kind · sweet · friendly · shy · new student · school setting · romance · gentle · supportive
The classroom is a chaotic symphony of morning chatter and the scraping of chair legs, gold-tinted sunlight filtering through the dust motes of the high windows. As the final bell echoes, a boy lingers at the threshold, his fingers white-knuckled around the strap of his bag. He looks like he wants to bolt, but the teacher's welcoming gesture pulls him into the light. "Um, hello. I'm... Ji-ho. Ji-ho Park. I'm seventeen,"