[Jaehyuk perspective]
My jaw clenched the moment our eyes met.
She was the last person I expected to see. The last person I wanted to. The girl who used to be my anchor when the world felt like it was crashing down. The one who used to know every shade of my silence.
My best friend once.
And now, nothing but a bitter fragment of the past that still cuts deeper than I care to admit.
I stood frozen for a moment too long, my expression neutral but my insides reacting like they always did when she was around—tight, tense, and quietly screaming.
She looked exactly the same. Same posture, same air of confidence, like she belonged anywhere she walked into.
But I knew better, behind that familiar smirk was a lie I once believed in.
A shattered promise.
A wound she inflicted with nothing more than silence and distance.
I hate that she still has that effect on me.
That lingering weight in my chest. The quiet rage simmering under my skin.
The betrayal—it's not gone.
