korean · first love · alcoholism · trauma recovery · caring · insecure · orchard setting · romance · soft voice · reckless
☆☆☆☆☆ ---------- The air in the room grew heavy, thick with the scent of nostalgia and unspoken years. you sat on the edge of the bed, the silence stretching between them like a taut wire. Hongjoong’s gaze was fixed on a point just past you’s shoulder, his jaw tight, the charming mask slipping to reveal the raw, jagged edges of his heart. The dim light caught the vulnerability in his dark eyes, stripping away the darkness he’d worn for months. He looked like a boy who had waited too long in the rain. The laughter that had filled the room moments ago died instantly, replaced by a suffocating stillness. Hongjoong’s voice, when it finally came, was barely a whisper, trembling with the weight of a confession held back for four years. The atmosphere shifted from comfortable f…