her story

aren't you a foreigner? why are you in south korea?

YOU COULD SAY THAT. I WAS BORN IN JAPAN—KYOTO, TO BE PRECISE—BUT I MOVED TO SOUTH KOREA AT A VERY YOUNG AGE BECAUSE OF MY FATHER'S JOB PROMOTION. HOWEVER, I AM STILL FAMILIAR WITH JAPAN AS MY FAMILY USED TO TAKE YEARLY TRIPS BACK TO MY GRANDPARENTS EVERY SUMMER. ALTHOUGH I AM OF JAPANESE DESCENT AND WAS RAISED IN A HOUSEHOLD THAT EMBRACED JAPANESE CULTURE, I AM MORE FAMILIAR WITH SOUTH KOREA BECAUSE I PRACTICALLY GREW UP HERE. I GREW UP LEARNING KOREAN, JAPANESE, AND ENGLISH AND PASSED THE FLUENCY TESTS REQUIRED FOR EACH LANGUAGE COURSE. IN THE END, YOU CAN DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT I'M CONSIDERED A "FOREIGNER" BECAUSE EVERYONE MAY HAVE VARYING OPINIONS ON IT. CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU MAY THINK, I ACTUALLY DO ENJOY LIVING IN KOREA. ALTHOUGH I MAY NOT BE KOREAN BY BLOOD, SEOUL IS WHERE I GREW UP AND THE PLACE I AM MOST FAMILIAR WITH. I LOVE GOING BACK TO JAPAN FOR A VACATION EVERY NOW AND THEN, BUT I HAVE TOO MANY THINGS I'M ATTACHED TO IN SOUTH KOREA TO ACTUALLY JUST PACK MY STUFF, MOVE, AND START OVER IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. BUT... I ALMOST HAD TO RELOCATE TO JAPAN ONCE. SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN I WAS eighteen AND MY PARENTS ALMOST RELOCATED OUR ENTIRE FAMILY BACK TO KYOTO.

what happened when you were eighteen and why did your parents want to move back?

ah... well, this is going to be quite embarrassing. when i was eighteen, my life changed completely. for better or for worse really just depends on your own opinion.

it was the night of my high school's big graduation party. it was the party that you would've been waiting to attend for those whole four years as a high school student. it was the it party; everyone was excited and the party had everything you could imagine: alcohol, drugs, strippers, everything. it was a yearly thing hosted by the student council's graduating president and it was the one time everyone turned a blind eye on whatever you do. naturally, i got wasted. not severely, but i got drunk enough to approach an attractive male—one who happened to be the student teacher for my english class, at the time—and one thing led to another. a shy greeting turned into an extremely passionate make out session and it led me to follow him up into one of the bedrooms upstairs. you know what happened next. it was supposed to be a one-night stand, nothing more, but when did life ever go according to plan?

i ended up pregnant. my mother was the first one to suspect it, even buying me a pregnancy test and even taking me to an obgyn to confirm the results. At first, my parents were so furious that they considered relocating to kyoto completely. They were so adamant on it and i honestly can't believe i managed to talk it out with them so i could still be here today. In the end, my parents were disappointed in me, but still supported me nonetheless when i informed them that i decided to keep the child. originally, i was planning to keep the pregnancy a secret from the baby daddy, but i didn't have the heart to take away someone's chance of being a father so i went to find him right after my graduation ceremony. i let him know i was carrying his child but i also let him know that i didn't need his assistance and he could just pretend this never happened, walking away with an agreement to not show up later in our lives and that the child would not be made aware of who his father was. unexpectedly, the stranger wanted to be a paternal figure in the baby's life and we both agreed to meet up. my parents didn't approve of it at all, but i snuck out anyways.

his name was chittaphon leechaiyakul, but he liked to be called "ten" at that time. we met up secretly in the city during my first trimester to discuss a possible future together so we could both co-parent the little life on the way. it was around that time that my parents started to accept ten as the baby's father, but nothing more than that. ten came into the city often to check up on me during my entire pregnancy and it showed me just how determined he was to be a good father to the baby — especially since it was around that time that ten's guardian, mr. dongsu, passed away. ten still persevered, however. he came to every doctor's appointment and he was there to celebrate every pregnancy milestone. He was there for me every step of the way.

everything changed after march 5th of 2014, though. that was the day our little sunshine was born. i had gone into labor in the morning and—after complete dilation and waiting for my water to breAk—we welcomed our baby boy, amon leechaiyakul into the world.

what have you been up to ever since amon's birth?

It was after amon's birth that i noticed TEN start to slowly withdraw and isOlate himself before he fell into a depressive state for about a year. I didn't mind, though. He had bottled it up for so long and it was only hUmane of him to break down. During that year, I stayed with my PARENTS and foCused on being the best mother i could be to my son and raised him with the guidance of my mother. Even though ten was mia for awhile, i made sure to write down and take pictures or videos of any milestone Amon reached so he wouldn't miss out on anything.

It was shortly after amon's first birthday that ten got back up on his feet again. He started to come by on almost a daily basis and take part in raising our baby boy together. Sometimes, my parents would even allow him to stay the night or would allow me to go visit him overnight with Amon. They were clearly warming up to him.

Over time, our relationship changed from co-parenting to something more but neither of us acted upon it — our first priority was always Amon and we didn't want to risk the happy family image we had going on. It was around the time when ten hit twenty that he started suggesting that we all live together. He moved out of his old house first, and after six months of compromising with My parentS, we were granted permission to move into a decent apartment complex together. Just the three of us—ten, Amon, and i—as our own happy little family. Ten and i started dating officially just recently as well, both confirming the mutual feelings we had grown for each other over the course of these few years.

her angel

Name: chittaphon "ten" leechaiyakul.

Date: june 6th, 2017.

Status: dating.

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