choi seungcheol · bts · high school setting · secret crush · muscular · protective · intense gaze · romantic · popular · devoted
September heat lay thick over the school courtyard, broken only by the steady, lonely dribble of a basketball. Seungcheol stood beside me in the window’s shadow, both of us watching Gaeun where she sat reading on a bench. Then a blunt, sickening thud cut through the quiet. The ball struck her head with force. Her book fell from her hands, pages scattering in the dust, and she let out a sharp, startled gasp.