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Taehyung had never hated life.
He just couldn't find a reason to love it.
By the time high school ended, his world had shrunk to lines of code, late-night ethical hacking gigs, and the quiet comfort of being alone. People called him brilliant. Others called him strange. He didn't care enough to correct either of them.
Then, one ordinary night, a mistake changed everything.
While tracing through an abandoned phone account that should've been empty, he found something unexpected.
Voicemails.
Curiosity made him press play.
"Hi, Googie."
The voice was warm. Playful. Beautiful. It laughed without holding back, talked about ordinary days as if they were worth remembering, and carried a kind of light Taehyung had forgotten existed.
He didn't know who the voice belonged to.
He didn't know who Googie was.
An ex. A best friend. Someone who had simply drifted away.
He only knew one thing.
The calls never stopped.
Days turned into months. Months turned into years. And somehow, without ever seeing a face or learning a name, the stranger's voice became the only thing Taehyung looked forward to.
He found comfort in laughter that wasn't meant for him, warmth in conversations he was never supposed to hear, and slowly, without realizing when it happened, he gave his heart to a voice belonging to someone who had no idea he existed.