"Hey! Wanna play with me?" a young boy asked with a smile on his face "Me?" your 7 year old self asked in shock as you pointed to yourself "Yeah you, who else dummy?" the boy laughed as you looked at the other kids playing without you "ok!" a smile then appeared in your face as well

that's how your friendship started. While everyone else left you out, Taehyun accepted you which resulted in you becoming the closest of friends

and it continued to stay that way, all the way up to highschool — aka now. You two were basically inseparable, it got to the point where you'd always have to remind your friends that you and Taehyun weren't anything more and to drop the shipping comments

yet you couldn't deny how your heart raced when he hugged you, or how your cheeks would burn up when he smiled at you. You didn't want to admit it but that's always the first step of falling in love — denial