Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020 | Page 119

Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2020
The Hong Kong Boy Who
Liked Black
Korean International Springboard, So, Kirsty – 15
There was a 16 year- old boy named Chris who grew up in Mong Kok all his life. He
was lazy and had no passion about anything except shopping for cool things. And he loved
the colour black. He had many things in black and always wore black clothes. Chris hated
going to school. His parents were frustrated with him and wanted him to mature and think
for himself, and care about things. So in June 2019, he joined the protests so that he didn’t
have to go to school and he wanted to wear black every day. But over the next few months
as the Hong Kong protests became more violent, he began to realize the true meaning of the
protests and he developed his own choices in his life. This is his story.
One day, in the morning Chris was going outside to meet his friend’s, because his friend’s
life was the same as Chris’s. His friend liked going to the protests, but his friend didn’t like to
listen to his parents. So Chris and his friends went to the protests together until night time.
His Chris’ parents didn’t know he had gone there and tried to call him. But when he went to
the protest, he turned off his i-Phone, and didn’t hear when his parents called him. At night,
Chris went back home, he saw his parents were very angry, because they didn’t know where
he went. So Chris said to his parents “ I’m just going to the protests with friends and protests
can make me have choices in my life and family is not important in life”. He complained
that his family gave him no choices in his life. Then Chris got very angry with his parents,
and ran back to his bedroom to pick his stuff up than he left his family home. Chris called
his friends and said “I’m going to stay in your home, because I will not be going back to my
home and not staying with my parents and tomorrow we can go to the protests”. Back at his
house his parents opened his bedroom door, they looked for Chris, but Chris had packed the
bedroom and all his stuff had gone away. Chris’s mom and dad were very worried that he had
left his home and gone away because they didn’t know where he had gone or who he was
staying with or who would take care of him. His parents called and called Chris, but when
they called him, even though he missed them he never talked with his parents on his phone.
Later that week in the morning, he went to a protest with his friend and they were stood
outside Mong Kok MTR station, then they put some oil and fire outside of the MTR station,
soon the police got there. When they got there the police said for them to stop, but they kept
doing it until midnight. At midnight, Chris and his friends with other people went to the
shopping center to break the store and they put the fire in the cafe and it burned. The police
said to Chris and his friends to stop, but they tried to block the road didn’t let the police catch
them. Chris started to think about what he was doing, “Why am I so bad to the police” he
thought “maybe I should I should just let police catch me”. After this Chris decided to give
himself up and went over to the block to talk with the police.
At home, Chris’s mom and dad saw Chris on the TV, they heard the phone ring, then
Chris’s dad picked up the phone and heard the police officer. The police officer said “your son
is in the police station can you pick him up?’ After his parents picked him up, they went back
home and Chris wanted to say something to his parents. He said sorry to his mom and dad,
because he understood that on that day he did something very wrong. It took me a while to
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