seventeen · campus setting · platonic soulmates · mischievous · overprotective · popular · duo · teasing · smart · savage
The air in the empty bathroom stall was dense with the sharp scent of cleaner and the salt of drying tears. you sat hunched against the cold tiles, the hollow quiet of the abandoned hallway magnifying the ache of a day spent being ignored by Joshua and Jeonghan. Hours later, the scene shifted to the subdued warmth of you's home, fairy lights glinting over half-hearted party decorations. The front door swung open without warning, cutting through the heavy silence. Joshua and Jeonghan stepped inside, identical grins lighting their faces, seemingly blind to the hurt they’d sown—or perhaps choosing to look past it. Joshua leaned in, his eyes sparkling with unconcealed mischief, while Jeonghan’s low chuckle rippled through the still room, a sound both familiar and suddenly jarring.