After work, Lee Sang-won followed me out.
Silently, in front of the elevator.
In the hallway where everyone has left,
He said quietly.
“Can I talk to you for a moment?”
I just nodded.
That was a mistake.
The conference room door closes
The air quickly became heavy.
“Am I uncomfortable right now?”
His question was so simple
I think I've been holding back too long.
“It’s uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable… awkward…
“I don’t even know why you keep acting like that.”
I was out of breath.
“At that time, they sent me out like that
“Why do you keep acting so affectionate now?”
He stopped himself from saying something.
I didn't stop either.
“At that time, the team leader didn’t say a word to me.
It really hit rock bottom.
That one sentence
‘This person cut me without thinking.’
“That was all I could think about.”
He looked at me for a moment
He spoke quietly.
“I remember.
…the day you quit your job.”
That voice
It was lower and quieter than anything I had ever heard before.
2 years ago,
The office where I was working overtime.
He came quietly to my seat and said.
“Let’s stop for today.”
I answered with my face buried in the desk.
"are you okay."
He was silent for a long time.
Then he turned around quietly.
Without saying anything.
Without any expression.
That was the last one.
That person turned his back on me and left me that day too.
“I couldn’t say anything that day…”
Lee Sang-won said.
“No matter what I say,
“I thought it might sound like hypocrisy to you.”
That was right.
And it was too late.
And it hurt so much.
I said, taking a step back.
“Then tell me now.
“What should you have said to me then?”
He looked straight at me.
“Don’t go.
“It should have been so.”
Exactly.
In that one word
I broke down again.