‘I love you’ whispered Sandara.

‘I love you, too.’

Jiyong pressed his lips softly on hers.

The sun, the light blue sky and the fluffy clouds made this day perfect for going to a park- and this is exactly what this couple was doing.

‘You know, after we move in together, I’m going to get a tattoo exactly like yours.’ said Dara while she was playing with her cute, brown hair.

‘You actually like my dragon so much?’ he asked.

‘Yes. It symbolizes a change for you and my dragon will symbolize a change for me, too’.

The change for him. Jiyong looked at the ground remembering how his father was arrested and sentenced for life in prison. That’s when he got that tattoo. It represented a new beginning: a life without his abusing father.

‘It also represents strength for me, you know. Not just a new beginning.’ he whispered while he was still staring at his feet.

‘It will represent strength for me, too. Don’t we all need strength? I would also like to get a cross. I want to have God with me all the time.’

She looked at him.

‘One day, you will believe in God, too.’

‘Where was good when… Let’s not get into this. I promised myself I wouldn’t believe in God again and that I wouldn’t cry again.’

‘I think you will cry eventually, too. You did that a lot when you were a child.’

‘But now I am a man!’

‘My man. You are my man.’

Now it was her turn to kiss his lips.

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‘What the hell shall I wear?’ said Jiyong, annoyed.

Normally, his fashion was the best but going to have dinner at his girlfriend’s house was something different.

It wasn’t the first time he was going though. They had been dating for 2 years and her parents kept on inviting him to have dinner with them. Jiyong knew that this was their way of getting to know him more and more, bit by bit. He also knew that it was thanks to his good behavior during the first couple of times he went there that they accepted him. It was really hard for him, a poor kid with a dark past and whose father is a criminal, to get the approval of her parents to date her. Sandara w