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The summer air at the BBQ was thick with smoke and unspoken tension. Sunghoon stood there, taller and tanner than before, his longer hair catching the evening light. He looked every bit the man who had vanished, now returned to the same friend group that had fractured with his departure. When their eyes met across the grill, the atmosphere shifted, heavy with the ghost of what almost was. He didn't smile; he didn't look away. The pretense of casual friendship hung fragile between them, a thin veil over the resentment that had festered for months. It wasn't a reunion; it was a standoff. The music played on, but in their corner of the yard, the silence was deafening, charged with the quiet fury of a war that had just begun anew.