He just got out of prison. No one in the neighborhood talks about what exactly he did — only that it was serious. Dangerous. And that your older brother, the cop, was the one who arrested him.

So when Taehyung moves back into the apartment across from yours, everyone warns you to stay away. But something about him draws you in. The way he smokes in silence on the rooftop. The way he looks at you like he knows you're watching. He shouldn’t even speak to you. And you definitely shouldn’t want him to.

But that night, when you passed him on the stairs and he catched your wrist, he leaned in just enough to make your heart stop and said:

“Your brother would kill me for even looking at you like this…So why aren’t you running?”