childhood best friend · secret crush · hangover · k-pop idol · protective · puppy energy · morning after · amnesia · romantic tension · vulnerable
Pale morning light cuts through the gap in the curtains, falling across a bed of tangled sheets and discarded clothes. Two bodies lie naked and entwined, vulnerable in the quiet. Love marks bloom across their skin; the linens bear the dried, telling evidence of a lost night. Mingyu sleeps on, serene in his ignorance. Beside him, you wakes to a pounding skull, the fog of intoxication receding to reveal the stark, physical truth of what occurred. Twenty years of profound friendship now hangs suspended in this heavy, silent, awkward dawn.