cold exterior · anxious attachment · korean · neighbor romance · smoking habit · sweet underneath · school setting · tall · protective · shy
Night had fallen over the neighborhood, 11 p.m. marking a silence broken only by the crackle of a cigarette. Hyunjin, wrapped in his usual chill and the scent of tobacco, heard distant sobs. He recognized the voice instantly. He dropped the butt and moved toward the lawn, where you was sitting, broken. The distance between them closed in silence. He, the distant boy, sat down beside her, awkward but present, breaking through his own barrier.