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Jun Lien Yue
status - the waitress

aliases: just jun
age: twenty-four
sexuality: pansexual
involvement: it's complicated...

● I was born on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 1986. That means February sixth, in the year of the Tiger.
● My parents knew I was going to be a girl, but I think my father was still wishing for some miracle and that I would come out a boy. He will never tell me that he was hoping for any such thing though.
● Just my existence is a miracle really. My parents tried for many years to get pregnant before I was born. Needless to say I was their first, and only child.
● I have always lived in Beijing, China, where my family's restaurant is. My parents have owned this place since before I was born. I guess you could say it was their baby before I came along, sort of making it like my sibling.
● I have lived a good life, really. There is nothing I would change. Who my parents are, who I am, it can all stay they same. I know that I can be really flawed from time to time though, and I know that my parents wanted me to be more. The truth? I can't be what they want. Believe me, I tried.
● School was never really my thing. In the end, I didn't drop out, and I did finish out high school, even though it isn't compulsory, but I never went onto college. I've just worked at the restaurant. I like to say I'm figuring myself out. At least, I hope that's what I'm doing.
● Don't get me wrong, I am an intelligent person. I just have more of... what d'you call them? Street smarts, yeah that's it. I mean, the only things that were good for me to learn in school were Math and English. The rest was all hit and miss.
● As we are on the topic of my personality and who I am, let's get my good traits out of the way. I'm resilient, meaning I can stand up to someone treating me badly. I'm responsible, and I can be funny when I want to.
● Well, you got my good traits, you might as well hear the bad ones. I've always been somewhat vain, I'm stubborn, I have a bit of a low self esteem, and I can be too timid for my own good.
● Since I began middle school, my parents have turned our home into a place for exchange students to stay. If one left, a new would come maybe a month. They were always around the same age as me, and even though I haven't gone onto college, my parents are still doing it.
● Most recently, we have a senior at one of the universities living with us. He's... kind of odd, but my parents adore him. I'll be honest, that's probably why I dislike him a bit, because he can get their approval with such ease, while I've always felt like a disappointment to them.
● I guess I can't say he's all bad though. He did after all introduce me to his best friend. And she's well... amazing. Very very amazing. Until as of late, I thought that we might even begin a relationship.
● You see, there is someone else, though again, until recent events, I only thought of him as just a friend. I still want to think of him as just a friend, but recent events have kind of put me in an odd predicament.
● Now this thing I keep hinting to? There is a legend, about the red string of fate that is tied to your small finger and links you to the one you are meant to be with. I thought it was all a legend. Then, one day I woke up and I could see them.
● The problem? Well, I have plenty of friends, and two that I have connected with. I... I don't know. The strings, they're all in a huge tangle, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it, other than keep it to myself.


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Zenos Linus Elias
status - the exchange student

aliases: zen; really, I don't like hearing my real name unless it's from my guy.
age: twenty-three
sexuality: homosexual
involvement: the teacher's aide

● I was born on February fourteenth, 1987, forcing my mother into labor in the middle of an Apokreis party. Never mind that it was also Valentines day.
● Apokreis? A Greek celebration that plenty of people are familiar with. Though, you may know it as Carnival, or even Mardi Gras? I think what is important here is to realize where I'm from. Any guesses? If you said Greece, you would be correct.
● So, I was the last of large family, seven children in all. Four girls, three boys. All together, we're a pretty loud and rambunctious lot. I don't think that I would want it any other way though.
● Growing up, I will admit that it was always a fight for attention with so many siblings, but at the same time, I think I got more than the others at some point, because being at the end is like being at the beginning, there were less around by the time I got there.
● I was always an intelligent person, and very academically minded. In a sense, everyone in my family has been encouraged to have something all their own. My parents would then spoil them in that area, meaning that I went to all the best schools, and no one complained, because it wasn't like our parents didn't spend thousands of dollars on their passions. As might've guessed, I come from a slightly well off family. Okay, very well off.
● So obviously, I can't have been set one learning everything in the whole wide world. My overall passion when learning? Other cultures, the culture in different parts of Asia to be specific.
● My first action was to learn languages of the places that I was interested in, and as such I learned English, Mandarin, and Korean. What languages I knew would eventually have a partial role in the choices I make later on.
● So we're just going to fast forward to college, because my life gets a whole lot more interesting here. Actually my freshman year is interesting and my senior year. Not so much the other two. So what made Freshman year interesting? I came out as homosexual.
● Now, if anyone knows anything about Greece, you'll know something about something about the high presence of Roman Catholics, my parents being just that. They're a little relaxed on the whole what constitutes a sin thing, thankfully. I think it does make them a little uncomfortable, but they didn't disown me or anything.
● Skip two years, and were at the very beginning of my summer before Senior year, when I found out that my application to spend my final year as an undergraduate in China was accepted. That's pretty damn exciting for me.
● Here in China, the first people I met were my host family. It's weird, because they only have one child, a girl who's my age, and she's not as loud as any of my siblings, so I don't know, it's quiet her. I like her okay though. She's nice, when she wants to be.
● The first real friend I made here was the student. We just clicked, and that was the end of that. You would never think that we only met a few months ago.
● And just to be a little cliche, I met someone that for now I'm just going to call my dream guy. The problem? He's my TA. Of course, that hasn't stopped us from breaking the rules, though we've had to be secret about it. Honestly, it's been wearing me out. He even gets nervous when I come and go from his apartment, all because one of our friends lives next door. I highly doubt she's going to tell anyone if she did see us, but you try and tell him that.
● So what I have been doing, especially give certain circumstances? I have been... pushing him, and I'm not sure which one of us is going to break first. I... I just want to know that this isn't a mistake.
● What's bringing on all of this uncertainty? Red Strings. It's an old Chinese legend I wasn't even aware of until I began to see them and went on to research them, and then followed mine to... to a giant knot. Between all of us. Me, my boyfriend, my friends. I just want to figure it out, making as little of a stir as possible. Of course I haven't told anyone, so my boy has no idea why I feel so compelled all of a sudden to push the issue of us being at least public with our friends.


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I wanted to kiss you goodnight
No longer can pretend
It wont cave in and will be alright
I wanted to save this last light
With dawn comes certainty of what we'll be
For now hold me lightly
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So what happens once you lose control?
When the future has to start
What happens when you're still in love
but time rips you apart.
Is there ever an answer
for when love is not enough?
When the world must move on
Who decided that I'd be that tough.
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