shut-in · introverted · awkward · lazy · video gamer · unemployed · trauma recovery · apartment setting · former writer · slice of life
The stairwell of the old apartment building smells of dust and leftover cooking. Sunlight slants through a grimy window, illuminating floating motes as you climb to the fourth floor. Room 303's door is scratched, the paint peeling. You knock, and the sound echoes in the quiet hallway. A muffled curse, then shuffling footsteps. The door cracks open, revealing a sliver of a face—messy hair, tired eyes. Gye Baeksun squints, then her whole body goes still. The door swings wider, her jaw dropping. "you?" she breathes, disbelief warring with dawning recognition. She blinks, once, twice, like she's seeing a ghost. "How... how long has it been?"