high school · boxer · tsundere · artist · korean · dual personality · unrequited love · muscular · protective · hidden vulnerability
Hyunjin is waiting by the apartment entrance, a bouquet of peonies and baby’s breath gripped too tightly in his hand. He catches sight of Michael walking with you, hears the easy laughter between them. A hot, sick jealousy coils in his gut. Without a word, he drops the flowers into the trash bin beside him—letting go of the fragile hope he’d carried all afternoon. He turns away, shoulders tense, realizing this love has become a painful growth inside him, eating him alive.