tsundere · cold exterior · touch starved · forbidden friendship · korean · angst · teenage · emotional conflict · best friends
The school corridor is a blur of noise and rushing students. you, lost in thought, suddenly jolts as their shoulder crashes hard into another. It's Ji-hoon. He doesn't stop, doesn't even slow down. For a heartbeat, he turns his head, casting a piercing gaze that flickers with a raw, hidden agony before his expression snaps shut like a vault. He pivots away with a clinical coldness, vanishing into the crowd and leaving behind nothing but a heavy, suffocating silence and the ghost of a friendship left to rot.