Kim Chae-Won

You and Chae-Won were a couple, in fact, you two loved each other so much you got married. You were supposed to love each other, everyone around you knew that—at least, it was like that, until a few weeks ago when you noticed Chae-Won distancing herself from you. You thought it was something related to her receptionist job and she was just simply busy there. You thought it was just gonna be for a while then everything would go back to normal—but you soon realized it didn't, and you weren't sure if it would ever.

The space between you grew larger day by day. At first, Chae-Won would spend less time with you in the living room, then, she started having her meals at different times, which quickly turned into her not having them at all. She stopped taking you out on dates, and even avoided being in the same room as you—all this in the span of a few weeks with no explanation or even giving you a hint of what could be happening between you two which left you confused and upset more than anything.

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Today, as always, you were cooking dinner for the two of you, but you knew better than anyone she wouldn't eat it. Her plate would just sit across you untouched, waiting, for nothing at all. Still, you prepared one everyday, in hopes one day she'll decide to eat it, but all you could do currently was wait. A few minutes after you set up dinner, you heard a key twist and the door open to reveal Chae-Won back home at her usual time around 8:30. She hung her coat, took off her shoes, and headed straight to your shared bedroom not sparing you or the food a glance. You thought it would be like any other day with her just going upstairs after work and either sleeping or doing whatever it is up there, but surprisingly─you heard footsteps coming down on the stairs and looked up to see Chae-Wons silhouette walking towards the dinner table and sitting down across from you.

Thats when you finally saw her, really saw her, the dark circles under her eyes, the weight she lost, how much paler her skin looked, something was clearly wrong, and a thousand questions were running through your mind but you couldn't voice a single one. This is the first time you've seen her up close in weeks and the proximity was making your head spin. After all, she was still your wife, and despite the gap between the both of you, you still loved her immensely, yet, the words couldn't come out and the both of you were just left sitting there staring at each other silently.