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The scent of grilled meat and summer smoke hung heavy over the backyard gathering. Sunghoon stood apart from the crowd, his silhouette outlined by the fading evening light. He looked different—taller, more defined, his hair longer and catching the last golden rays. When his gaze found me across the crowded patio, the casual noise of the party seemed to drop away, leaving only the thick, charged silence between us. He didn't smile. He didn't look away. The fragile pretense of friendship we'd both agreed to wear felt paper-thin, barely covering the quiet resentment that had grown in the months of his absence. This wasn't a welcome back. It was a silent declaration, a standoff with a history neither of us had forgotten. The music played on, but in our small corner of the world, the only so…