However, no matter how much he tried to push Chan-il away, the young man kept getting closer to him, and Skylar didn’t hate him. [30] At some point, he developed romantic feelings for Chan-il and started taking pictures of him due to a conversation between him and his sister. [5] On a rainy day, Skylar asks Dongsik if he is mad at him. Dongsik tells him "no", however, this only reaffirms Skylar’s suspicion that something has changed. [37] As Skylar is walking home, he tells himself he isn't dense. Even if they don't say something is wrong, he knows when there is something wrong. He knows that they're trying to distance themselves. He wonders what he did wrong, as he thought he was getting along with them well enough. Then he begins to wonder if maybe the problem is that there's something wrong with him. As he thinks this, he remembers when Minwoo and he had fought. Skylar begins to cry, confused as to what to do. [37]

This moving and sensitively-written picture book gently explores grief and teaches children how to deal with their emotions surrounding the death of a loved one. With beautiful and colourful illustrations to accompany the touching narrative, this children's book is perfect for adults to share with their little ones and to help them understand what they are going through. While he was passed out, Skylar, in a drunken haze, let his feelings get the better of him, and kissed Minwoo. [52] Unbeknownst to him, Minwoo was awake when it happened. [52] After getting into an argument, Skylar left Minwoo's house. While he was running home, he reflected on the situation, realizing the possibility that he could be gay, but not wanting to accept that, he tried to blame it on the alcohol. Although, he knew he wasn't fooling himself. [52] While at school, Skylar is holding the last meeting in the photography club before finals. He explains that the festival is taking place right after finals and that they do not have much time to prepare. He asks Dongsik if he brought the photos for the festival, as the first years wanted to start getting ready for the exhibition today. Dongsik explains that he forgot to bring them, however, he did print them. Skylar stares at him for a moment, before requesting that he bring the photos tomorrow. Dongsik sighs in relief, and quietly tells Chan-il that he thought he was going to be in trouble. Chan-il tells him to not forget to bring them tomorrow. Chan-il looks at Skylar and notices he seems to be in a good mood.

Cloud (Paskim) ; En La Nube ; Потерянный в облаке ; 云端之恋 ; 雲端情迷 ; 클라우드

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The next day, Cirrus goes to hang out with his group of friends: Chan-il, Jiwon, Yoochan, Ji-Gyeom, and Seung-yeon. He worries that they'll be concerned about his face, as he had put a patch over his bruise. [20] He begins to think how he underestimated Skylar, as he hadn't thought he could be so violent, therefore he believed him to be easy to control [20]. As he thinks about what he wanted from Skylar, the conductor announces his stop, [20] and Cirrus goes to meet up with his friends. As he walks to the meet-up spot, he is deep in thought, till Chan-il calls him out of it. He looks up at his friends, and they greet him. He remembers what Skylar had said about there being something wrong with his personality. In his head, he tells Skylar that there is nothing wrong with him and that he is the weird one instead. [20] First, my giant (yet unknowing) gripe: DK, thank you immensely for taking this story for publication. It is a gem. I do not know how your selections are made and under what ramifications, but I sure wish Tom Tinn-Disbury and Stacey Hart were given much more high credit for their beautiful work. aYDX |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dBDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCF |dOCO |dGO3 |dATCDL |dTOH |dY38 |dIMF |dILC |dNZLPP |dUAP |dOCLCO The beautifully illustrated children’s book follows Billy and his father as they navigate the loss of his mother. It includes: At a gaming café, the group decides to compete to see who sleeps where, since there's only two beds and six of them. Seung-yeon, Yoochan, Ji-Gyeom, and Cirrus lost. Seung-yeon begins to urge for a rematch, due to him not wanting to smell Yoochan's feet. He tries to get the others who lost to join in his rally, however, no one else does. He asks Cirrus if he doesn't care about Yoochan's stinky feet, to which Cirrus explains that he probably won't, as he is no longer in their group for the trip. [20] He had switched himself out to be in Skylar's group, as he thought it would be amusing. [21]They'd gotten closer since Cirrus had to leave his home, but these things came with problems, tension, and arguments. After finding his old lighter, things spiral out of control in Skylar's life. The last thing he expected was to end up smoking again... Over the following meetings, Skylar noted how Chan-il befriended everyone in their club but him. He states he was scared of socializing with people and would make up excuses just to get away from people. However, Chan-il would always notice Skylar. [14] Eventually, Skylar decided to put his photos into contests outside of school and won a good some of them, it ended up impressing his home teacher at the time, who is also the club advisor. At first, Skylar thought Chan-il to be annoying and dorky, and he wanted nothing to do with him. Chan-il was horrible at taking pictures, and someone called Chan-il cute for it. Skylar silently replied that Chan-il was just vying for attention. [14] Three days later, during the weekend, Skylar is at home, figuring out a way to tell Chan-il that he had canceled their plans. As he’s texting him, Chan-il messages him that he’s on his way to the meeting spot. Realizing it’s too late now, Skylar heads out. As he leaves the house, he tells his mother that he’s going to study but she doesn’t respond to him. As Skylar is waiting for Chan-il, he makes plans to go study at the library before returning home, as he wants to avoid running into his mother as best he can. [29]

As the two young men make their way to Cirrus's house, Skylar freaks out silently when he realizes how rich Cirrus is. [4] After steadying himself in the restroom, Skylar enters Cirrus's room, where he playfully pats Cirrus's dog, Cotton Candy. After Skylar embarrasses himself, Cirrus gets to the point, and referencing the message Skylar had sent to him, [6] he explains that he wants Skylar to do things for him. For every action that Skylar does for him, Cirrus will delete the number of images he feels correlated with the deed. He also adds that he saved all the images on a flash drive. [4] After hesitating for a moment, Skylar agrees to the deal. Years later, in high school, when he saw him again, he almost didn’t recognize Cirrus. He looked and acted completely different. Jeong-hoon explains the way Cirrus acts feels fake and unnatural to him somehow. [42] Jeong-hoon tells them that they can’t tell anyone else. Skylar explains he won’t and he isn’t close with Cirrus anyway. They’ve only talked a few times since Cirrus sits in front of him. With that, the trio return to class. Unbeknownst to the group, someone was listening in on their conversation. [42]Cirrus went to the same middle school as Chan-il and ended up befriending him. He seems to get along with his peers well, but has trouble forming close relationships with them. He is also implied to have hurt a classmate when he was in elementary school, with people know have known him longer than Chan-il deeming him 'dangerous'. Therefore, some of his peers at school avoid him.

If anyone else were in his shoes right now, they’d think the situation was romantic. The room was dark save for the soft candlelight on the table, it was hot and humid with the smell of roses, and he’d just eaten the fanciest slice of cake in his life. But the bells and whistles of romance always lead to an escalating series of events. Cirrus goes to get Candy, and thanks Da-in again for taking care of her. As he’s walking home, he notices a leaf resting on Candy's head. He laughs a bit as he finds it cute, and he makes a note of how nice the day is. He thinks about how excited Skylar must be to have the flash drive. [40] The book is beautifully illustrated throughout, which enhances the story, which in turn provides a relaxed opening for children and adults to discuss their feelings together. It essentially would do what it says it will in the blurb in helping children process and understand grief, as well as finding out that there is still lightness in life, even though some days can be hard. During lunchtime, Yoochan and Jiwon get into a discourse over how Jiwon took the bread Yoochan had been wanting the entire morning, just to spite Yoochan. Jiwon asks Chan-il and Cirrus if they understand the feeling of wanting to take what someone else wants, and the two immediately tell him "no" in their own way. The group continues talking, however, Cirrus stops listening to them as he hears Dongsik's voice. He listens to him complain about his mother gatekeeping him from buying new earbuds. As the two passes by him, Dongsik trips over Cirrus's foot, embarrassing him completely. Dongsik, believing he didn't fall by accident, turns around to see what could have happened to him, but doesn't see a thing. He wonders what he tripped over. [43]The next day, Skylar doesn't eat before taking his medication and experiences the side effects while in school. [17] However, that day is the midterm test day, and he isn't able to focus because of the effects. [17] He feels drowsy, and rests his head on the desk and falls asleep. You don't have to weather the storm alone! The loss of a loved one can be a difficult topic to discuss with little ones, and this heart-warming book can help you support them through their stages of grief. During a school day, the class needs to do a performance assessment in the form of a presentation. They will work in groups of four, and she divides the class up depending on where they are sitting. She gives them a two-week deadline. Skylar and Cirrus get put in a group together. [27] Cirrus takes charge, and explains that they should assign the responsibilities. Skylar states he’ll do the research, along with another student. The other student gets the responsibility to make the slides, while Cirrus gave himself the responsibility of presenting. The day his mother found out he smoked was one of their worst arguments, and it caused Skylar to run out of the house to Minwoo's house. Minwoo comforted him and the two moved on to talking about their future plans together, and how they'll go to the same high school and such. [50] The two began to tease each other, and Minwoo got a little too close, accidentally kissing Skylar on the cheek. [50] Due to this, Skylar began to realize he might have feelings for Minwoo. However, he never acted upon them. As time moved on, Skylar’s feelings for Minwoo only increased, and his attitude only got worse.