Mark came from a rich background. His mom is a CEO of a renowned company. His dad is a successful businessman. Their family own 20 restaurants around the world. Mark is sent to a school where you can only find a rich in there with a tuition fee of $41,916 per year. At first, everything went well until his parent's plane crashed and can't be found till now. He was just 13 when that happened. No one wants to take care of him. His beloved grandparents died when he was still 9. All of the property his parent left him was seized by his aunty.
He was homeless. No school, no food, no home to go back and no figure to hug. Every night he sleeps at an alley where no one would notice him. That's how he's been living his life until one day he collapsed at the roadside. He thought that's the end for him. But not when he opens his eyes to find himself in a room filled with a coffee scent.
"You're up? How are you feeling?" said a voice beside him. He was startled of course but too tired to move. He examined the person. He looks not too young but not too old. "Who are you?" he asked the man. "I'm Daniel. I found you almost die at the roadside so I bring you here. You've been out for 2 days."
"Ahh I'm sorry for troubling you," he said, trying to wake up from the bed too quickly and end up with a sudden headache, causing him to lose his balance and fall back onto the bed. "That's what you get for carelessly standing up when you didn't have anything yet. Come on now, lay here, I'll bring you something to eat." He said before getting out of the room.
After this incident, Daniel asks Mark what happened to him and Mark told him the truth. The man decided to keep Mark. But of course, Mark denied living there for free. So, Daniel allows him to work with him at the cafe he owned.
He sends Mark to school, feed him properly, buy him clothes, do things together like how a family should do. Mark is glad that now he has a place to call home, someone to call dad, and a family.
Three years went by just like that. Everything went well until one day he came back from school just to find his dad sleeping in the room above the cafe while all the workers were working without knowing about their boss upstairs.
He shakes his dad to wake him up to show him his exam result. But after a minute his dad shows no sign of waking up. He starts to worry. He thought his dad has a cold and was too tired to move until it hit him.
Trembling, he moves his finger toward his dad's wrist. Nothing. "No no no please this is not funny! dad! dad! wake up! DAD!!" He screams continuously, hoping his dad will open his eyes and tell him all of this is just a joke. But nothing happened. Helplessly he cried beside his dad, hugging his body tightly. "You promised me, you said you will never leave me so why? Why are you leaving me now? You said god hate someone who doesn't keep their promise so why?" The tears just won't stop.
Hearing a scream, one of the workers, went upstairs to see what happened. He was shocked to see Mark helplessly crying while hugging Daniel. It takes him a second to understand the situation. He walks on to Mark and gives him a warm hug. "Just cry all you want. I'm here." The only sentence he can make out that time.
After that, the cafe is not working well and it was forced to closed down. Mark forced himself to find a job and a place to live. After all the effort, he manages to get a job at a club, working as a bartender and a small apartment that fit well for one person.
For the first week of being alone, he was still fine. But after a while, the loneliness begins to take its toll. At school, he will just stay in his seat from the start of the class until the end of the day. He missed all his studies. The smart Mark turns to be a dumb Mark. His result drops drastically. During work, he will give a customer a wrong drink and end up losing his pay.
5 months passed, he is now 17, living his life poorly. As he gets older, the tuition fee getting more expensive. He doesn't get any scholarships cause of lack in studies and sports. His pay alone is not enough for him to survive if he eats thrice a day, using a bus to school and pay for his apartment. So, he ends up eating once in two days, going to school by walking.
New year, new classroom, new friends and a new teacher.
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The first day of the new year, Mark is now 17, waiting for school to end and continue living his life as it is now, as a bartender at a club he found weeks ago. Well, that's the only club that will hire a non—graduate high schooler so he practically got no choice but to make ends meet there.
Well, the owner is kind enough to provide him with an apartment which he only needs to pay for half price since he's working for him but still, the pay was not that high ya know plus he only needs to tend the bar, nothing more than that so he got no tips resulting him getting the least pay there.
He tried to minimize his money usage leaving him to still live in a poor state but hey, at least he's surviving. He thought of dropping out of school but then he thought later there will be no one out there that will hire a non—graduate so here he is with his ass on the chair waiting for the class to start.
There's a rumor saying their current physics teacher had a premature birth so she will stop teaching at the school and just organize a tuition class at her house since she needs to look after her child so of course there will be a new teacher, a hot one.
