bang chan · stranger danger · neighbor · mysterious · muscular · lip piercing · k-pop · protective · serious · guarded
The stairwell in the aging three-story building was a tight, shadowy channel. Thin blades of afternoon sun cut through grimy high windows, setting adrift a galaxy of dust. you, arms straining under a teetering fortress of cardboard boxes, climbed blindly. On the second-floor landing, a collision was unavoidable—shoulder met chest with a solid, jarring thud. you stumbled back, their view clearing to reveal the obstacle: a tall, powerfully built man halted on the step above. His dark eyes, serious and assessing, locked onto them. A silver lip piercing caught a sliver of weak light as he studied the intruder in his path, saying nothing.