#make it right

Well well well.

Masterlist

WARNINGS: Bullying

Chapter 1

Jay Park came from a legacy family.  If he wanted something, he got it.  He has money, looks and most importantly popularity.  He was the most popular boy at I-Land Academy, a private school for kids of the rich and famous.  But besides being the most popular guy, he was also the biggest jerk.  His main victim: Mai Adams.  Mai Adams didn’t come from money at all.  She got a scholarship that paid for her tuition.  She didn’t belong.  Jay made it a fact to point that out every chance he got.  Her plan to get an education and blend in failed.

She wasn’t top of their class.  Didn’t do all these extra activities.  What Jay hated was how adults treated her.  She was the girl who won a scholarship in an essay contest.  No one had crazy expectations for her like Jay had.  She didn’t understand the struggles of having to live up to expectations put on her by society.  He didn’t get to blend in like she could.  No one put pressure on herself to excel.  Jay made sure she knew that she wasn’t the same.  That she wasn’t like the rest of them.  That she took up someone else’s spot in this academy.   He hated that about her.

Today was supposed to be a good day.  That’s what Riki, Mai’s younger foster brother, told her every morning.  Today was going to be better.  Today would be a good day.  But today wasn’t one of those days.  Mai went to her locker to put her coat away.  She grabbed her books when her locker door suddenly slammed.  “Morning Scholarship,” Jay said, venom dripping from each word.  He slammed his hands on her books and knocked them all over the floor, “better clean that up.  Don’t wanna be in the way again.”

She sighed as she picked up her books.  Then some started helping her.  “Does that jerk have anything better to do?  I swear I’m gonna bankrupt him when I take over my parent’s company.”

Mai looked up to see Sakura, her best friend.  She was another one of those legacy rich kids.  However, she was a literal angel.  She had known Jay since they were ten.  At one point they dated in middle school.  She said that he was always a jerk, but she was going through this phase in middle school where she believed that she “could fix him.”  But, she couldn’t and he broke her heart terribly.  Since then, she hated everything about him and chose to be less materialistic.  She befriended Mai during fourth period biology class freshman year when she saw Jay being a jerk and helping her pass biology.  The two were basically inseparable.

“You don’t have to just for me,” Mai replied standing up, “I’m used to it.”

“You shouldn’t have to be.  Ugh!  I hate him.  Well, let’s get to class.”

I don’t even think I need to mention which particular constituency is driving this paradoxical phenomenon 😀.

Just compare the fawning admiration for them ⬆️ to the heavy criticisms and scornful derision for the foundational BL texts ⬇️ - as not realistic, too puritan or not pure enough, ie they’re too different for what would pass muster in the west.

It’s a wonder we managed to get these modern classics through the rapidly closing window before the quality dought became institutionalised and the now mainstreamed BL adaptation industry transformed into the mirror image of the occidental male gaze.