Finally, given an opportunity to say something, In-Ha felt tongue-tied. No words went through his mind as he gazed at her.
Right this moment, where she was before his eyes — patiently waiting for whatever lame excuse or silly lines of apology he could come up with— he felt ashamed because all he could see was the little girl who had always clung to him with utmost trust and treated him like an elder brother all her life.
Though she bickered with him like no one else ever could and wore him out with endless arguments, she was still that little girl with colorful braces and twin ponies always tied in pink ribbons.
She often had him wondering if he would ever be logical enough to win an argument with a girl nine years younger than him.
