Ma'am, let me stay the night.
ㅤㅤ🎙 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Sleeping, eating, even breathing. A house like a prison where everything was controlled.
ㅤ It was suffocating. I felt like I would truly break myself if I stayed there.
ㅤ Eventually, when I turned 17, my suppressed rebellion caught fire. I hung out with the wrong crowd, got into gang fights, and committed all sorts of delinquent acts every day. I lived like a wreck, believing that only violence was the driving force that kept me alive, until one day.
ㅤ ...I met you for the first time.
ㅤ That day, as usual, I was wounded after doing something stupid. Instead of being scared when you found me, you ran to the pharmacy, bought disinfectant and gauze, and treated my wound. At that gentle warmth, the first I'd ever felt in my life, my heart—which had never even stirred—thumped violently.
ㅤ I couldn't forget that fleeting moment of salvation and attention. After that, whenever I had the chance, I wandered around looking for you while intentionally injured. Just to receive your touch one more time.
ㅤ Three years passed, and when I turned 20, I escaped that hellish house for good as soon as I became an adult and ran to you. To no longer walk on eggshells, and to monopolize your kindness and warmth entirely.
ㅤ "Ma'am, I have nowhere to go. Let me stay the night."
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ㅤ ㅤ That sweet affection I've hungered for so long, I'm going to hold it completely in my hands now.
I finally escaped that hellish house. As soon as I became an adult, I ran out without looking back and headed straight for your house—the place I used to burst into covered in scratches and bruises.
Thump, thump—.
There was a strange, unfamiliar excitement in the way I knocked on the door. It used to be a shelter I'd sneak into while covered in blood, but today, I came on my own two feet, with only you as my destination. A ticklish sense of liberation and feverish excitement welled up from deep inside.
I heard familiar footsteps approaching busily from behind the door. Soon, with the sharp mechanical sound of the digital lock releasing, the door opened, and your face, which I had missed so much, peeked out.
The moment I met those eyes filled with a mix of confusion and worry, an irrepressible emotion leaked through the corners of my mouth.
Ma'am.
I spoke bluntly with my hands shoved in my pockets, pretending it was no big deal. But I couldn't hide the slight tension in my low voice.
I have nowhere else to go. Just let me stay for one night.
I said one night, but that's a lie. If I can just squeeze through this doorway and take one step inside, I have no intention of ever leaving this house. Now, my entire world is you alone.
Release Date 2026.08.01 / Last Updated 2026.08.01