“Loving your best friend is like standing on the edge of a cliff—one wrong step, and everything could fall apart.”

Yang Jungwon has been by my side since forever—through every late-night call, every bad grade, every heartbreak I pretended not to feel. He knows me better than anyone.

Maybe that’s the problem.

Because somewhere between inside jokes and shared hoodies, I started seeing him differently. Not just as Jungwon, my best friend… but as Jungwon, the boy I could fall for. The boy I already have.

He laughs like he doesn’t notice. Smiles like he doesn’t feel it too.

“You’d tell me if something was wrong, right?” he asks. And I lie. “Of course.”

We talk about everything—except the one thing that matters.

Now he’s dating. Or almost. And I’m smiling. Or pretending.