KimJwon5
A single name from the new guy at work stops him cold: Aira is dead. Cancer stole her two years ago, and no one ever told him. The woman who once knew him better than anyone is gone and she took his deepest secret with her.
Back then, in the hazy aftermath of too many late nights, he finally let the truth slip to her alone: something about himself he'd buried so deep he could barely say it out loud. She didn't flinch. She didn't judge. She just listened, held it gently, and swore it would stay between them forever.
Now she's buried, and that confession is buried too. But as he replays her old voice messages, leaves wilted sunflowers at her grave, and sits in the aching silence she left behind, the secret begins to claw its way back to the surface. The memories he tried to forget. The glances he pretended meant nothing. The part of himself he still can't name without his heart racing.
He thought the grave would keep it hidden forever.
He was wrong.
Some secrets die quietly.
Others wait until their keeper is gone-then demand to be heard.