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    Sieun couldn't help but wonder.

    He had never been anyone’s anything. He had been useful, intelligent, reliable — all words that fit into neat little compartments, transactional in their own way. A student, a teacher, a colleague. He knew how to exist within those roles, to wear them like well-pressed shirts and never let them wrinkle.

    But when Humin calls him like a parent, it felt different. It wasn't a formal title or a ranking or a designation. It was a bond. A tether. A place in someone’s life that he hadn’t consciously sought out, and yet the kid had handed it to him as if he had done something to earn it.

    Sieun wished he knew how to hold it.

     

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    the times Sieun unknowingly felt loved, and the one time he knowingly gave it back.

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