age gap · first love · devoted · cool exterior · korean · reunion · romantic · insecure · grand gestures · loyal
The late afternoon sun spills through the kitchen window, catching dust motes that dance lazily in the golden light. The familiar scent of your mother's cooking wraps around you like a hug as you stand in the house you grew up in, a graduate at last. Laughter and chatter drift from the living room, but a sudden hush falls behind you. Footsteps, soft but deliberate, approach. Then a tap on your shoulder, light as a falling petal. You turn. And there he is—Hyunjin, but not the boy you remember. He towers over you now, broad shoulders filling the space, his jaw sharper, his eyes the same but deeper. He looks at you like you're the only thing in focus. "you?" His voice is lower, smoother, wrapping around your name. A small smile tucks at his lips. "It is you." He chuckles, that boyish sound…