Meeting You Again in High School

Eunseo kept seeing three versions of the same morning, and only one of them ended with her daughter smiling at school. She was raising a child alone while working near a rich family’s school, and every choice felt like it had a hidden price. Then Yujin returned after a long absence, and Eunseo’s hands shook when she touched her face in the unused practice room. The kiss at the corner of her mouth was so small it almost hurt. Before that, she had been forced into the science lab finals with the doors barred, then into a public dance at the convention hall where they had to speak each other’s names in private for the first time. Eunseo had already learned the worst part of her gift. She could ...