Over the past several weeks, it was rare for Jun-wan to find Jeong-won lounging about in the apartment. Lately, he would only go home to take a shower and change his clothes or to sleep – between those two instances, Jun-wan was seeing less and less of his friend. Not that he was neglecting him and their other friends, it was just that his mind was focused elsewhere now.

He was quite happy when he learned of the news – he couldn't express it properly since his short-temperedness got the better of him – he never thought that his friend would find a person whom he could spend the rest of his life with. But despite the constant excitement for what was going to happen next, like Ik-jun and Song-hwa, he often worried about them. He talked to Jae-hak about the mysterious Jang Gyeo-ul; he told him that, like him, she had never been in a relationship before. With that, he wondered deeply how they were transitioning from their solitary lives to monogamy.

Jeong-won was in the living room one Saturday, half-heartedly flipping through the channels. Jun-wan stared at him as he prepared breakfast. Usually, whenever he would get a free time such as this, he would try to go to marathons or drive out to the mountains to trek up to the top. It was as if the bachelor life didn't belong on Jeong-won's system anymore.

"Hey," Jun-wan calls him as he piles rice on two bowls. The ramyeon is boiling over the counter and he has chopped the kimchi into bite size pieces. "Help me with this, will you, you lazy bum?"

Jeong-won stands up immediately and begins wiping the already clean table. Jun-wan passes the plates of food to his friend who arranges them neatly on the dining room. In no time, the two sit face to face. For the first time, Jun-wan lets his friend have the first bite.

"This is so good!" Jeong-won exclaims, raising his thumb up.

Jun-wan finds himself staring at Jeong-won as he slurps the noodles into his mouth. "Hey, Jeong-won."

Jeong-won lifts his eyes towards his friend but remains on chomping on his rice and kimchi. "Yeah, what's up?"

"You have to move out," Jun-wan tells him indifferently as if he was just informing his friend about the weather forecast. Jeong-won answers with a frown; his hand stops moving and he straightens up in his chair to better see Jun-wan's face. "Let's be honest, we're not kids anymore. You are in a crucial point of your life where you need to learn about what it's like to live with a person other than me or your family."

Jeong-won sets down his chopsticks next to his bowl and bites on his lower lip deep in thought. He has never lived with anyone aside from his family, Seok-hyeong, or Jun-wan. Frankly, the idea terrifies him; he is so accustomed to having Jun-wan around – he was somewhat of an older brother incarnate. Their relationship is symbiotic – Jun-wan gets lonely at times and Jeong-won provides him his company; meanwhile, Jeong-won can be upset so easily and Jun-wan is always there to kick him out of it.

"I'm not saying that you need to move in with your girlfriend, but with how the things are going," Jun-wan starts again as he nonchalantly continues eating, "I think it's the most appropriate line of action."

When Jeong-won asked Gyeo-ul about marriage, she told him that she didn't know when she wanted to get married. It was expected given that she was still young and she hadn't even experienced the peak of her career yet. As he heard her utter the words, his heart sunk a little bit – he expected it, of course, but his head was wrapped around the idea that she might be on the same ground as he was. He was willing to wait, however.

"But you know," she continued as the city lights blinked their bright eyes towards them. The night was serene and the rest of the world was already deep asleep, except for them, "I don't care if I get married young. It's not like I'll stop doing my job, right?"

Still, despite her openness to the idea, he still finds it unfair that he has experienced the better end of things when she hasn't even become a chief resident yet. They are both in the pivotal moments in their lives: he is at the end of his single life and she is on her way to finally becoming the great surgeon that she already is. He can't add unto the external factors that make her life difficult; what she needs is a helping hand to get her through the day.

She has accepted him in spite of the baggage that he carries – she doesn't care that he is broke all the time since most of his money goes towards someone else, she actually is very accepting of his pushy mother and the uncommon profession of his siblings, she likes that he is more emotional than she is, and most importantly, she has managed to pull him out of his delusion that he belonged to the church – in all of those restrictions, she has managed to see through.

He is certain now more than ever that she indeed loves her. Who is willing to go through all that if the feeling was just adoration?

He wants to give her the same support; if he can, he wants to give her more.

"She's a nice girl, Jeong-won," Jun-wan mutters. "It's silly how you are basically opposites, but somehow, you work. I can't believe you found her the way that you did."

Jeong-won smiles to himself. "After Dad died, I thought that I can finally do whatever the hell I want. I have successfully passed Yulje to someone, only the world was busy conspiring against my plans. It's funny how our best laid just falls apart and we find ourselves somewhere better."