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Sunlight twines around the two lone figures on the road, enveloping them in a fragile rubato, Chopin's nocturnes translated to real life. Their hands are pressed together tightly, ink lifted off paper in a perfect fairytale romance.
Gregory wishes a car would hit them both.
He doesn't mean to spy, really, but he can't help it. Something burns in his heart, hot and hard and unwilling, refusing to let him go until---he doesn't know. He can't say. But something about the Girlfriend and Kang Jeong-Soon together pulls his strings the wrong way, splaying black across his scarlet vision until he's struck blind with inaudible emotion.
So Gregory hangs in the shadows, playing with the darkness of alleys he used to love. While he'd never settled in this particular alley, he once used to kiss Colin in little nooks like this, feeling the heated clash of lips and tongues and teeth. When he closes his eyes, he can almost sense the phantom touch of Colin's roaming hands fluttering over his clothed skin, and something sour blossoms in his heart.
Gregory hangs on to the acrid heft of his soul, letting it fester as he tries to connect Jeong-Soon with Colin, if only to squash his own lingering feelings. But it doesn't matter, because he feels nothing but the pinch of envy as Jeong-Soon and his girlfriend cross the street, gazing at each other like they're each other's universe.
The Girlfriend is pretty. Gregory can't bring himself to admit it, but she is. Not particularly remarkable, but pretty. Far more attractive than Gregory himself, and no doubt sweeter. She seems obviously devoted to Jeong-Soon, judging by the way she smiles up at him as if he's the sun and all the stars. Gregory recognises that look. Two years ago, he'd held the same rapture in his eyes, heart bleeding as he'd ripped it out of his chest and placed it in Jeong-Soon's hands.
Gregory shakes the thoughts away. He's moved on. You should too. And he should, really---should forget about Jeong-Soon and concentrate on surviving Bailey.
After all, it's astronomy, and they're two worlds apart.
But he can't, because he's already given his heart away, and he doesn't know how to get it back.
