At 16 we used the same class desk, with less than 10cm between our arms. My peripheral vision was full of him.At 26, I woke up in the morning, and saw the sunlight softly shining on his face. I thought, this is how I want to grow old gradually, toge...
When returning from a business trip, I received a telephone call from my best friend at the airport.
She had just experienced a breakup and was crying uncontrollably. Dragging my luggage, I met up with her for drinks.
It’s often said that a long-lasting relationship is an anomalous phenomenon.
it’s akin to a treasure that descended from heaven, and is simply extravagant to hope that it’s like the distribution of lunch boxes at lunch time in that the moment lunchtime arrives, everybody will manage to get one set.
On returning home, I felt particularly melancholic, and hugged Taehyung tightly.
“My luck has always been rather bad; the only lucky thing that happened in my entire life is my meeting you, so I’m extremely grateful for our relationship. Having grown so old, the one and only thing that I have relentlessly persevered in is loving you.”
He replied, “My love, I’m touched you think this way.” He paused, “But don’t think that just because you said this I’ll forgive you for returning home at 3AM in the morning.”
He glared sternly at me, and headed to the kitchen to brew a cup of honey for me to help me neutralize my alcoholic drinks.
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I am a chatterbox, and I often ramble relentlessly to his ears. One day, I asked him rather abruptly, “Do you feel that I’m extremely long-winded?”
He was driving then, with his eyes glued to the road ahead. He replied me expressionlessly, “Yeah, pretty long-winded.”
I was slightly unhappy – so he has been feeling annoyed by me all this while.
He broke into a smile, and said, “I have to listen to your long-winded speeches my whole life anyway. It’s fine since I’m used to it.”
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We were high school classmates. When he was studying, he was exactly like how he is now – although he appeared to be extremely cool on the surface with a poisonous tongue, he had an extremely good heart within. Subsequently, because of various incidents, coupled with our immaturity at that point in time, we severed our friendship.
He went to England to study, and we lost contact for many years. During one of our class reunion dinners, someone mentioned that he had previously dialed Taehyung’s old number by accident and surprisingly, the call actually managed to connect. It was then that I realized that Taehyung had kept his original number all these years.
“But isn’t it very inconvenient for him, since he is staying overseas?”
Nobody could understand why Tae chose to retain his original number, but the final conclusion we reached was that the mind of a great genius is not something we mere mortals can possibly understand.
Not long afterward, His birthday arrived. I mustered sufficient courage to send him a text message, hugging my phone throughout the night. But there was no reply. On the second day, he finally replied, with a very distant and courteous phrase – “Thank you.”
When he subsequently returned to Korea, I brought a body solely filled with courage and travelled to Seoul to look for him. There, we made up and decided to be together. One day, whilst rifling through his bookshelf, I found his old phone that he used in the past. I turned it on – the call history and messages were all deleted, and only the draft folder for text messages had anything left. Out of curiosity, I clicked it. There were more than ten draft messages inside the folder.
Today, I met a girl at ASDA who looked like you.But of course you're million times prettier than her.
Oh Hyukcame out with a new album, and it feels like you’re sitting right next to me when I listen to his songs.
The weather has grown colder in Busan, so remember to keep warm and wear more clothes.
