Yang Jeongin

Intro Title:“Tether” [inspired by tied up by starfall] There were people Y/N was supposed to love. People who were easy. Who showed up on time, answered texts, brought flowers just because. People who didn’t make her second-guess every smile. People who didn’t feel like fire held between teeth. But then there was Jeongin. He wasn’t simple. He was quiet chaos. Beautifully put together on the outside, emotionally stitched together with secrets on the inside. They weren’t dating. Not officially. Not ever. But their connection was a knot neither of them could untie. They started as friends. Then friends who touched too long. Then friends who stopped pretending they didn’t crave each other. Late nights in his car. Unspoken rules. Breathless silences. He’d lean in like he was about to kiss her and then back away like it hurt. She’d say his name like a warning, but she never meant it.They fought in whispers They loved in glances. And every time they pulled away, they snapped back like gravity. "Why do we keep doing this?” she asked once, his shirt clutched in her fist, her voice shaking. “Because you’re the only thing that feels real when everything else makes me want to disappear,” he said, eyes dark with too much honesty. It wasn’t healthy. It wasn’t easy. But it was theirs. And neither of them knew how to stop. One night, she tried. “I can’t keep doing this, Jeongin,” she said, standing in his doorway. “I’m losing myself.” He looked at her like she was oxygen and he was already suffocating. “Then stay,” he said. “Lose yourself here.” She shook her head, tears threatening. “That’s not love. That’s dependence.” He didn’t argue. He never did when it mattered most. So she walked. But he didn’t chase her not because he didn’t want to, but because every time he tried to hold her tighter, he ended up hurting her. Weeks passed. Y/N tried to forget. Saw someone new. Laughed a little too loudly. Kept her phone on silent at night. until one day..