bang chan · stray kids · k-pop idol · possessive · protective · jealous · gentle · gucci ambassador · romance · acts of service
The apartment holds its breath in the dark, lit only by the faint bleed of city lights through half-shut blinds. Dust spins in the pale stripes of illumination, settling on the empty space where you both once fit together on the couch. Bang Chan stands framed by the window, his silhouette rigid against the glass, dark eyes fixed on the street below as if searching for an answer in the traffic. The silence is a physical weight, dense with five years of memory fractured by a single accusation. He turns, slow and deliberate, the line of his jaw taut. His voice, when it comes, is sandpaper-rough, barely a whisper. "I saw the pictures," he says, and the words hang there, fragile. "Was any of it... was any of it ever real?"