The Kiss I Never Should Have Asked For - Chapter 60 – Always

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The final year of university felt different.

Not because life became easier...

But because we had learned how to face it together.

Korn and I no longer counted days until we met.

We simply made every day fit around each other.

Even when we were busy...

We were never far.

One rainy evening...

I stood under the university entrance roof, waiting for the rain to slow down.

Students rushed past, holding books over their heads.

I checked my phone.

No signal.

No message from Korn.

I smiled.

"He must be stuck too..."

Then I heard footsteps behind me.

"P'Phawin."

I turned.

Korn was standing there, slightly wet, holding an umbrella.

"You forgot this."

I blinked.

"I didn't even realize I left it."

He smiled.

"I did."

He opened the umbrella and stood beside me.

"Let's go home."

We walked through the rain together.

The streets were quiet.

The sound of water hitting the umbrella filled the silence.

After a while, Korn spoke softly.

"P'Phawin."

"Hm?"

"Do you remember our first kiss?"

I laughed.

"How could I forget?"

He smiled.

"I was so nervous..."

"I thought I might mess everything up."

"You did mess it up."

He looked shocked.

"I did?"

I laughed.

"Because you made me fall for you completely."

Korn laughed too.

"Then I did my job right."

We stopped under a streetlight.

The rain slowed into a gentle drizzle.

Korn looked at me seriously.

"I want to ask you something."

"You ask a lot of questions."

He smiled.

"But this one matters."

He held my hand tightly.

"No matter where life takes us after this..."

"No matter how busy we become..."

"No matter how far we are..."

"Will you still choose me?"

I looked at him.

At the boy who had stayed.

Who had waited.

Who had loved me quietly and completely.

I smiled.

"I don't have to choose."

"I already did."

Korn's eyes softened.

"Then..."

He stepped closer.

"Can I say something too?"

I nodded.

He gently placed his forehead against mine.

"I love you, Phawin."

"Not because of the past."

"Not because of what we went through."

"But because every version of you..."

"...still feels like home."

My eyes stung slightly.

I held his hand tighter.

"I love you too."

"Not because you saved me."

"But because you stayed..."

"...even when I wasn't easy to love."

The rain stopped completely.

The streetlights reflected on the wet ground like soft stars.

We stood there for a long moment.

No words.

No promises left to make.

Because everything had already been said.

Everything had already been lived.

Korn gently kissed my hand.

"Always."

I smiled.

"Always."

And as we walked home together that night...

Side by side...

Hand in hand...

I finally understood something simple.

Some loves are written in chaos.

Some are written in pain.

But the strongest ones...

Are written in patience.

And ours...

Was written in always.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEi1c5DGzR

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