we are inevitable | jakehoon

sixteen.

Jake wishes he could say he and Sunghoon had always loved with a love that was more than love.

That is the comfort.

The truth is that it was always love; and sometimes it was less, and sometimes it was more, but somewhere buried under all the years and the memories and the golden string with its plastic star and the cardboard box with its cube and sphere, there was always love.

"I made my choice. Now, you have to make yours."

Sweet memories, bitter reality, irrevocable truth. Jake made his choice, and he would stick with it. Nothing is ever easy, but then again nothing is supposed to be.

At the end of the day, as the night engulfs the sky and the stars shine, nothing will ever change the fact that Jake and Sunghoon are not soulmates. But they wake up every morning to a new day and choose to love each other more than they did the day before, and maybe, just maybe, it would be enough for the universe to let them live.

"Do you regret your choices?"

The ambient light from the windowpane casts a soft glow over Sunghoon's eyes where he lies beside Jake.

"Truth or comfort?"

Sunghoon smiles.

"Truth."

"I don't think there's any choice I've ever made that I don't regret."

Things are different now.

"But there are some things I regret less than others, and choosing to love you is the one thing I regret the least."

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The strange thing about cardboard boxes is that sometimes, when you shake it and it makes a noise, and you spend your life thinking you know what's inside-

Truth or comfort?

This time, just this one time, it's both.

Sometimes the stars have different ideas of your destiny than you do of your own. Sometimes all that is gold does not glitter, and all that is lost is not lost forever.

Sometimes people are meant to lose each other before they can find each other again. No matter what the stars tell them they should be.

"The truth, and the comfort, is that nothing about us was meant to be, but we are here tonight, and that must mean something."

The truth and the comfort is that we are inevitable.

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You are cordially invited to the wedding of Kim Sunoo and Lee Kyumin.

Address: 45-10 Seoyangri...

And at the bottom, written in black fountain pen in a handwriting so familiar his heart smiled to see it again.

I hope you'll bring a plus one.