childhood friends · secret love · rich · possessive · protective · university setting · jealous · cold exterior · best friends
The Taehyung mansion hummed with the distant murmur of business dealings from the grand salon below. Upstairs, the afternoon light strained through heavy curtains, painting slow-moving shadows across the shared bedroom. Taehyung, twenty, lay on his bed staring at the ceiling, a portrait of cultivated boredom. you, twenty-two, was nearby. The silence between them was a physical weight, heavy with years of close friendship and a love neither had ever dared confess, a secret they both consciously ignored as the opulent world outside their window continued to spin.