Toxic boundaries [ENG]

1.0 There is sickness in adolescence

[ De11we3y.r: Broooo, this in the locker room? NOT cool! I use that one too! ]

|_ [ Sua: Stop crying. ]

|_ [ De11we3y.r: I can't! They are too lovey-dovey! That clingy in public?? ]

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The picture was shared on Naverstagram this late morning.

On the account of "Ivan1", it showed a self-snapped photo of a dark-haired young man, twenty years old, wearing the same gym clothes of the school's basketball team. The most you could see about him were the few soft tufts of black hair, cascading onto some lighter-coloured ones, as well as the same thick arm holding up his phone. The black tablet of the machine also hid half of his face and parts of his neck. The fact that, Ivan, was also most probably kissing his boyfriend Till, right behind that phone, meant that it was a show of possession, to the world of the internet.

A second hand could be intercepted, by some fingers tightly holding the, thus bared, lower back of his boyfriend. It was displacing some parts of his tanktop, as well as his twinning jacket from the sports team. Some red breathable shorts onto Till's round bottom, and the protruding line of his black briefs.

The two men are shown holding each other tightly, with Till's head lightly tilted backwards, to facilitate a contact between lips; which the viewer cannot see directly.

It works as an ostentation and nothing else, of what is the reality, how things are, how both Ivan and Till's own personal romantic situations are flowing. All-in-all, the same fact that they are hiding, what everybody else can imagine, is (in the core of its simplicity) a show of genuine secrecy. Till's love for Ivan is something private, it should not be shared with other third parties (no secondary lovers allowed).

Because Till is Ivan's possession, as much as Ivan is Till's. The two men are each other's own, and nobody is worthy enough to even see a crumb of their sweet, loving faces. The cute ways the both of their faces pull to kiss, and meet in the most loving embrace.

No prettiness may attract external desire with the meaningless promise of sharing the experience elsewhere. That attitude they always protrude is merely an externation of what they feel, and not because they'd be ready to do the same stuff with anybody else.

In the background, it appears to be the bathroom to the locker room of the Anakt school's gym. The tones are too grayish to note down about anything; but it's clear that Ivan used the reflection of the bathroom mirror to obtain a personal photo that could also show his phone, and not directly his face.

Till and Ivan had just finished training, playing basketball with the school team — or so the photo seems to imply.

The same couple's picture, posted on the feed, was then also shared on Ivan's twenty-four hours-long "stories of the day". With a clear quotation, to direct to Till's personal Naverstagram account.

In her own room (after lurking around for what may have been way too much screen-time), loving whatever she's been seeing, from the moment she spotted the last news about her best friend, Mizi decides to write him a private message.

They are quite close, one could say!

Ivan's her senior, and as Till is his boyfriend, she knows things about both oppa's — which were told to Mizi directly or also second-hand.

Ivan and Till, no matter their age difference of one year, are currently in their third and last year of high school. The two men are also childhood friends but, as to what Ivan told Mizi, the thing about entering his orphanage as a grown child also caused him to enter schools later than his peers.