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• KOREAN Firework   chapter 32

  She was just so tired, exhausted from waking up at the crack of dawn to work herself to death and get mocked for it. Her bones ached for reprieve and her eyes burned for rest and she just wanted everything to stop for once. The teasing, the worries about school and home and work, the expectations, the entire world!Iris’s entire being trembled under the onslaught, her chin shook, tears flooding down her cheeks as her dry lungs gasped for air that she just couldn’t grasp. Her throat tightened, trying to keep herself quiet. She failed.“Stop crying,” she whimpered, still panting for breath. Her nails dug into her scalp. “Stop crying!”Her sight was darkening, black dots swimming her vision. She didn’t care. Stop crying! Stop crying! Her lungs burned.She couldn’t breathe.Stop crying!Why couldn’t she breath

• KOREAN Firework   chapter 31

  Between one blink and the next, Stephanie was down on the ground shrieking and clawing Iris who kept on hitting her where ever she could.“Stop, you freak!” Stephanie squealed. Bethany and Brittany stood back in horror.“You! Bitch!” Iris shouted, ignoring the burning in her blood crusted knuckles and the nails tearing at her roots and blazer. “You! Pathetic! Piece! Of-!”Iris would’ve kept going if two arms didn’t encircle her waist and lift her from Stephanie cowering form. She fought against the arms, scratching at them to let her go.“You’re such a nutcase!” Stephanie cried as Brittany and Bethany help her stand up. “Can’t your parents afford meds?”This set off another round of Iris trying to detangle herself from her capturer. “Shut up!” she screamed, baring her teeth.&nb

• KOREAN Firework   chapter 30

  Between one blink and the next, Stephanie was down on the ground shrieking and clawing Iris who kept on hitting her where ever she could.“Stop, you freak!” Stephanie squealed. Bethany and Brittany stood back in horror.“You! Bitch!” Iris shouted, ignoring the burning in her blood crusted knuckles and the nails tearing at her roots and blazer. “You! Pathetic! Piece! Of-!”Iris would’ve kept going if two arms didn’t encircle her waist and lift her from Stephanie cowering form. She fought against the arms, scratching at them to let her go.“You’re such a nutcase!” Stephanie cried as Brittany and Bethany help her stand up. “Can’t your parents afford meds?”This set off another round of Iris trying to detangle herself from her capturer. “Shut up!” she screamed, baring her teeth.&nb

• KOREAN Firework   chapter 29

  The week followed in a similar distressed fashion. Iris was constantly tense, looking over her shoulders, subconsciously trying to spot Victoria with a camera aiming at her or the R5. Her gaze would flicker all over the cafeteria, lingering on Marcas and Jackson annoying Carmilla as Orion and Benjamin talked, and on Victoria on the other side of the room, giggling with Mellisa Cohen.Iris’s muscles tensed every time Victoria entered the room, her fingers twitched when the brunette walked past her, and her tongue felt heavy with questions every time they made eye contact. When she wasn’t peaking at Victoria, she was gazing at the R5 members, the few times she managed to spot them, eyes hesitating to move from Orion’s distant form.It was exhausting because no matter how determined Iris was to keep her nose out of this, there was still a curious part of her that wanted to interrogate Vicotria and get to the bottom of this.

• KOREAN Firework   chapter 28

  Later that night, Iris found herself not being able to sleep. It was one in the morning and she was still sitting at her desk, her hair flying wildly over the uncompleted homework sprawled over the service. Her body was exhausted but her mind was a whirlwind of thoughts of the day.Usually, the nights Iris spent awake was due to stress or her brain refusing to shut down from all the studying she did. Once, she was awake for two whole days because the only thing that useless organ in her head could do was sing the periodic table to the rhythm of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.Tonight was different, however, because it wasn’t the usual agitation and stress bubbling in her stomach. This nervousness was softer, resembling excitement an for some unexplainable reason, Iris just could not past the time she had spent at Orion’s mansion.After the fun - at least for her, Orion’s toes told a different story - danci

• KOREAN Firework   chapter 27

  Both redheads were in their own worlds as they walked to the ballroom. Between telling Iris where to go, Marcas kept complaining and begging to be let go. A request Iris staunchly ignored. Aside from occasionally turning on Marcas’s commands, Iris was deep in thought.She couldn’t help but think about how Orion talked about his mother as if she was nothing more than an annoying house guest disrupting his home. Iris was close to both her parents; her mother was her confidant and always willing to listen to her complain about simple things like clothes, boys, school, and general opinions; and her father was the one she turned to when she struggled with school work, watched History channel with, and the one who taught her how to physically defend herself. (No matter how much she sucked at throwing a punch.)She couldn’t imagine not having them in her life. Just what was going on in Orion’s home that soured his relationsh