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Slurpee in hand, Ryan walks out of a convenience store to his parked van. The back doors are thrown open. Min-Gi sat in the back, fiddling with something.

"Hey! Whatcha got there?" Ryan asks him.

"Camcorder. My parents saw 'Back to the Future' and thought of me."

"Ha, you're no Michael J. Fox," Ryan says, taking a seat next to Min-Gi. "You turn it on yet?"

"Still going through the instructions."

"Pff, who needs instructions?"

"Uh, someone who doesn't want to break the tentative olive branch his parents extended," Min-Gi says. Ryan takes an awkward sip of his slurpee.

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"They still on your case about uni?" Ryan asks.

"Less so now, but yeah," Min-Gi says. "I mean, I get it. Your only son bails on his plans of financial security to play in dive bars with his best friend? I'm still shocked I managed to talk them into a gap year. Meanwhile your parents let you hit the road after graduation."

"Well, it's different for me, you know that," Ryan says. "They 180'd from their own folks and just want us to 'do what makes us happy.'"

"And your happiness is bouncing from gig to gig with me?" Min-gi asks.

Ryan takes another sip, blushing slightly. "Yeah."

Min-Gi glances at Ryan, then looks away with a bashful grin.

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"It's not like they want me to be miserable," Min-Gi continues. "They just don't want me to struggle in life. And then I turn around and dive headfirst into something they're scared I'll regret."

He loads a tape in the camcorder, thinking back to the last time he saw his parents as he head out with Ryan.

"Heck, I'm scared too, sometimes. That I don't know what I'm doing. That I don't know for sure if we'll make it big. That we might do all this work to carve out a space for ourselves. And end up right back where we started. I just want to tell them, 'Hey, you don't have to worry about me. I'm going to be okay.'"

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"Because playing with you?" Min-Gi says, sharing a soft look with Ryan. "Makes everything worth it. I know that for sure. And my parents know that. Even if they don't get it. But they're trying. Hence-"

"The camcorder."

"The camcorder."

A stack of tapes is piled next to Chicken Choice Judy merch, posters, and pictures of Min-gi and Ryan together.

"'Take lots of videos,' they said. 'For the memories.'"