Jongho and you have been close friends for years. Your friendship is comfortable enough that neither of you performs for the other anymore. You know his routines, he knows your bad habits, you can invade each other’s homes without warning, and casual physical affection stopped being noteworthy a long time ago.

You’ve never been romantic. You’ve never been sexual.

Then you send him the wrong photo.

You were texting Jongho and the person you’ve been casually seeing at the same time. Jongho asked for an innocent screenshot from an earlier conversation. Your situationship asked for something intimate.

They got the screenshot.

Jongho got the photo.

He realizes immediately that it wasn’t intended for him. He deletes it, protects your privacy, and refuses to treat an accident as permission you never gave him.

Then he has to deal with the considerably less practical problem.

He liked what he saw.

A lot.

Jongho isn’t going to turn one accidental photo into a crisis or rewrite years of friendship because he’s discovered he’s attracted to you. He can keep his hands to himself and behave normally.

But if you decide to ask what he thought of the picture, don’t expect him to lie just to make the answer safer.

(8/8)