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A Familiar StrangerAfter dinner, the couple wordlessly sat on the bed and played a movie on the TV. Kwang Soo settles beside her as he neatly peels an apple, placing them on a small plate. He studies her face, she had been too quiet. She's intently staring at the TV, but she didn't have that usual expressionless look on her face. Her mind was clearly somewhere else and it wasn't difficult to know what she was thinking. Placing the peeler down on the bedside table, he lays down beside her. "Love?" He says gently, pulling her closer towards him. "You okay?"
Slowly, she looks up, her eyes intently staring into his as she shakes her head no. Her lips were curved into a defeated frown. "I'm sorry." She exhales. Ji Hyo knew that her infertility was not something she could have prevented, it was not something she could fix. Her apology wasn't for her inability to have his children, but for keeping this from him for so long. If only she had said something earlier, then maybe he wouldn't have invested so much time in their relationship, maybe he would've found another woman who could give him a child, she thought.
"For what?" His eyebrows meeting on his forehead. "You didn't do anything wrong." He says, repeating the same words he had told her that night at the Han River Park.
Wrapping her arms around him, she buries her face in his chest. "Even when we weren't together yet, I would always hear you and Ha Ha oppa. You always said that you'd love to be a father someday." She explains, a tight feeling emerging from . Loosening her hold on him, she looks away. "I'll understand if you don't want to be with me anymore."
"Why would I do that?" He frowns, mirroring the expression on her face. Pulling up the blanket over them, he kisses her hair, his arms enveloping her in a comforting embrace. She was right. He has always talked about being a parent someday, but even after being friends for years, she had still missed the most important piece of the puzzle. Lee Kwang Soo would have never thought of becoming a husband and a father. Not until the day he met her. "That would never happen." He promises.
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