Where We Stood

Prologue

It starts with a folder.

This folder, it's not just any folder.

It's the folder Jungkook sees every morning, the first thing when he wakes up, only, he can never remember seeing it before.

To Jungkook, each day is something completely brand new, not affected at all by the last, a completely clean slate.

Each morning, Jungkook wakes up thinking it's 2016 and that he's about to roll out of bed, make himself some coffee, shower, and then head down to his office in downtown Seoul where he will flirt mercilessly with the nurses and then get to work on the list of that day's patients.

But, it's not 2016.

Jungkook doesn't even live in Seoul anymore.

And Jungkook hasn't even stepped into a hospital in five years.

So, that brings us back to the folder.

Within the first few moments of waking up, Jungkook rolls over and his eyes will land on this folder that has "Read Me Every Morning" printed on it in big, black letters.

Jungkook will stare at it for a moment, confused, but then his curiosity will get the better of him and he'll reach for it and start rifling through it.

That's when he'll realize that it's not 2016 but in fact 2020.

He'll learn that he's no longer in Seoul, but actually back in Busan where he grew up.

He'll read that he had an accident, a brain aneurysm in his hippocampus that destroyed his short term memory, so every night when he goes to sleep, his brain deletes his new memories from that day instead of consolidating them into long term ones like a normal brain.

And every morning, he's angry.

Angry at his brain for not functioning properly.

Angry at the world for having things like brain aneurysms.

But most of all, he's angry at himself for not being able to remember the person that's on the last page of the folder.

Every morning, Jungkook reads through the twenty or so pages of medical reports and articles about him and the 'accident', and then he'll get to that final page that reads: "Don't forget her, please, please don't forget her." And below these words scribbled hastily in his own writing, is a picture of a young, beautiful, blonde girl with chocolate eyes and smiling at him like he's the best thing in the world.

Under the picture are seven words that never cease to break Jungkook's heart every morning all over again.

"This is Sana, and you love her."