Jae-i struggled with her suitcase walking up the hilly alley. Korea always has those hills, she grunted when it pulled her back,"why won't you move?" The suitcase started at her in return, she has decorated it with all sorts of stickers and doddles,one would think it didn't belong to a woman in her mid twenties, she dragged it all the more, the scorching sun in the middle of summer wasn't helping any cause, she was already breathing heavily,beads of sweat licked all her sides, making her uncomfortable, that's when it started the summer shower,"Sonaki", she heard a couple whisper, as if one cue most people brought out their umbrellas but she wasn't with one, she saw the unmistakable figure at the end of the alley, he may have looked different and grown up with his well tailored suit and sharp looks but he was still the boy she saw when she walked into the living that day, his laughter lower than the others and his gaze landing on her.
"Woo-jin", she said his name like a prayer she didn't want to escape her lips, just the same way she said it when he kissed her on her nineteenth birthday in front of the others and the same way she said it as she soaked her pillow with tears the night she learnt he left, and now he was standing in front of her.
The moment their eyes locked, the alley disappeared between them, their lives since the day they first met came to them like a montage; stolen glances, unmistaken brushed hands and the need to overlook their age gap because she was his friend's sister and he was her brother's best friend, both caught in the middle of things they didn't try so hard to avoid.