𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞

Can you still remember the very first time you have sent a letter to a special someone?

As I can remember, I've been exchanging letters to my first love since I was 10. I first met him when my family was still living in the US. My family was hired to serve at a fancy party and that's when I saw him, he was sitting at his wheel chair all alone and looking at a distance. He seemed so lonely so I approached him and try to befriend him.

"Ummm... hello there," I greeted happily. He just looked at me with a stoic face.

"Do you wanna play with me?"

"Why would I do that? I'm too old for silly games," he told me coldly.

"You do know that there's no age limit to have fun right?"

"Can you just go away? I'm interested in whatever you do,"

"Okay... if you don't want to play then let's talk,"

"You never give up do you?" I shook my head as my response. He sighed in defeat.

"Okay fine, what do you want to talk about?"

"How about we get to know each other, my name is Hana and I'm 8 years old, I was born in Korea but moved here in the US because my parents thought we could get a better life here, now it's your turn,"

"My name is... uhh Lee and I'm 15 years old, I was born in Korea but was raised here in the US,"

"Well it is nice meeting you Lee," I said smiling as I extended my hand for him to shake. He gladly accepted the gesture.

"The pleasure is mine I guess?"

We kept on chatting to pass the time, telling stories about life or anything we could think of.

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After that moment he became my best friend, I would come over to their house and play all day with him and his brother Alex. We had so much fun and I could see Lee smiling ear to ear.

Alex told me that this is the first time he saw his brother genuinely smile and thanked me for making that happen.

They were my playmate for almost 2 years and throughout those years I started to get butterflies whenever I'm around Lee... is this what they called Love? Gosh I'm only 10 and yet here I am thinking about that. I must erase these feelings, I don't want to ruin my friendship with Lee and besides I want to spend my remaining days with him. My parents are thinking of going back to Korea because it is hard to continue living in the US without a stable job.

∘∘♡∘∘

"So you're really leaving?"

"Mhmm," I hummed as a response.

"I guess this is goodbye,"

"I guess it is..." there was silence for a minute.

"Can we still keep in touch?" he looked at me as if I was crazy.

"Um sure give me your number," he handed me his phone. I raised one of my eyebrow while looking at him.

"You do know that I'm only 10 right? For someone who's older you sure are dumb."

"Hey don't insult me okay? I just forgot that I'm much older than you. You just act so mature for your age,"