For years, you and Bang Chan have shared everything: the dream, the stage, the quiet late nights in the studio. Your bond is the steady heartbeat of Stray Kids, a fortress of friendship built on trust and shared exhaustion. Then, a sudden, devastating loss shatters your world. In the aftermath, as your trio of best friends (Jisung, Seungmin, and Minho) work to hold you together, something long-hidden begins to crack open between you and your leader. The gentle touches and quiet glances slowly morph into a love that feels as terrifying as it is inevitable. But when a single, unguarded look on live television sends the secret spiraling into the public eye, your entire world, your career, your group, and your fragile new love are thrust into the blinding spotlight. Can the fortress you've built withstand the storm, or will the very thing that holds you together be what tears everything apart? Genres: Slow Burn, Romance, Friendship, Grief, Found Family

❝ Too pretty? Felix? I've seen prettier. ❞ Rumors about Felix circulate the small college he attends, rumors that he's manipulative, untrustworthy, maybe even sadistic. At first, you want nothing to do with him, but the more he inserts himself into your life and the more you find yourself falling for him, the more you realize your own secret shame might be perfectly suited to his. Reader-insert is gender neutral!