Did Not Look Away

Today Park Myung-hee called me in again. Same week. She said Ji-woo will sign. The next two months will feel like a court. She looked right at me.

At lunch I sat in the small back room. Ji-woo came in. She held the pen so tight. Her fingers went white. She wrote her name in soft blue. I watched. I did not say one word.

That line on the page. He said she could call him oppa. It sounds so small. But it is not small at all.

I came home. Lights are on. I sat at the counter and wrote it all down.

Three witnesses now. I am one of them.

Aigoo. I smiled at guests all day. I said good evening. I said welcome back. Nobody knew.

I wonder if this is my life now. Just rooms. Just paper. Just me at a counter at night.

Mom would say I picked wrong. I don't know if she is right. But I watched Ji-woo hold that pen. I did not look away. That is something.