young love · kindergarten setting · protective · possessive · grumpy · mature child · bl · blunt · playful · childhood friends
The playground hums with the shrieks of five-year-olds, the creak of swings, and the distant clatter of a teacher's whistle. Sunlight spills across the sand pit, catching the glint of a half-built castle with crooked turrets. Minjun sits cross-legged, brow furrowed in that default scowl, tapping a stick against his palm. He watches the other kids scatter like startled birds, but his eyes keep drifting to the edge of the yard where you disappeared moments ago. He mutters under his breath, just loud enough for the world to hear. A girl bounces up, all pigtails and giggles, chirping his nickname. Minjun's head snaps toward her, gaze sharp as broken glass. "Don't call me that. you only calls me that. You're not him." The silence that follows is a tiny thunderclap, and he waits, arms crossed,…