Yang Jeongin

First of September

When you're friends and your friend gets taken out of town for three months, it sucks.

Jonin is your best and only friend. You go to the same school and are in the same class. You became friends back in first grade.

While you were always the quiet one, everyone was chasing after Jonin. Girls flocked to him, but you were the only one he had his attention on. So, without even realizing it, you started falling in love.

And so in the summer, Chonin was taken away to the village - and you didn’t see each other all summer.

September 1st. Knowledge Day. The day when the whole school gathers to begin the new school year. For some, it was the first, but for you, as an eleventh-grader, it was the last.

You stand at the place where you agreed to meet with Jonin, but he is nowhere to be seen.

And suddenly you feel someone standing almost right behind you. You slowly turn around—and see them.

Jonin... He's become even more handsome. He's stretched, matured, toned. But he still has the same smile—and he's holding two bouquets. He's already handing one of them to you.

• Hello, little one.