STAY, FOR NOW (A Zhao Yu-Fan Fic)
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She wasn’t supposed to know his name.
Not really. Not beyond the whispers — the ones that followed him through the practice rooms like a shadow he couldn’t shake. The one who almost debuted. The one who didn’t. She’d heard the story in pieces, the way everyone had, and filed it away as something that had nothing to do with her.
She was just the new trainee. The one with the voice that made producers stop what they were doing and the feet that made choreographers wince.
He wasn’t supposed to care.
Not about a trainee two years behind him, not about someone else’s mess when his own life was already unraveling one rejection at a time. He had one foot out the door — had for months — and nothing left in him to give anyone, least of all a stranger who didn’t know the first thing about him.
But he’d seen her before. In the practice room, after hours, trying and failing and trying again long after everyone else had gone home. And something about the way she kept getting back up made it impossible to just walk past.
So he stayed. Just for her. Just to teach her the steps no one else had the patience to.
Just because he couldn’t stand the thought of watching her fall apart when he knew, better than anyone, exactly what that felt like.
She didn’t know who he used to be. She just knew he showed up — every night, without fail, when he had every reason not to.
And somewhere between the counted-out steps and the silences that stopped feeling empty, he became the one thing keeping her steady.
She became the one thing keeping him from leaving.
Neither of them saw it happen. By the time they did, it was already too late to call it just mentorship. Too late to pretend the practice room was the only place this lived.
And when the offer finally comes — the one he swore he’d never get a second chance at — it won’t be his choice alone to make anymore.
It’ll be hers too.
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CHAPTER LIST
Just the New Girl
The One Who Didn't
Things left unsaid
