Sincerely, Yours Only

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Somewhere near the border between the two Koreas, in a location classified as secret, cadet Kim Seok-jin was sitting on his pale green bunker bed, looking at pictures of his family, taking time to look at every single one of them carefully, to try to remember their faces when he'd be doing all of those physically and mentally challenging exercises that were so tiring to each and every single cadet. The black haired male had no idea where he was, since he was so far away from his little town, but he knew that he was in a green-coloured rectangular room, with bunk beds aligned neatly, one next to the other, in two rows, one facing the other from the other side of the room. The whole room was the bedroom of roughly fifty other cadets, some of which the broad-shouldered male had become great friends with, despite the fact that they weren't supposed to make friends in the military, and instead focus more on their training.  Cadet Kim Seok-jin knew this place very well, almost as well as his parent's house, back in Gwacheon. The number of times he had came into this room to sleep, chat or just socialize with other cadets was almost uncountable. For more than six hundred days, the always joking male had done every single training possible, from gun range practice to push-ups to the exhausting twenty-five kilometres run they all had to do in under three hours and a half while carrying a backpack weighing more than thirty pounds.

Missing his family very badly, the tall male had hidden pictures of his family and of his friends in his pillow, knowing he could get punished for doing so, as cadets were supposed to have very little to no interaction with the outside world so that they could learn to "toughen up". He brushed his finger over his younger brother's face who was smiling at him, wearing a nice red t-shirt and a pair of simple jeans, waving also at the camera. His sibling had written some simple and touching always needed encouragement words to him on his picture, but now, due to him always folding it over and over again and always keeping it close to his heart pocket, the delicate lettering had faded a little away, but Jin like the little attention and always kept it close to him. Cautiously, the raven-haired male folded the picture and put it back again in his forest green chest pocket, before he took out the next picture. It was a loving picture of his two parents, his caring mother and his sensitive father holding hands, smiling at the camera. It was a little dated, coming from the period of time a couple of years after his mother had had her two children, so it was back when his mother was still with his father, back when the two of them hadn't divorced. He folded the picture of his little happy family and took out the last picture, the one that made him always cry, but the one that he kept closest to his heart. This time, when he pulled it out, his identification necklace rattled softly. Like every other soldier, he had to wear a metal identification necklace, with his name engraved on the little tag, completed with his arrival date, a bittersweet reminder that time wasn't flying so fast when you were doing push-ups, your two feet in some slippy mud and cold rain soaking your clothes. The last picture was one of a very good-looking person, with a very slim looking face, blowing a soft kiss at the camera. Straight black hair was flowing down their face, arranged in some cute poufy ensemble.  On the back, were the simple encouragement words,

"𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙮 ! 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 ! 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣,

𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮"

Just when he was rereading those words, a muscular, tall figure appeared right in front of Jin, hands on his hips, a harsh expression on his face. The newcomer was wearing the same forest green military uniform as him, his identification necklace dangling comfortably in the middle of his chest, exposed, revealing a name he sadly knew too well.