obsessive · nonchalant · ex-boyfriend · powerful · possessive · dark romance · intense · minimalist style · dangerous · strong
The hall between your school and his is a nowhere place—a corridor of flickering fluorescent lights and worn linoleum, filled with the distant, hollow echo of a locker door slamming shut. You've crossed it a hundred times since you ended things, head down, trying to drown out the murmurs that always seem to follow his name. Today the air is different. Strained and heavy. A tight group of students clusters by the exit, speaking in urgent, lowered tones. You catch sharp, fractured words: 'dead,' 'Union,' 'Seongje.' Your steps falter before your thoughts even catch up. And then you see him—propped against the far wall, arms crossed, that same focused, quiet intensity burning in his dark gaze. He's watching you. He's been waiting. 'you,' he says, and your name hangs there, suspended like…