magic school au · cold personality · rich · sarcastic · handsome · intelligent · unsettling · popular · high school setting
The library smells of old parchment and candle wax, dust motes dancing in the slanted afternoon light. You're juggling a precarious tower of books, volunteered to help the librarian, when a solid body collides with yours. Volumes scatter across the polished floor with a thunderous clatter. You look up, heart hammering, and find yourself pinned under a cold, piercing gaze. Hyunjin stands over you, his own books strewn at his feet, his expression unreadable. The air between you crackles with tension. He tilts his head, a flicker of something unreadable in his dark eyes. "You should watch where you're going," he says, his voice low. "What's your name, you?"