Jooheon is sure he loves Changkyun, with all his heart he is sure, but he is a coward because he doesn't want to leave.
Because Jooheon can try and be something else. He doesn't want to leave; because he likes Daegu, likes his small room that he shares with his brother and rubbing his mothers feet after she's been working for ten hours even if he is mad at her for not understanding him, and he doesn't want to be Jooheon in some big American city. He wants to be Jooheon South Korea, nice Jooheon, bighearted Jooheon. Changkyun tells him he's naive, that he can't expect this place to change for him. That he can't expect them to accept all of him. That there, he will always have to hide. A man here would not want him out of fear of themselves, and a woman would not want him knowing that he liked both. Jooheon knows he is just angry and hurt at the rejection, but that doesn't mean the words don't cut him.
