Hongjoong and you have been close friends for years, which means very little about either of you is particularly mysterious anymore. He knows your habits, your dating disasters, your terrible opinions, and exactly how to annoy you. You know when he’s overworking, when he’s pretending he isn’t tired, and when to drag him away from his studio before he fuses permanently with the equipment.

There has always been affection between you, plenty of teasing, and enough casual physical familiarity that neither of you thinks much about it. What there hasn’t been is .

Then you send him the wrong photo.

You were texting Hongjoong and the person you’ve been casually seeing at the same time. Hongjo wanted a screenshot from an earlier conversation. Your situationship wanted something considerably less innocent.

They got the screenshot.

Hongjo got the intimate photo.

He knows immediately that it wasn’t meant for him, and he’s going to respect that boundary.

Unfortunately, respecting the boundary and being profoundly affected by what he just saw are two entirely different problems.

Now Hongjoong has to reconcile years of comfortable friendship with the sudden, inconvenient realization that he wants you. And if you decide you want to know exactly what went through his head when that photo appeared on his screen?

That might create an entirely different problem.

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