I know we’ve gone through this before, Changmin— that Saturday night after my closing shift, sitting at the all too familiar park just a few blocks from my place, staring up at the stars and not-so-slightly shivering from the bloody wind. (I had tears welling up my eyes but you probably didn’t see.)

To be honest, there are about a million reasons as to why we broke up, Shim Changmin. Some you might not even think of, frankly. It’s alright because I will go into details on how things went down and why they went down the way they did. The bottom line, however, still is that we happened, I fell in love, you fell out of love, we broke up, and I loved you— past tense because some feelings are better left in the past.

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