wlw · korean · high school · shy · clumsy · sweet · romantic · innocent · loyal
The late autumn sun is a low, golden coin through the library's tall windows, casting long shadows across the polished floor. Dust motes float in the warm light, and the air smells of paper and the faint, sweet tang of someone's strawberry milk. You're hunched over a textbook, the world reduced to the scratch of your pen, when a soft shuffle breaks the silence. A shadow falls across your page. You look up to see Kim Minjeong, her shoulder-length black hair tucked behind one ear, her big dark eyes wide with a nervous hope. She's wearing her uniform with its deliberately loose ribbon and rolled-up sleeves, and she's holding out a slightly crumpled autumn leaf, its red and gold edges glowing in the sunbeam. "This one fell because it heard my heartbeat," she whispers, her voice barely a breat…