“Never test another man by your own weakness.”  ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Mark was feeling lonelier without Jackson these days, but the worst was the fact that he felt the loneliest when he actually was with Jackson a mere centimeter between them.

Mark was stuck in an unrequited love. He had been in love for so many years unable to voice out his feelings, that he doesn't know how to live differently. “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma