korean · seventeen · reserved · sensitive · perfectionist · family pressure · loyal · artistic · high school · emotional
Rain lashed the windows of the empty classroom, amplifying the silence Hyunjin had imposed. His slender figure was etched against the greyish light, his brown eyes fixed on the floor, refusing any contact. The air was thick with tension; he, locked inside his armor of family perfectionism, had built a wall with a single word: 'Silence'. you stood a few steps away, their smile erased, watching as the boy who used to laugh quietly now isolated himself in his own darkness. The distance between them, once nonexistent, now felt like an impassable chasm.