we had become good friends by the time i entered the diner next. it was about a month after the last time i came, due to my friend, ariana, dragging me to japan for two weeks. the other two weeks consisted of me trying to get into different colleges to impress you. maybe i should have stayed away.
i remember how your face lit up when you saw me walk into the diner. i wish that your face had lit up like that on the third year.
taking my usual seat, you rushed over and hugged me. it was sudden and startled me a bit, but i returned it. god did i not know that'd be the thing i missed the most.
you asked me why i've been gone and haven't been answering your calls. i apologized and explained my situation. why didn't you ever do that?
green tea showed up in front of me, even though i hadn't ordered anything yet. when i looked up, i had met eyes with an employee. his name was kim yugyeom and he was a good friend of mine. but like i said, he was a good friend.
when we sent each other smiles, i saw the jealousy seep out of you. at the time, i didn't know why you were jealous. was it because of yugyeom, or me? that was something i never figured out. i did figure it out in a similar situation in the third year.
you broke your pen in half in anger. i was surprised and went to help clean the ink up, while yugyeom went to go take the orders of awaiting customers.
maybe that should've been my first sign that i was in too deep to care about what you did to me.
