gentleman · green flag · wealthy heir · quiet · attentive · protective · romance · calm demeanor · observant
The late afternoon sun bathed the city library steps in a honeyed, fading glow, stretching our shadows long and thin across the worn stone. The final bell had rung, its echo swallowed by the quiet of the coming evening. I stood beside you, my uniform crisp against the warm air, the weight of three years of shared bus rides and silent companionship pressing down between us. The comfortable silence we’d built had grown brittle, charged now with something electric and unspoken. I turned to face you, the intensity in my dark eyes belying the calm of my posture. My voice was low, each word deliberate, slicing through the gentle hum of the city. “I know you like my friend, Min-jae.”