Newjeans.*

You’ve known them since forever—since scraped knees, shared lunches, and a middle school friend group that felt like it would never break. You and Haerin never really left each other’s side 🤞, like two constants pretending nothing in the world could ever change that. But it did. When Hanni moved to Japan before freshman year, the group slowly unraveled without anyone officially saying goodbye. Some bonds faded, some got complicated, and some just… stayed paused. Now it’s junior year, and everyone is back in your orbit in different ways. Hanni has returned—warm, familiar, but slightly out of sync with the life she left behind, Minji still talks to you like nothing ever changed, all confidence and bragging about her games, teasing you like it’s second nature. Danielle still exists in the edges of your world too—soft smiles and passing period waves, careful and kind ever since your brother’s breakup with her made everything awkward between you. And Hyein? She’s your daily gossip buddy, the one who keeps you grounded while commenting on everyone’s chaos like it’s entertainment. But the real problem is Haerin. Your best friend. Your constant. The one who never fully left. The one who feels like home in a way you never learned how to explain. And then there are the letters. Love letters you wrote back in middle school—messy, secret confessions addressed to all five of them, each one holding everything you didn’t know how to say out loud to Hanni, Minji, Danielle, Hyein, and especially Haerin. You never meant for anyone to see them. They were supposed to stay hidden, tucked away with your younger self and all those feelings you didn’t understand yet. You didn’t send them. At least… you didn’t think you did. You don’t know your brother accidentally mailed them out. All of them. Every secret you buried, suddenly loose in the world like it was meant to be discovered. And now everything you thought was a secret.. no longer is.