Gwan-sik sat quietly on the rocks beside the ever moving and flowing water that surrounded jeju island. The boy had his legs outstretched in front of him as he gazed out into the seemingly never ending abyss of water that flowed before him. He’d stuck out of his house earlier.. his halmeoni was nagging him again about ae-sun- about how she was nothing but a curse for the boy, and that she would only do wrong with a boy as precious as him.

Gwan-sik hated that. He hated it! God he hated it! Ae-sun.. he’d had a crush on her since they were both 5 and nothing had changed since then- even now, at 15. She was so fierce- he was so timid. Even though she’d said she’d never marry him no matter what- Gwan-sik knew, or well hoped, so was bluffing.