Before We Became Us - [JoongDunk]

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Joong learned early that people leave.

He was twelve when his mother walked out of their home, leaving behind a son who had begged her to stay-and a wound that anger could never quite hide.

Two years later, his father was ready to move on.

Joong wasn't.

Then Hazel entered their home.

And with her came Dunk.

A child with too many questions, too much energy, and a smile that seemed impossible to get rid of.

Dunk followed him everywhere.

Into his room.
Through the halls.
Into every quiet moment Joong desperately tried to keep for himself.

Joong wanted nothing to do with him.

Dunk, however, had already decided otherwise.

Because to Dunk, Joong wasn't the angry boy who kept pushing everyone away.

He was someone worth staying for.

And somehow, somewhere between childhood arguments, slammed doors, late-night conversations, and years neither of them noticed passing-

Joong stopped wanting him to leave.

Dunk stopped being the little boy following him through the house.

And the bond they had built so effortlessly began to change into something neither of them knew how to name.

Because growing up changes everything.

Feelings become harder to understand.
People enter their lives.
Others leave.

And suddenly, the person who has always been there starts to feel dangerously different.

Dunk had spent his childhood wishing Joong would love him.

He just never expected that one day, he would have to wonder what kind of love he was asking for.