before park's first kiss, before his first time, his first crush, his first love, comes the first date. mostly, it is the aftermath of the abrupt separation of his parents and the unanswered questions that remained. matters of the heart and love and its source, its destination, as well as its relation to the unadorned violence of breaking; the venom of words; each year like a bad dream that clouds future romances; each month like an untreated wound.
but through it all, he strains against the bristles of the world, resolves to take life with the thorny threads it comes with. but if he must venture, he refuses to do it alone, drags nahyun with him. after all, if there is true love, then what he feels for nahyun is the closest thing he's come to know of it.
which is why they sit across from each other at an empty wendy's; unassuming affection sits between them with a side of fries, medium drinks; they even have matching frosty's waiting for them, melting under the pressures. resolved, park leans forward, thins his eyes and studies nahyun in search of love -- no matter how fragmented.
"so... are you, like, in love with me?"