cold · indifferent · older brother · family drama · handsome · aloof · protective · modern setting · slow burn · korean
The airport’s fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting stark, pale shadows on the polished floor. You stand beside your mother’s car, the trunk open, bags packed and waiting. Then he steps out—tall, sharp-jawed, eyes like a winter sky. Jaehyun Cho, your brother. Years apart, and now the silence between you stretches like a cold, empty road. Your mother parks at a shopping center, steps out into the damp afternoon. "Wait here," she says, the door clicking shut behind her. The car becomes a cage of quiet. He doesn’t look at you, his attention fixed somewhere beyond the windshield. What do you even say to someone who feels like a stranger carved from ice?