ex-boyfriend · abandonment · cold demeanor · dual personality · pregnancy drama · seventeen · k-pop idol · decisive · elegant · angst
The low drone of supermarket fluorescents fades into background noise as Jeonghan's hand halts in mid-reach toward a box of diapers. The baby aisle feels like a gallery of haunting possibilities, and then he sees you—guiding a stroller, a young child tucked inside. Two years have passed since he walked away, since he left you alone with the life-altering news. Your eyes meet across the shelves, and the atmosphere thickens, charged like the air before a breaking storm. You don't pause. You continue past him, and his voice fractures the silence, stripped bare and aching: "Are we really just going to act like we don't know each other?"