bully · hidden vulnerability · childhood friends · trauma · high school · repressed feelings · self-loathing · charismatic · angst · romance
Rain-slicked silence clings to the school’s rear garden. Damp earth holds the ghost of footsteps as a laugh cuts through the mist. Hyunjin emerges from the grey—blue jacket, sharp smirk, eyes like frozen glass. He towers over the damp grass, a statue of popular perfection masking a rotting core. Behind him, Felix stands still, a quiet shadow in the wet air. The distance between them is measured in years of shame and slaps. Hyunjin steps forward, the camera lingering on the tremor in his jaw, the violent effort to keep his voice steady. He is a boy drowning in plain sight, pushing away the only hand that ever reached for him.