Uncontrollably Fond

Eight years.

Eight years since Lee Nabi had last seen Lee Donghyuck.

Once, they had been everything to each other-best friends, confidants, the kind of souls who moved through life side by side. Then came the distance. The silence. The heartbreak.

Friends. Strangers. Lovers. Strangers again.

A cycle neither of them had ever managed to escape.

Time was supposed to have erased him. At the very least, dulled the edges.

Instead, all it had done was teach her how to live with the ache.

The anger still simmered beneath her skin. The love remained buried deep in her chest, stubborn and unwelcome. And some nights, when sleep refused to come, memories of him still haunted her dreams.

And some fires never truly burn out.