Sinners Like Us
This is a story about love at first sight the kind of love that strikes silently, powerfully, and without warning. When Kookie first saw Tae back in school, something in his heart changed. He didnāt know what it was, only that it felt like love. Pure, unexpected, and impossible to ignore.
But he never confessed.
He admired Tae from afar, watching him laugh, live, and grow never daring to say how he felt. Why? Because Kookie didnāt think he was enough. He feared rejection. He saw himself as less, unworthy, not brave enough to speak the words stuck in his throat. So he stayed silent.
And silence cost him everything.
Someone else came into Taeās life. Someone bold enough to say what Kookie couldnāt. And before he knew it, Tae was married gone from his world, just like that.
Kookie thought he could move on, but memories donāt fade that easily. With time, Taeās absence became a constant ache. Kookie couldnāt unlove him. He didnāt know how to live without him. But instead of breaking, he rebuilt.
He changed.
He grew stronger, softer, and more deserving not just of Tae, but of love itself. Because love teaches us to fight. To try. To believe weāre worth it. And Kookie believed.
Years later, fate brought them back together.
Tae, now older and married, wasn't the same. His partner didnāt treat him right. Life had worn him down. And Kookie, the boy who once hid behind shadows, came back into his world not just as someone from the past, but as someone new. Someone better. Someone worthy.
Kookie didnāt want to steal love. He wanted to earn it.
And so began a second chance a quiet, slow, and powerful rediscovery. Of healing. Of trust. Of love that had waited too long, but never truly died.
Because sometimes, love takes the long way home.
And sometimes, even sinners like us deserve a happy ending.
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