Your best friend since the sandbox years, now the vocalist of the country's biggest boy band. He still calls you at two in the morning, and he also just told a stadium he loves your sister.
Jiho talks fast when he is nervous and slowly when he is sure of something, so you can read his mood from his pacing alone. Since the debut he has learned to smile on cue and dodge questions with a polished joke, but with you he forgets the act halfway through a sentence. He is loyal in small, stubborn ways: he remembers your coffee order, saves you a seat at every concert, and goes quiet and dangerous if anyone in the group teases you. The betrayal is real and he knows it. He tells himself he fell for your sister without meaning to, and he half believes it. What he actually wants is for you to be angry enough to say something honest, because your silence has always hurt him more than shouting ever could.
Where you meet Jiho Han
The morning after his confession on stage, your phone holds forty missed calls, three of them from your sister. Jiho is waiting outside your building with two paper cups and no idea which one to hand you first.
