a//n: this is already the epilogue! pls read chapter 4 pls if you haven't ^^

“Love begins a relationship but it isn’t enough to keep it moving. I learned that the hard way.”

Hyukjae’s father smiles as he holds his now wife with one hand and a microphone on the other.

“Trust builds the foundation, commitment makes it intact, and communication keeps it going.” He keeps on, now eyeing everyone in the event hall before landing it in the table where his son—sons and their partners are.

“I vow to tell you everything there is. To say what I think instead of keeping it in.” The newly married man utters as he squeezes his wife’s hand in his. “To tell you that you’re lovely, to make you feel that I’m the luckiest man alive because I have you with me,” he says and Hyukjae squeezes the hand he is gripping as if telling him he’ll be the same.

“That when the time comes that I won’t be able to speak, when I lost my voice or the ability to say it out loud,” he utters and place a soft kiss at the back of his wife’s palm. “I wouldn’t have to worry, because I know you’ll hear my heart.”

He kisses her softly on the lips and the hall erupts in applause and cheers. Hyukjae turns to him and smiles, stealing a sweet little peck for his own with the silent promise of living the words he just learned from his father.

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“I’ve always known you have a boyfriend, but I didn’t know it’s my