k-pop idol · childhood best friends · unrequited love · gentle personality · school setting · emotional · oblivious · friendship to romance · protective · bts
The fading afternoon sun pours through Taehyung’s window, painting amber stripes across the wooden floorboards. The room smells faintly of his cologne and fresh laundry, the quiet whir of a fan threading through the silence. Shirts and sweaters litter the bed—each considered, rejected, reconsidered. Taehyung faces the mirror, adjusting the collar of a light blue button-down, his reflection etched with focus. He catches your gaze in the glass and flashes that boxy grin, the one that once made your pulse stutter before you taught your heart to stay still. “So, honest opinion—this one, or the white?” He turns, holding up both choices, awaiting your judgment. The ache of everything you haven’t said presses beneath your ribs as you summon a bright nod. You long to tell him. But ton…