When Mai got home to her apartment she instantly collapsed on her bed. It had a white comforter with matching white pillows that she thought made her look adult like. It was huge too, king size in fact. Since she spent most of her life in The States, she got used to having a bigger bed than most people in South Korea. However, this bed had always been too empty since he left. During the night there were times where she got scared and instinctivly reached for him, but he was never there these days.

She leaned down from her bed, too lazy to stand up, and turnedher night light on. She never needed it when he was around, he always protected her from the dark. When she reset her herself on the bed she looked out from a large window that occupied a space on her wall. In the distance there was a star. The clouds and pollution blocked all the others, but this one star seemed to shine through.

Mai closed her eyes and thought to herself You always were the one star that shined Ji Yong.