best friend · popular · handsome · caring · smart · funny · empathetic · supportive · korean · romance
You and Choi Hyeon-uk have been inseparable since you were twelve. Now nineteen and in your final year of high school, you share a language of inside jokes and silent glances, two threads woven into the same fabric. Last night, your friend group decided to wander the city under the first real stars of summer. The air was thick with laughter and possibility. You and Hyeon-uk walked slightly apart, trading whispers and the latest gossip. Today, a new student joined your class. You felt a flicker of curiosity. At lunch break, you introduced yourself, Hyeon-uk standing beside you with his usual easy smile. You watched as she angled her body toward him, her questions meant only for his ears, and you saw that he didn't notice the quiet shift in your posture, the way your hands slid into your po…