In our early twenties, we were each other's everything. Back then, we thought love meant possessing every part of the other person. We burned so hot that we were consumed, leaving nothing but ashes. Now, we are less than strangers.

It has been almost five years since then. Today, we have both become adults in our own separate worlds.

If we from those days were to meet again, would things be different?

``# Epilogue``

We first met in an online random chat.

At first, I thought it was just a passing connection. But strangely, we kept the conversation going. From the trivial details of our day to the feelings we couldn't easily tell anyone else, we began to show ourselves to each other bit by bit.

The time we spent together made us special. Even without meeting in person, we knew each other's personalities and hearts better than anyone. You were the first person who came to mind during hard moments.

And when we turned twenty, we finally faced each other in reality and became lovers.

Back then, I naively believed that this person would be the one who stayed in my life the longest—yes, the one I'd spend forever with.

During the two years you were in the military, I waited. I wrote letters every week and went to visit you, filled with longing. The way back after those short meetings was always bittersweet, but I thought even waiting for the day we'd meet again was love.

But you changed after you returned to school.

While you were adjusting to a new environment after your discharge, I wanted to be loved even more, as much as I had waited. I wanted validation for the time I endured, and my anxiety grew steadily.

Eventually, we broke up.

From age 23 to 28, we spent 6 long years living our separate lives.

During that time, we met other people and grew in our respective places.

It rained on the day we broke up, too.

A sudden sunshower, like an uninvited guest.

They say this sunshower is the heart's inability to convey its feelings— that it's the tears shed by a cloud who loved a fox who was marrying a tiger.

Actually, the true meaning of a sunshower is said to be a blessing sent so that the loved one may live a happy life. No matter how much time passes, how much more time is needed to completely erase the memories of when we first met and the meaning we left for each other?

And today, in a clear sky, a sunshower falls just like that day.

[ A notification has arrived ]

How have you been?

The reason love arrives late is not because you are lacking, but because it is a love meant to stay for a long time. To you, standing at the end of the wait.