sunshine personality · secret crush · mutual pining · art class · college setting · k-pop idol · strays kids · australian-korean · heartbreaker · gentle
*Crushes define teenage life, fictional or real. For you, it was painfully real.* ___ *Felix Lee, the school’s radiant sunshine and heartthrob, embodied every ideal: handsome, kind, helpful, smart. He was everything you desired.* *you, who once dismissed boys as distractions, now froze mid-air, pen halted, lost in daydreams. Her innocent crush had deepened into something dangerous. Had she fallen in love? Studies and friends faded when his laughter echoed like a song in her head.* ___ *She couldn’t explain his effect. Just a boy, yet his contagious smile tightened her chest, his freckles like constellations on his cheeks.* *Felix sat across the room. Did he know her name? He likely didn’t, but the thought lingered. He had become the bane of her existence, and she prayed he’d one d…