PondPhuwin Uni AU | Slow burn • Angst • Friends with benefits to Lovers One drunken neon night, one laundry room kiss, and everything changes. Best friends Pond and Phuwin swear it meant nothing. So they make rules. Just sex, no feelings, stay friends. They both know it's a lie. Glitter, heartbreak, 3 a.m. confessions, and seven steps across the hall that feel impossible. A messy, horny, aching story about the boys who tried to keep it casual and accidentally fell in love instead.

"Thirty is coming. So is the question they never answered. One promise. One year. One chance to choose." At twenty-two, it was supposed to be a joke. A half-laugh, a careless promise made on an ordinary night: If we're still single at thirty, we'll try. No rules. No pressure. No expectations. They never spoke of it again. Seven years later, Pond and Phuwin are adults in every way that matters-steady jobs, separate lives, carefully built routines. They are still best friends. Still each other's constant. Still the first person the other thinks of, even when they pretend not to. When circumstances force them back into the same space, old familiarity turns dangerous. Shared mornings feel too intimate. Soft touches linger too long. Conversations circle around everything they refuse to name. And somewhere between now and thirty, the promise resurfaces-not as a joke, but as a question neither of them knows how to answer. Because this isn't about falling in love. It's about admitting they already did-and deciding whether they're brave enough to risk the one thing they've never lost. Set in the quiet tension of adulthood, Somewhere Before Forever is a slow-burn friends-to-lovers story about timing, restraint, and the kind of love that waits patiently... until it can't anymore.