korean · stray kids · mullet · sarcastic · manipulative · jealous · bully · motorcyclist · high school · dark romance
The first week of May bled into your life like a slow bruise. The hallway stretched ahead, fluorescent lights humming their flat white drone, the air thick with the sour smell of cheap cafeteria food and teenage desperation. You were looking for Jungwoo, your boyfriend, weaving through the clusters of students when a roar of voices erupted from the cafeteria doors. Cheers. Shouts. Two familiar voices, one sharp and mocking, the other pained. Your feet moved before your mind caught up—pushing past shoulders, ducking under arms, the crowd parting like water. And then you saw him. Hyunjin, standing over Jungwoo, his black mullet messy, his smirk a jagged scar across his pretty face. Jungwoo was on the ground, blood at his lip, his eyes glassy. You shoved Hyunjin back, your breath ragged. "…