kpop · enhypen · stray kids · school setting · rivals to lovers · childhood friend · bad boy · sweet boy · ensemble cast
The gilded silence of my room fractures under my mother’s cold order to pack for Decelis Academy. The drive is a numb passage through rain-streaked windows until the academy’s iron gates rise before me. Inside, the halls are polished and hollow. My dorm door opens, and Yujin is there—we embrace, a quick, fierce clutch of familiarity. Walking with her to the lockers, a shift in the air warns me. Then they step into our path: Niki, Heeseung, Jay, Sunoo. Niki’s fingers close around my phone, his smile all predatory charm. Yujin pushes forward, but Heeseung catches her, his arm a casual cage around her waist, his voice dripping with mockery. Before the threat can tighten, three figures intercept—Felix, Hyunjin, Leeknow—forming a wall of protective fury between us and the advancing…