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A Silent Interlude (KIMNAMJOONXOC)

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Nearly an hour later, I hit send. Closed my laptop. Exhaled.

That’s when someone stepped up beside my table.

I looked up, assuming it was a barista.

“Hey. Mind if I join you?”

Kim Namjoon.

Standing there, just like that, calm, smiling.

“Oh. You’re here,” I said, blinking once. My brain promptly exited the building.

“Yeah,” he said, sliding into the seat across from me. “Sure, I don’t mind,” I managed to say, regaining a shred of composure.

He stirred his drink with the metal straw. “You looked pretty focused back there. Not that I was watching you or anything. You’re just… kind of in my line of sight.”

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A Silent Interlude (KimNamjoonxOC)

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I glance at the passion vines climbing along the terrace wall and nod toward them.

“Those flowers,” I say. “They only bloom in the morning. Then they close up before noon.”

She follows my gaze. “That’s kind of sad.”

“Or poetic,” I say. “Like small windows. If you don’t take the moment, it closes.”

She doesn’t say anything right away. But her smile is different this time. Deeper. She looks down at her glass.

Then, lightly, her hand brushes mine again as she reaches for her napkin.

Neither of us pulls away.

For a second, we stay there. Not moving. Not speaking.

Then…

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A Silent Interlude (NamjoonxOC Fanfic)

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I glance down at the program to check the speaker’s name when I hear someone in the row behind me whisper.

“That’s Yoon Si-won. The environmental scientist who led the cross-border reforestation project in Southeast Asia.”

Another voice chimes in. “Yeah, I’ve read her work on carbon offset modelling in low-income regions. The way she integrates science into policy is brilliant. Her method could be used for urban climate adaptation programs.”

I slowly look up at the stage.

And freeze.

Her face.

She looks familiar.

I try to place it, my brain flipping through snapshots until it lands on the one that’s burned into memory: the girl from the concert. Front row. Holding the lightstick awkwardly. Smiling shyly at the screen.

It’s her.

My chest tightens.

“Daebak,” I say under my breath.

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“No!” she whines. “I bought BTS concert tickets for us! Front row, Si-won. As in sweat-flinging distance!”

I blink. “Oh-oh. Here it goes.”

“You’re coming with me,” she announces, pointing like she’s summoning me into a K-drama plot.

I laugh, dry. “You’re joking.”

“I already transferred the e-ticket to your name. No refunds. No take-backs.”

“But I have a paper due for the UN Summit in two weeks…”

“Exactly! You need air. Real air. Not just simulated atmospheric conditions from your data sets. You've been hunched over that desk for three weeks straight. I’m dragging you into the sunlight, kicking and screaming.”

“Or into stadium lights, apparently,” I mutter.

But she’s already humming Boy With Luv and dancing around my living room in her socks.

And that’s how I…Yoon Si-won, 29 years old, doctoral candidate in Environmental Engineering, lover of quiet places, and firm believer that K-pop and chaos should not mix, ended up front and center at a BTS concert.

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A Silent Interlude (Chapter I: Kim Namjoon's POV)

Fourteen countries. Sixty-Two concerts.

We’re finally back in Seoul for the last leg of the tour. It’s the third-to-the-last song of the night, and the stadium feels like it’s on fire, in the best way. Everyone’s on their feet, screaming, singing, crying. The kind of energy that makes your skin buzz.

J-Hope’s voice comes through the speakers as he sings his part. I tilt my head up and take a breath. The sky’s clear tonight, rare for the city. I can see a handful of stars. Not many, but enough to notice. It feels… fitting. Like the night is quietly saying, “You made it.”

I look back at the crowd, letting the lights guide my gaze.

That’s when I see her...

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