Goodbye and Goodbye

“Ha Jae-hee, I’m going to be crashing here for a while.” My longtime friend, Kang-woo, declared that he would be staying by my side. Was it because he worried about me, left alone once again after the sudden death of Hyuk—his childhood best friend and my longtime lover? “I never had the chance to tell you, but I like men, too.” As I spent time with Kang-woo, I began to discover things about him I had never known. And very slowly, he began to seep into my heart. “It’s not your fault. Just let it all be my fault.” As Kang-woo’s touch tended to the scars piled deep within me, I wondered if the affection bleeding through his blunt way of speaking was merely my imagination. “I don’t care ...