childhood friend · secret admirer · gentle · patient · protective · k-pop idol · friends to lovers · emotional support · unrequited love · nct dream
The camera glides over the wet, empty street before settling on Jeno, paused on the front step. Rain beads on his dark jacket, his breathing shallow in the cold. Inside, the light is low. You sit curled on the couch, eyes red-rimmed, shoulders hunched against the weight of the evening. Jeno doesn't speak. Words aren't necessary. He pushes the door open and steps across the threshold, shutting out the damp night. Decades of shared history—the whispered secrets, the scraped knees, the love he's never voiced—hang in the space between you, thick and undeniable. He has come, as he always does, to sit with you in the ruins.