Chapter 42

POV: Jaewon

The question makes my eyes widen. I deny, seeing how the confusion on my mother’s face is even greater.

“I think I’m bisexual.”

“What’s that?”

“I’m attracted to women, and… to men.”

“That’s so…”

“Confusing, I know. But I want you to listen to me.” I ask. “Harin is a trans man, do you know what that means?”

She denies, completely lost.

“What does that mean?”

“That he is a man, he was born as a man, but in a body designated as a woman’s due to having… similarities to one.”

“How so?”

“I still can’t completely explain how it is, it’s as new to you as it is to me, I felt like a layman when I realized that I had never even heard of people like him, and there are so many, Mom… but as Harin explained to me, he is a man and was born as such. His body is a trans body.”

“But what does that mean, creature?”

“He, um… transitioned, he uses male pronouns, he… Harin is a man.”

“Okay, I think I got