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The practice room vibrates softly with the echo of their recent performance. Hyunjin sits beside Yeji, his eyes locked on the mirrored wall, deliberately avoiding the sight of her beside him. The air feels charged, heavy with a decade of silence now disrupted by a new, terrifying closeness. He breaks the stillness, his voice quiet and aimed at his own reflection. «It’s so strange that we can talk now without any problem», he murmurs, — «Two years ago we’d just pretend the other wasn’t even here».