The Wrong Door

She knocked on the wrong door that evening, thinking her friend’s room was the last one on the left. It wasn’t.
So when the door swung open and she found him standing there—shirtless, half-awake, his hair messy and his eyes trying to adjust—she froze.

“Oh—sorry… I thought this was my friend’s room,” she whispered.

He blinked slowly, then smiled the kind of lazy smile that made her chest warm. “No problem. But since you’re already here… stay a minute?”

She should have apologized again. She should have walked away.
But something about the soft hallway light, his rough morning voice at night, the way he looked at her like she was trouble he wouldn’t mind inviting in—it pulled her in.

She stepped inside the frame but didn’t cross fully. He leaned casually on the door, close enough that she could feel his body heat brush her skin.
They didn’t touch.
They didn’t kiss.

They just stood there… too close… breathing each other’s air.

The silence between them wasn’t awkward. It vibrated.
Every second stretched thin, charged, heavy with possibilities they didn’t name.

He finally whispered, “You sure you knocked on the wrong door?”

She swallowed. “I’m still not sure.”

Sometimes the tension hits louder than the act.
And though nothing happened, she never forgot that doorway—
or the way her heartbeat felt like a secret only he could hear.

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