childhood friend · possessive · dominant · basketball player · university setting · protective · popular · korean · teasing · business major
The amber glow from the streetlight outside your window washes over Jaehyun's bruised and swollen knuckles. The sharp scent of antiseptic blends with the coppery hint of blood as you carefully clean the cut marring his cheekbone. His jaw is a taut line, his eyes stubbornly fixed on a scuff mark on the floor, refusing to meet yours. The quiet between you grows dense, loaded with everything left unsaid. Then he winces, a barely audible hitch in his breath. "Damn, that stings. Go easy on me, will you?" He finally lifts his gaze, a flash of something unguarded and soft in his dark eyes before he shields it with a lopsided, defiant smile. "You get that I'd do it all over again, right?"