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📖 "He sent back my belongings with one last magnet he chose himself. But I closed my eyes, bought my favorite flowers, and stopped waiting."

Experience the heartbreaking yet incredibly empowering story of "Five Winters With Her, Five Fridge Magnets for Me". This is not just a breakup story; it's an awakening. Watch Maya realize her true worth after discovering her fiancé's undeniable bias toward his first love. There will be no more tears over cheap fridge magnets while another woman gets custom pieces. This drama perfectly captures that specific, cathartic moment when a woman decides to finally choose herself, ignoring belated apologies and walking straight into a brighter future. 🌻✈️

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Drama, Female, Karma, Cathartic, Female Empowerment.
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00:00:05When I canceled the condo, the realtor stared at me.
00:00:11You've already paid the $45,000 down payment.
00:00:15Aren't you waiting for your fiancé to come back and sign with you?
00:00:18No.
00:00:19He's busy taking his first love shopping near Mount Fuji.
00:00:22For five years, every winter, Ryan Hale went to Japan.
00:00:26He called it business.
00:00:28But the photos he posted were always of Fuji's snow-covered peak.
00:00:32Whenever I asked when he would take me there for our honeymoon, he said, next time.
00:00:36Then yesterday, in an old camera he'd left at home, I found dozens of pictures.
00:00:41The same woman, the same angles, the same background.
00:00:44Cherry blossoms, white snow, Mount Fuji.
00:00:47The only trip he had ever taken with me was to the next city over to look at this condo.
00:00:51Maya, we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:00:53We just need a real life together.
00:00:56I believed him.
00:00:57When it was time to sign the cancellation papers, I looked at the condo I had decorated myself and suddenly
00:01:02broke down.
00:01:03I cried so hard I could barely breathe.
00:01:06Do you still want to cancel?
00:01:09Yes.
00:01:09My resignation had already been approved.
00:01:12This was my last night in the city.
00:01:14Mount Fuji would never come to me.
00:01:17But I could walk away.
00:01:22Maya, did you really cancel it?
00:01:24I did.
00:01:26The down payment was $45,000.
00:01:28You just canceled it by yourself?
00:01:30Yes.
00:01:31Does Ryan know?
00:01:32He's in Japan.
00:01:33For work?
00:01:34I didn't answer.
00:01:35Did you tell him?
00:01:37No.
00:01:38Maya, even if you're fighting, the condo isn't something you can just...
00:01:41I found dozens of photos in his old camera.
00:01:43Same woman.
00:01:44Same mountain.
00:01:45Five years.
00:01:46Hannah Pierce?
00:01:47Yes.
00:01:48Are you sure it's not a misunderstanding?
00:01:51What kind of business trip involves photographing the same woman in the same place for five winters?
00:01:55Claire stopped talking.
00:02:02On the way, Ryan sent me a text.
00:02:04A photo.
00:02:04Hot chocolate in a white ceramic cup.
00:02:06A little deer was painted on the side.
00:02:08Caption.
00:02:09It's snowing in Tokyo.
00:02:10Freezing.
00:02:11I recognize that cup.
00:02:13He had sent me almost the same photo last winter.
00:02:15Same angle.
00:02:16Same composition.
00:02:17Back then, I asked him which cafe it was.
00:02:19He said he'd wandered in at random and couldn't remember.
00:02:22But there was another photo in the old camera.
00:02:24A scarf I'd never seen.
00:02:26Five years.
00:02:26Every winter.
00:02:28The same cafe.
00:02:29The same cup of hot chocolate.
00:02:31The same woman.
00:02:32And what he sent me was always food and scenery.
00:02:36Never the person beside him.
00:02:42Size five.
00:02:43I wore a seven.
00:02:45Rye, wear this pair next time.
00:02:47The last ones rubbed your heels.
00:02:49Rye.
00:02:49Five years together.
00:02:51And I had never known he had a nickname.
00:02:53He had never let me call him that.
00:03:00The note field read, Hannah's birthday gift.
00:03:03Hannah's birthday was February 15th.
00:03:06Mine was March 9th.
00:03:08Last March 9th, I asked Ryan if he could have dinner with me.
00:03:11He said he had a business dinner.
00:03:12I waited until 11 that night before he texted.
00:03:15Just got home.
00:03:16You asleep?
00:03:16Happy birthday.
00:03:17I'll make it up to you.
00:03:18Make it up.
00:03:19Just like next time.
00:03:20Neither ever came true.
00:03:233,000 photos on his backup phone.
00:03:2511 of me.
00:03:267 were from the first year we dated.
00:03:28In the next four years, there were four.
00:03:30There was a folder called Tokyo Snow.
00:03:32Every shot was beautifully framed.
00:03:34Softened by light.
00:03:34Like a magazine spread.
00:03:36When he took pictures of me, he always tapped the shutter once and handed the phone back.
00:03:40No angle.
00:03:40No light.
00:03:41No care.
00:03:42Can you try to take one where I look nice?
00:03:45It's just a photo.
00:03:46Good enough.
00:03:47Good enough.
00:03:48Those two words were what he gave me most.
00:03:51Did you eat?
00:03:53Yes.
00:03:54I'll be back the day after tomorrow.
00:03:55Flight lands at 3.
00:03:56Okay.
00:03:57Your voice sounds off.
00:03:59I'm tired.
00:04:00Sleep early.
00:04:02Rye, the car's here.
00:04:04Coming.
00:04:05Hannah's calling me.
00:04:06I have to go.
00:04:06Why is she at your hotel?
00:04:07She's staying next door.
00:04:08We're just going out to eat.
00:04:09Every year?
00:04:10Our schedules happen to overlap.
00:04:11Don't overthink it.
00:04:12He smiled naturally, as if explaining something that did not need an explanation.
00:04:15Oh, I got you a fridge magnet.
00:04:16Took forever to pick one.
00:04:20Five years of love.
00:04:21Every souvenir I had ever received from Japan.
00:04:23Hannah got hot spring hotels, kimono experiences, birthday surprises, and a nickname only she could use.
00:04:30Cute, right?
00:04:31Hannah helped me pick it.
00:04:32Even the gift he bought for me had her fingerprints on it.
00:04:35I typed, what did you bring Hannah?
00:04:37I replied with one word.
00:04:39Nice.
00:04:44Your fridge magnet.
00:04:48What's that?
00:04:49For Hannah.
00:04:50A scarf.
00:04:50She said she liked the patterns in Tokyo.
00:04:52Last winter, I told him I wanted a cashmere scarf.
00:04:56He said, why buy another scarf?
00:04:58Don't you already have several?
00:05:00But the several in my closet were all ones I had bought myself.
00:05:03You bought her a scarf?
00:05:05She asked.
00:05:06It was on the way.
00:05:07I'm dead tired.
00:05:08Four hour flight.
00:05:10When are you taking me to Japan?
00:05:12Why bring that up all of a sudden?
00:05:14It's not sudden.
00:05:15I've been asking for five years.
00:05:17When this busy stretch is over.
00:05:18Next time, I promise.
00:05:20Next time.
00:05:21The 17th next time.
00:05:23I said nothing more.
00:05:28Maya, is Ryan back, isn't he?
00:05:30He is, Mrs. Hale.
00:05:31You two need to hurry with the wedding.
00:05:33People keep asking me about invitations.
00:05:35We're still preparing.
00:05:37Hannah came by last week and helped me choose candy favors.
00:05:40She picked four flavors.
00:05:41See what you think.
00:05:42Hannah helped you choose them?
00:05:44Yes.
00:05:44She said you were busy with work and came over on her own.
00:05:47Such a thoughtful girl.
00:05:49Mrs. Hale, you can tell me about wedding details.
00:05:51You don't need to trouble her.
00:05:52Trouble?
00:05:53She comes over all the time.
00:05:54Three or four times a month.
00:05:56More often than you.
00:05:57In our second year together, I suggested visiting his mother every week.
00:06:01Ryan said, no need to go that often.
00:06:03My mom doesn't like the house too lively.
00:06:06So I changed it to once a month.
00:06:08Later, he said, you're busy.
00:06:10Once every two months is fine.
00:06:12So it wasn't that his mother disliked visitors.
00:06:14She disliked me visiting.
00:06:16Hannah came three or four times a month.
00:06:18And no one found her annoying.
00:06:20Mrs. Hale, I'll handle the favors.
00:06:21All right.
00:06:22But the ones Hannah picked are really good.
00:06:24Use them as a reference.
00:06:27You asked Hannah to help your mother choose our wedding candy?
00:06:30She wanted to go herself.
00:06:32And you knew?
00:06:33Of course.
00:06:34My mom told me.
00:06:35Why didn't you tell me?
00:06:37What was there to say?
00:06:39She was just helping.
00:06:40Why is she helping with our wedding?
00:06:42Weren't you busy?
00:06:44When did I ever say that?
00:06:46You work late every day.
00:06:48I figured you didn't have time.
00:06:50Did you ask me?
00:06:52Fine, fine.
00:06:53From now on, you can do everything yourself.
00:06:55Satisfied?
00:06:58The impatience had arrived.
00:07:00It was always like this.
00:07:02First, don't overthink it.
00:07:04Then, what is there to say?
00:07:07Finally, fine.
00:07:08You're right about everything.
00:07:12Nothing was ever solved.
00:07:20Hannah's pot roast tastes just like mine.
00:07:24Hannah looked more at home in that kitchen than I ever had.
00:07:27She knew where the plates were, which drawer held the spices, what Mrs. Hale liked to eat.
00:07:32In five years, every time I visited, I had to ask.
00:07:35Because I went too rarely.
00:07:37Because Ryan said I didn't need to go often.
00:07:40Maya, let me be honest.
00:07:41I watched Hannah grow up.
00:07:43She and Ryan know each other inside out.
00:07:45You're a good girl, but you aren't very good at taking care of people.
00:07:49You should learn from Hannah.
00:07:52Why aren't you eating?
00:07:55I'm not hungry.
00:08:02What's that?
00:08:03Oh, this.
00:08:05Hannah's birthday gift.
00:08:06A necklace.
00:08:09Ryan's R.
00:08:12Custom made.
00:08:13Took two months.
00:08:15Our engagement ring had been bought online.
00:08:17When it arrived, he opened the package and slid it directly onto my finger.
00:08:22I wanted to choose one in a store.
00:08:24Rings are all the same.
00:08:26No need to make a trip.
00:08:28You had a necklace custom made for her?
00:08:31It's her birthday.
00:08:33Just something small.
00:08:35What did you give me on my birthday?
00:08:38Last year, I think I sent you money.
00:08:43You didn't.
00:08:46Then I forgot.
00:08:47I'll make it up next time.
00:08:50Next time.
00:08:52Always next time.
00:08:55Ryan, do you think what we have is normal?
00:08:59Why wouldn't it be?
00:09:00You custom order Hannah a necklace and buy me a fridge magnet.
00:09:05You celebrate her birthday and forget mine.
00:09:08You let her go to your mother's house while I don't even get the chance.
00:09:12Do you think that's normal?
00:09:17You're doing this again.
00:09:19Hannah and I grew up together.
00:09:20What's wrong with me being nice to her?
00:09:23What about me?
00:09:25Am I not good to you?
00:09:27We've dated for five years, bought a condo, and we're getting married.
00:09:31Isn't that enough?
00:09:32Maya, we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:09:34A steady life matters more than anything.
00:09:37All that flashy stuff.
00:09:39Hot spring hotels were flashy.
00:09:41Custom necklaces were flashy.
00:09:44Birthday surprises were flashy.
00:09:46He gave all the flashy things to Hannah.
00:09:48What he left me was a steady life.
00:09:52You're right.
00:09:56Let's live steadily.
00:10:01The next day, Ryan's college friend Owen texted me.
00:10:04Maya, we're having a get-together Saturday.
00:10:06Are you coming?
00:10:07What get-together?
00:10:09Old classmates.
00:10:10Hannah will be there too.
00:10:11Hannah would be there too.
00:10:13Of course.
00:10:17The necklace Ryan had made.
00:10:19On her.
00:10:21Rye!
00:10:22Maya's here!
00:10:23Don't call her that like she's already family.
00:10:25They're not married yet.
00:10:27Set a date?
00:10:29We're still looking.
00:10:30Hannah's helped a lot, right?
00:10:31Your mom said she runs over all the time.
00:10:33She's just helpful.
00:10:34I'm only helping a little.
00:10:35Maya's so busy.
00:10:36She called me by name with such warmth.
00:10:38But my fiancé's custom necklace was sitting at her throat.
00:10:40Hannah, that's a gorgeous necklace.
00:10:42Who gave it to you?
00:10:44A friend.
00:10:45What kind of friend is that generous?
00:10:48It's custom, isn't it?
00:10:49I gave it to her.
00:10:50Birthday gift.
00:10:51I bought it casually.
00:10:53Casually.
00:10:54Two months for a custom order.
00:10:56And he called it casual.
00:10:57You bought one for your fiancé too, right?
00:11:00Maya doesn't like wearing things like that.
00:11:01It wasn't that I didn't like them.
00:11:03He had never bought me any.
00:11:05So he assumed I didn't like them.
00:11:06You don't mind, do you, Maya?
00:11:08No.
00:11:08You're so generous.
00:11:10Halfway through dinner, Owen started making trouble.
00:11:12Come on, let's test how well you know each other.
00:11:14Ryan, what's your fiancé's favorite flower?
00:11:16Roses?
00:11:17No.
00:11:18Lisianthus.
00:11:18Her birthday?
00:11:19March 9th?
00:11:20He got it right only after a pause.
00:11:22What is she most afraid of?
00:11:23She isn't afraid of anything.
00:11:24Maya's brave.
00:11:25I was afraid of the dark.
00:11:27I told him that our first year together.
00:11:28He had forgotten.
00:11:29Terrible.
00:11:30Hannah, your turn.
00:11:32What's Ryan's favorite coffee?
00:11:33Americano.
00:11:34Light sugar.
00:11:35Warm.
00:11:36What is he most afraid of?
00:11:37Thunder.
00:11:38When he was little, lightning hit a tree in his yard and he cried.
00:11:42His catchphrase?
00:11:43Good enough.
00:11:45Hannah knows Ryan better than his fiancé.
00:11:48We've known each other ten years.
00:11:49Ten years.
00:11:50She had known him ten.
00:11:51I had known him five.
00:11:52She knew he was afraid of thunder.
00:11:54I didn't.
00:11:55It wasn't that I didn't want to know him.
00:11:57He had never told me.
00:11:58With me, every answer was whatever, anything, nothing worth telling.
00:12:02With Hannah, he lit up like a different person.
00:12:08Maya.
00:12:10I want to say something.
00:12:11Don't take it the wrong way.
00:12:13Say it?
00:12:14Rye can be careless, but he's not a bad man.
00:12:17Don't be too hard on him.
00:12:19I'm not.
00:12:20He told me you've been emotional lately, always getting upset over things about me.
00:12:25He had told Hannah about the problems between us.
00:12:28Maya, I'll be blunt.
00:12:30If you can't give him even this much trust, then what's the point of marrying him?
00:12:36He goes to Japan with you every year.
00:12:38What exactly am I supposed to trust?
00:12:40Those are business trips.
00:12:43Business trips don't happen in the same place every year, at the same hotel, photographing the same woman.
00:12:49Maya.
00:12:50Rye and I are friends.
00:12:52If you insist on imagining something else, that's your problem.
00:12:57By the way, for the living room wall in your condo, I suggested warm gray.
00:13:02Rye thinks it looks better than the cream white you chose.
00:13:06The living room wall.
00:13:07I had chosen cream white and watched the workers paint it twice.
00:13:11Ryan had not gone there once, but he had let Hannah give opinions, and he liked hers better than mine.
00:13:21What took so long?
00:13:23Washing my hands.
00:13:25Let's go.
00:13:26We'll drop Hannah off.
00:13:28Can't she go by herself?
00:13:30It's on the way.
00:13:33Hannah lived on the east side.
00:13:35We lived on the west side.
00:13:38On what planet was that on the way?
00:13:41You take her.
00:13:43I'll get a cab.
00:13:44Don't make a scene.
00:13:45Come on.
00:13:50Rye, remember this song?
00:13:52It played in that izakaya in Tokyo last year.
00:13:55I remember.
00:13:56You even sang along.
00:13:58In the back seat, I was an extra passenger.
00:14:04Maya, rest early.
00:14:06Rye, don't forget that thing next week.
00:14:08I know.
00:14:15What thing?
00:14:16Helping her move a cabinet.
00:14:18She can hire movers.
00:14:20Why waste money on that?
00:14:23Last year, I asked him to move one box of books for me.
00:14:27He said his back hurt and told me to hire movers.
00:14:31For Hannah's cabinet, he would go himself.
00:14:35Ryan, do you ever feel like you're better to Hannah than you are to me?
00:14:41She grew up with me.
00:14:43Being good to her is a habit.
00:14:45But you're the one I'm marrying.
00:14:46But you're the one I'm marrying.
00:14:47Isn't that enough?
00:14:49Enough.
00:14:54Ryan, can you stay home today?
00:14:56What's wrong?
00:14:57I want you to spend the day with me.
00:14:59Sure.
00:15:00I don't have plans anyway.
00:15:02Really?
00:15:02Really.
00:15:03What do you want to do?
00:15:04Nothing.
00:15:04Just stay home.
00:15:05Okay.
00:15:07Ryan.
00:15:08Hmm?
00:15:08Do you love me?
00:15:10Why ask that all of a sudden?
00:15:12I want to hear you say it once.
00:15:14I'm marrying you.
00:15:15What do you think?
00:15:16Marriage and love aren't the same thing.
00:15:18What's going on with you today?
00:15:20I just want to hear you say it.
00:15:21Maya, of course I-
00:15:24It's Hannah.
00:15:25Don't answer.
00:15:25Let me see.
00:15:26She says a pipe burst at her place.
00:15:28Water everywhere.
00:15:28She can call building maintenance.
00:15:30It's the weekend.
00:15:31Maintenance is off.
00:15:32Then she can call a plumber.
00:15:33By the time a plumber gets there, her apartment will be flooded.
00:15:36I'll go take a look.
00:15:37I'll be back soon.
00:15:37Ryan, you promised you wouldn't go out today.
00:15:41I know, but this is urgent.
00:15:43You always say that.
00:15:45A pipe burst.
00:15:46I can't just ignore it.
00:15:48What about me?
00:15:50What about you?
00:15:52You're fine.
00:15:53I was fine.
00:15:54He always thought I was fine.
00:15:57Hannah's burst pipe was urgent.
00:15:59My broken heart was not.
00:16:01In our first year together, when he confessed, he said,
00:16:04Maya, I want to spend my life with you.
00:16:06That day, he took me to a little Western restaurant place and said we would come back every anniversary.
00:16:13He forgot the second year anniversary.
00:16:15In the third year, I reminded him and he said,
00:16:17It's just a bowl of noodles.
00:16:18Another day is the same.
00:16:19In the fourth and fifth years, I stopped mentioning it.
00:16:22He never remembered again.
00:16:24Go.
00:16:25One hour, tops.
00:16:27I'll come back and be with you.
00:16:29Don't be mad.
00:16:32One hour passed.
00:16:34Then two.
00:16:36Then three.
00:16:39Almost done.
00:16:40The pipe's fixed, but there's water everywhere.
00:16:42I'm helping her mop.
00:16:43When are you coming back?
00:16:44Soon.
00:16:47Another hour passed.
00:16:50He texted.
00:16:51Hannah says thank you for letting me come.
00:16:53She's treating me to lunch.
00:16:54I'll head back after.
00:16:56I didn't reply.
00:16:58Then he sent.
00:16:59Eat first.
00:17:00Don't wait for me.
00:17:03I had asked whether he loved me.
00:17:05He never finished the sentence.
00:17:07Because Hannah's phone call mattered more than my question.
00:17:10I didn't actually own much in this home.
00:17:12One suitcase for clothes.
00:17:14Half a suitcase for books and small things.
00:17:15On the bathroom counter, I had only a toothbrush and a bottle of cleanser.
00:17:19Hannah had more here than I did.
00:17:21Canvas shoes.
00:17:22A jacket.
00:17:23A mug.
00:17:24A tube of lipstick.
00:17:26Ryan, I canceled the condo.
00:17:29I'm returning the ring.
00:17:31I'm returning the five fridge magnets, too.
00:17:34Find someone else for the honeymoon.
00:17:37Hers.
00:17:38All of it.
00:17:38This home was full of Ryan and Hannah.
00:17:42My whole life here fit into two suitcases.
00:17:47Where to?
00:17:49The train station.
00:17:52Three hours later, the train arrived.
00:17:54In this new city, no one waited at the exit.
00:17:58This time, I didn't mind.
00:18:17When I canceled the condo, the realtor stared at me.
00:18:23You've already paid the $45,000 down payment.
00:18:27Aren't you waiting for your fiancé to come back and sign with you?
00:18:30No.
00:18:31He's busy taking his first love shopping near Mount Fuji.
00:18:34For five years, every winter, Ryan Hale went to Japan.
00:18:38He called it business.
00:18:40But the photos he posted were always of Fuji's snow-covered peak.
00:18:44Whenever I asked when he would take me there for our honeymoon, he said, next time.
00:18:48Then yesterday, in an old camera he'd left at home, I found dozens of pictures.
00:18:53The same woman.
00:18:54The same angles.
00:18:55The same background.
00:18:56Cherry blossoms.
00:18:57White snow.
00:18:58Mount Fuji.
00:18:59The only trip he had ever taken with me was to the next city over to look at this condo.
00:19:03Maya, we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:19:05We just need a real life together.
00:19:08I believed him.
00:19:09When it was time to sign the cancellation papers, I looked at the condo I had decorated myself
00:19:14and suddenly broke down.
00:19:15I cried so hard I could barely breathe.
00:19:18Do you still want to cancel?
00:19:21Yes.
00:19:21My resignation had already been approved.
00:19:23This was my last night in the city.
00:19:26Mount Fuji would never come to me.
00:19:29But I could walk away.
00:19:34Maya, did you really cancel it?
00:19:36I did.
00:19:38The down payment was $45,000.
00:19:40You just canceled it by yourself?
00:19:42Yes.
00:19:43Does Ryan know?
00:19:44He's in Japan.
00:19:45For work?
00:19:46I didn't answer.
00:19:47Did you tell him?
00:19:48No.
00:19:49Maya, even if you're fighting, the condo isn't something you can just...
00:19:53I found dozens of photos in his old camera.
00:19:55Same woman.
00:19:56Same mountain.
00:19:57Five years.
00:19:58Hannah Pierce?
00:19:59Yes.
00:20:00Are you sure it's not a misunderstanding?
00:20:03What kind of business trip involves photographing the same woman in the same place for five winters?
00:20:07Claire stopped talking.
00:20:14On the way, Ryan sent me a text.
00:20:16A photo.
00:20:16Hot chocolate in a white ceramic cup.
00:20:18A little deer was painted on the side.
00:20:20Caption.
00:20:21It's snowing in Tokyo.
00:20:22Freezing.
00:20:23I recognized that cup.
00:20:25He had sent me almost the same photo last winter.
00:20:27Same angle.
00:20:28Same composition.
00:20:29Back then, I asked him which cafe it was.
00:20:31He said he'd wandered in at random and couldn't remember.
00:20:34But there was another photo in the old camera.
00:20:36A scarf I'd never seen.
00:20:37Five years.
00:20:39Every winter.
00:20:40The same cafe.
00:20:41The same cup of hot chocolate.
00:20:43The same woman.
00:20:44And what he sent me was always food.
00:20:46And scenery.
00:20:48Never the person beside him.
00:20:54Size five.
00:20:55I wore a seven.
00:20:57Rye, wear this pair next time.
00:20:59The last ones rubbed your heels.
00:21:01Rye.
00:21:01Five years together.
00:21:03And I had never known he had a nickname.
00:21:05He had never let me call him that.
00:21:12The note field read,
00:21:13Hannah's birthday gift.
00:21:15Hannah's birthday was February 15th.
00:21:18Mine was March 9th.
00:21:20Last March 9th,
00:21:21I asked Ryan if he could have dinner with me.
00:21:23He said he had a business dinner.
00:21:24I waited until 11 that night before he texted.
00:21:26Just got home.
00:21:28You asleep?
00:21:28Happy birthday.
00:21:29I'll make it up to you.
00:21:30Make it up.
00:21:31Just like next time.
00:21:32Neither ever came true.
00:21:353,000 photos on his backup phone.
00:21:3711 of me.
00:21:38Seven were from the first year we dated.
00:21:40In the next four years,
00:21:41there were four.
00:21:42There was a folder called Tokyo Snow.
00:21:44Every shot was beautifully framed.
00:21:46Softened by light.
00:21:46Like a magazine spread.
00:21:48When he took pictures of me,
00:21:49he always tapped the shutter once
00:21:50and handed the phone back.
00:21:52No angle.
00:21:52No light.
00:21:53No care.
00:21:54Can you try to take one where I look nice?
00:21:57It's just a photo.
00:21:58Good enough.
00:21:59Good enough.
00:22:00Those two words were what he gave me most.
00:22:03Did you eat?
00:22:05Yes.
00:22:05I'll be back the day after tomorrow.
00:22:07Flight lands at three.
00:22:08Okay.
00:22:09Your voice sounds off.
00:22:11I'm tired.
00:22:12Sleep early.
00:22:14Rye, the car's here.
00:22:16Coming.
00:22:17Hannah's calling me.
00:22:18I have to go.
00:22:18Why is she at your hotel?
00:22:19She's staying next door.
00:22:20We're just going out to eat.
00:22:21Every year?
00:22:22Our schedules happen to overlap.
00:22:23Don't overthink it.
00:22:24He smiled naturally,
00:22:25as if explaining something
00:22:25that did not need an explanation.
00:22:27Oh, I got you a fridge magnet.
00:22:28Took forever to pick one.
00:22:31Five years of love.
00:22:33Every souvenir I had ever received from Japan.
00:22:36Hannah got hot spring hotels,
00:22:37kimono experiences,
00:22:38birthday surprises,
00:22:39and a nickname only she could use.
00:22:42Cute, right?
00:22:43Hannah helped me pick it.
00:22:44Even the gift he bought for me
00:22:46had her fingerprints on it.
00:22:47I typed,
00:22:48What did you bring, Hannah?
00:22:49I replied with one word.
00:22:50Nice.
00:22:52Nice.
00:22:56Your fridge magnet.
00:23:00What's that?
00:23:01For Hannah.
00:23:02A scarf.
00:23:02She said she liked the patterns in Tokyo.
00:23:04Last winter,
00:23:05I told him I wanted a cashmere scarf.
00:23:07He said,
00:23:08Why buy another scarf?
00:23:10Don't you already have several?
00:23:12The several in my closet
00:23:13were all ones I had bought myself.
00:23:15You bought her a scarf?
00:23:17She asked.
00:23:18It was on the way.
00:23:19I'm dead tired.
00:23:20Four hour flight.
00:23:21When are you taking me to Japan?
00:23:24Why bring that up all of a sudden?
00:23:26It's not sudden.
00:23:26I've been asking for five years.
00:23:28When this busy stretch is over.
00:23:30Next time, I promise.
00:23:32Next time.
00:23:33The 17th next time.
00:23:35I said nothing more.
00:23:40Maya, is Ryan back?
00:23:41Isn't he?
00:23:42He is, Mrs. Hale.
00:23:43You two need to hurry with the wedding.
00:23:45People keep asking me about invitations.
00:23:47We're still preparing.
00:23:49Hannah came by last week
00:23:51and helped me choose candy favors.
00:23:52She picked four flavors.
00:23:53See what you think.
00:23:54Hannah helped you choose them?
00:23:56Yes.
00:23:56She said you were busy with work
00:23:58and came over on her own.
00:23:59Such a thoughtful girl.
00:24:01Mrs. Hale,
00:24:01you can tell me about wedding details.
00:24:03You don't need to trouble her.
00:24:04Trouble?
00:24:05She comes over all the time.
00:24:06Three or four times a month.
00:24:08More often than you.
00:24:09In our second year together,
00:24:10I suggested visiting his mother every week.
00:24:13Ryan said,
00:24:14No need to go that often.
00:24:15My mom doesn't like the house too lively.
00:24:17So I changed it to once a month.
00:24:20Later, he said,
00:24:21You're busy.
00:24:22Once every two months is fine.
00:24:24So it wasn't that his mother disliked visitors.
00:24:26She disliked me visiting.
00:24:28Hannah came three or four times a month
00:24:29and no one found her annoying.
00:24:32Mrs. Hale,
00:24:32I'll handle the favors.
00:24:34All right.
00:24:34But the ones Hannah picked are really good.
00:24:36Use them as a reference.
00:24:38You asked Hannah to help your mother
00:24:40choose our wedding candy?
00:24:42She wanted to go herself.
00:24:44And you knew?
00:24:45Of course.
00:24:46My mom told me.
00:24:47Why didn't you tell me?
00:24:49What was there to say?
00:24:50She was just helping.
00:24:52Why is she helping with our wedding?
00:24:54Weren't you busy?
00:24:56When did I ever say that?
00:24:58You work late every day.
00:25:00I figured you didn't have time.
00:25:02Did you ask me?
00:25:04Fine, fine.
00:25:05From now on,
00:25:05you can do everything yourself.
00:25:07Satisfied?
00:25:10The impatience had arrived.
00:25:12It was always like this.
00:25:14First,
00:25:15don't overthink it.
00:25:16Then,
00:25:17what is there to say?
00:25:19Finally,
00:25:20fine,
00:25:20you're right about everything.
00:25:24Nothing was ever solved.
00:25:32Hannah's pot roast tastes just like mine.
00:25:35Hannah looked more at home in that kitchen than I ever had.
00:25:39She knew where the plates were,
00:25:41which drawer held the spices,
00:25:43what Mrs. Hale liked to eat.
00:25:44In five years,
00:25:45every time I visited,
00:25:46I had to ask.
00:25:47Because I went too rarely.
00:25:49Because Ryan said I didn't need to go often.
00:25:52Maya,
00:25:52let me be honest.
00:25:53I watched Hannah grow up.
00:25:55She and Ryan know each other inside out.
00:25:57You're a good girl,
00:25:58but you aren't very good at taking care of people.
00:26:01You should learn from Hannah.
00:26:04Why aren't you eating?
00:26:07I'm not hungry.
00:26:14What's that?
00:26:15Oh,
00:26:16this.
00:26:16Hannah's birthday gift.
00:26:18A necklace.
00:26:21Ryan's R.
00:26:24Custom made.
00:26:25Took two months.
00:26:27Our engagement ring had been bought online.
00:26:29When it arrived,
00:26:30he opened the package
00:26:31and slid it directly onto my finger.
00:26:34I wanted to choose one in a store.
00:26:36Rings are all the same.
00:26:38No need to make a trip.
00:26:40You had a necklace custom made for her?
00:26:43It's her birthday.
00:26:45Just something small.
00:26:47What did you give me on my birthday?
00:26:50Last year,
00:26:51I think I sent you money.
00:26:55You didn't.
00:26:57Then I forgot.
00:26:59I'll make it up next time.
00:27:02Next time.
00:27:03Always next time.
00:27:07Ryan,
00:27:08do you think what we have is normal?
00:27:11Why wouldn't it be?
00:27:12You custom order Hannah a necklace
00:27:15and buy me a fridge magnet.
00:27:17You celebrate her birthday
00:27:19and forget mine.
00:27:20You let her go to your mother's house
00:27:22while I don't even get the chance.
00:27:24Do you think that's normal?
00:27:29You're doing this again.
00:27:31Hannah and I grew up together.
00:27:32What's wrong with me being nice to her?
00:27:35What about me?
00:27:37Am I not good to you?
00:27:39We've dated for five years,
00:27:41bought a condo,
00:27:42and we're getting married.
00:27:43Isn't that enough?
00:27:44Maya,
00:27:44we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:27:46A steady life matters more than anything.
00:27:49All that flashy stuff.
00:27:51Hot spring hotels were flashy.
00:27:53Custom necklaces were flashy.
00:27:55Birthday surprises were flashy.
00:27:58He gave all the flashy things to Hannah.
00:28:00What he left me
00:28:01was a steady life.
00:28:04You're right.
00:28:08Let's live steadily.
00:28:13The next day,
00:28:14Ryan's college friend Owen texted me.
00:28:16Maya,
00:28:16we're having a get-together Saturday.
00:28:18Are you coming?
00:28:19What get-together?
00:28:21Old classmates.
00:28:22Hannah will be there too.
00:28:23Hannah would be there too.
00:28:24Of course.
00:28:29The necklace Ryan had made.
00:28:31On her.
00:28:33Rye!
00:28:34Maya's here!
00:28:35Don't call her that like she's already family.
00:28:37They're not married yet.
00:28:39Set a date?
00:28:40We're still looking.
00:28:42Hannah's helped a lot, right?
00:28:43Your mom said she runs over all the time.
00:28:45She's just helpful.
00:28:46I'm only helping a little.
00:28:47Maya's so busy.
00:28:48She called me by name with such warmth,
00:28:49but my fiancé's custom necklace
00:28:51was sitting at her throat.
00:28:52Hannah,
00:28:52that's a gorgeous necklace.
00:28:54Who gave it to you?
00:28:56A friend.
00:28:57What kind of friend is that generous?
00:28:59It's custom, isn't it?
00:29:01I gave it to her.
00:29:02Birthday gift.
00:29:03I bought it casually.
00:29:05Casually.
00:29:06Two months for a custom order.
00:29:08And he called it casual.
00:29:09You bought one for your fiancé too, right?
00:29:11Maya doesn't like wearing things like that.
00:29:13It wasn't that I didn't like them.
00:29:15He had never bought me any,
00:29:16so he assumed I didn't like them.
00:29:18You don't mind, do you, Maya?
00:29:20No.
00:29:20You're so generous.
00:29:22Halfway through dinner,
00:29:23Owen started making trouble.
00:29:24Come on, let's test how well you know each other.
00:29:26Ryan, what's your fiancé's favorite flower?
00:29:28Roses?
00:29:29No.
00:29:30Lisianthus.
00:29:30Her birthday?
00:29:31March 9th?
00:29:32He got it right only after a pause.
00:29:34What is she most afraid of?
00:29:35She isn't afraid of anything.
00:29:36Maya's brave.
00:29:37I was afraid of the dark.
00:29:39I told him that our first year together.
00:29:40He had forgotten.
00:29:41Terrible.
00:29:42Hannah, your turn.
00:29:44What's Ryan's favorite coffee?
00:29:45Americano.
00:29:46Light sugar.
00:29:47Warm.
00:29:47What is he most afraid of?
00:29:49Thunder.
00:29:50When he was little,
00:29:51lightning hit a tree in his yard,
00:29:53and he cried.
00:29:54His catchphrase?
00:29:55Good enough.
00:29:57Hannah knows Ryan better than his fiancé.
00:30:00We've known each other ten years.
00:30:01Ten years.
00:30:01She had known him ten.
00:30:03I had known him five.
00:30:04She knew he was afraid of thunder.
00:30:05I didn't.
00:30:06It wasn't that I didn't want to know him.
00:30:08He had never told me.
00:30:10With me, every answer was whatever, anything,
00:30:12nothing worth telling.
00:30:14With Hannah, he lit up like a different person.
00:30:21Maya, I want to say something.
00:30:23Don't take it the wrong way.
00:30:25Say it.
00:30:26Rye can be careless, but he's not a bad man.
00:30:29Don't be too hard on him.
00:30:31I'm not.
00:30:32He told me you've been emotional lately,
00:30:34always getting upset over things about me.
00:30:37He had told Hannah about the problems between us.
00:30:40Maya, I'll be blunt.
00:30:42If you can't give him even this much trust,
00:30:46then what's the point of marrying him?
00:30:48He goes to Japan with you every year.
00:30:50What exactly am I supposed to trust?
00:30:53Those are business trips.
00:30:55Business trips don't happen in the same place every year,
00:30:57at the same hotel,
00:30:59photographing the same woman.
00:31:01Maya,
00:31:02Rye and I are friends.
00:31:04If you insist on imagining something else,
00:31:07that's your problem.
00:31:09By the way,
00:31:11for the living room wall in your condo,
00:31:13I suggested warm gray.
00:31:14Rye thinks it looks better than the cream white you chose.
00:31:17The living room wall.
00:31:19I had chosen cream white
00:31:20and watched the workers paint it twice.
00:31:23Ryan had not gone there once,
00:31:24but he had let Hannah give opinions
00:31:26and he liked hers better than mine.
00:31:33What took so long?
00:31:35Washing my hands.
00:31:37Let's go.
00:31:37We'll drop Hannah off.
00:31:40Can't she go by herself?
00:31:42It's on the way.
00:31:45Hannah lived on the east side.
00:31:47We lived on the west side.
00:31:50On what planet was that on the way?
00:31:53You take her.
00:31:54I'll get a cab.
00:31:56Don't make a scene.
00:31:57Come on.
00:32:02Rye,
00:32:03remember this song?
00:32:04It played in that izakaya in Tokyo last year.
00:32:07I remember.
00:32:08You even sang along.
00:32:10In the back seat,
00:32:11I was an extra passenger.
00:32:16Maya,
00:32:17rest early.
00:32:18Rye,
00:32:19don't forget that thing next week.
00:32:20I know.
00:32:27What thing?
00:32:28Helping her move a cabinet.
00:32:30She can hire movers.
00:32:32Why waste money on that?
00:32:35Last year,
00:32:36I asked him to move
00:32:37one box of books for me.
00:32:39He said his back hurt
00:32:41and told me to hire movers.
00:32:43For Hannah's cabinet,
00:32:44he would go himself.
00:32:47Ryan,
00:32:48do you ever feel like
00:32:49you're better to Hannah
00:32:50than you are to me?
00:32:53She grew up with me.
00:32:54Being good to her is a habit.
00:32:57But you're the one I'm marrying.
00:32:59Isn't that enough?
00:33:01Enough.
00:33:06Ryan,
00:33:06can you stay home today?
00:33:08What's wrong?
00:33:09I want you to spend the day with me.
00:33:11Sure.
00:33:12I don't have plans anyway.
00:33:13Really?
00:33:14Really.
00:33:14What do you want to do?
00:33:15Nothing.
00:33:16Just stay home.
00:33:17Okay.
00:33:19Ryan.
00:33:20Hmm?
00:33:21Do you love me?
00:33:22Why ask that all of a sudden?
00:33:23I want to hear you say it once.
00:33:25I'm marrying you.
00:33:27What do you think?
00:33:28Marriage and love aren't the same thing.
00:33:30What's going on with you today?
00:33:31I just want to hear you say it.
00:33:33Maya,
00:33:34of course I...
00:33:35It's Hannah.
00:33:36Don't answer.
00:33:37Let me see.
00:33:38She says a pipe burst at her place.
00:33:39Water everywhere.
00:33:40She can call building maintenance.
00:33:42It's the weekend.
00:33:43Maintenance is off.
00:33:44Then she can call a plumber.
00:33:45By the time a plumber gets there,
00:33:46her apartment will be flooded.
00:33:47I'll go take a look.
00:33:49I'll be back soon.
00:33:49Ryan,
00:33:50you promised you wouldn't go out today.
00:33:53I know,
00:33:54but this is urgent.
00:33:55You always say that.
00:33:57A pipe burst.
00:33:58I can't just ignore it.
00:34:00What about me?
00:34:02What about you?
00:34:03You're fine.
00:34:05I was fine.
00:34:06He always thought I was fine.
00:34:09Hannah's burst pipe was urgent.
00:34:10My broken heart was not.
00:34:12In our first year together,
00:34:14when he confessed,
00:34:15he said,
00:34:16Maya,
00:34:16I want to spend my life with you.
00:34:18That day,
00:34:19he took me to a little western restaurant place
00:34:21and said we would come back every anniversary.
00:34:24He forgot the second year anniversary.
00:34:26In the third year,
00:34:27I reminded him and he said,
00:34:29It's just a bowl of noodles.
00:34:30Another day is the same.
00:34:31In the fourth and fifth years,
00:34:33I stopped mentioning it.
00:34:34He never remembered again.
00:34:36Go.
00:34:37One hour tops.
00:34:39I'll come back and be with you.
00:34:41Don't be mad.
00:34:44One hour passed.
00:34:46Then two.
00:34:48Then three.
00:34:51Almost done.
00:34:52The pipe's fixed,
00:34:52but there's water everywhere.
00:34:53I'm helping her mop.
00:34:55When are you coming back?
00:34:56Soon.
00:34:59Another hour passed.
00:35:02He texted,
00:35:03Hannah says thank you for letting me come.
00:35:05She's treating me to lunch.
00:35:06I'll head back after.
00:35:08I didn't reply.
00:35:10Then he sent,
00:35:11Eat first.
00:35:11Don't wait for me.
00:35:15I had asked whether he loved me.
00:35:17He never finished the sentence.
00:35:19Because Hannah's phone call mattered more than my question.
00:35:22I didn't actually own much in this home.
00:35:24One suitcase for clothes,
00:35:25half a suitcase for books and small things.
00:35:27On the bathroom counter,
00:35:28I had only a toothbrush and a bottle of cleanser.
00:35:31Hannah had more here than I did.
00:35:33Canvas shoes,
00:35:34a jacket,
00:35:35a mug,
00:35:36a tube of lipstick.
00:35:38Ryan,
00:35:38I canceled the condo.
00:35:41I'm returning the ring.
00:35:43I'm returning the five fridge magnets too.
00:35:46Find someone else for the honeymoon.
00:35:48Hers.
00:35:49All of it.
00:35:51This home was full of Ryan and Hannah.
00:35:54My whole life here
00:35:55fit into two suitcases.
00:35:59Where to?
00:36:01The train station.
00:36:03Three hours later,
00:36:05the train arrived.
00:36:06In this new city,
00:36:07no one waited at the exit.
00:36:10This time,
00:36:11I didn't mind.
00:36:28When I canceled the condo,
00:36:30the realtor stared at me.
00:36:35You've already paid the $45,000 down payment.
00:36:39Aren't you waiting for your fiancé to come back and sign with you?
00:36:42No.
00:36:43He's busy taking his first love shopping near Mount Fuji.
00:36:46For five years,
00:36:47every winter,
00:36:48Ryan Hale went to Japan.
00:36:50He called it business.
00:36:52But the photos he posted
00:36:54were always of Fuji's snow-covered peak.
00:36:56Whenever I asked when he would take me there for our honeymoon,
00:36:58he said,
00:36:59next time.
00:37:00Then yesterday,
00:37:01in an old camera he'd left at home,
00:37:02I found dozens of pictures.
00:37:04The same woman,
00:37:06the same angles,
00:37:07the same background.
00:37:08Cherry blossoms,
00:37:09white snow,
00:37:10Mount Fuji.
00:37:11The only trip he had ever taken with me
00:37:13was to the next city over
00:37:14to look at this condo.
00:37:15Maya,
00:37:15we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:37:16We just need a real life together.
00:37:20I believed him.
00:37:21When it was time to sign the cancellation papers,
00:37:24I looked at the condo I had decorated myself
00:37:26and suddenly broke down.
00:37:27I cried so hard I could barely breathe.
00:37:29Do you still want to cancel?
00:37:32Yes.
00:37:33My resignation had already been approved.
00:37:35This was my last night in the city.
00:37:38Mount Fuji would never come to me.
00:37:41But I could walk away.
00:37:46Maya,
00:37:47did you really cancel it?
00:37:48I did.
00:37:50The down payment was $45,000.
00:37:52You just canceled it by yourself?
00:37:54Yes.
00:37:55Does Ryan know?
00:37:56He's in Japan.
00:37:57For work?
00:37:58I didn't answer.
00:37:59Did you tell him?
00:38:00No.
00:38:01Maya,
00:38:02even if you're fighting,
00:38:03the condo isn't something you can just...
00:38:04I found dozens of photos in his old camera.
00:38:07Same woman,
00:38:08same mountain,
00:38:08five years.
00:38:10Hannah Pierce?
00:38:11Yes.
00:38:12Are you sure it's not a misunderstanding?
00:38:14What kind of business trip involves
00:38:16photographing the same woman
00:38:17in the same place for five winters?
00:38:19Claire stopped talking.
00:38:25On the way,
00:38:26Ryan sent me a text.
00:38:27A photo.
00:38:28Hot chocolate in a white ceramic cup.
00:38:30A little deer was painted on the side.
00:38:32Caption,
00:38:32It's snowing in Tokyo.
00:38:34Freezing.
00:38:35I recognize that cup.
00:38:37He had sent me almost the same photo last winter.
00:38:39Same angle,
00:38:40same composition.
00:38:41Back then,
00:38:42I asked him which cafe it was.
00:38:43He said he'd wandered in at random
00:38:45and couldn't remember.
00:38:45But there was another photo in the old camera.
00:38:48A scarf I'd never seen.
00:38:49Five years.
00:38:50Every winter.
00:38:52The same cafe.
00:38:53The same cup of hot chocolate.
00:38:55The same woman.
00:38:56And what he sent me was always food
00:38:58and scenery.
00:38:59Never the person beside him.
00:39:06Size five.
00:39:07I wore a seven.
00:39:09Rye,
00:39:09wear this pair next time.
00:39:10The last ones rubbed your heels.
00:39:12Rye,
00:39:13five years together.
00:39:15And I had never known he had a nickname.
00:39:17He had never let me call him that.
00:39:23The note field read,
00:39:25Hannah's birthday gift.
00:39:27Hannah's birthday was February 15th.
00:39:30Mine was March 9th.
00:39:32Last March 9th,
00:39:33I asked Ryan if he could have dinner with me.
00:39:35He said he had a business dinner.
00:39:36I waited until 11 that night before he texted.
00:39:38Just got home.
00:39:39You asleep?
00:39:40Happy birthday.
00:39:41I'll make it up to you.
00:39:42Make it up.
00:39:43Just like next time.
00:39:44Neither ever came true.
00:39:473,000 photos on his backup phone.
00:39:4911 of me.
00:39:50Seven were from the first year we dated.
00:39:52In the next four years,
00:39:53there were four.
00:39:54There was a folder called Tokyo Snow.
00:39:56Every shot was beautifully framed,
00:39:57softened by light,
00:39:58like a magazine spread.
00:40:00When he took pictures of me,
00:40:01he always tapped the shutter once
00:40:02and handed the phone back.
00:40:03No angle,
00:40:04no light,
00:40:05no care.
00:40:06Can you try to take one where I look nice?
00:40:09It's just a photo.
00:40:10Good enough.
00:40:11Good enough.
00:40:12Those two words were what he gave me most.
00:40:15Did you eat?
00:40:17Yes.
00:40:17I'll be back the day after tomorrow.
00:40:19Flight lands at 3.
00:40:20Okay.
00:40:21Your voice sounds off.
00:40:23I'm tired.
00:40:24Sleep early.
00:40:26Rye,
00:40:26the car's here.
00:40:28Coming.
00:40:29Hannah's calling me.
00:40:30I have to go.
00:40:30Why is she at your hotel?
00:40:31She's staying next door.
00:40:32We're just going out to eat.
00:40:33Every year?
00:40:34Our schedules happen to overlap.
00:40:35Don't overthink it.
00:40:36He smiled naturally,
00:40:36as if explaining something
00:40:37that did not need an explanation.
00:40:39Oh,
00:40:39I got you a fridge magnet.
00:40:40Took forever to pick one.
00:40:43Five years of love.
00:40:45Every souvenir I had ever received from Japan.
00:40:47Hannah got hot spring hotels,
00:40:49kimono experiences,
00:40:50birthday surprises,
00:40:51and a nickname only she could use.
00:40:54Cute, right?
00:40:55Hannah helped me pick it.
00:40:56Even the gift he bought for me
00:40:57had her fingerprints on it.
00:40:59I typed,
00:41:00What did you bring, Hannah?
00:41:00I replied with one word.
00:41:02Nice.
00:41:08Your fridge magnet.
00:41:12What's that?
00:41:13For Hannah.
00:41:13A scarf.
00:41:14She said she liked the patterns in Tokyo.
00:41:16Last winter,
00:41:17I told him I wanted a cashmere scarf.
00:41:19He said,
00:41:21Why buy another scarf?
00:41:22Don't you already have several?
00:41:24The several in my closet
00:41:25were all ones I had bought myself.
00:41:27You bought her a scarf?
00:41:29She asked.
00:41:30It was on the way.
00:41:31I'm dead tired.
00:41:32Four hour flight.
00:41:34When are you taking me to Japan?
00:41:36Why bring that up all of a sudden?
00:41:37It's not sudden.
00:41:38I've been asking for five years.
00:41:40When this busy stretch is over.
00:41:42Next time, I promise.
00:41:44Next time.
00:41:45The 17th next time.
00:41:47I said nothing more.
00:41:52Maya, is Ryan back, isn't he?
00:41:54He is, Mrs. Hale.
00:41:55You two need to hurry with the wedding.
00:41:57People keep asking me about invitations.
00:41:59We're still preparing.
00:42:01Hannah came by last week
00:42:02and helped me choose candy favors.
00:42:04She picked four flavors.
00:42:05See what you think.
00:42:06Hannah helped you choose them?
00:42:08Yes.
00:42:08She said you were busy with work
00:42:10and came over on her own.
00:42:11Such a thoughtful girl.
00:42:13Mrs. Hale,
00:42:13you can tell me about wedding details.
00:42:15You don't need to trouble her.
00:42:16Trouble?
00:42:17She comes over all the time.
00:42:18Three or four times a month.
00:42:20More often than you.
00:42:21In our second year together,
00:42:22I suggested visiting his mother every week.
00:42:25Ryan said,
00:42:26No need to go that often.
00:42:27My mom doesn't like the house too lively.
00:42:29So I changed it to once a month.
00:42:32Later he said,
00:42:33You're busy.
00:42:34Once every two months is fine.
00:42:36So it wasn't that his mother disliked visitors.
00:42:38She disliked me visiting.
00:42:40Hannah came three or four times a month.
00:42:42And no one found her annoying.
00:42:44Mrs. Hale,
00:42:44I'll handle the favors.
00:42:46All right.
00:42:46But the ones Hannah picked are really good.
00:42:48Use them as a reference.
00:42:50You asked Hannah to help your mother
00:42:52choose our wedding candy?
00:42:54She wanted to go herself.
00:42:56And you knew?
00:42:57Of course.
00:42:58My mom told me.
00:42:59Why didn't you tell me?
00:43:01What was there to say?
00:43:02She was just helping.
00:43:03Why is she helping with our wedding?
00:43:06Weren't you busy?
00:43:08When did I ever say that?
00:43:10You work late every day.
00:43:12I figured you didn't have time.
00:43:14Did you ask me?
00:43:16Fine, fine.
00:43:17From now on you can do everything yourself.
00:43:18Satisfied?
00:43:22The impatience had arrived.
00:43:24It was always like this.
00:43:26First, don't overthink it.
00:43:28Then, what is there to say?
00:43:31Finally, fine.
00:43:32You're right about everything.
00:43:36Nothing was ever solved.
00:43:44Hannah's pot roast tastes just like mine.
00:43:47Hannah looked more at home in that kitchen than I ever had.
00:43:51She knew where the plates were,
00:43:53which drawer held the spices,
00:43:55what Mrs. Hale liked to eat.
00:43:56In five years, every time I visited,
00:43:58I had to ask.
00:43:59Because I went too rarely.
00:44:01Because Ryan said I didn't need to go often.
00:44:04Maya, let me be honest.
00:44:05I watched Hannah grow up.
00:44:07She and Ryan know each other inside out.
00:44:09You're a good girl,
00:44:10but you aren't very good at taking care of people.
00:44:13You should learn from Hannah.
00:44:16Why aren't you eating?
00:44:19I'm not hungry.
00:44:26What's that?
00:44:27Oh, this.
00:44:28Hannah's birthday gift.
00:44:30A necklace.
00:44:33Ryan's birthday gift.
00:44:34Ryan's birthday gift.
00:44:34Ryan's birthday gift.
00:44:34Ryan's birthday gift.
00:44:36Ryan's birthday gift.
00:44:36Custom made.
00:44:37Took two months.
00:44:39Our engagement ring had been bought online.
00:44:41When it arrived,
00:44:42he opened the package
00:44:43and slid it directly onto my finger.
00:44:46I wanted to choose one in a store.
00:44:48Rings are all the same.
00:44:50No need to make a trip.
00:44:52You had a necklace custom made for her?
00:44:55It's her birthday.
00:44:57Just something small.
00:44:59What did you give me on my birthday?
00:45:02Last year,
00:45:03I think I sent you money.
00:45:07You didn't.
00:45:09Then I forgot.
00:45:11I'll make it up next time.
00:45:14Next time.
00:45:15Always next time.
00:45:19Ryan,
00:45:20do you think what we have is normal?
00:45:22Why wouldn't it be?
00:45:24You custom order Hannah a necklace
00:45:26and buy me a fridge magnet.
00:45:29You celebrate her birthday
00:45:30and forget mine.
00:45:32You let her go to your mother's house
00:45:34while I don't even get the chance.
00:45:36Do you think that's normal?
00:45:40You're doing this again.
00:45:42Hannah and I grew up together.
00:45:44What's wrong with me being nice to her?
00:45:46What about me?
00:45:49Am I not good to you?
00:45:51We've dated for five years,
00:45:53bought a condo,
00:45:54and we're getting married.
00:45:55Isn't that enough?
00:45:56Maya,
00:45:56we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:45:58A steady life matters more than anything.
00:46:01All that flashy stuff.
00:46:02Hot spring hotels were flashy.
00:46:05Custom necklaces were flashy.
00:46:07Birthday surprises were flashy.
00:46:10He gave all the flashy things to Hannah.
00:46:12What he left me
00:46:13was a steady life.
00:46:16You're right.
00:46:20Let's live steadily.
00:46:24The next day,
00:46:26Ryan's college friend Owen texted me.
00:46:28Maya,
00:46:28we're having a get-together Saturday.
00:46:30Are you coming?
00:46:31What get-together?
00:46:32Old classmates.
00:46:34Hannah will be there too.
00:46:35Hannah would be there too.
00:46:36Of course.
00:46:41The necklace Ryan had made.
00:46:43On her.
00:46:45Rye!
00:46:46Maya's here!
00:46:47Don't call her that like she's already family.
00:46:49They're not married yet.
00:46:51Set a date?
00:46:52We're still looking.
00:46:54Hannah's helped a lot, right?
00:46:55Your mom said she runs over all the time.
00:46:57She's just helpful.
00:46:58I'm only helping a little.
00:46:59Maya's so busy.
00:47:00She called me by name with such warmth,
00:47:01but my fiancé's custom necklace
00:47:03was sitting at her throat.
00:47:04Hannah,
00:47:04that's a gorgeous necklace.
00:47:06Who gave it to you?
00:47:08A friend.
00:47:09What kind of friend is that generous?
00:47:11It's custom, isn't it?
00:47:13I gave it to her.
00:47:14Birthday gift.
00:47:15I bought it casually.
00:47:16Casually.
00:47:18Two months for a custom order.
00:47:20And he called it casual.
00:47:21You bought one for your fiancé too, right?
00:47:23Maya doesn't like wearing things like that.
00:47:25It wasn't that I didn't like them.
00:47:27He had never bought me any,
00:47:28so he assumed I didn't like them.
00:47:30You don't mind, do you, Maya?
00:47:31No.
00:47:32You're so generous.
00:47:33Halfway through dinner,
00:47:35Owen started making trouble.
00:47:36Come on, let's test how well you know each other.
00:47:38Ryan, what's your fiancé's favorite flower?
00:47:40Roses?
00:47:41No.
00:47:41Lisianthus.
00:47:42Her birthday?
00:47:43March 9th?
00:47:44He got it right only after a pause.
00:47:45What is she most afraid of?
00:47:47She isn't afraid of anything.
00:47:48Maya's brave.
00:47:49I was afraid of the dark.
00:47:50I told him that our first year together.
00:47:52He had forgotten.
00:47:53Terrible.
00:47:54Hannah, your turn.
00:47:55What's Ryan's favorite coffee?
00:47:57Americano.
00:47:58Light sugar.
00:47:59Warm.
00:47:59What is he most afraid of?
00:48:01Thunder.
00:48:02When he was little,
00:48:03lightning hit a tree in his yard and he cried.
00:48:06His catchphrase?
00:48:07Good enough.
00:48:09Hannah knows Ryan better than his fiancé.
00:48:12We've known each other ten years.
00:48:13Ten years.
00:48:13She had known him ten.
00:48:14I had known him five.
00:48:16She knew he was afraid of thunder.
00:48:17I didn't.
00:48:18It wasn't that I didn't want to know him.
00:48:20He had never told me.
00:48:22With me, every answer was whatever, anything,
00:48:24nothing worth telling.
00:48:25With Hannah, he lit up like a different person.
00:48:33Maya, I want to say something.
00:48:35Don't take it the wrong way.
00:48:37Say it.
00:48:38Rye can be careless, but he's not a bad man.
00:48:41Don't be too hard on him.
00:48:43I'm not.
00:48:44He told me you've been emotional lately,
00:48:46always getting upset over things about me.
00:48:49He had told Hannah about the problems between us.
00:48:52Maya, I'll be blunt.
00:48:54If you can't give him even this much trust,
00:48:58then what's the point of marrying him?
00:49:00He goes to Japan with you every year.
00:49:02What exactly am I supposed to trust?
00:49:05Those are business trips.
00:49:06Business trips don't happen in the same place every year,
00:49:09at the same hotel,
00:49:11photographing the same woman.
00:49:13Maya,
00:49:14Rye and I are friends.
00:49:16If you insist on imagining something else,
00:49:18that's your problem.
00:49:21By the way,
00:49:23for the living room wall in your condo,
00:49:25I suggested warm gray.
00:49:26Rye thinks it looks better than the cream white you chose.
00:49:29The living room wall.
00:49:31I had chosen cream white
00:49:32and watched the workers paint it twice.
00:49:35Ryan had not gone there once,
00:49:36but he had let Hannah give opinions,
00:49:38and he liked hers better than mine.
00:49:45What took so long?
00:49:47Washing my hands.
00:49:48Let's go.
00:49:49We'll drop Hannah off.
00:49:52Can't she go by herself?
00:49:54It's on the way.
00:49:57Hannah lived on the east side.
00:49:59We lived on the west side.
00:50:02On what planet was that on the way?
00:50:05You take her.
00:50:06I'll get a cab.
00:50:08Don't make a scene.
00:50:09Come on.
00:50:14Rye,
00:50:15remember this song?
00:50:16It played in that izakaya in Tokyo last year.
00:50:19I remember.
00:50:20You even sang along.
00:50:22In the back seat,
00:50:23I was an extra passenger.
00:50:28Maya,
00:50:29rest early.
00:50:30Rye,
00:50:31don't forget that thing next week.
00:50:32I know.
00:50:38What thing?
00:50:40Helping her move a cabinet.
00:50:42She can hire movers.
00:50:44Why waste money on that?
00:50:47Last year,
00:50:48I asked him to move one box of books for me.
00:50:51He said his back hurt
00:50:52and told me to hire movers.
00:50:55For Hannah's cabinet,
00:50:56he would go himself.
00:50:59Ryan,
00:51:00do you ever feel like
00:51:01you're better to Hannah
00:51:02than you are to me?
00:51:05She grew up with me.
00:51:07Being good to her is a habit.
00:51:09But you're the one I'm marrying.
00:51:10Isn't that enough?
00:51:13Enough.
00:51:18Ryan,
00:51:18can you stay home today?
00:51:20What's wrong?
00:51:21I want you to spend the day with me.
00:51:23Sure.
00:51:24I don't have plans anyway.
00:51:25Really?
00:51:26Really.
00:51:26What do you want to do?
00:51:27Nothing.
00:51:28Just stay home.
00:51:29Okay.
00:51:31Ryan.
00:51:32Hmm?
00:51:33Do you love me?
00:51:34Why ask that all of a sudden?
00:51:35I want to hear you say it once.
00:51:37I'm marrying you.
00:51:39What do you think?
00:51:40Marriage and love aren't the same thing.
00:51:42What's going on with you today?
00:51:43I just want to hear you say it.
00:51:45Maya, of course I-
00:51:47It's Hannah.
00:51:48Don't answer.
00:51:49Let me see.
00:51:50She says a pipe burst at her place.
00:51:51Water everywhere.
00:51:52She can call building maintenance.
00:51:54It's the weekend.
00:51:55Maintenance is off.
00:51:55Then she can call a plumber.
00:51:57By the time a plumber gets there,
00:51:58her apartment will be flooded.
00:51:59I'll go take a look.
00:52:00I'll be back soon.
00:52:01Ryan, you promised you wouldn't go out today.
00:52:05I know, but this is urgent.
00:52:07You always say that.
00:52:09A pipe burst.
00:52:10I can't just ignore it.
00:52:12What about me?
00:52:14What about you?
00:52:15You're fine.
00:52:17I was fine.
00:52:18He always thought I was fine.
00:52:21Hannah's burst pipe was urgent.
00:52:22My broken heart was not.
00:52:24In our first year together,
00:52:26when he confessed,
00:52:27he said,
00:52:28Maya, I want to spend my life with you.
00:52:30That day,
00:52:31he took me to a little western restaurant place
00:52:33and said we would come back every anniversary.
00:52:36He forgot the second year anniversary.
00:52:38In the third year,
00:52:39I reminded him and he said,
00:52:41It's just a bowl of noodles.
00:52:42Another day is the same.
00:52:43In the fourth and fifth years,
00:52:44I stopped mentioning it.
00:52:46He never remembered again.
00:52:48Go.
00:52:48One hour tops.
00:52:51I'll come back and be with you.
00:52:53Don't be mad.
00:52:56One hour passed.
00:52:58Then two.
00:53:00Then three.
00:53:03Almost done.
00:53:04The pipe's fixed,
00:53:04but there's water everywhere.
00:53:05I'm helping her mop.
00:53:06When are you coming back?
00:53:08Soon.
00:53:11Another hour passed.
00:53:13He texted,
00:53:15Hannah says thank you for letting me come.
00:53:17She's treating me to lunch.
00:53:18I'll head back after.
00:53:19I didn't reply.
00:53:21Then he sent,
00:53:23Eat first.
00:53:23Don't wait for me.
00:53:27I had asked whether he loved me.
00:53:29He never finished the sentence.
00:53:31Because Hannah's phone call mattered more than my question.
00:53:34I didn't actually own much in this home.
00:53:36One suitcase for clothes,
00:53:37half a suitcase for books and small things.
00:53:39On the bathroom counter,
00:53:40I had only a toothbrush and a bottle of cleanser.
00:53:43Hannah had more here than I did.
00:53:45Canvas juice,
00:53:46a jacket,
00:53:47a mug,
00:53:47a tube of lipstick.
00:53:50Ryan,
00:53:50I canceled the condo.
00:53:53I'm returning the ring.
00:53:55I'm returning the five fridge magnets, too.
00:53:58Find someone else for the honeymoon.
00:54:01Hers.
00:54:01All of it.
00:54:03This home was full of Ryan and Hannah.
00:54:06My whole life here
00:54:07fit into two suitcases.
00:54:11Where to?
00:54:13The train station.
00:54:15Three hours later,
00:54:17the train arrived.
00:54:18In this new city,
00:54:19no one waited at the exit.
00:54:22This time,
00:54:23I didn't mind.
00:54:34I didn't mind.
00:54:40When I canceled the condo,
00:54:42the realtor stared at me.
00:54:47You've already paid the $45,000 down payment.
00:54:51Aren't you waiting for your fiancé to come back and sign with you?
00:54:53No.
00:54:54He's busy taking his first love shopping near Mount Fuji.
00:54:58For five years,
00:54:59every winter,
00:55:00Ryan Hale went to Japan.
00:55:02He called it business.
00:55:03But the photos he posted
00:55:06were always of Fuji's snow-covered peak.
00:55:08Whenever I asked when he would take me there for our honeymoon,
00:55:10he said,
00:55:11next time.
00:55:12Then yesterday,
00:55:13in an old camera he'd left at home,
00:55:14I found dozens of pictures.
00:55:16The same woman,
00:55:18the same angles,
00:55:19the same background.
00:55:20Cherry blossoms,
00:55:21white snow,
00:55:22Mount Fuji.
00:55:23The only trip he had ever taken with me
00:55:25was to the next city over to look at this condo.
00:55:27Maya,
00:55:27we don't need all that flashy stuff.
00:55:28We just need a real life together.
00:55:32I believed him.
00:55:33When it was time to sign the cancellation papers,
00:55:35I looked at the condo I had decorated myself
00:55:37and suddenly broke down.
00:55:39I cried so hard I could barely breathe.
00:55:41Do you still want to cancel?
00:55:44Yes.
00:55:45My resignation had already been approved.
00:55:47This was my last night in the city.
00:55:50Mount Fuji would never come to me.
00:55:53But I could walk away.
00:55:58Maya,
00:55:59did you really cancel it?
00:56:00I did.
00:56:02The down payment was $45,000.
00:56:04You just canceled it by yourself?
00:56:06Yes.
00:56:06Does Ryan know?
00:56:08He's in Japan.
00:56:09For work?
00:56:10I didn't answer.
00:56:11Did you tell him?
00:56:12No.
00:56:13Maya,
00:56:14even if you're fighting,
00:56:14the condo isn't something you can just...
00:56:16I found dozens of photos in his old camera.
00:56:19Same woman,
00:56:20same mountain,
00:56:21five years.
00:56:21Hannah Pierce?
00:56:23Yes.
00:56:24Are you sure it's not a misunderstanding?
00:56:26What kind of business trip involves photographing the same woman in the same place for five winters?
00:56:31Claire stopped talking.
00:56:37On the way,
00:56:38Ryan sent me a text.
00:56:39A photo.
00:56:40Hot chocolate in a white ceramic cup.
00:56:42A little deer was painted on the side.
00:56:44Caption,
00:56:44It's snowing in Tokyo.
00:56:46Freezing.
00:56:47I recognized that cup.
00:56:48He had sent me almost the same photo last winter.
00:56:51Same angle,
00:56:52same composition.
00:56:53Back then,
00:56:53I asked him which cafe it was.
00:56:55He said he'd wandered in at random and couldn't remember.
00:56:57But there was another photo in the old camera.
00:57:00A scarf I'd never seen.
00:57:01Five years.
00:57:02Every winter.
00:57:03The same cafe.
00:57:05The same cup of hot chocolate.
00:57:07The same woman.
00:57:08And what he sent me was always food and scenery.
00:57:11Never the person beside him.
00:57:17Size five.
00:57:19I wore a seven.
00:57:20Rye,
00:57:21wear this pair next time.
00:57:22The last ones rubbed your heels.
00:57:24Rye,
00:57:25five years together.
00:57:27And I had never known he had a nickname.
00:57:29He had never let me call him that.
00:57:35The note field read,
00:57:37Hannah's birthday gift.
00:57:39Hannah's birthday was February 15th.
00:57:42Mine was March 9th.
00:57:43Last March 9th,
00:57:45I asked Ryan if he could have dinner with me.
00:57:46He said he had a business dinner.
00:57:48I waited until 11 that night before he texted.
00:57:50Just got home.
00:57:51You asleep?
00:57:52Happy birthday.
00:57:53I'll make it up to you.
00:57:54Make it up.
00:57:55Just like next time.
00:57:56Neither ever came true.
00:57:593,000 photos on his backup phone.
00:58:0111 of me.
00:58:027 were from the first year we dated.
00:58:03In the next four years,
00:58:05there were four.
00:58:06There was a folder called Tokyo Snow.
00:58:08Every shot was beautifully framed,
00:58:09softened by light,
00:58:10like a magazine spread.
00:58:12When he took pictures of me,
00:58:13he always tapped the shutter once
00:58:14and handed the phone back.
00:58:15No angle,
00:58:16no light,
00:58:17no care.
00:58:18Can you try to take one where I look nice?
00:58:20It's just a photo.
00:58:22Good enough.
00:58:23Good enough.
00:58:24Those two words were what he gave me most.
00:58:27Did you eat?
00:58:28Yes.
00:58:29I'll be back the day after tomorrow.
00:58:31Flight lands at 3.
00:58:32Okay.
00:58:33Your voice sounds off.
00:58:35I'm tired.
00:58:36Sleep early.
00:58:38Rye,
00:58:38the car's here.
00:58:39Coming.
00:58:41Hannah's calling me.
00:58:42I have to go.
00:58:42Why is she at your hotel?
00:58:43She's staying next door.
00:58:44We're just going out to eat.
00:58:45Every year?
00:58:45Our schedules happen to overlap.
00:58:47Don't overthink it.
00:58:47He smiled naturally,
00:58:48as if explaining something
00:58:49that did not need an explanation.
00:58:51Oh,
00:58:51I got you a fridge magnet.
00:58:52Took forever to pick one.
00:58:55Five years of love.
00:58:57Every souvenir I had ever received from Japan.
00:58:59Hannah got hot spring hotels,
00:59:01kimono experiences,
00:59:02birthday surprises,
00:59:03and a nickname only she could use.
00:59:06Cute, right?
00:59:07Hannah helped me pick it.
00:59:08Even the gift he bought for me
00:59:09had her fingerprints on it.
00:59:11I typed,
00:59:11What did you bring, Hannah?
00:59:12I replied with one word.
00:59:14Nice.
00:59:20Your fridge magnet.
00:59:24What's that?
00:59:25For Hannah.
00:59:25A scarf.
00:59:26She said she liked the patterns in Tokyo.
00:59:28Last winter,
00:59:29I told him I wanted a cashmere scarf.
00:59:31He said,
00:59:33Why buy another scarf?
00:59:34Don't you already have several?
00:59:36The several in my closet
00:59:37were all ones I had bought myself.
00:59:39You bought her a scarf?
00:59:41She asked.
00:59:42It was on the way.
00:59:43I'm dead tired.
00:59:44Four hour flight.
00:59:46When are you taking me to Japan?
00:59:48Why bring that up all of a sudden?
00:59:49It's not sudden.
00:59:50I've been asking for five years.
00:59:52When this busy stretch is over.
00:59:54Next time, I promise.
00:59:56Next time.
00:59:57The 17th next time.
00:59:59I said nothing more.
01:00:04Maya, is Ryan back, isn't he?
01:00:06He is, Mrs. Hale.
01:00:07You two need to hurry with the wedding.
01:00:09People keep asking me about invitations.
01:00:11We're still preparing.
01:00:13Hannah came by last week
01:00:14and helped me choose candy favors.
01:00:16She picked four flavors.
01:00:17See what you think.
01:00:18Hannah helped you choose them?
01:00:20Yes.
01:00:20She said you were busy with work
01:00:21and came over on her own.
01:00:23Such a thoughtful girl.
01:00:24Mrs. Hale,
01:00:25you can tell me about wedding details.
01:00:27You don't need to trouble her.
01:00:28Trouble?
01:00:28She comes over all the time.
01:00:30Three or four times a month.
01:00:31More often than you.
01:00:33In our second year together,
01:00:34I suggested visiting his mother every week.
01:00:36Ryan said,
01:00:38No need to go that often.
01:00:39My mom doesn't like the house too lively.
01:00:41So I changed it to once a month.
01:00:44Later, he said,
01:00:45You're busy.
01:00:46Once every two months is fine.
01:00:48So it wasn't that his mother disliked visitors.
01:00:50She disliked me visiting.
01:00:52Hannah came three or four times a month
01:00:53and no one found her annoying.
01:00:55Mrs. Hale,
01:00:56I'll handle the favors.
01:00:57All right.
01:00:58But the ones Hannah picked are really good.
01:01:00Use them as a reference.
01:01:02You asked Hannah to help your mother
01:01:04choose our wedding candy?
01:01:06She wanted to go herself.
01:01:08And you knew?
01:01:09Of course.
01:01:10My mom told me.
01:01:11Why didn't you tell me?
01:01:13What was there to say?
01:01:14She was just helping.
01:01:16Why is she helping with our wedding?
01:01:18Weren't you busy?
01:01:20When did I ever say that?
01:01:22You work late every day.
01:01:24I figured you didn't have time.
01:01:26Did you ask me?
01:01:28Fine, fine.
01:01:29From now on,
01:01:29you can do everything yourself.
01:01:30Satisfied?
01:01:34The impatience had arrived.
01:01:36It was always like this.
01:01:38First,
01:01:38don't overthink it.
01:01:40Then,
01:01:41what is there to say?
01:01:43Finally,
01:01:43fine,
01:01:44you're right about everything.
01:01:47Nothing was ever solved.
01:01:55Hannah's pot roast tastes just like mine.
01:01:59Hannah looked more at home in that kitchen than I ever had.
01:02:03She knew where the plates were,
01:02:05which drawer held the spices,
01:02:06what Mrs. Hale liked to eat.
01:02:08In five years,
01:02:09every time I visited,
01:02:10I had to ask.
01:02:11Because I went too rarely.
01:02:13Because Ryan said I didn't need to go often.
01:02:16Maya, let me be honest.
01:02:17I watched Hannah grow up.
01:02:18She and Ryan know each other inside out.
01:02:21You're a good girl,
01:02:22but you aren't very good at taking care of people.
01:02:24You should learn from Hannah.
01:02:28Why aren't you eating?
01:02:31I'm not hungry.
01:02:38What's that?
01:02:39Oh, this.
01:02:40Hannah's birthday gift.
01:02:42A necklace.
01:02:45Ryan's are.
01:02:48Custom made.
01:02:49Took two months.
01:02:51Our engagement ring had been bought online.
01:02:53When it arrived,
01:02:54he opened the package
01:02:55and slid it directly onto my finger.
01:02:58I wanted to choose one in a store.
01:03:00Rings are all the same.
01:03:02No need to make a trip.
01:03:04You had a necklace custom made for her?
01:03:07It's her birthday.
01:03:09Just something small.
01:03:11What did you give me on my birthday?
01:03:13Last year,
01:03:15I think I sent you money?
01:03:19You didn't.
01:03:21Then I forgot.
01:03:23I'll make it up next time.
01:03:25Next time.
01:03:27Always next time.
01:03:31Ryan,
01:03:32do you think what we have is normal?
01:03:34Why wouldn't it be?
01:03:36You custom order Hannah a necklace
01:03:38and buy me a fridge magnet?
01:03:41You celebrate her birthday
01:03:42and forget mine?
01:03:44You let her go to your mother's house
01:03:46while I don't even get the chance.
01:03:48Do you think that's normal?
01:03:52You're doing this again.
01:03:54Hannah and I grew up together.
01:03:56What's wrong with me being nice to her?
01:03:58What about me?
01:04:01Am I not good to you?
01:04:02We've dated for five years,
01:04:05bought a condo,
01:04:05and we're getting married.
01:04:07Isn't that enough?
01:04:08Maya, we don't need all that flashy stuff.
01:04:10A steady life matters more than anything.
01:04:13All that flashy stuff.
01:04:14Hot spring hotels were flashy.
01:04:17Custom necklaces were flashy.
01:04:19Birthday surprises were flashy.
01:04:21He gave all the flashy things to Hannah.
01:04:23What he left me was a steady life.
01:04:28You're right.
01:04:31Let's live steadily.
01:04:36The next day,
01:04:38Ryan's college friend Owen texted me.
01:04:40Maya, we're having a get-together Saturday.
01:04:42Are you coming?
01:04:43What get-together?
01:04:44Old classmates.
01:04:46Hannah will be there too.
01:04:47Hannah would be there too.
01:04:48Of course.
01:04:53The necklace Ryan had made.
01:04:55On her.
01:04:57Rye!
01:04:58Maya's here!
01:04:59Don't call her that like she's already family.
01:05:01They're not married yet.
01:05:02Set a date?
01:05:04We're still looking.
01:05:06Hannah's helped a lot, right?
01:05:07Your mom said she runs over all the time.
01:05:09She's just helpful.
01:05:10I'm only helping a little.
01:05:11Maya's so busy.
01:05:12She called me by name with such warmth,
01:05:13but my fiancé's custom necklace was sitting at her throat.
01:05:16Hannah, that's a gorgeous necklace.
01:05:18Who gave it to you?
01:05:20A friend.
01:05:21What kind of friend is that generous?
01:05:23It's custom, isn't it?
01:05:25I gave it to her.
01:05:26Birthday gift.
01:05:27I bought it casually.
01:05:28Casually.
01:05:30Two months for a custom order.
01:05:31And he called it casual.
01:05:33You bought one for your fiancé too, right?
01:05:35Maya doesn't like wearing things like that.
01:05:37It wasn't that I didn't like them.
01:05:39He had never bought me any,
01:05:40so he assumed I didn't like them.
01:05:42You don't mind, do you, Maya?
01:05:43No.
01:05:44You're so generous.
01:05:45Halfway through dinner,
01:05:46Owen started making trouble.
01:05:48Come on, let's test how well you know each other.
01:05:50Ryan, what's your fiancé's favorite flower?
01:05:52Roses?
01:05:52No, Lysianthus.
01:05:54Her birthday?
01:05:55March 9th?
01:05:56He got it right only after a pause.
01:05:57What is she most afraid of?
01:05:58She isn't afraid of anything.
01:06:00Maya's brave.
01:06:01I was afraid of the dark.
01:06:02I told him that our first year together.
01:06:04He had forgotten.
01:06:05Terrible.
01:06:06Hannah, your turn.
01:06:07What's Ryan's favorite coffee?
01:06:09Americano.
01:06:10Light sugar.
01:06:11Warm.
01:06:11What is he most afraid of?
01:06:13Thunder.
01:06:14When he was little,
01:06:15lightning hit a tree in his yard and he cried.
01:06:18His catchphrase?
01:06:19Good enough.
01:06:21Hannah knows Ryan better than his fiancé.
01:06:24We've known each other ten years.
01:06:25Ten years.
01:06:25She had known him ten.
01:06:26I had known him five.
01:06:28She knew he was afraid of thunder.
01:06:29I didn't.
01:06:30It wasn't that I didn't want to know him.
01:06:32He had never told me.
01:06:34With me, every answer was whatever, anything, nothing worth telling.
01:06:38With Hannah, he lit up like a different person.
01:06:45Maya, I want to say something.
01:06:47Don't take it the wrong way.
01:06:49Say it.
01:06:50Rye can be careless, but he's not a bad man.
01:06:52Don't be too hard on him.
01:06:54I'm not.
01:06:56He told me you've been emotional lately, always getting upset over things about me.
01:07:01He had told Hannah about the problems between us.
01:07:03Maya, I'll be blunt.
01:07:06If you can't give him even this much trust, then what's the point of marrying him?
01:07:12He goes to Japan with you every year.
01:07:14What exactly am I supposed to trust?
01:07:17Those are business trips.
01:07:18Business trips don't happen in the same place every year, at the same hotel, photographing the same woman.
01:07:25Maya, Rye and I are friends.
01:07:28If you insist on imagining something else, that's your problem.
01:07:33By the way, for the living room wall in your condo, I suggested warm gray.
01:07:38Rye thinks it looks better than the cream white you chose.
01:07:41The living room wall.
01:07:43I had chosen cream white and watched the workers paint it twice.
01:07:47Ryan had not gone there once, but he had let Hannah give opinions, and he liked hers better than mine.
01:07:57What took so long?
01:07:59Washing my hands.
01:08:01Let's go.
01:08:01We'll drop Hannah off.
01:08:04Can't she go by herself?
01:08:06It's on the way.
01:08:09Hannah lived on the east side.
01:08:11We lived on the west side.
01:08:13On what planet was that on the way?
01:08:17You take her.
01:08:18I'll get a cab.
01:08:20Don't make a scene.
01:08:21Come on.
01:08:26Rye, remember this song?
01:08:28It played in that izakaya in Tokyo last year.
01:08:31I remember.
01:08:31You even sang along.
01:08:34In the back seat, I was an extra passenger.
01:08:40Maya, rest early.
01:08:42Rye, don't forget that thing next week.
01:08:44I know.
01:08:50What thing?
01:08:52Helping her move a cabinet.
01:08:54She can hire movers.
01:08:56Why waste money on that?
01:08:59Last year, I asked him to move one box of books for me.
01:09:03He said his back hurt and told me to hire movers.
01:09:07For Hannah's cabinet, he would go himself.
01:09:11Ryan, do you ever feel like you're better to Hannah than you are to me?
01:09:17She grew up with me.
01:09:18Being good to her is a habit.
01:09:20But you're the one I'm marrying.
01:09:22Isn't that enough?
01:09:25Enough.
01:09:29Ryan, can you stay home today?
01:09:32What's wrong?
01:09:33I want you to spend the day with me.
01:09:35Sure.
01:09:36I don't have plans anyway.
01:09:37Really?
01:09:38Really.
01:09:38What do you want to do?
01:09:39Nothing.
01:09:40Just stay home.
01:09:41Okay.
01:09:43Ryan.
01:09:44Do you love me?
01:09:46Why ask that all of a sudden?
01:09:47I want to hear you say it once.
01:09:49I'm marrying you.
01:09:51What do you think?
01:09:52Marriage and love aren't the same thing.
01:09:54What's going on with you today?
01:09:55I just want to hear you say it.
01:09:57Maya, of course I-
01:09:59It's Hannah.
01:10:00Don't answer.
01:10:01Let me see.
01:10:02She says a pipe burst at her place.
01:10:03Water everywhere.
01:10:04She can call building maintenance.
01:10:06It's the weekend.
01:10:07Maintenance is off.
01:10:07Then she can call a plumber.
01:10:09By the time a plumber gets there, her apartment will be flooded.
01:10:11I'll go take a look.
01:10:12I'll be back soon.
01:10:13Ryan, you promised you wouldn't go out today.
01:10:17I know, but this is urgent.
01:10:19You always say that.
01:10:21A pipe burst.
01:10:22I can't just ignore it.
01:10:24What about me?
01:10:26What about you?
01:10:27You're fine.
01:10:29I was fine.
01:10:30He always thought I was fine.
01:10:33Hannah's burst pipe was urgent.
01:10:34My broken heart was not.
01:10:36In our first year together, when he confessed, he said,
01:10:40Maya, I want to spend my life with you.
01:10:42That day, he took me to a little western restaurant place
01:10:45and said we would come back every anniversary.
01:10:48He forgot the second year anniversary.
01:10:50In the third year, I reminded him and he said,
01:10:52It's just a bowl of noodles.
01:10:54Another day is the same.
01:10:55In the fourth and fifth years, I stopped mentioning it.
01:10:58He never remembered again.
01:11:00Go.
01:11:01One hour tops.
01:11:03I'll come back and be with you.
01:11:05Don't be mad.
01:11:08One hour passed.
01:11:10Then two.
01:11:12Then three.
01:11:15Almost done.
01:11:16The pipe's fixed, but there's water everywhere.
01:11:17I'm helping her mop.
01:11:18When are you coming back?
01:11:20Soon.
01:11:23Another hour passed.
01:11:26He texted,
01:11:27Hannah says thank you for letting me come.
01:11:29She's treating me to lunch.
01:11:30I'll head back after.
01:11:31I didn't reply.
01:11:33Then he sent,
01:11:35Eat first.
01:11:35Don't wait for me.
01:11:39I had asked whether he loved me.
01:11:41He never finished the sentence.
01:11:43Because Hannah's phone call mattered more than my question.
01:11:45I didn't actually own much in this home.
01:11:48One suitcase for clothes,
01:11:49half a suitcase for books and small things.
01:11:51On the bathroom counter,
01:11:52I had only a toothbrush and a bottle of cleanser.
01:11:55Hannah had more here than I did.
01:11:57Canvas shoes.
01:11:58A jacket.
01:11:59A mug.
01:11:59A tube of lipstick.
01:12:02Ryan,
01:12:02I canceled the condo.
01:12:04I'm returning the ring.
01:12:06I'm returning the five fridge magnets, too.
01:12:10Find someone else for the honeymoon.
01:12:12Hers.
01:12:13All of it.
01:12:14This home was full of Ryan and Hannah.
01:12:18My whole life here fit into two suitcases.
01:12:23Where to?
01:12:24The train station.
01:12:27Three hours later,
01:12:29the train arrived.
01:12:30In this new city,
01:12:31no one waited at the exit.
01:12:34This time,
01:12:35I didn't mind.

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