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“Wanna watch a stupid movie tonight?”
Sungho’s voice came from the corner of the room, muffled slightly by the brush handle between his teeth as he rummaged through his box of paints. He didn’t look up, but Jaehyun could hear the faint grin in his tone—the one that always came out when Sungho was too tired to be serious.
Jaehyun, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor with his laptop balanced on his knees, looked up. “Yeah, sure. What kind of stupid?”
Sungho finally straightened, brush still in hand, smudges of dried green paint on his knuckles. “Adam Sandler type of stupid movies,” he said, flicking his wrist like he was making an announcement to a crowd instead of just one person.
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sungho just needed to be quiet or let out his frustrations about this film he watched
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- Part 1 of for those who stayed
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“I'm Donghyun,” he said. “But call me Leehan.” He stuck out his hand.
Dongmin stared at it for a second before awkwardly shaking it. “I'm... Dongmin.”
Leehan nodded thoughtfully, then he looked at Dongmin again. “No.”
"What?" Dongmin blinked.
“Yeah, we're changing that.”
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- Part 2 of for those who stayed
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Riwoo snorts. “You’re sleep-deprived. That’s what this is.”
“No, listen,” Sungho insists, stepping around his paint-stained tarp as if it were sacred ground. “If we’re the tiny ones—if the entire universe is basically this big matryoshka doll of perspectives—then maybe humans are just… the static in someone else’s radio.”
Jaehyun raises a brow. “You’re static.”
“And you’d kiss your future boyfriend with that mouth?” Sungho shoots back without missing a beat.
“Absolutely,” Jaehyun answers proudly.
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late night talks between the three of them because riwoo didn’t want to be alone that night
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- Part 3 of for those who stayed
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Neither of them spoke at first. They didn't need to-the silence between them was too full, too alive, too heavy with everything unspoken that always hovered over them like a ghost refusing to leave.
Jaehyun moved first, like always.
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- Part 4 of for those who stayed
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merry christmas, please don't call (i miss you) by nyanghaozz
Fandoms: BOYNEXTDOOR (Korea Band)
23 Dec 2025
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On Christmas Eve, the house buzzed with the usual chaos—pots clattering in the kitchen, TV variety shows playing too loudly, kids running around with sugar in their veins—but none of it reached him. Not really. He sat alone, scrolling through photos and old messages he promised himself he wouldn’t look at.
Tradition dictated that everyone stayed up until midnight to open one gift. Just one. The rest tomorrow. It was supposed to be fun. Warm. A moment of togetherness
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- Part 5 of for those who stayed
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“Should we tell him he’s laying it on too thick?” Mingyu whispered.
“No,” Minghao hummed, reaching for his water. “Let them have their moment. Young love needs a bit of delusion.”
"We weren’t delusional. We were—”
“Oh, we absolutely were,” Minghao cut in, nudging his knee under the table. “You were so delusional you cried when I didn’t text you for six hours.”
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- Part 6 of for those who stayed
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Then Taesan’s eyes landed on the aquarium. “No way. You have an aquarium here?” he asked, pointing at the tank nestled by the window. The soft hum of the filter filled the silence, a small, constant breath in the otherwise still room.
“Yeah, I do… I ask Mingyu-hyung to feed them and clean the tank when I’m not here,” he exhaled, stepping closer to the glass. He tapped it gently, the fish scattering then returning as if drawn to him. “My parents never really let me have one in my real childhood home…”
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- Part 7 of for those who stayed
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“What are you guys gonna do today?” Riwoo asked, his voice slightly muffled as if he was chewing on something.
“Leehan’s family wants to go to the mall,” Taesan said, shifting on the bed and glancing briefly at Leehan, who was tying his shoelaces at the foot of it.
“I think we’re going to hike somewhere,” Jaehyun chuckled, the sound of wind brushing against his mic like he’d already stepped outside.
“I’m staying in my room and watch stupid Christmas movies,” Sungho shared quietly, leaning back against his pillows and fiddling with the wire of his earphones.
“Very eventful, guys,” Leehan said sarcastically.
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- Part 8 of for those who stayed
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I remembered something you told me once after I got upset over a middle school exam. You said, “Woonhak-ah, life keeps going even if we don’t want it to.”
I hated hearing it back then. But maybe you were right.
I missed you so much today that my chest hurt with it. I wish we could’ve had one more Seollal together.
Love,
Woonhakkim woonhak writes letters to his late best friend, choi minje
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- Part 9 of for those who stayed
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Sungho reached up to rub at his eyes, pushing his hair back in frustration. “There’s a line in one of my favorite movies,” he said, almost like he was remembering it out loud. “‘We accept the love we think we deserve.’”
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Sungho is exhausted from editing his midterm for his film class.
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- Part 10 of for those who stayed
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“Oh, this is criminal,” he muttered. “They’re committing crimes against feminism.”
Sungho hummed. “Cinematically though, the pacing’s not bad. It’s doing exactly what it wants to do.”
Jaehyun glanced at him. “See? This is why Friday nights are for movies. You get to say things like that instead of arguing with people who think a sunset shot is revolutionary.”
“Hey,” Sungho said lightly, nudging him with his knee, “apparently, that sunset was ‘symbolic.’”
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- Part 11 of for those who stayed
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“People live a hundred years without actually living a minute,” Leehan said softly. “You go up there with me? That’s one more minute you didn’t waste hiding.”
Taesan inhaled sharply—Leehan was right. He hates it when he is.
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- Part 12 of for those who stayed
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“I thought about just… ending everything, you know?” Leehan said quietly.
He didn’t look at Taesan. He just kept his eyes on the water, like admitting it out loud required him to face forward or risk collapsing.
“But I met you,” Leehan continued, voice softer now, breaking in places he was trying to hold together. “And meeting you just brought joy back into my life, you made things feel brighter.”
Leehan decides to go to the beach with Taesan, and eventually start to open up to him about the feelings he's been keeping for the past few days
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- Part 13 of for those who stayed