"Do you still wanna be only fuck buddies? I think we got close. I still want to be your boyfriend." Shan just stared at him, unable to comprehend what Hyun was asking, or more like why he was asking it.
He thought that they had come to the conclusion they wouldn't be in that type of relationship. Shan was still trying to keep his distance to not get hurt when Hyun went back. But when he thought that, he noticed it wasn't exactly true.
He stopped keeping his distance from Hyun and from others, too. Even now, he looked at his own hand, which was lying on top of Hyun's. The way they played together and laughed together. They were like best friends.
Once he read somewhere that the difference between best friends and partners was just that partners slept together. And they did that too.
But was he ready for a relationship? No. Just the word boyfriend evoked something deep dark and painful inside him.