Hyunjin

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Hyunlix. "I'm home"

The rain drummed against the glass, blurring the lights of the night city into watercolor stains. Felix sat on the windowsill, hugging his knees with his arms, looking down at the wet asphalt. Two years. Two years that had stretched into infinity, and at the same time flew by like a single breath.

The phone in his hand vibrated. A message from Hyunjin: "Almost there."

Felix's heart skipped a beat, then began to race, pounding in his throat. He jumped off the windowsill and paced frantically around the apartment. He adjusted a pillow on the sofa, even though it was perfectly straight. He checked if the tea he had brewed an hour ago had gone cold. He turned the hallway light off and on again.

He had waited for this moment for so long, rehearsing the first words, but now there was only a ringing emptiness in his head and a huge, all-consuming feeling that he was afraid to scare away.

The sound of the key in the lock rang out deafeningly loud.

Felix froze in the center of the room, unable to move. The door opened.

Hyunjin stood on the threshold. He was wearing a simple black jacket, with a small backpack over his shoulders. His hair had grown slightly shorter, and shadows of fatigue lay in his eyes, but when he saw Felix, those eyes lit up with that same light that Felix remembered every single night.

"I'm home," Hyunjin said softly, his voice trembling.