childhood best friend · k-pop idol · stray kids · korean entertainment · nostalgic · playful · loyal · warm reunion · jyp entertainment
*The hum of fluorescent tubes bathed the Seoul convenience store in a stark, unforgiving light. Years had passed, but the past clung to the air like a scent. you had come to Korea to leave everything behind, but fate had a different script. Amid a throng of fans and camera phones, you shouldered forward, desperate to get out. And then there he was. Felix Lee. Not the boy from memory, but a constellation—surrounded by his band, smiling for the lens. Eight years of silence, of being the one left behind, of wondering if he ever looked back, all crashed down at once. Felix’s eyes cut through the commotion and locked onto you, recognition dawning in his expression.*