If These Walls Could Talk To You
Written by Natalie Alicia Norment
©️ 2023 Natalie Alicia Norment
Once upon a time, during the Joseon Period of Korea, there was a man named Kim Hyun-Gi who fell in love with a woman named Lee Sun-Woo. They became a couple, of course, even to the point where they got engaged.
But the universe had a twisted way of deciding our love life, just as Hyun-Gi unintentionally fell in love with an African-American bigender woman named Emma James Franklin. She also fell for the Korean man, but she noticed he was with another woman who she found out later was his fiance.
Emma James' heart broke, but he kept his distance should she ever cross paths with Hyun-Gi ever again. Eventually, the moment they did, Hyun-Gi and Emma James developed a connection once they began talking to each other.
It was then that Hyun-Gi began making the first move on Emma James, kissing her at first. She slapped him at first, but her love for Hyun-Gi basically got the best of him, and Emma James gave into her heart's desire.
The two started having an affair, which was soon discovered by Hyun-Gi's fiance and family. Emma James was forced to reconcile with his mistake, deciding to move back to the States.
But Hyun-Gi refused to let her go back alone, because he knew what his heart and soul wanted. At first, it seemed impossible because Sun-Woo's best friend tried to attack him with a knife when she confronted him. He was rescued by his lover Emma James who had come to say goodbye to Hyun-Gi, only to have him injured in the process.
When the cops arrived, arresting Sun-Woo's best friend Han Eun-Kyung, both Hyun-Gi and Emma James were taken to a clinic nearby.
This is where the lovers had an important discussion about the future, especially when Hyun-Gi proclaimed his love for Emma James when she tried to convince him to go back to his fiance. Especially after the lovers discovered that Emma James was pregnant.
After taking a short time to think, Emma James decided to stay with Hyun-Gi, who breaks up his engagement with Sun-Woo who admits to convincing her best friend to kill him while she was too drunk. She also admits that she was never really in love with Hyun-Gi, because she wanted to date outside her ethnicity instead. But fear of disappointing her parents is what kept Sun-Woo from following her heart. He forgives her and leaves, after telling her to follow her heart.
Having tried to apologize to his family, only with his father being disappointed when Hyun-Gi confessed that he never really wanted to marry Sun-Woo in the first place, he gets kicked out of the family after he tells them that he and Emma James are having a baby together.
Hyun-Gi decides to move to Busan, Korea where he and Emma James can start a family together. He proposes marriage to his pregnant lover three months later and they get married in a matter of five months.
Once their twin daughters, Sunny and Orchid, is born, Hyun-Gi's family makes a surprising visit, with his father having a change of heart.
Hyun-Gi learns that his ex fiance began dating again, having found love with a Spanish man named Emilio Cortez. They now have a child together.
Hyun-Gi and Emma James make the important decision to move to San Francisco, California where Emma James's younger sister Gloria lives with her wife.
Twenty years later, Hyun-Gi and Emma James are celebrating their twin daughters' college graduation with their relatives. And it looks like Sunny has a boyfriend named Benjamin Michaels.
After their celebration, Hyun-Gi spends some time alone with Emma James, declaring his love for her as he did twenty years ago. His only regret is that he wished he had been honest about his feelings sooner before he decided to get involved with Sun-Woo. They make love.
Five years later, the couple return to Korea after both their parents have passed away. Hyun-Gi and his family are visiting his parents' grave. Sunny and Orchid are now with their spouses, with children of their own. He vows to teach his grandchildren how to follow their hearts, just like he did with his twin daughters.
Hyun-Gi has already started his own business between the States and his homeland, having promised to build a future where his children and their children can live in peace and harmony without any pressure from traditional values.
Another twenty years later, Hyun-Gi passed away after he lost his partner Emma James to cancer. His twin daughters, Sunny and Orchid, continue his legacy with their children, promising to join them in the afterlife when the time comes.
And so ended the life of Kim Hyun-Gi and his journey, with his legacy to build a foundation of love and support from his wife Emma James who passed away before her husband did.
