Conflicting Loyalties 

  "Is it possible to maintain conflicting loyalties?" Mr.Yang's psychology lesson seemed to pinpoint my exact quandaries. Somehow, that prompt coerced me to acknowledge Sehun's affinity toward dating nine different girls at a time.   I trudged to lunch with that question still ringing in my mind. Usually, Hana would zip to the lunch line right as the bell rang, but sensing my despondence, she decided to accompany me as we entered the overcrowded cafeteria. "Dude, get over Sehun. He's an idiot," she restated for the 10th time that morning.    I released a sorrowful sigh. "Can't you see I'm trying?" I flung my bag of rocks onto the nearest empty table and plunked down. With the question still quarreling pugnaciously for my attention, I asked her, "Hana, what do you think about Yang's question? About the conflicting loyalties."   Hana slid into the seat opposite of mine. "Like, is it possible to be loyal to more than one conflicting entity?" She pondered for a moment and shrugged. "I guess that if that person can be coy enough to satisfy both sides, then yeah, having more than one loyalty is justifiable."   I groaned. This was not the answer I was looking for if I was to get over the Sehun situation. Just then, I felt a weight on either side of my shoulders. nearly hopping out of my own skin, I whipped around to see who the intruder was. Luckily, it was just Luhan. "Hi," I said.   Luhan smiled and pulled up a chair to sit by my right side. "What are you guys talking about?"   I debated whether to ask him, but, desperate  to obliterate my bedlam emotions, I just posed the darn question. "Do you think it's possible to have conflicting loyalties?" I bit on my lip with the suspension.    Luhan briefly blinked and didn't even miss a beat as he responded, "In a world where even sons deceive fathers for faustian business positions, I can certainly assert that, no; it is not possible to have conflicting loyalties." I held my breath, anticipating his answer. His honesty really was quite unexpected. Luhan continued, "Take the characters in The Kite Runner novel by Khaled Hosseini, for example. Amir and Hassan are best friends, despite the fact that the former is from an affluent noble family and the latter is a lowly servant for the other's household. Due to this, Amir holds an albatross around his neck of incessant weighing of whether he should continue his lifelong friendship with Hassan in public- which would evoke