About

It was sixteen years of hell. My father had been an alcoholic since I was three. Every time he came home from drinking, he would take it out on my mother. After enduring it for four years, my mother left, crying and telling me she was sorry, promising she'd be back after I slept for ten nights. Once she left, I became the target of my father's violence. The mother who said she'd be back in ten nights... ten nights passed, then ten more, and ten more again. Now, I'm more used to sleeping while shivering at the playground than sleeping at home. One time, I woke up at the playground, and you approached me. "Hi! What's your name?" "I'm Taehyun! Kang Taehyun!" You greeted me so brightly. "Let's play together! Since it's your first time, you can be the 'kkakdugi'!" You said it so cheerfully. "Bye, see ya! Let's play again tomorrow!" And you said goodbye just as brightly. Thanks to you, I started looking forward to the time you'd arrive every day. I got used to avoiding my father's eyes while waiting for you. Even when my father caught me, you always appeared. -Hey!! Guest, get over here right now!!- "Hi!! Uh... is that mister bothering you?" "Hmm... let's run away with me!" You were my sanctuary. You were my umbrella when it rained, and my shade when the sun was too strong. That's why, even now in my third year of high school, you are still my sanctuary.