An Argument Through Time

"WHY? WHY? WHY CAN'T I DO THAT? I CAN'T WATCH YOU GET ABUSED BY THIS MAN YOU CALL YOUR HUSBAND!"

''I didn't ask you to. I am fine" she said calmly

"FINE! You call being yelled by your husband FINE! You call being controlled by a man FINE! 10 years ago you would never let this happen"

"10 years ago? Why does everybody keep bringing up what happened 10 years ago? Life moves on so why are you caring so much about a person in the past?"

"Why can't I care about you? You were the first girl I ever loved" He said choking on his words

"If you loved me, why didn't you come to Korea with me?" She asked desperately wanting his answer

"You expected me to drop everything in my life, my friends and family to go with you to Korea. A country where I don't know the language of. You really expected me to do that. Would you have done that if I asked you?"

"YES!" She said with anger in her eyes

"OH WOULD YOU, NOW?"

"YES, BECAUSE I LOVE YOU" She confessed leaving him shocked

"Loved" She corrected herself looking back out onto the river and continued talking

'We had the same argument we had 10 years ago' thought JinHai

"I would have followed you anywhere because I...loved you... it sounds like bullshit... but I thought we were gonna be the endgame. I thought we were gonna be that fantasy society created. I thought you loved and cared for me enough to let me follow what I wanted. Not choose between love or career. I shouldn't have to even choose" she admitted

"Even now, if you asked me to leave and go with you to... I don't know... Russia I would because I thought you loved me...''

"Well, you thought wrong. Didn't you?" he said cutting her off

"We are not gonna have the same argument 10 years later. I'm not having it. I made that decision because I knew it was for the best. I knew we weren't gonna last in Korea. You and I both know that we struggle in unknown territory. It would be better to cut it off before it happens''

"How would you have known?" she questioned with anger in her voice, looking back to him

"How? How would you have known if we never tried? How would you have known? HUH? Because right now we are in the unknown territory"

"Now, look at where we are. We are screaming at each other and you don't think that I'm right about this"

"No, if it wasn't meant to be why are we in so much pain every time we think of each other. Why do I feel like I'm back in school trying to talk to my crush? Why do I still love you even after all that pain?!"

They were silent looking out onto the river...

"...I have to go... and... buy a new phone..." She left, bowing politely and hurried to get into a taxi before he could see her cry

He slowly walked back to his car with a cigarette in his mouth thinking about the arguments they had and the bricking they had

When he arrived back to his car~ he let it all out

Crying. Letting out all the emotions he built up for the past 10 years when she left

When both of them were back home reeling in what happened back at the river

Thinking back to their argument, the argument that echoed the one 10 years prior