2020

"Doesn't your husband get jealous over this picture?" your best friend, Naeun, asked. Her eyes were concentrated on a large, framed picture on the center of the wall. 

"No, he doesn't," you sighed, smiling in remembrance of the moment the photograph was taken. Four Big Bang members were smiling at the camera. You were grinning, making wacky faces with TOP, who towered over your seventeen-year-old self. "He knows it's the most important moment in my life... the day I met Big Bang."

"What about your wedding? Shouldn't that be the most beautiful moment?" Naeun asked, a small frown appearing in her face.

"That's why that picture is there," you replied, pointing at a much smaller framed one with you and your husband on your wedding day. It was right underneath from the Big Bang picture, standing in the middle of a pretty table. "Besides, I'm planning to change the Big Bang picture for a family one the day this baby is born." You pat your pregnant belly. Turning to look at Naeun, you narrow your eyes in a threatening way. "Don't you even dare to tell him that. It's a surprise."

She made a zipping motion on her lips. "My lips are sealed. Promise."

A high-pitched scream pierced through the room, making both you and Naeun jump in surprise.

"What is that?" your twenty-eight-year-old friend asked, her eyes wide open. 

You shook your head, lips pursed. "That's my little sister. Apparently, Winner will be holding a contest so that five fans can spend an entire day with them. The idiot hasn't even entered the contest and she's already acting as if she's the lucky fan."

"Hey, don't judge her," Naeun chuckled, crossing her arms across her chest. She was wearing an old varsity t-shirt, which you remember she wore often back in college. "You would've done the same if that had happened eleven years ago and if it were Big Bang."

"Psht, I was not that delusional," you dismissively replied, heading over to the kitchen. You begin heating up some leftover dinner from the night before. "By the way, Naeun... when are you going to teach me how to cook that lasagna you make? My sister is staying over next week, and she already told me she wants more. Plus, you know my husband loves it."

"I can teach you right now," Naeun replied, materializing behind you. She began sorting through your drawer. "I think I saw some pasta here..." With a weirded out face, she holds up an elegant box of gummies. "Gourmet gummy worms? Who spends their money on that?"

You rolled your eyes. "My husband."

"Alright, to each its own," Naeun commented in a sing-song voice.

As she searched the kitchen for the ingredients needed to cook the Italian dish, you dreamily stared at the picture of you with Big Bang. Your sister was excitedly screaming to her best friend through the phone about having an opportunity to meet Winner. 

You couldn't help but close your eyes and remember the times when you were seventeen. 

The year you and your husband got together.