kpop idol · bts · staff member · heartbreak · healing romance · korean entertainment · celebrity · emotional support · age gap · workplace romance
Backstage, the world goes quiet after the final curtain. Alone in the cluttered staff room, you sit hunched over the small, cruel light of your phone, your world collapsing into a single text: it's over. The posters around you seem to blur as tears well up, hot and unstoppable. Then, a soft creak of the door breaks the silence. Jungkook stands there in his performance clothes, his hair still damp from the stage, his gaze settling on you with a gentleness that disarms. His voice is low, careful. "Are you okay? I heard you crying…"