Jimin only came home “just for December.” A misdelivered Holiday Hope box, a tiny bookshop, and one very familiar delivery driver later… he’s not so sure.
Burned out from the city and hiding out in his aunt’s quiet bookshop, Jimin spends his evenings tucking anonymous hope-notes into paperbacks for strangers. When a charity “Holiday Hope” parcel arrives with his name on it – and his ex, Jungkook, shows up at the door to say it was a mistake – one snowed-in night forces them to unpack more than just the box.
Together, they build a Hope Shelf of wrapped “take what you need” books, talk about the heavy year that broke them apart, and find out they were both aching over the same things all along. There’s a narrow sofa, one blanket, a cheesy romance about two men trapped in a bookshop during a snowstorm… and maybe, just maybe, a second chance.
Commissioned by Nita
Word Count: 8,945