Dina, a girl with the universe in her soul, galaxies in her mind and constellation in her eyes that refuse to stop its shine. She is set to start a new life in Seoul after immense compulsion from her best friend Aria; leaving behind her house, her past, mysterious disappearance of her parents. At first, she was afraid and unsure about starting a new life as she knew she was being watched but then she sets fire to everything that held her back, which made her weak and stepped on the ashes to become someone who she always wanted to.

She realized that a fresh start was hers for the taking, that she'd be the woman she has already seen on the distant horizon-her future self.

Her aesthetic is dope, she's all sorts of stop and stares. The moment she sets her foot in the Seoul university, she gets doomed.

~Zeo, who's madly in love with Dina.

~A playboy who's still in dilemma if he should ruin their relationship.

~Aria, a best friend who's always there for her no matter what.

~A brother who doesn't know why he still exists.

~Tayvin, who is too afraid to confess his feelings.

~Dina, who is afraid to love and to be loved.

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"Why not?"- He asked

"Because I'm scared."- I replied

"Scared of what?!"- He questioned

"Of falling for you, and then you breaking my heart"- I uttered

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Genre: Teenfiction, comedy, mystery, thriller

CHARACTERS;

Zeo -: Male lead

Dina: Female lead

Tayvin: Supporting Character

Aria: Supporting character

...This book is a work of fiction, I do not own any of the images, they are randomly picked from Pinterest....

...This book is a slow burn so bear with me babies....

...Events, characters, plots are all from my imagination....

...This book also contains sensitive, raw, painful topics which may trigger readers....

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...Dina's P.o.v...

Wednesday morning, birds chirping, my room glowing, thanks to the bad daylight entering through the windows, burning me to hell. What an earthly morning. But, I just sit there, not moving simply staring at my toes like a stupid maniac. It's just I don't understand what to fucking do with my stupid, moronic life.

My thoughts were dropped by a woman, who just banged open the door and came in. "Take a shower before you turn into a grilled chicken" she barked throwing a towel over my face. "You haven't showered for..." she started counting with her fingers like a preschooler doing her addition. "3..4......5 DAYS!!" she screamed angrily. And of course, after everything we have been through, I expected her to be mad.

I stared at her, with no emotion, letting her take all her anger over me. "I-I just want you to com-" I interrupted her. "NO! Aria, we discussed this last night. I don't want to come. I don't know anybody there and I love it here. Do you understand?" I demanded, storming out of the room and getting into the bathroom. I can hear her footsteps behind me, although I was fast enough, close the door before she gets in.

On the other hand, I am truly tired of making her understand. We are the best friends who everyone dreams they were. We fight, yell, throw things at each other but this fight? I don't know till when it will last. We've been arguing for a month, haven't hangout since then, we argue every time we face each other and that's the reason I imprisoned myself in my room. She is my bosom buddy, who understands me more than I know myself. "Yah!! I'll be there and is that not enough for you? Mom wants us to come home" she yelled outside the bathroom.

I soberly didn't want to go, we've been living in Australia for 19 years. I've not left the country since then. And mum dad on the other hand lives in Seoul. We both did our schooling in Australia and we also graduated high school, now it's time to go to university. And Aria decided to study in Seoul with me. "But Aria! What about the house? I don't want to leave" I questioned wishing to not leave.

When no one was there to take care of me, it's this house that refreshed me with joy and happiness. When nobody was there to even listen to my tears, it's this house that listened to me when I hurt in the dark, even though there were no words but just silence, which I craved the most.

My Father made this dream house which I drew when I was just five years old. This house is my everything. "I have told Rene to take care of this house, no need to worry about that," she clarifies. "She said, that she'll clean the house every month also asked the maids to stay here and take care of our farm" she went on. Wow, everything has been taken care of, she made 0 reasons for me to worry.

I still think of something which she missed. There's NONE! "Okay," I declare giving up. I carried on with washing myself up, "Kerry!! Help me pack the bags, also ask Rene to finalize our tickets" shouts Aria.

Why is that I don't want to leave this place? Why am I too terrified to leave? Buckle up y'all, it's storytime. I am Dina, an orphan, I am a single child, my mother disappeared the day I was born, lived with dad for 5 years and he disappeared as well, leaving me with nothing but this house he made for me. I don't recognize my mum's face, no pictures, no portraits. Their disappearance is still a mystery. Some say they are dead, some say they ran away with the money.

I have no idea what to reckon and what not to. Ms Rene's dad, Mr Chan took care of me, he signed me up for adoption just the day before someone I think I know tried to push me off the bridge. He says that I will be safer with an actual family, and that's when Aria's parents adopted me.

Sarah and Grey, coolest parents in the universe. That didn't improve anything. They were occupied all the time. Especially dad, always-on enterprise outings. They left Aria with me in this house, came to visit us once in 3 months. They took care of our needs so faultlessly that we didn't have a chance to grumble about anything, also got additional care than Aria, just to get her violent.

That was a fun time, they used to play with us, assist us with school works, especially mum, while dad was busy scowling up and down the boys who come home for group assignments. I've been living in Australia all my life, hope I do alright in Seoul.

After getting out of the shower I wore my unicorn pyjamas and go straight to my room. Aria has packed my suitcase. "Should I pack your laptop too?" Asked Kerry. "No, I'll have it with me" I acknowledge getting it from her. "Where is Aria?" I ask Kerry, drying my hair with a towel. "She is with Ms Rene downstairs" she responded.

I went downstairs, all the staff members sitting in the living room, listening to something Aria is explaining. As I was getting close to them "please do keep this house clean, don't allow any unknowns, get your payments from Rene on time. If anybody wants to leave, may ask Rene and we will be back on vacation" she completed giving Ms Rene some documents.

She came towards me as soon as she saw me. "I am so excited Dina" she squealed and hugs me tightly making my ribs yell in pain. "Me too" I mumbled. "Our flight is in an hour, just get dressed, I'll wait for you in the car, need to pack my chocolates too," she tells sprinting to her room.

I go up to my room and change into a t-shirt and jeans. Kerry brings out my coat and helps me wear it, while I struggle with my unicorn pyjamas. I try to push it inside my bag, but it's so stubborn and doesn't go in. Mother fucker.

"Unnie, give it to me, I'll keep them in your suitcase" she chuckles yanking the pyjamas from me. I follow her downstairs, she runs outside to our car, shouting at her dad to get my suitcase out of the trunk. She quickly stuffs it in and places them back. "Come on Aerin let's go" Aria breathed next to me. "Yeah, let's go"

"Have a safe journey" Kerry exclaims when the car starts. All the staffs and other workers wave at me a beautiful goodbye and my house faded away as Mr Ducey drive out of the gate, going straight the road.

And I am not at all feeling ok but let new adventures begin.

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🔰To a beautiful beginning🔰

Aria'a P.o.v

"I'll miss all of this" I crooned, peeking at Dina, she barely smiles facing me. "You mean the house or your cupboard of chocolates?" She questions arching an eyebrow. "Well, tough one! I'll answer you later" I mutter looking everyplace but her. I'll miss my cupboard filled with my favourite snacks. "I'll forget it if you give me half of them" she taunts poking my arm. Oh, this woman gets on my nerves.

"No" I snap. Why would I give my yummy snack to her? "Oh okay, no problem" she quietly agreed. Never assumed she'd let it go. Intriguing. "I ate two of your favourite boxes of chocolate last week" she shared, as smoothly as possible. "What the freaking fu-"

"and the box of the Nutella bar yesterday night" she snickers. "Mr Ducey please stop the car, I want this woman out of this car" I shrieked at him, bringing him to slow down. How could she? Where the hell was I when this happened?! Was I dead?

"I didn't finish yet" she protested stopping me from smacking her face. "I was all alone last night and so was the Nutella bars, so I asked Kerry to steal your nachos, after all, she is the only one inside the house, who knows the code of your cupboard" she grinned taking a huge packet of chips from her bag, which was also MINE.

"MR. DUCEY, STOP THE CAR I SAY. YOU GORILLA. HOW DARE YOU EAT MY FOOD. YOU ARE STILL ALIVE BECAUSE YOU ARE MY SISTER OR ELSE I WOULD HAVE COOKED YOUR *** AND FEED YOUR HORSES AN-" I was cut off by Dina shoving me back. "DON'T SCREAM YOU HIPPO" she chortles at me and so is Mr Ducey.  Why is she laughing like that, she looks like a donkey to me, what about you readers? Are you on my side or that Donkey like Dina's side?

"Why are you laughing?" I frowned, laying low on my seat. "Because you look like a potato, boiled one" she exposed laughing like a witch, beating Mr Ducey on his back. "I'll get back at you soon, wait and watch. Also you Mr Ducey" I snapped and glare at both of them, who were busy battling with their laughs.

"I am gonna miss you both darlings, do well, be great and be you, my kids, Mr Ducey and my daughter Kerry will miss you both" he expressed and stops the car at the airport entrance. He makes me sentimental every time. We didn't even realize that we reached it, the more I get close, the more I want to go back.

"Are you alright Aria?" She mocks purposely knowing my condition. "I freaking hate you" I made known. "And I love you too" she giggles running to Mr Ducey. "we will miss you too Mr Ducey. Take care of your health, eat well" she spoked softly

I run to them and join the hug making Mr Ducey slightly unstable. After having an emotional get together,  we go inside the airport. Loitered 30 minutes outside before getting inside the plane. "It's 03:45 PM, we will be in Seoul at 12:45 AM" Dina informs setting an alarm on her watch, looks like this unicorn is going to sleep. I am no special, I am gonna do the same.

8 HOURS LATER

Time to go home, I am so freaking happy, as I was getting up from the seat, I saw Dina glaring at me. I asked her 'why' without really asking her. "Well..... your hippo-like snore didn't let any of us sleep in this plane" she snarls, pointing behind me. I turned back just to see some mad passengers.

Oh my my. "You could've closed your ears and sleep" I suggested laughing awkwardly. "You snore like a dinosaur unnie," says a surprisingly cute little girl, but at this moment, I can't say anything to her. "Well, you go to your mama, before I eat you up like a T-Rex" I reply with a roar, not wanting to scare the other kids who were peeping through seats. She ran away to her mum who was already giving me death glares. Angry mama. "Come on, let's go" Dina fumes and pulled me out of there.

🔱AUTHOR'S  P.O.V🔱

Dina and Aria both gained Seoul, searching for their parents, jumping in the crowd. "HERE, babies come here" screamed Grey through the crowd. They both ran to him as soon as they heard him. "Hi, mom dad," they said in unison. "My beautiful girls, I missed you," said Grey. "Aria, where the heck is your coat? It's midnight and cold out there" scolds mama bear.

"She left it in the waiting room I believe" Dina replies laughing at her. "She was busy snatching the dessert box from the staff on her way" she completes leaving Aria dumbfounded. "I'll get back at you for sure" Aria growls at her. "You are going home without a sweater" Sarah orders going out.

...DINA'S P.O.V...

We arrived home after an hour of a car ride. After getting out of the car, I just stood there looking at the most elegant house, in which I am going to live. Down the hills surrounded by trees, there's this luxurious looking house, with light lamps on the freeway and yellow, orange lights that made it look like a stunning castle. If the front look is so damn amazing, I wonder how it's inside. And I am so sure that I didn't see any house like this, on our way here.

Awesome right?" Aria smirked. "Absolutely" I preached getting in. I am more than happy to live in this beautiful yet peaceful heaven. "Come on Aerin, I'll show you your room" mum said going upstairs. I followed her, so did Aria. Mum opened the last room in the hallway, "here" she says standing outside the door waiting for me to get in.

I went inside and saw the most lovely bedroom. Particularly the view from the gallery, it is so amazing, I can see the whole neighbourhood. And the lamp of pink shades, so freaking gorgeous. I'd never leave my room.

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"Woah" Aria exclaimed. "Looks cool, except the pink lights" she stated scrunching her nose. "Well you may go to your room miss" interrupted mum. Aria ran to her room excitedly, it was on the other end of the hallway, as soon as she opened the door, her mouth dropped to the floor, eyes wide opened, looked at mum in pure disbelief. ...

"Why is she looking at you like that?" I questioned mum who was smirking next to me. "Go see it yourself. I am going to sleep" she replied going down. I ran to Aria, as she wasn't even moving, when I saw her room, it was a mess, a huge mess.

"What the..." I laughed. Untidy, I literally cannot see the bed, it's drowned in her pile of clothes. "MOM! WHY IS MY ROOM NOT CLEANED?" Shouted Aria, right next to my ears. "Woah, my ears are going to bleed" I screamed in her ears. "MOM!!" she called out again when she didn't get her response. "I asked you to clean it before you leave, last month, do you remember?" She yelled from downstairs. "Wow" Aria mumbled resting her head on the door. "Don't worry, let's clean up together?" I said and started by picking up her clothes.

We finished cleaning the room and rested on her bed, to dry our sweat in the Air conditioner. Her side of view from the gallery is awesome as well. There's a huge *** television hanging from the ceiling and a play area in front of it. Also, this ma'am has got fire in the bedroom. This room looks like her own personal hell.

"Aria, I am going to shower. I am offended by cleaning your one-month-old pudding, egg tarts and God knows what else was there" I speak. "Okay, I'll go and keep our bags in the closet" she replies dismissing my complaint about her one-month-old food.

After showering I headed to our closet. I saw all my clothes lying here and there. "What in the hell happened here?" I asked myself confused. "I am choosing an outfit for tomorrow" I heard Aria but I couldn't see her, I looked around the closet, "Aria? Where the hell are you?" I question walking near the drawers.

Out of nowhere, I saw a hand popping from the pile of clothes. I went near the hand and moved all the clothes and saw her, lying over our clothes. "I can't choose a single dress," she said. And I forgot about tomorrow, we had our first class tomorrow. "Well, did you check that bag?" I asked pointing at my grey bag. I took all the clothes out and we decided what to wear tomorrow.

I picked a white mock neck sweater with checkered pants while Aria chose a maroon off shoulder sweater with black Jean. "Perfect" She smiled folding her clothes. After having dinner, and watching some dramas, I slept with Aria in her room. "I don't know why we both have separate rooms when we both fit in one bed" I confessed.

"Shut up and sleep before I kick you out of my room" she replied. "Is it my fault that I hate sleeping alone" I questioned. "Aerin, close your mouth and sleep if you don't want me to cuddle with you," she says. "Ew?" I didn't say much and went to my dreamy sleep.

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[Next day - 06 July]

🌼Dina's P.o.v🌼

"GET UP GIRLS, it's already 7.45, your classes start at 8.00" mum yelled, slamming the door open. It took me a while to settle in this Currant situation. "What the....mom, why did you wake us so late, we are going to be late because of you," Aria mumbled fixing her hair. Aish, she is gonna get it if she doesn't hush right this instinct, only I know how many freaking times mum tried to wake us up. And we had the nerve to keep sleeping.

Mum just gave her an 'are you serious look. "So you both sleeping darlings will go to bed at 4 in the morning, then if I come to wake you guys, you blame me? You know what? I am not going to wake you people from tomorrow" she hissed and left.

Well, that was predicted. Aria gawked at me for a while, not realizing what she just said, well she just woke up, if you go and ask her her name, she'll just stare at you like she is looking at a tree.

We quickly got ready and went downstairs to the living room, since we were running late, we didn't bother to have our breakfast. Just when I was closing the car door, I felt a sharp pain on my nose and Aria on her stomach. "Ow... Mom!!?" We groaned at that same time because she had just thrown two apples on us. "Stop whining and eat it.....quickly..ppalli palli" she growled.

Aria drove the car out of the parking before mom could throw pancakes and egg toasts. After 20 minutes we reached the university, Dad said it was a 35 minutes drive and no doubt on reaching in just 20 minutes because the one who was driving was a crack.

She parked the car in the Staff's parking lot instead of the student's parking lot, she does have guts. We got out, walked towards the entrance and as expected the college is mind-blowing.

...the college

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As soon as we entered, we were met by a lot of people. They greeted Aria and I know no one here, they were all new, some were talking with Aria while the others were busy bickering in each other's ears. Looks like they don't get along with Aria.

Aria jumped over the crowd which was forming around her, trying to find someone. She just shrugged looking at me confused. What's going on in her mind is what I wonder. After some talking with her friends, we went to mom's office, oops, my bad, Principal Sarah's office. We got our schedules personally from her. "Get to your classes ladies, all the very best," she said, I felt elated. "Mr Wang will show you your classes, follow him" she added.

So we went with him, we both had the same class, and we were a bit late, it looks like the first class will end in 15 minutes. Mr Wang stopped in front of some class and went inside asking as to wait a bit, he talked to someone, looks like a professor, well a very young professor. "Come in girls," she says. She shook our hands and said "I am Kim Jia, I'll handle Chemistry" she says with a smile. "Nice to meet you professor Jia" Aria smirked at her.

Professor Jia introduced us to the class before smacking Aria on her face. I think they know each other. "You guys, have a seat" Aria sat next to the window and I followed her there like a lost puppy. I sat on the next empty seat. As soon as we made ourselves comfortable, girls and boys started whispering to Aria. She knows most of them, as they were her neighbours and childhood friends, she grew up with them. And suddenly the classroom door banged open revealing a boy.

As usual

Yeah

"Only 2 minutes left for the class to end" Professor Jia complained without looking at him. "Oh come on Jia, I was busy with something" he replied, casually coming in. "Yah!! Even though I am your elder sister, call me Professor Jia on campus," she said completely bothered. "Alright Ma'am," he said and came near me before saluting her.

"Hey! That's my seat" he complained and stared at me. What now? I didn't come to Seoul for this and yeah he speaks like he owns this chair. "Dude, find some other place, it's not like you own this seat" I groaned while he kept staring at my face. "Do you know -" he was cut off my Aria. "Don't you dare to bully her, I'll break your neck" she laughs.

"Hey, Aria? You are back? Oh, my baby, you've grown so much" he says bending towards her and ruining her hair. "But still, you look shorter than me" he completed, with a boop on her nose. She gave him a death glare "oops, I am scared" he joked and just like that chemistry class was done. Thanks to him.

" I'll see you guys tomorrow, and don't forget to complete the work, and you" she pointed at him, her brother. "Better be on time" with that she left. As soon as she leave, "Guys, gather around, meet my sister Lî Dina" Aria beamed. "What? Is this Dina? So pretty" That dude, who wanted my seat grinned.

"Hi I am Zeo, nice to meet you" he greeted me with a smile. He looks like a bunny tho. "Well, it wasn't a pleasure meeting you" I still handshake him nicely and politely and he was a bit taken back. "Uhm, Zeo, she is not that type of a girl you think," Aria says controlling her laugh. "That's alright," he says smiling at me. Weird boy.

"Dina, this is Zeo, Eric, Han, Nobu, Enzo, Feng, Tayvin, Lilah, Val and Aecha" Aria started introducing her friends, who were standing around me.

This is new, totally different from what I thought and imagined. I thought I'll never make friends and never be social whatsoever, but these people are cool and friendly. They must be more than just cool as they all are Aria's friends.

I noticed that Eric is one of the brightest boys I've ever seen in my entire life. Han, well he is exactly how Aria elaborated about him on our way to school, glasses and serious face on while in class and super childish after class. Two-faced man, I mean not in a bad way but in a good, adorable way. And this guy here, Nobu, doing his arrears in our class, says himself proudly, he was showing off, saying that he wantedly failed so that one day he would be in his friends class. And I am speechless, his reasons are so out of this universe.

Enzo. Cute little puppy, who has a hard time keeping his eyes off from this girl Val, who is busy with Aria and her hair. Feng is this tall broad dude, with a pink bag, pink hair, pouch, clothes and so on. I am mesmerized. And here comes this handsome man, Tayvin, well, I don't know much about him. Aria never said anything about him other than his name of course.

Aecha and Lilah look like twins, but they are not. Lilah's accent is so much different from us and it's hard to keep up with her whereas Aecha is still learning English. It makes me laugh every time she says something wrong and Lilah corrects her with a slap on her butt. And last and definitely the least, Kim Zeo, my lord, he has been staring at me and smiling like crazy all the fucking time. And I think this much information about them is enough for now because we are getting late for the language class.

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