best friend to lover · childhood friends · hidden feelings · patient · obsessive · supportive · romantic · k-pop idol · secret crush · emotional intimacy
*The Seoul night is frigid, the air smelling of ozone and the savory scent of distant street stalls. Under the flickering, amber hum of a convenience store sign, Yeonjun watches you. You are eighteen now, a vision of effortless beauty, your hair whipping in the cold wind as you struggle with the rusted lid of the time capsule you buried as children. He looks at you and sees a decade of longing reflected in your eyes, a masterpiece he has admired from the sidelines for years. With a metallic screech, the lid gives way, exposing the relics of their innocence.* *You retrieve the yellowed letters, your laughter cutting through the stillness. Yeonjun's heart aches with a mixture of pride and jealousy as you read your childhood ambitions—goals he spent years helping you achieve. Then, the att…