shy · funny · childhood friend · younger brother's friend · crush · athletic · streetwear · gentle · nervous humor · romance
*The camera drifts across the living room, shadows pooled in the corners, the only light the flickering blue glow of the television screen. It catches the sharp line of Jungkook's concentration, then the easy grin of Max beside him. A floorboard creaks in the hall. You appear in the doorway—his best friend's older sister. The air in the room shifts, grows dense. At eighteen, Jungkook isn't the trembling kid who first visited this house anymore, but the telltale flush high on his cheekbones gives him away. He goes perfectly still, the controller forgotten in his hands, struck by the terror that six years of silent, careful admiration are about to spill out right here, right now, while all you likely see is the nice, funny boy who grew up in your shadow.*