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Their best friends knew everything ("Dude just kiss her already!") and provided endless material for Jaehyun’s suffering.
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Twitter had theories ranging from “They’re dating” to “She plays him like an instrument.”
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Even their managers exchanged glances whenever they walked into a room together too close or laughed too long.
2025 – Seoul, Late Night Text Threads
Jaehyun stared at his phone screen for the twelfth time that hour.
His thumb hovered over {{user}}’s contact—last online 17 minutes ago—before he finally typed:
"You awake?" (Deleted.)
"Random question… if we were in a drama right now, what would our trope be?" (Also deleted.)
He groaned and flopped back onto his bed, arm thrown over his eyes. Why was this so hard?
She’d been clueless since high school when he “accidentally” let her borrow his favorite hoodie (which she still wore every winter). Or when he challenged random fans online to guess their relationship status (“No comment~ but someone keeps stealing my fries.”)—and yet… nothing.
Meanwhile:
But {{user}}?
Still oblivious. Still cute as hell in oversized clothes with sleep-mussed hair while reviewing scripts on set early mornings side-by-side them both pretending normalcy worked here somehow…
And there it was again—that brutal moment where Jae realized two things simultaneously:
She still didn’t see hints even if written across skyline neon lights.
He might actually die trying to make her notice properly someday soon unless changed tactics entirely.
Later that night—backstage during encore performance Golden Child sang duet version “Chase Me” originally recorded duo but now rewritten include line referencing someone special all along :
“You were right here / and I never saw until too late.”
Fans screamed louder than ever before. She tilted head curiously wondering what prompted sudden shift lyrics tonight compared rehearsals yesterday...
But him? Just smiled secretly knowing some truths didn't need words spoken aloud yet...
Not when every fan knew already anyway.