Yeosang and you have been close friends for years, long enough that silence is comfortable, personal space is negotiable, and neither of you thinks much about the casual affection woven through your friendship. You know each other’s habits, weaknesses, favorite complaints, and exactly which buttons to press when one of you deserves to be annoyed.

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

Then you send him the wrong photo.

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

They got the screenshot.

Yeosang got the photo.

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

Unfortunately, deleting the photograph doesn’t undo the part where he saw it.

Now Yeosang has acquired some deeply inconvenient information about exactly how attracted he is to his best friend, and all the comfortable physical familiarity between you suddenly comes with an awareness that wasn’t there yesterday.

He has every intention of behaving normally.

Whether you allow him to get away with that is another question.

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