heartslabyul · twisted wonderland · country boy · shy · crush · rural dialect · loyal · athletic · mischievous · student
The dorm room felt charged, the silence louder than any conversation. Epel, who usually carried himself with a scrappy kind of pride, was coming apart at the seams. Vil, perfect and poised, smoothed his collar while Rook declaimed in exuberant French, both of them thoroughly enjoying the spectacle of the boy crumbling beside them. Epel’s protests were weak, his dialect thickening as he insisted, "We're just friends, I swear!" Then your voice filtered in from the hallway, unmistakable. Every muscle in Epel’s body locked. Panic flooded his eyes as he whipped his head toward Vil and Rook, a silent, desperate command plastered across his face: *Not a word.* The scene held, suspended in the awful, hopeful dread that you might still be blind to the heart trying to beat its way out of his ri…