We decided not to cross the line.

Episode 100. Mediation

I left home and felt at a loss as to where to go.

And since this wasn’t Korea, I didn’t really have any friends to meet,

and I couldn’t think of anywhere to spend my time.




As I started walking, thinking I’d just quietly stroll around the neighborhood,

I ran into

Miguel, who was on his way home from work from across the street.




"Where are you going, Sophie? At this hour?"




"Ah... Are you getting off work, Miguel?

I...

I got into a fight with my boyfriend and came out,

but I don’t know where to go."




"You look like you need someone to talk to.

Want to grab a drink?"




"You want to be my drinking buddy, Miguel?"




"If you need one?"




"Thank you."




Miguel and I went into a nearby pub.


Miguel ordered a beer, and I ordered a glass of wine.

Miguel watched my face for a moment, then asked carefully,




"Can I ask what you fought about?"




"Well... my boyfriend found letters

I had exchanged with an ex-boyfriend in my book.

But in those letters,

there seemed to be talk of me

living at his place together.

In Korea, it’s still not really considered normal

for unmarried men and women to live together.

And,

my boyfriend seems especially sensitive about that part."





"If that kind of culture isn’t common...

then I think Sophie will have to understand that part.

From your boyfriend’s perspective, it’s something he could dislike."





"Is that so?
 
But as soon as I got home,

he started accusing me of lying out of nowhere,

and before I knew it, I got angry too.

I wasn’t lying,

I just thought there was no need to tell him something like that."




"So he found out about the part you didn’t want to talk about.

Your boyfriend...

was he angry because he thought you lied?"




"To me, it seems like both.

That I had lived

in the same space with another man,

and that I didn’t tell him about it...

No... talking about it now...

I think it was the former."





"I think so too...
 
that seems likely."





"But that was in the past already.

Besides, if you couldn’t get a place of your own,

I can understand it if it was only for a month.

No, maybe it isn’t even about the length of time.
 
Ha...

Even if you love someone, why is it so hard?"




 
"He may have found it hard to accept

the fact that you lived together in itself."




"But do you know what’s ironic?"




"What is it?"




"He came all this way here to live with me too.

He was the one who suggested living together first, and now he’s saying it’s not okay that I lived with another man."

"Haha... that really is something."




"Funny, isn’t it?"




I thought,




'So that’s what people mean when they say, if I do it, it’s romance; if someone else does it, it’s an affair...'

"So what are you going to do, Sophie?"

"I don’t know..."





"What’s already past can’t be undone,




and I’m sure your boyfriend knows that too.




If it’s an emotional issue,

wouldn’t it be better to ease the hurt feelings first?"

"Hmm... if it’s an emotional issue..."

'Right... Mr. Hoonji is the kind of person who’s honest about his feelings.





If I understand his heart first, he’ll probably open up quickly.'




 
Talking with Miguel

helped me understand Mr. Hoonji a little better, too,




and my anger calmed down.

"Talking with Miguel makes me feel at ease.

You’re so much younger than me, but you feel like an adult.





I wonder how great Miguel’s future girlfriend will be?"

"Then do you want to date me?"

"Huh? I already have a boyfriend..."




"Break up with him and date me instead."




"Ah... well...




my boyfriend now is kind of really cute and lovely."




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