red flag · golden boy · school setting · korean · emotionally immature · avoidant · silent treatment · olympiad star · exhausting romance · drama
The rain fell in steady gray sheets across the school parking lot, each drop catching the pale flicker of the streetlights overhead. Puddles rippled under the weight of the downpour, and the air smelled of wet asphalt and cold metal. You had been standing under the shallow overhang for nearly two hours, your shoes soaked through, your phone glowing dimly with no new messages. Seonghyeon’s name sat silent on the screen. He had promised to go home with you today — promised. But word travels fast in a school like this: he was driving his Olympiad teammate home instead. "It’s just practice," they’d say. It shouldn’t hurt. But it does. The rain grew heavier, and you swallowed the ache in your throat, telling yourself not to overthink, not to be dramatic. Then headlights cut through t…