They had known each other their whole lives — neighbors, classmates, the kind of friends who grew up together without ever needing to explain anything. Jungkook was always there: calm, steady, the one who helped her with homework, walked her home, listened when others didn’t. He never said it out loud, but everyone could see how much he cared about her.

When she left for college, things changed fast. She found new people — louder, careless, the kind who made fun of what they didn’t understand. To fit in, she started telling stories about her “perfect old friend,” twisting their shared memories into something to laugh at. She shared things he had once trusted her with. Rumors spread, and soon he became the quiet joke of people who’d never even met him.

He didn’t confront her. He just stopped answering her messages, stopped showing up. From that day, they never spoke again.