... why, the answer is quite simple.

They liked to ask what made it happen, how it really started.

Well, if I skipped all the details of the JYP-YG rivalry, I’d save a lot of time so, let’s start with, friendship.

Yup. Nobody knew this, but Kwon Jiyong and I were best friends. 

At first, it didn’t seem possible because we didn’t really… fit. 

As friends, I mean. 

As many bloggers had covered, we seemed to be quite the hot item in the kpop-dating world.

But nobody wondered if we were friends, which despite all odds, we were.

It didn’t matter that I was a quiet person and that he had a wild personality because when we hung out, we just clicked.

I liked to about his eccentric fashion and he would call me boring. Hah! Me? Boring? Funny.

Click.

I hated to do aegyo so he would do it for me. It felt like watching an overgrown Dooly. Weird but addictive. 

Click.

I would come up with some little ideas for our remixes and he’d pitch all of them super strongly like my manager, realizing my ideas even when I had little confidence in them. 

Click.

I would immediately close my mouth if I let out something embarrassing about JY-PDnim and he would say something equally embarrassing about President YG without hesitance. I now know that they have a secret class on how to mimic their president. His impersonation never missed the nail. 

Click.

People said it didn’t make sense for us to not immediately start dating then, but really, it made perfect sense to me.

Does G-Dragon look anything like Park Hae-il? I thought so. Your argument is invalid.

He had high expectations for a future wife too, Miss Korea, if not Universe.

I mean, they said he flirted by giving eye-smiles.

That rascal never gave me one eye-smile. 

Well, not the intentional kind. Note that we are the kind of people who give eye-smiles just by lifting our lips.

We did stupid stuff like eating funky desserts and playing baseball, or say we’re playing baseball when we’re actually just flailing the bats around.

It was simple, just the way we liked it.

The thought of dating never occurred to us.

We even dated at least five other people while we were friends.

Well I didn’t date anyone because I’m a good girl who actually obeys my contract.

Of course, sometimes friends are meant to stay friends.

Sometimes it never becomes romantic.

And sometimes, when it does, you don’t even notice the transition.

For me, I don’t think there even was a transition.

Not when we first held hands.

Not when we first kissed.

Not when we shared our first ‘I love you’s.

Because my only thought as he bent down on one knee asking me if I would take him as my husband, 

the ultimate thought that overwhelmed me as I watched him put the ring into my finger,

was that, I can't imagine anything better than spending my life being married to my best friend. 

So yes, ask me what we have, I’d say an amazing foundation. 

Because ask me where we started, I would say friendship.

Ask me in five, ten, thirty years’ time and I will remain to say, to be in love with your best friend, is the best to ever be in.