I’d always believed that one day she’d spread her wings and fly away.

I mindlessly stabbed at the sausage on my plate.

“Yah, why didn’t you wait for me?”

I looked up and briefly met Jinah’s twinkling eyes as she shamelessly invited herself to sit with me, too dumbfounded to say anything.

“Food tastes better if you eat it with someone!”

I scoffed as her fork had already found its way into my plate.

“College is pretty scary huh?”

“Kim Jinah, why don’t you join your friends?” I asked, pushing her fork out of my plate.

“In case you haven’t noticed,” she replied, face suddenly full of seriousness, “you’re my friend too.”

Truthfully, I was very happy. I was afraid that she would leave.

Jinah was always ahead of me; I could never reach her. It