"Watch your step." Jyeon reaches out for me as we walk down a dark shadowy staircase, and I pull my arm away, so he doesn't get a chance to touch. I walk faster and skip ahead two steps at a time, knowing exactly where this is but acting dumb.

If I thought I had seen everything so far and could suss him out, then the barefaced audacity of where he's brought me has blown my mind. He's going the whole hog, trying to paint us as something we never were. Wading full steam into sentimentality by bringing us to a place I have stepped foot only once.

The lights come...