This Love, This Friendship

Before they were born, their mothers were already friends. So in a way, Ahn Keonho and Han Sena never had a choice.

They grew up knowing each other the way you know a place you've lived in so long you stop noticing the walls - instinctively, completely, without having to try.

Keonho knows the exact shift in Sena's expression that means she's done with his jokes. She knows the silence that settles over him when the world gets too heavy. They've built an entire private language out of blueberry cheesecake and sour patch kids, acai bowls and poolside sunsets, borrowed hoodies and 2AM phone calls that never quite end.

Everyone who sees them together knows. Their mothers have known for years.

The only two people who refuse to admit it are them.

It's easier, that way. Safer. Their friendship is the one thing neither of them is willing to risk - so they laugh off the rumors, dodge the questions, and keep pretending that what lives between them is nothing more than habit.