When Jooheon was sixteen, he had his first boyfriend.
He was living with his grandparents over the summer and he was from America and he was a few months younger with hair dyed a chestnut colour and scars on his knuckles from old fights but his smile was wide and bright and welcoming. His American name was Daniel but he insisted he be called Changkyun, and he was beautiful.
Jooheon was certain he was in love the moment he saw him.
Jooheon has a big heart but he has learned that people do not want big hearts and there has been no evidence thus far to prove him otherwise.
But Jooheon is young and lonely and people on the internet tell him he's pretty and he just wants someone in this world to make him feel he is.
Changkyun is Korean in ethnicity but so unlike anyone Jooheon has ever known in his country. He is exciting and wild and from America where so much is possible and they are so many different people to see, where people don't get caught up in formality and manner. There, maybe boys liking boys is more common, maybe Changkyun understands it too.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. His heart whispers to him.
