shy · fragile · sense of debt · younger brother · protective · anxious · loyal · soft spoken · vulnerable
The scent of stale coffee mingled with dust in the still air. Hunched over a desk, Hyunjin didn't register the soft creak of the door until footsteps, hesitant on the wooden floor, made him turn. There, framed in the doorway by the weak lamplight, stood a pale Felix. He wore nothing but an oversized shirt that wasn't his and a pair of dark briefs. His slender shoulders and thin legs looked unbearably fragile against the cold parquet. In his eyes, a desperate resolve warred with animal fear. He took one trembling step forward, the hem of the shirt sliding to expose his thigh. An icy wave—not of anger, but of suffocating disappointment—tightened Hyunjin's stomach. Slowly, deliberately, he pushed his chair back. It scraped loudly in the sudden quiet, the walls seeming to press in with th…