In the Time of Us || Hong Jisoo

Before the world dimmed, there was a time when it was simply us.

Choi Y/N never planned to fall for her brother's best friend - especially not for Joshua Hong, the quiet boy who sat on the edges of rooms and watched storms without flinching. He was gentle in ways she didn't understand, thoughtful in ways she wasn't prepared for, and distant in ways that made her want to step closer.

Joshua never expected her either - the laughter, the strawberry perfume, the effortless way she slipped into his routines and rearranged the quiet parts of him. She wasn't supposed to matter.
But she did.
More than he could admit. More than he should've let happen.

This is them.
The soft, blooming, almost accidental falling.
The study sessions that turned into confessions.
The moments that felt harmless at the time but would one day haunt them both.
A love that existed in stolen spaces - gentle, real, and too powerful to stay small.

Before the grey years came, before the heartbreak, before the wounds that never fully healed...
there was a time when it was just them.

In the Time of Us is a tender, slow-burn prequel to In the Time of Grey - a story about beginnings, belonging, and the soft ache of first love.

-coming soon :)