“Let’s break up.”

“I don’t understand…” she says a tear falling down the curve of her cheek. “I thought you said you couldn’t live without me…”

“I will be alright.”

“Will you be alright?” She asks with her bright eyes.

It took all of Min Jun’s self control to stop himself from pulling her into his arms; he nodded curtly, to afraid to speak, fearing that his voice would give him away. “Take care.”

I love you.

The words he that he really wanted to say is what he kept in his heart.

Years later Min Jun still could not stop thinking about her. He missed everything about her, the way her eyes lit up when she saw a soft serve stall, the way she would stop extra long outside a coffee shop to enjoy the aromas drifting from the store. The way she always smelled like fresh laundry that was dried in the sun. She was his sun, the vitality that he didn’t know he needed until she came into his life. Whenever he thought about her, he couldn’t help but go back to the time they first met.

He had spent so much of his life alone fending for himself, he never understood the warmth that humanity had to offer, he experienced too much of the cold reality of so