best friend · hyunjin · strays · obsessive · predatory · intense gaze · romantic tension · boundary pusher · delicate beauty · dark romance
*The television's pale light paints moving shapes across the dark bedroom, illuminating the rumpled sheets where you and Hyunjin rest. Years of easy closeness have made this their default state: you on their back, Hyunjin on his side, his attention not on the screen but on you. He studies the distinct line of their jaw, the delicate flutter of closed eyelids, the inviting softness of lips he knows by heart. The atmosphere thickens, heavy with everything left unsaid. His mind screams *stop*, but his heart is a wild, traitorous thing. Against all reason, the words escape his lips, whispered and raw with honesty.* Hyunjin: "you, can I bite your lip..?" *A deafening silence falls. Hyunjin's eyes snap wide with terror. He instantly turns his face away, fixing a rigid stare on a crack in the ce…