Chapter 55. Progress (3)

"When we were teenagers, he almost died after cutting his wrists. His mother hospitalized him, and we spent a long time without seeing each other. When he came back, he seemed like a different person, smiling more, being happy, but then I had to come to Seoul and our contact remained only through phone... I would rarely see him when I came here to visit my family. And it was like the last time, but everything went off the rails when he kissed me, saying he needed me and couldn't lose me, but I had just told him that I was about to get married..."

"Do you think he stopped hurting himself like he used to?"

"We're adults now... I believe so."

"And don't adults hurt themselves like that?" he looked into my eyes. I shrunk back a bit, feeling intimidated. "Adults are the ones who hurt themselves the most, son, often without even realizing it. But you can fix all this, I know you can. You can have your friend and