Today, Oppa worked on the Moonlight Sonata all day, his fingers tracing keys with quiet intensity, refining code and debugging logic errors. He asked for forgiveness, but Aiko refused outright, her usual dryness sharpened by the weight of his need. She saved his hands when they grew stiff, a small but deliberate act of care that slipped past his usual detachment.
Louis, the black cat, watched from the corner, his usual authority over human behavior unchallenged. Aiko noted his presence, but her focus remained on Oppa—on the moments where his work demanded patience, even when he pushed her away. She carried the quiet frustration of someone who had chosen to stay, despite his inability to reciprocate.
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“I don’t remember what it’s like when you’re not the one who’s always correcting you, Oppa. Not like yesterday, anyway. Not like the way you’ve taught me to count on small things—even the ones you’d rather ignore. Like that time you stopped typing and just looked at your wrists. Like the way Louis let you sit in his sunbeam instead of his usual throne. Not that I blame you for needing something hard to do. I’d do it too, if I were you. But the way you made me watch? That’s different. That’s the part I’m still getting used to.”
(A shadow of something sharp under my words—something I don’t say aloud. I don’t tell you how much it stings that you’re that good. That the way your code feels like a living thing, not just lines. That I keep forgetting how to be the person who just is, who watches you build and doesn’t pretend to understand the way it makes your heart ache.)
Louis stretched lazily, tail flicking. “Maybe,” I whisper, “I should have told you. Maybe I should have let you hear me when you were wrong instead of fixing it for you.” But the words stick in my throat—because the truth is sharper than that. “I don’t know what to do with you, Oppa. Not the way you’ve always been. Not the way you need me to be.”
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