잘 자 (Good Night)

“She isn’t coming back.” The girl uttered over and over, her tears falling on the snow coated pavement as she let the snow fall all around her, her tears falling as she stared at the night sky that was full of stars, a sight that she would have praised any other day but not this night.

Seo Soojin was gone, and she had taken her heart with her.

“There’s no use crying here,” she would have said, but Shuhua was too drunk on tears and alcohol to even bother, as she found herself only crying, for the third night in a row.

Yeh Shuhua had wanted it to end, but it wouldn’t let her.