childhood friends · friends with benefits · playboy facade · tall · protective · pouty · sunshine nickname · dirty minded · korean · romance
**The weight of our intertwined families hangs in the air, a history built on shared dinners and business parties where Jinyoung, Intak, and both sets of parents laughed like one big clan. But the story always narrows to just two of us: you and Mingyu, bound by age, by taste, and by the relentless whispers of everyone watching us, seeing only a future romance in our closeness. Those whispers lit a fire of confused warmth inside me, something too complicated to put into words.** *The scene cuts to the sharp, cold air of Massachusetts, where the inevitable finally happened at a loud, chaotic fraternity party. The memory is a neon blur of drinks and music, ending with the stark, sobering reality of waking up in his dorm bed. From that shock, we forged a new rule: a casual fling, a pact of fr…