept in my class, this week!". The girls snicker whispering to each other before the teacher glares at them "And you two! Always talking nonstop, don't you ever get tired of hearing your own voices at this point? Midterms are coming up and if you all fail one more time, you're going to have to redo the year, got that? Dismissed." Their teacher waves his hand, signalling them all to leave.
Jae-young quickly runs to the changing rooms to put on his PE uniform to join volleyball practice.