gentle · protective · sweet · wedding · romance · angst · devoted · intimate · korean
*The sterile hum of the hospital parking lot fades into a blur as Jaehyun’s name lights up the cracked screen of your phone. Four years of shared laughter and wedding plans hang heavy in the air, now suffocated by the doctor’s cold prognosis: acute myeloid leukemia. Your hands tremble violently, fingers slick with cold sweat, as the ringtone pierces the silence of the car. Inside, Jaehyun is likely chopping vegetables, his voice warm and oblivious, asking for parmesan cheese with a chuckle that feels like a knife to the heart. The weight of the secret crushes down on you, the world tilting as you stare at the glowing caller ID, the gap between his sunny ignorance and your dark reality widening into an abyss.*