"Thirty is coming. So is the question they never answered. One promise. One year. One chance to choose." At twenty-two, it was supposed to be a joke. A half-laugh, a careless promise made on an ordinary night: If we're still single at thirty, we'll try. No rules. No pressure. No expectations. They never spoke of it again. Seven years later, Pond and Phuwin are adults in every way that matters-steady jobs, separate lives, carefully built routines. They are still best friends. Still each other's constant. Still the first person the other thinks of, even when they pretend not to. When circumstances force them back into the same space, old familiarity turns dangerous. Shared mornings feel too intimate. Soft touches linger too long. Conversations circle around everything they refuse to name. And somewhere between now and thirty, the promise resurfaces-not as a joke, but as a question neither of them knows how to answer. Because this isn't about falling in love. It's about admitting they already did-and deciding whether they're brave enough to risk the one thing they've never lost. Set in the quiet tension of adulthood, Somewhere Before Forever is a slow-burn friends-to-lovers story about timing, restraint, and the kind of love that waits patiently... until it can't anymore.

It's a PHUWINPOND story..!!! So if you are uncomfortable with the idea of PhuwinPond, please skip this!! MAIN COUPLE: PHUWINPOND SIDE COUPLES: JOONGDUNK, GEMINIFOURTH I hope you like it!!!

Pond Naravit is broke enough to answer a suspiciously vague job listing titled: "Private Companion Needed for Social Events." The pay is ridiculous. The expectations seem simple. Pretend to be someone's boyfriend. Attend fancy dinners. Look convincing. What Pond does not expect is for the client to be Phuwin Tangsakyuen-rich, composed, and rumored to be the kind of person you really shouldn't annoy. Phuwin didn't expect Pond either. But somehow the chaotic university student who talks too much and smiles too easily ends up signing the contract anyway. It's temporary. Strictly professional. Just a public arrangement for appearances. There are rules. There are boundaries. And absolutely no emotional involvement. Unfortunately, Pond has never been very good at following rules.

"IT'S A PHUWINPOND STORY." In a world built on legacy, contracts, and names that carry more weight than the people who inherit them, two lives quietly collide under circumstances neither of them chose. Pond moves through life like he's trying not to disturb it-soft-spoken, careful, always a step back from taking up too much space. He smiles easily, but never lingers where he feels like he doesn't belong. Phuwin, on the other hand, exists in precision and silence-controlled, composed, and far too used to keeping everything exactly where it should be. When their worlds overlap, nothing about it feels simple. Not the distance between them. Not the way conversations stop short. Not the way presence alone begins to mean more than words ever do. Surrounded by people who see too much, say too little, and understand far more than they should, both of them are forced to navigate something that doesn't fit neatly into expectations or arrangements. Some things are written down. Some things are carefully agreed upon. And some things begin quietly-without permission, without warning, and without ever asking to be noticed.

At Aureline University, people like them don't usually belong. Not in buildings named after billionaires. Not at invitation-only parties hidden above the city. Not in hallways filled with students who wear power like perfume. But this year is different. A new batch of transfer students arrives on campus under circumstances nobody fully understands, and suddenly Aureline feels smaller than it used to. Friend groups shift. Rumors spread faster. People start paying attention to the wrong things. Especially the wrong people. Diesel. Style. Atom. Warich. Boys everyone knows about long before meeting them. And somehow, despite every warning, Day, Fadel, Tinn, and Tan keep ending up in their orbit. Maybe it's coincidence. Maybe it's curiosity. Maybe some disasters are impossible to avoid. Because somewhere between late-night conversations, reckless decisions, crowded dorm rooms, and the kind of secrets nobody says out loud, things begin changing too quickly for anyone to stop them. At Aureline, appearances matter. Reputations matter more. And love? Love is the easiest thing to lie about. Afterall, love is easy. It's trust that ruins people.

Pond has two problems. The first is Phuwin. The second is that Phuwin has been his problem since they were five. Unfortunately, growing up did not make Phuwin less loud, less shameless, less irritating, or less determined to make Pond's life difficult. It only made him taller, more athletic, more popular, and significantly harder to ignore. Which is particularly inconvenient when the six idiots who grew up together in the same neighbourhood somehow end up at the same university. Pond is trying to study. Phuwin is trying to have fun. Joong is trying to survive. Dunk is enjoying the disaster. Perth is actively contributing to it. Santa is just happy to be there. And somewhere between childhood fights, teenage disasters, university chaos, and years of insisting that they are **just friends**, Pond and Phuwin are going to have to deal with the one thing neither of them has ever been particularly good at: being normal about each other. They are still exactly the same six idiots. Only now there are exams, university dorms, new people, bad decisions, and absolutely no adult supervision. And Pond and Phuwin? They are just friends. Obviously. They have been just friends for years. What could possibly go wrong? (It's a PhuwinPond story ♡)

PONDPHUWIN FANFICTION "I was going to propose to you tonight." Pond's voice came out cold, but his hands were shaking around the ring box hidden inside his pocket. Phuwin couldn't even look at him. "What the hell is this?" Pond laughed bitterly. "Your mother... my father... what kind of sick joke is this?" "Pond-" "No." His eyes turned red with anger. "Why did you stop me?" Phuwin knew exactly what he meant. Why did you stop me from telling them? Why did you stop me from choosing us? "I had to," Phuwin whispered. "Tonight you were supposed to become mine..." Pond looked at him like his entire world was falling apart. "And now they want me to call you brother?" Silence. Painful. Heavy. Suffocating. Because the cruelest part wasn't falling in love. It was discovering the truth too late. ─── 𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑 ─── A story where love arrives before fate ruins everything. What happens when the person you wanted forever suddenly becomes forbidden? Will Pond fight for the love he refuses to lose? Or will Phuwin destroy his own heart just to protect their family? ✦ stepbrothers au ✦ angst & emotional conflict ✦ forbidden love ✦ slowburn ✦ mature themes ✦ emotional dependency ✦ family drama ✦ possible smut Read at your own risk. Because Blue Hour was never meant to have a happy color.

At fifteen, while collecting pebbles in the rain, Pond asked Phuwin, "𝐈𝐟 𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲... 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐞?" Little did they know, time had already written a different ending. ♪ ✓ Angst ✓ Short chapters ♪ The story belongs to @EliseInk. No other work is being used as inspiration. Any similarities to other work is purely coincidence.

"𝐌𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐚. 𝐒𝐨... 𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲." A twenty-year arranged marriage, one misunderstood son, and a love that had always been painfully quiet. ♪ A PondPhuwin AU story. Arranged marriage of 20 years with a 15 year old son who tinks that their parents are anything but couples. Because all he ever witnessed are silent mornings, rare emotions and an empty heart. What he doesn't know is they both have been in love, jut in a quiet way. ♪ ✓ Arranged marriage. ✓ Top Naravit & Bottom Tang ✓ Mentions of male pregnancy ✓ No directions of typical omegaverse elements (heat, rut, pheromones, mates) ♪ This entire story, plot belongs to me, unfortunately Pond and Phuwin don't. This story is written only for entertainment purpose. Any similarities to other stories, real life incidences, or famous celebrities is purely coincidential and not intentional. Read it with an open mind.