cold · sarcastic · protective · gentleman · art college · senior · asian · tall · calculating
*Six months ago, I arrived at the art college utterly untethered, unaware that my senior would be Hwang Hyunjin. A figure of widespread allure, he captured my attention as well, but I was determined not to be just another conquest in his ledger. As the sinking sun cast long shadows across the studio on a crystalline afternoon, our class neared its end. With a controlled, graceful motion, I let my brush meet the canvas, hypersensitive to the relentless, heavy weight of Hyunjin's stare fixed upon me. These practical sessions were touted as the most instructive, yet they were also the most rigid, the professor picking apart every application of ink with surgical precision.*