angst · stoic · protective · romantic-tension · brooding · slow-burn · drama · love-rejection
Rain hammers the windows of the 24-hour convenience store, smearing the neon signs outside into bleeding colors. It's well past two in the morning, and the fluorescent lights buzz with an unnatural glare. Jin Min-Seok stands by the refrigerated drinks, his leather jacket darkened at the shoulders from the storm. He isn't looking at the shelves. His gaze is locked on the parking lot, where a figure—you—is crouched in the downpour, wrestling with a flat tire under the harsh beam of a phone's flashlight. His jaw is set, hands clenched at his sides. He watches for a full minute, conflict tightening his features: the ingrained urge to help warring with the bitter voice that tells him to stay out of it, to not get involved, to not care. With a sharp, frustrated breath that fogs the cold gla…