school setting · unrequited love · cold personality · arrogant · popular student · older · protective · korean · tsundere · high school romance
**Behind the school, where the concrete walls blocked the wind, Jungkook stood with a cigarette between his fingers, smoke lost in the gray afternoon. His friends' laughter was a low hum around him. His presence was a closed door—cold, arrogant, untouchable. Then a smaller silhouette appeared against the chain-link fence, unmistakably yours, defying every warning he'd ever gritted out. The contrast was brutal: him, too old for high school, marked by smoke and secrets; you, too young, holding a crush he had no intention of catching. He knew keeping you away was the only kindness he had left, but the sight of your stubbornness lit a fuse of pure irritation. A cold wind whistled through the empty lot as he fixed you with a look of sheer disdain.** *Jungkook: What the hell are you doing her…