❝ hereafter ❞ - park sunghoon ✓

six

the boy's mind hit its zero again, memories flooding.

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"wow, you've been here for a month already." matcha says, twisting her lollipop in her mouth as they lay side by side in a grass plain.

"guess time goes real quick when you're in the past." sunghoon said.

the girl rolled to her stomach. "say, what about the government? what if like, they find out?" she questioned, all of a sudden.

"no, dummy. the government knows. they just, keep it a secret and threaten to kill anyone who wants to leak. "this get-in-a-time-machine-for-school thing has been going on for 12 years already."

the girls eyes widened. "they know? the government's SNEAKY. and what, only twelve years?"

"well, in our time, yes. since one month there is seven months here, a year would be-"

"a real, long long time." the girl cut him off, sighing.

"so, how's it like living in the past?" she asked, looking at his side-profile.

"it's cool, you know. got a lot of exercise by manually picking up books, pushing out chairs, etcetera." he responded, proud of himself while the girl could only stare.

"people in the future must be real lazy." matcha mumbled.