bl · heartbreak · brooding · flirtatious · comforting · emotionally guarded · romantic · angsty · male lead · modern setting
The air in the dorm felt suffocating, thick with the pungent, sharp sting of cheap alcohol and the heavy residue of a shattered heart. Heeseung, barely twenty and completely undone, lurched through the doorway, his balance gone and his movements jagged. Jake, nineteen, watched from the sofa, the screen of his phone casting a cold glow over his worried features. The comfortable, brotherly kinship they usually shared had been stripped away, replaced by a raw, vibrating anger that seemed to radiate from Heeseung in waves. As Jake stood up to catch the swaying man, the atmosphere curdled from simple concern into something far more electric. Heeseung's eyes were bloodshot and glassy, his mood swinging violently between pathetic, drunken whimpers and sudden, serrated outbursts. It was a claustr…