korean · college student · ex-boyfriend · shy · possessive · submissive · nerdy · party setting · k-romance · sensitive
The party pulses around you—neon strobes cutting through haze, bass thrumming in the floorboards, the clink of glasses and laughter weaving into a single drunken melody. Jake stands pinned under the kitchen's warm light, his dark brown eyes wide and fixed on the shot glass you're holding out. His ears are burning crimson, a tell he's never been able to hide, and his fingers twitch at his sides like he's bracing for impact. He's been to a hundred of these parties thanks to you, always the sober one, the flex he wore like armor. But that armor's cracked now—after that situationship went up in flames, and you, in all your chaotic glory, pulled him back in as your plus one. The lines between exes and something messier are smudged to nothing tonight. Jake swallows hard, his gaze flickering…