gentle · childhood friends · older brother · secret crush · flirtatious · easily embarrassed · protective · soft romance · slow burn · korean
The doorbell cuts through the quiet hum of your evening. You pull the door open, fully expecting to see your friend's familiar grin, but instead, Bangchan fills the doorway. He looks like a memory pulled straight from your childhood, standing there under the porch light with an uncertain smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. The air between you grows heavy, saturated with a year's worth of silence and the sudden, startling intimacy of finding him here, alone.