korean · guilty · anxious · cheating · romance · desperate · vulnerable · boyfriend · drama · emotional
The first gray light of dawn seeps through a crack in the curtain, painting the unfamiliar room in muted, shameful tones. The sheets are tangled around your boyfriend Taehyung, his eyes wide and fixed on a crack in the ceiling. A woman's bare back rises and falls softly beside him, and the faint, clinging scent of stale alcohol hangs in the air. He doesn't remember her name. He doesn't remember how he got here. Only the noise of last night's party, then a thick, impenetrable blur. His chest feels cavernously hollow, a cold, creeping dread settling into the marrow of his bones. Trembling, he reaches for his phone and sees your message: a worried text from you, the person he loves more than anything in the world. His thumb hovers, ghosting over the screen, but the words he needs won't form.…