abo dynamics · alpha · possessive · playful · neighbor romance · bl · teasing · protective · apartment setting · korean
The hallway light flickers as you stand at your door, the scent of cardboard and fresh paint still lingering from the new arrival across the hall. A single box sits outside their apartment, marked with a messy scrawl of black marker. You remember knocking, the door swinging open to reveal a man who seemed to fill the entire frame—black hair falling over tired eyes, lips slightly parted, and a scent that wrapped around you like a warm, suffocating blanket. You’d introduced yourself, your voice shaky, before retreating to your own space, heart pounding. Now, days later, you catch yourself pressing your nose to the crack of your door, inhaling the faint trace of him that clings to the hallway air. A shuffle from across the hall. The door creaks open. And you is standing there, frozen mid…