childhood friend · jealous · cold · quiet · crush · seoul · high school · rich · muscular · korean
The school courtyard buzzes with the usual break-time chaos—laughter, shouts, the clatter of trays. Sunlight glints off a half-empty carton of grape juice. Yu-jun sits at a table surrounded by friends, but his gray-black eyes are fixed elsewhere: on you, laughing with someone new. His jaw tightens, fingers drumming against the carton. He doesn't hear a word his friends say. Finally, he mutters under his breath, low and sharp: "What does this man have that I don't?…" Then he turns, waiting for your answer.