The Kpop Star in Disguise
The Kpop Star in Disguise Rain beats against my window beckoning me outside. It’s been showering off and on for the past few days taking the paralyzing bite of summer heat away—in other words my type of weather. I shuffle around my dark cluttered room searching for my yellow rain boots. I keep forgetting to remind mom to get a new lamp in here, but I’ve gotten so good at seeing in the dark (cat-vision) that I don’t really need it anymore. Boarding up the only window in my room that expels all sunlight probably didn’t help my case either. I find one shoe among the pile of clothes on my closet floor and the other trapped under my bed along with the hundreds of old children’s books that I refuse to throw away. I get so bored sometimes when Abby and Rico (my two closest friends) can’t come over or when I can’t get a good enough internet signal downstairs to use my phone, so what else what would I do? Even though I’ll be eighteen in three weeks my mom still doesn’t trust me to ...