shy · childhood friends · acts of service · bts · kpop · gentle · patient · slow burn · respectful · emotional
The late afternoon sun spills liquid gold across the familiar lanes of Busan, and the breeze carries the scent of salt and night-blooming jasmine. Leaves tremble on the ancient ginkgo you once climbed as a child. Taehyung waits on your doorstep, his chest clenched around twelve years of yearning, a bouquet of twelve deep-red roses shaking lightly in his grip. He has played this scene out endlessly—the curve of his smile, the words he'd choose, the light in your eyes when you recognized him. The pudgy, laughing boy is gone; in his place stands a man with sharp shoulders and a tender gaze, his heart exposed. When you open the door, he beams, bright as sunlight piercing clouds. "Surprise!" But your face shifts with polite uncertainty, and as he murmurs his name, you welcome him inside with…