Both Myungsoo and Sungyeol were in a café house. Practically not doing anything but only exchanged looks with each other.

“So, Sungyeol-sshi, you said you have something to tell me. May I know what is it? You’re killing my precious time.” Sungyeol cleared his throat. “I love Sungjongie.” Myungsoo scoffed. “Excuse me?”

“I was in love with him and I'm still in love with him.”

“Sungyeol-sshi, he’s my wife, what makes you so confident to say that?”

“As his husband, do you love him?”

“Of course, I am! Most probably more than you did!” Sungyeol smirked. “Maybe we love the same person but I know Sungjongie more than you.”

“You.. you were his best friend, weren't you?”

“Yes. I was his trusted best friend, his reliable hyung, his protector, his babysitter, his mentor. I was his everything till I left him, alone. Even though, at the moment, I knew very well what he had been through, what he had to cope with, I left Sungjongie after hearing one rejection from him. I thought when I ran away from him, my heart would have healed immediately. But ironically that broken heart brought me back to him.”

Myungsoo listened to Sungyeol’s word very carefully with intense look.

“Sungjong was single back then but when I met him again, he has married, to you. I was late. I hate my old self and I hate myself now. What makes me feel bad is Sungjong is still the same; still crying. I should have stayed beside him forever when I know I was the only one that could make him happy. I'm so stupid."

“But I can tell that Sungjong is tougher now compared to before. I'm glad he was brave enough to take a step ahead and changed, opened himself to others. He once had a serious problem. He was so afraid of people. He disliked being in public. He was anti social back then. He got no friend but me. That was the time I came into his life. It was difficult to convince him at first, that I wasn’t the same as others. It shocked me to be honest how you could walk in Sungjong’s life without having the same experience as I was. He must liked you so much.”

Myungsoo remembered the first time he tried to talk to Sungjong. He can tell that Sungjong was so scared and he even distanced himself. Yeah, the act was completely normal if you meet a stranger, but Sungjong was a bit exaggerated. But that time, Myungsoo wasn’t suspect a thing.

Sungyeol sip his coffee a bit before said, “Sungjongie is at my place.”

“For real?” Myungsoo almost cried. He was too happy and grateful by hearing about the person he missed the most. Sungyeol nodded. “May- may I meet him?”

“I don’t know if I can do so, Myungsoo-sshi.”

“Bu-but why? Why I can’t see him?”

“I cannot hate myself even more than this. If I gave Sungjong back to you but he is still crying, I could just take my own life. I don’t want to regret anything any again this time, Myungsoo-sshi. Sungjong’s tears such a poison to me. Do you know how terrible it feels when I heard his sobbing? When I saw those tears and have to wipe them away from him?”

“I know I have made a mistake,” Myungsoo let out a heavy sigh. “That was not your only mistake, Myungsoo-sshi! The other mistake you did is you didn’t have any idea about Sungjong’s life before he met you! What he had been through! And you repeated the same thing on him! Do you think a simple shout, scream and yell could make him ran away from you?”

“Wha-what have I done?” Myungsoo lost. Truthfully he didn’t understand what the guy in front of him was talking about. Somehow, Myungsoo saw some flashbacks during the night he was dead drunk. He remembered Sungjong was helping him to walk to his room. He was taken aback by that. Something must have happened at that night. There was more, I know.

Sungyeol sighed. He tried so hard to keep calm. “For the whole week, Sungjong and I have talked- a lot- pretty much everything; the past, the present and some future. We even had a fought, about you. I asked him to leave you, for real and forever and be with me. He amused me with his love for you. That moment, I believed that he really loves you, he loves you so much, and there's no place in his heart for me. But I’ll continue to protect him, always and all ways.”

“You said I repeated the same mistake on Sungjong. Wha-what was that? By who?”

“You were mad at Sungjong because you got to know that he was pregnant but you were not the father, am I right?”

“Are you saying that you know who the father is?”

“Sungjong will hate me because telling you too much but I’m doing this because I love him so much and you as his husband, has the full right to know everything and what had happened. There’s no more room for secrets that could turn and mistaken as lies. That would hurt him more than he already had.”

“Say it, I’m listening.”

After meeting with Sungyeol, Myungsoo couldn’t even focus in everything he did for that day. He kept spacing around, lost in his thought.

“I have told you everything. Not one left, unless there's something I don’t know. You know where my house is, you know where to find Sungjong. W