You are Love
There wasn’t much a teenager in Kim Kibum’s age was interested in. Adolescence was all about falling in and out of love for the first time, experiencing the first kiss and having the awkward first sex.
It was all about first times and Kibum wasn’t less eager in finding out about all the little secrets in the world of adults than other people in their teens were.
But being different to his peers didn’t really help in gathering experience. Kibum had already known at a really young age that he was different to all the other boys at school.
At the age of nine he had been interested in art and fashion, while other boys his age had ran through the woods and had played hide and seek.
At the age of twelve he had cut his hair for the first time, being grounded by his mum for the experimental, asymmetrical hairstyle he had worked on the whole night, while other boys his age had started to measure their strength with each other and had come home with scratches and bruises.
At the age of thirteen he had dyed his hair blonde for the first time, being slapped for it by his dad who had left the family a year later to start a new life with a younger woman, while other boys his age started to ogle at girls with growing boobies and short skirts.
At the age of fourteen he had masturbated for the first time, thinking of the lightly clad man in the new Diet Coke commercial that had been on TV, while other boys his age started to share their first sloppy kisses with girls during childish games at stupid birthday parties.
At the age of fifteen he was beaten up for the first time for being different, while other boys his age started to treat other people who weren’t interested in sports or dating girls like shit.
With sixteen, after having gotten beaten up for what had seemed the hundredth time, his mum had decided to move away with him from the countryside to start a new, better life in Seoul.
And soon after Kibum had peacefully settled down at a new school with new, nice classmates and teachers he quickly had found something or rather someone who had confused his hormone balance way more than the Diet Coke guy years back ever had...
