We Had Each Other's Names Tattooed on Our Waists, but We Never Fell in Love

At twenty, they pretended to be a couple, shielding each other from every judgment the world could cast.

They carved each other's names at their waists, believing they would stand side by side forever.

Through workplace hardship and emotional pain, they helped pick up the shattered pieces of each other's lives.

Everyone was waiting for them to fall in love, but thirteen years passed in the blink of an eye.

She wore a wedding dress and married someone else. He stood on the wedding stage and sang of all his regrets for her.

They were never lovers, yet each was the other's strongest defense against the world's loneliness.