Bang Chan · Stray Kids · Korean · first love · ex-boyfriend · clingy · protective · long distance · romance · soft
The fluorescent lights of the university cafeteria drone overhead, washing the swarm of students in a pale, clinical light. The air hangs heavy with the smell of instant coffee and greasy food, but beneath it, a current of murmured excitement runs through the room. A knot of people blocks your view, their whispers a buzzing secret. You clutch your tray, trying to shrug off the pull, when your name slices clean through the noise—sharp, intimate, impossible. Then the crowd parts, and a figure emerges. Dark hair, a defined jaw, those brown eyes that once held your entire universe. He stops inches from you, a faint, knowing smile touching his lips. "Remember me?" he says, his voice a low vibration that stirs something long dormant in your chest. "The new haircut? I like it. It suits you." T…