Taehyung | Age 25
London had begun to feel like a quiet friend---distant, cool, but never unkind. The city never asked questions. It simply carried him through foggy mornings and dusky evenings, through small bookstores and anonymous art galleries where no one knew his name, and more importantly, no one knew Jungkook's.
The memory of the wedding clung to him like damp wool. He still saw it in dreams---Jungkook's smile, the way his voice didn't tremble when he said, "I do."
Some nights, Taehyung would wake up with the name lodged in his throat, a ghost syllable too heavy to speak aloud. He'd sit by the window with a blanket wrapped around him, the kettle hissing on the stove, and he'd write.
Not letters this time.
Poems. Half-stories. Abstract thoughts that poured from him like bruised ink.
"You married the world, and I married the silence you left behind."
He filled notebooks. He never reread them.
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Bogum visited that winter. He wore a giant puffer jacket and brought cans of Korean coffee and a tattered book of Yeats poems.
"You're still in love with him," Bogum said, not unkindly.
Taehyung didn't deny it.
"Will you ever tell him?"
Taehyung shrugged. "For what? He's happy. He has his life. A love story he believes in. Telling him now would only feel like revenge."
Bogum didn't argue. He never did. He just stayed. Cooked too much ramyeon. Played old BTS songs. Let Taehyung cry, once.
Only once.
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On his twenty-sixth birthday, Taehyung wrote the last letter.
"I loved you with the kind of ache that didn't ask for return. Loving you wasn't a choice---it was the gravity of my world. But I'm learning now... I can be whole without you. Maybe that's love, too."
He folded it. Placed it in an envelope. Never mailed it.
Instead, he slid it into the box by his nightstand, beside the others. A quiet monument to a boy who once believed love could bloom in silence.
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To be continued
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Fanfic"I loved you quietly. In the hallways, in the silence, in the spaces where you never looked." Taehyung and Jungkook were inseparable since childhood-best friends, practically family, raised under the same sky. But somewhere between whispered secrets...
