i. Kim Sunggyu

This story was about Kim Sunggyu.

Who since childhood believed that every life was destined to have one true love. In fact, it meant almost all of you also have a similar story, whereas this story became a bit different from yours when Sunggyu yet to realize that love was a verb; and as a verb clearly it needed actions, not just feelings.

Forgive me not as commonly tale of love this is, this story must begin with separation. A painful separation at that, although actually in any eternal love story that you knew, there must be the word separation.

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That day was Sunday, July 7th, hundreds years ago.

A weird day in the end of wintertide, in one of the most beautiful city ever in the northern continents. People who passed by put on their thick coat, wrapped shawl in their neck also big hat which covered their ears.

Life had just started a few minutes ago. The city routines back again in sync with the fog which still hung in between the old buildings. The weather was not as cold as usual, but still it was uncomfortable to be outdoor without layers of clothes. Hundreds of ray of morning sunlight broke through the spruce foliage tenderly, fell on the grasses and the benches in the park, cast a magical and serene, beautiful shadow. Alluring. As if you could capture the color of the light in the fog.

Floating.

Sparrows chirped noisily. One or two even perched so close to the pedestrian walkways, jumping and flirting around with their lover. The studs showed off their strong beak, and the females flaunted the soft feather on their .

But no one really paid attention to the beautiful scenery. For the citizen of that town, a morning like that was just their typical morning. No far more typical even when spring had came, when hundreds of bougainvillea in the park bloomed in thousand color and hundreds type of butterflies took wings above.

This early they were already busy thinking about work that piling up at the office, hoping to sell more, agreement to be signed, important plans to be done before nightfall and that sort of things.

Indeed, there was one or two who stood under the window frame of two-story building, staring fascinated at the serene morning. And one or two who stood under the bake shop's hood. Also a pair of lovers who leaned in front of the old post office building. The steam came from their breath slowly tearing the morning fog. They were not the resident of this city, they were visitors who happened to stop by. Because they were not used to, that morning was really beautiful in their eyes.

Children in their school uniform who escorted to the place where they got educated came up from the corner near the park. Some of them struggled to escape from the hold of their parents and ran toward the sparrows, throwing breadcrumbs from their lunch bag to the birds. Laughing cheerily, shouting merely, though a second later they were already towed by their parents back to the sidewalk.

Kim Sunggyu who was sitting in one of the benches in the park laughed out loud. One the kid managed to slip away. His movement was agile, even though he was fat and had a big body. His mother grunted, trying to catch her son. Unfortunately her breath was too short, and she was in struggle with her own body which was three times chubbier than his son. The chase between the mother and her son was long enough before finally the son voluntarily came back to the sidewalk. Joining the rest of his friends.

"Ah, they just want to play. Nothing more, nothing less!" Sunggyu laughed while waving his hand, pretended to give a salute to that kid. His mother frowned at Sunggyu, patting the dust away from her son's trousers before continued their steps. Of course Sunggyu knew all of the citizen here, as everyone knew him too.

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