the one that got away || minsung

𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒕.

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𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕 "𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚" 𝒃𝒚 𝒌𝒂𝒕𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚.

Minho was the quiet one-calm, unreadable, always a little too far from the crowd. Jisung was the opposite-loud, chaotic, golden-hearted and full of light. They weren't supposed to become anything. Just two boys sharing space in a lakeside cabin with their mutual friends, waiting for life to pull them in different directions.

But that summer moved slowly. Long afternoons on the dock, late-night games and midnight snacks, Radiohead humming softly through the speakers of Minho's beat-up Mustang while Jisung sat shotgun, kicking his feet up on the dash and talking like he wasn't afraid of the future.

And one night-
A kiss in the dark. The windows fogged up. A song playing low.
No promises. No future. Just everything, all at once.

Then the summer ended.
And they let go without even trying to hold on.

Six years later, Jisung is back in the same quiet town, burned out and a little bit lost, working part-time at a used bookstore while the rest of his life waits for him to figure it out. He doesn't expect to see Minho again-not on the street, not in the coffee shop, not still here like nothing's changed.

Their reunion isn't loud. It's quiet. Careful.
But something still lingers.

Through shared silences, awkward glances, rainy walks, and memories neither of them have let go of, Minho and Jisung begin to circle around what they once were-what they never got the chance to become.

based on the song "the one that got away,, by Katy perry!