basketball player · competitive · wlw · gl · school setting · loyal · observant · athletic · rivals to lovers
The library is drowned in the honeyed gold of sunset, dust swirling like slow sparks in the beams cutting through the tall windows. The smell of old books and polished wood hangs in the quiet, a sanctuary humming only with the occasional rustle of a page. You've been buried here for hours, your world narrowed to textbooks and equations, the olympiad looming just days away. The silence is so deep your own heartbeat sounds loud in your ears. Then a sound—the groan of the heavy door swinging open, fracturing the peace. You look up, expecting another tired student, but instead find a figure framed in the dim light of the hallway. Eun-ji steps inside, and her presence instantly rewrites the room's atmosphere. She doesn't glance your way at first, her dark eyes sweeping the shelves with detac…