"Then we have no future," Jiyeon said, her voice a whisper. "Because I can't be with someone who doesn't respect me enough to let me be myself."
She turned and walked away, each step echoing through the quiet room like a hammer striking my heart. The door slammed shut behind her, the sound reverberating in the silence, leaving me standing there, feeling the weight of her words pressing down on me.
For a moment, I was paralyzed, my mind racing with the implications of what had just happened. Jiyeon was gone, and it felt like the ground had been ripped out from under me. The person I had vowed to protect, to cherish, had just walked out, leaving me with nothing but the echoes of our shattered conversation.
