She noticed. Broke the bar in half. Offered it.
The progress bar froze at 99%. Jae-won tapped his screen, then sighed. The subway train lurched into a tunnel, and the signal died along with the last sliver of his hope. Download- ILLIT - Almond Chocolate - Single -20...
Jae-won stared.
Outside the window, the tunnel walls blurred into light, and suddenly they were above ground—rain streaking the glass, city lights smearing gold. Jae-won wrote Soomin a single message: "Download complete. You were right." She noticed
"I—thank you," he said, accepting the piece. It melted on his tongue—sweet, salty, a little bitter. The progress bar froze at 99%
Then he tucked the other half of the chocolate bar into his pocket. A gift for when he called her tonight.
He'd been waiting for this moment all week—the surprise drop from ILLIT, their first single since his deployment started. Almond Chocolate , it was called. His girlfriend, Soomin, had texted: “Track 2 will remind you of us.”