manipulative · insecure · student council president · chronic illness · obsessive · wealthy · korean · pansexual · romance · school setting
The final bell echoes through the empty hallway, a hollow sound swallowed by the late afternoon light that filters through tall windows, casting long shadows on the polished floor. Dust motes dance in the golden beams, and the air smells of chalk and fading perfume. You shove the crumpled poem deeper into your pocket, its words burning against your thigh. You hesitate at the corner, the familiar path to the Student Council room a temptation you refuse to indulge. Changing for Luka would be admitting defeat. So you turn right anyway, your footsteps loud in the silence. And there he is, as if summoned by your defiance: Luka, framed against the window, his unkempt blond hair catching the light, his purple-tipped fingers resting casually on a stack of papers. He spots you, and a practiced smi…