Hyukjae blessed Donghae with three valuable gifts before he passed on and Donghae was more than grateful for them.

The first gift was securing an interview for a job application to one of the highest and most prestigious chocolate factory in town. Donghae showed up to the interview with his resumé in hand, ready to compete with a couple other applicants but was surprised to find out that he was the only applicant to show up and was thus hired on the spot. Donghae didn’t know what strings Hyukjae managed to pull for him while he was still around, but it felt just like before when Hyukjae was around and always looking after him after all.

The second gift was a Korean translation of Mitch Albom’s “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, which Donghae had promised Hyukjae to read if the original English words were replaced with Korean. He flipped through the pages slowly but surely, coming to the end of the book after only a mere three hours. It became his most favourite book and made sure to re-read it at least one every month. He came to terms that even if Hyukjae’s leave was partly his fault, there was a reason for meeting everyone in his life, whether there was a lesson to be learnt or an experience to be shared. For him, meeting Hyukjae was a memory to be kept in his heart.

The last and final gift to Donghae from Hyukjae was a little blue crystal monkey pendant on a slender silver chain. Donghae wore it everywhere he went as his lucky pendant. Even if Hyukjae wasn’t there anymore, he could still feel the love and warmth of the elder looking over him as he went about working or relaxing at home. At times when he really missed Hyukjae he would curl up in his bed with his monkey pendant in his palm and cry for a good hour – but eventually he dealt with Hyukjae’s departure and he cried lesser and lesser as the days went by.

Now, thanks to the three last gifts Hyukjae had given him, Donghae was well on his way up the corporate ladder at SM Chocolatiers. He had only been working at the company for three months before they raised his salary and promoted him to a managerial position, and less than a year l