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Message:
We have to talk. Meet me at the old meeting place, 8pm.

Send to:
Shim Changmin, Im Yoona.

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I met Changmin when I was eight years old. You should know how it usually goes… well, maybe not. Anyway, I was walking around a park one day with my parents when I saw a kid my age sitting in the sandbox reading a book. I was a normal child, and I thought reading was boring so naturally I thought the kid was boring too. I kicked sand on his face and the next thing I knew I was laying on the ground after getting drop kicked by the boring little boy I saw reading.

We became friends after that. The bonds of brotherhood cannot be broken after a good smack down (or in my case, kick down – if that was even a word. I don’t know any other eight year old with 2nd grade in Judo, do you?), and despite going to different primary, middle and high schools – we grew up together. Shim Changmin was my best friend ever since I could remember.

Of course his parents didn’t like me all that much. Well, his father certainly didn’t. I wasn’t from a rich family liked theirs. And Mr. Shim had a very keen take on social hierarchy. That never bothered me because Changmin hung out with me anyway. We were brothers after all.

On the day we applied for University, we were determined to get into the same University. I wanted to study Business and he wanted to study Law (even though his father didn’t like that idea so much). Luckily by the end of our senior year’s summer, we got accepted to one University – and our brotherhood lived on.

I met Yoona when I was twenty years old, along with the woman who would become the love of my life (as Changmin had said when he introduced me). During that time, Changmin had become friendlier – which was weird because he was always the aloof type, even when we were kids – and to be honest it had scared me just a little bit. One day I couldn’t take it anymore and asked him point blank what had gotten into him. He told me to follow him and after buying lunch, we headed towards a pair of girls sitting on one of the University’s round tables outside the courtyard.

The smile on Changmin’s face when he introduced me to Yoona told me everything. It was clear as day. Whoever couldn’t see through that was blind (that was Yoona, but that isn’t the point). I didn’t say anything back, and instead I befriended them.

We became quite a group after that: me, Yeonhee, Changmin and Yoona. We only met Sooyoung when she recognized Yoona off the street and came running towards us. But even then, we were clos