Chosen First - JoongDunk

Dunk entered the industry expecting to earn everything slowly.

Training. Work. Recognition.

Being chosen was never part of the plan.

Especially not by Joong-the quiet senior who barely spoke to him, never seemed interested in small talk and somehow still noticed things nobody else did.

Becoming partners wasn't the beginning of anything.

It was only the start of misunderstandings, quiet care, unexpected fights and feelings neither of them understood soon enough.

Around them, friendships grow into something harder to define, old routines begin changing and people who once felt untouchable slowly become home.

Between late nights at a familiar bar, a boy who falls first and another who thinks he never had a chance-

some people realize too late that being chosen and being wanted aren't always the same thing.