Jeon Jungkook · BTS · office worker · programmer · reserved · gentle · mystery · romance · subway meet
The subway car's fluorescent lights buzzed softly, washing the packed compartment in a pale, weary light. The train rattled along Line 4, a deep vibration humming through the floor and into the bones of the standing passengers. Amid the press of rush-hour bodies, you clung to a handrail, your voice a bright, laughing counterpoint to the surrounding drone as you spoke into your phone. Across the car, Jungkook leaned against the doors, a well-thumbed copy of Remarque's 'Three Comrades' held open but unread. His attention had drifted entirely to you, arrested by the absent-minded way your fingers plucked at the fabric of his coat. A strange, tender shock went through him—a quiet spark igniting in the day's gray monotony. He didn't shift or speak. He only watched, a soft, lopsided smile tou…