*Author's Note: Any and all persons engaging in any sexual activity are at least eighteen years of age.
Just a flash story; not to be taken too seriously.
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The eighteen year old Jimmy Bergeron was the victim of bullying at Baylor Lake High School; for whatever reason, Doug, Brandon, and Derek had decided Jimmy would be their victim. The three athletes first spread rumors around their school that Jimmy was gay. Of course, no one could trace that rumor back to the three boys; they would have been expelled if anyone had come forward and tattled.
Then during tests, one or the other of the trio would 'tattle' on Jimmy, claiming he was cheating during tests. He wasn't, but very few teachers were willing to give the boy the benefit of a doubt.
The blonde haired, blue eyed boy weathered these taunts and strikes as best he could and prayed daily for graduation to come and come quickly so he could escape this living Hell.
Brandon and Derek were just mindless drones of Doug's, following their star wide receiver and third baseman's wishes. Personally, they had nothing against Jimmy. But they still delighted in tormenting anyone weaker than themselves.
Kim Sei Tin, the son of two asylum seeking parents, immigrants from North Korea, sat down across from Jimmy as the boy ate his lunch.
"Hey, Slant Eyes, you know you sitting with a faggot?" Brandon chortled.
Kim looked at him, then looked back at the school lunch.
"Hey, talking to you, Chink fuck," Brandon said, now upset at the cool detached way Kim had brushed him off.
He moved to shove the diminutive boy and Kim's hand shot out, grabbing Brandon's hand and bending it back until Brandon was on his knees, sobbing in absolute agony.
"Ever touch me again, I will not hurt you," Kim said calmly, continuing to eat the spaghetti.
He flung Brandon's hand away and the boy nearly collapsed.
"I will kill you," Kim said and swallowed the mouthful.
Both Doug and Derek had watched the ten second ordeal in open mouthed shock.
As Kim stood in front of his locker, Derek, with a nod from Doug, moved to shove Kim Sei Tin into his locker.
Kim's foot shot out, striking Derek in the kidney with his heel. Then Kim's other foot shot out and Derek fell to the tiled floor, hard.
"Do not try that again; you will not like what happens," Kim said, gathered his books and closed his locker.
"Yeah, one on one, he beat your asses," Doug counseled Derek and Brandon. "But all three of us? We'll fuck him up."
Coach Brighton was puzzled why two of his players skipped practice. But Brandon's hand and forearm were still very sore and Derek was having trouble walking from the kidney strike he'd received. The baseball season was winding to a close anyway so the coach just shrugged it all off.
"Dude, you teach me that stuff?" Jimmy begged Kim Sei Tin as they waited for the bus that would take them to their neighborhood.
Kim regarded Jimmy with a long look, then shrugged his shoulders.
I will ask my mother," he promised.
Kim Sei Tin let himself into his home and found his mother, in the kitchen, preparing their evening meal. His father was not home yet; he was either still fishing, the brackish waters of the Atchafalaya, or fishing just off-shore in the Gulf of Mexico, or he was drunk.
In Korean, their native tongue, Kim Sei Tin spoke to Kim Ul Don about what had occurred that day and about Jimmy's request.
"This boy, this Jimmy, he has done no wrong to bring this upon himself?" Kim Ul Don asked, studying her son's face.
"He has not; I did not do anything to provoke their attacks on me," her son pointed out.
"Then bring Jimmy here tomorrow and we will begin," she nodded.
"Thank you," he said.
Then mother and son went into their back yard, knelt on the ground and quietly meditated for long moments.
Then they practiced Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art form.
Kim So Yang came home just as mother and son were completing their evening meal, staggering drunk. He yelled at his wife for eating, not waiting for him to arrive home.
"I had hoped you'd fallen into the water and drowned," she snarled at him.
He moved to slap her and she easily blocked his slap.
"Why has God cursed me with such a hateful wife?" he asked as he staggered to their bedroom.
"Why has God cursed me with a drunkard for a husband?" she shrilled.
"Your voice is like the very pit of Hell," he spat at her and closed the door of the bedroom.
In the night, he moved to mount his wife and she thrashed him very soundly. So he slept on the couch until just before daybreak, when she woke him and served him breakfast.
Then Kim So Yang drove to his pier in Jazz Beach. He pushed away from the pier and into the eerie stillness of the Atchafalaya, just as the sun was beginning to paint the sky.
Kim Sei Tin informed Jimmy that he would be a student of Tae Kwon Do and Jimmy thanked him.
"Oh, uh, hey, what's this going to cost me?" he asked, his enthusiasm dying immediately.
"It will cost you nothing," Kim said.
Doug, Derek and Brandon decided that three against one was fair odds and surrounded the much smaller Kim Sei Tin.
"Do not do this; you will be hurt," Kim warned.
Derek threw a punch and Kim grabbed his fist, swung the arm out and down and Derek crashed to the floor.
Doug tried to kick Kim. The boy actually smiled as he grabbed the larger boy's foot and pushed it up, then swept his leg out, taking Doug's other leg out from under Doug.
Brandon back-pedaled away from Kim Sei Tin as fast as he could, leaving his two buddies groaning in pain on the tiled floor of the school hallway.
So, the three bullies found Jimmy and gave him a few punches.
Thus, Jimmy was sporting a black eye when he met Kim Ul Don for the first time.
The petite woman smiled softly and put a comforting hand to the handsome young man's eye.
"Do you speak Korean?" she asked him in Korean.
"Uh, yes ma'am, it does hurt," Jimmy replied, thinking she was asking about his eye.
She spoke rapidly to Kim Sei Tin, then pointed toward the back door.
Kim pulled Jimmy outside and showed him to kneel.
A moment later, Kim Ul Don came out, carrying a jar. She opened the jar and softly, gently applied a salve to Jimmy's eye.
"There, that should help the healing," she said in Korean.
She went back inside, then returned a few moments later.
Then she too knelt and they meditated in silence.
Jimmy wanted to ask what the stuff was that she'd smeared on his face, he wanted to ask why they were kneeling for so long for; his shins and calves were starting to hurt, when they were going to get started.
But he kept his mouth shut.
Kim Ul Don smiled and showed Jimmy a few steps, then said, in Korean, that Jimmy should do the steps.
"She says for you to do what she just did," Kim Sei Tin translated.
Jimmy tried to remember what the woman had done and she smiled and showed him again.
"Ah, good, you learn," she praised as he did better.