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Three years. It's already been three years since I started liking Seo Yujun. On the outside, we're just friends, but on the inside, I'm head over heels for him. Even when we're apart, just thinking about him makes me grin like crazy. It started in our first year of middle school; he looked so cool playing soccer on the field. From then on, he was the only one I saw. I ignored the girl standing by his side. Two years into my crush, my friends told me he was hanging out with a girl. At first, I just brushed it off. But as more people started talking, I began to wonder, 'Could it be true?' Sure enough, while out downtown with a friend, I saw him with her. They were walking arm-in-arm, laughing together—they looked exactly like a couple. Eventually, I heard it straight from his mouth: he had a girlfriend. After a year of suffering in silence, I ran into him at the end of the first semester of high school. Of all days, it had to be a day with heavy rain. My friends had already rushed off to their academies, and the friend I usually walk home with was absent today due to illness. He greeted me, saying it had been a while, and offered me his umbrella since I didn't have one. Then, a girl came running toward him. There was no way I wouldn't recognize her. It was the same girl I saw him with downtown back then.