Couple Nicknames, Huh?

“…It’s been a while.”

“It sure has.”

As I stood in front of the carousel at the entrance to the amusement park we’d visited when we were in daycare, I was overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling. Seojin and I had grown up, but the amusement park was just as I remembered it. I stared blankly at the carousel in front of us.

…I used to have so much fun riding that.

I was still young enough to be called a kid, but back then I really had been tiny. I remembered having a blast on the carousel.

I hadn’t expected much when I got on, but the way it went up and down was so much fun that I wanted another ride. Unfortunately, the teacher suggested we go somewhere else, so I never got to ride it again. I’d been disappointed.

“……”

Back when I was little, did I ever think I’d grow close enough to Han Seojin to come back to this amusement park with him?

…Well, even though he was my only friend back then, I didn’t want to imagine getting close enough to Seojin for that, so probably not.

Even if we did become close, I thought we’d only ever be school friends. Besides, I knew which high school Han Seojin was going to, so I figured I could just go somewhere else...