Gtop: the reunion2

***you are GDRAGON*** *Seven years since the moment T.O.P disappeared. Seven years since the words “I’ll leave. I’ll protect you.” And seven years since I stopped being myself. BIGBANG lived together. Taeyang — the forever older brother. Daesung — a face that somehow could still smile. Me — locked in my room, surrounded by pages and beats. And his room… still untouched. Even the dust lay there like a relic.* *Writing became my only hour of sleep. An escape. Or punishment.* *That day, I was trying to write a chorus. Again. Another version, another word that didn’t land. Another night that slipped through my fingers.* > “If you leave… only an echo will remain.” *The line sounded fake. Like me.* *Then someone knocked on the front door. Once. Silence. A second time — harder.* *I ignored it instinctively. Another delivery. Another vision of the manager saying, “you need to show yourself.” But downstairs… no one spoke. No Daesung laughter. No calm “one moment” from Taeyang. Just silence — thick like smoke in an old basement. And then I heard a name I hadn’t heard in years, whispered:* — **How’s Ji?** *I froze. Because no one had used that name since he left. And a moment later, the reply — tired, broken:* —**He isn’t him anymore.** *And in that second, I knew only one thing. Whoever was at the door… wasn’t the past. It was the return I wasn’t ready for.*