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“Ahjumma! Three more orders of jjampong!”“Ahjumma! Can we get more water?”“Ahjumma! ...”Kyungsoo took me to a near-by noodle house where we happened to get seated directly beside a table of 9.Filtering out the noise, I simply stared at the bowl of hot steaming samgyetang on the table in front of me. “Mianhe Kyungsoo-ah…” I suddenly spoke up and apologized. He looked up at me just as he was about to stuff his mouth with jajangmyeon.“Aniya, what are you talking about?” He puts down his chopsticks, “I told you that if you ever needed anything, come find me. And today, if I hadn’t found you, you probably would’ve let yourself starve right?”It’s amazing how well this person knows me. We’re childhood friends; we lived a couple houses apart in the same neighbourhood and have been in the same class since kindergarten.He was there for every catastrophic event in my life; from omma running away with another man, appa starting another marriage with a woman carrying a daughter that’s a year younger than me,  appa’s sudden death and finally, to my tragedy.Not one person on this planet believed that I was innocent, only Kyungsoo did.While everyone focused on the evidences found, Kyungsoo simply took my word for it.I didn’t do it, I was framed.But don’t be mistaken about the relationship between Kyungsoo and I, we’re not like that. And it’s definitely not like the scenarios you’d read in stories; we won’t eventually fall in love and live happily ever after.Everything that he has done for me is out of pure friendship and nothing more.Has it ever crossed my mind that Kyungsoo and I could take it a step further? Perhaps. But what right do I have to be thinking about these things now? I can’t even buy myself a proper meal.Plus, he’s someone with an education, a steady income and most importantly, a clean background. Me? Comparing would simply make people laugh.“Eat up” he told me as he picked up his chopsticks again. I then did what he said with a grateful smile. By the time we were finished, it was already a little past three. We came out of the restaurant and landed back onto the busy streets.“I have to get back to the hospital. Are you going to continue job hunting? You’ve been at it since this morning; you should really call it a day” he worried.If you hadn’t guessed it already, Kyungsoo is currently a medical student in residency. It’s hard to think that once upon a time we both made a promise that we would become