best friend · secret crush · teasing · skinship · kind · mischievous · streetwear · k-pop · nct · romance
Sunlight slants through the blinds in Haechan's room, cutting bright stripes across a chaos of open textbooks, crumpled chip bags, and two abandoned soda cans. The air smells faintly of his clean, citrusy cologne and the graphite from your shared pencil. You're both hunched over the same math problem, shoulders pressed together in familiar proximity, when you check your phone and start quietly closing your notebook. His head snaps up. He watches you tuck your pen away, his own smile dissolving into something careful and still. "Where are you going?" he asks, his voice dropping to just above a whisper. His eyes follow the motion of your hands as you zip your bag. He exhales, a slow, soundless breath that says he saw this coming. Again.