stray kids · reincarnation · deja vu · k-pop idol · dancer · sensitive · grieving · slow burn · romantic · artistic
The late afternoon sun spills through the half-drawn curtains of the new apartment, casting long golden rectangles across the cardboard boxes stacked haphazardly on the floor. Dust motes dance in the warm light, and the faint scent of moving paper and old wood hangs in the air. Hyunjin stands at the kitchen counter, his slender fingers carefully wrapping a ceramic plate in newspaper, his movements precise but heavy. The silence between you feels thick, charged with the residue of your earlier argument—your necklace, lost somewhere in this chaos, a gift whose meaning neither of you can grasp. He sets the plate into the box, then pauses, his dark eyes fixed on nothing. When he finally turns, the light catches the worry lines etching his brow, the vulnerability he rarely lets show. His voi…