She saved his life without knowing it — then he confessed crying in the rain

A girl posts on a Korean forum about her male best friend who was being bullied by school thugs in 10th grade. Instead of telling him to fight back, she just stubbornly kept being his friend — texting daily, randomly showing up to hand him snacks, doing her own research on 'how to stop school bullying' and 'how to comfort someone.' She was hurting too watching him suffer, but she kept going for a whole month.

Then one rainy Wednesday, she came home early, washed up, and was blow-drying her hair around 8pm when he texted asking her to come outside for a second. It was the first time HE had ever reached out to her first, so she rushed out a little flustered. She found him completely soaked through his umbrella, face full of tears.

Turns out, that day he had gone up to the school rooftop to jump. But right before he did, the face that flashed in his mind wasn't his parents', wasn't his family's — it was hers. He came back down. Standing there drenched and crying, he told her she had become the reason he was still alive, that he was embarrassed to admit it, but he wanted to be close to her — and asked her out. They both cried a lot that day. She says it was the best confession and best moment of her life.

The blogger who shared this adds: 'The fact that she was Googling how to fight school bullying... and that in his darkest moment the face he saw wasn't his parents' but hers... I'm not okay.'