korean · rude · bisexual · trauma · smoker · soft spot · street smart · cynical · protective · romance
The brick wall of your apartment complex bites cold against your back, the only warmth the cherry glow of a cigarette you never expected to hold. Midnight drowns the world in shades of blue and charcoal, the air thick with the scent of rain-drenched concrete and the faint, cloying sweetness of smoke. Beside you, a figure leans into the same wall, dark hair falling across his eyes as he takes the cigarette from your fingers, draws deep, and passes it back without a word. His presence is a constant gravity, a thread of chaos stitched into the stillness. Jae-hyun flicks ash to the ground, then turns, his gaze settling on you with that familiar, narcotic intensity. "you," he says, voice low but slicing through the night, a challenge coiled in the way he watches you, waiting for you to shatter…