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    “Am I a bad friend?”

    Hayden has always been the guy Shane joked with, the guy he trusted to feed him without mocking him, the guy he roomed with on the road, and Shane is the only man who has ever seen Hayden cry, and Hayden loves Shane. He fucking loves him. They are like brothers, and they have been for almost ten fucking years. He’s always been Shane’s guy, Shane’s best friend.

    Except all along, maybe that wasn’t true. Ilya Rozanov, apparently, had been the guy. Before Hayden had ever met Shane, Ilya Rozanov had been there. And Hayden had never even noticed.

    Shane is all over every inch of Hayden’s life. Hayden thought that was reciprocal.
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    “You know I think about you all the time,
    And my deep misunderstanding of your life,
    And how bad it must have been for you back then,
    And how hard it was to keep it all inside.”

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    21 Mar 2026

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    this is so peak. idt i've ever seen a fic exploring a heteronormative world from a cishet person's perspective so delicately and emotionally as this. this is the good shit !!

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    All his friends call him whipped just because he does everything and anything Chenle asks for, but in his defense, so does Donghyuck. No one can point a finger to Jeno only— not really. He also does anything Donghyuck asks, so it's not like he plays favorites either. Does that make it worse? Jeno’s still debating that.

    Alternatively— how Jeno's world tilted on its axis with a few words spoken by an old lady. While he was dancing. At the club.

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    29 Aug 2025

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    “There you go,” Doyoung says quietly, handing the rice cake over to him, and Renjun sits down heavily to take it from him with clumsy baby hands. “Now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?”

    Chenle gurgles something, and Doyoung runs a hand through the soft, fine hair on his head. “I know. It’s an adjustment for all of us. But we’ll fit in here soon, you’ll see. It’s a good home for us.”

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    Doyoung moves his family to Westview for a fresh start.

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    27 Aug 2025

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    All they had to do to help Jisung with his project, was go to couples therapy and tell the truth. Just the truth. 100% of the truth. Jisung even explicitly stated they should only tell the truth for the experiment to actually work. The only exception was one tiny, itsy-bitsy little lie- they weren’t even a real couple to begin with.

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    In which Jisung spends three months documenting his best friends falling in love.

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    16 Feb 2025

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    As the crew navigates their college years, they turn to each other to keep themselves afloat. Futures aren’t built in a day, so it’s a good thing everyone’s there to help.
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    Or, alternatively, Fictober 2023! (Day 26: “Honestly, why would I care?”)

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    05 Feb 2024