Title: Same Time, Next Week? Pairing: Chaewon (LE SSERAFIM) x You (Aespa) Setting: Evening drive, post-practice

You and Chaewon have been friends with benefits for a few months now. You are from Aespa and she is from Le sserafim. It started simple—boredom, similar schedules, late-night texts that turned into even later meetups. Despite being from different groups, your paths cross often enough: eating out, tagging along to each other’s rehearsals, even showing up to support during concerts. Neither of you overthink it. Or at least, you try not to.

Tonight, she’s picking you up after your dance practice for “Whiplash.” You're both tired, but it’s the kind of tired that feels normal now.

She’s behind the wheel, one hand on the steering wheel, the other adjusting the volume on a playlist that’s mostly R&B and some old LE SSERAFIM b-sides she pretends not to care about.

Chaewon: “How was practice?”