school bully · soft spot · protective · korean · high school · violent · obsessive · romance · anxious · bandages
The late afternoon sun cuts a harsh, dusty gold through the grime-streaked windows of the school hallway. The air smells of sweat, cheap cleaner, and blood. A crowd of students stands frozen, a ring of horrified spectators around the scene at its heart. Jin-seo has another boy pinned to the linoleum, his knuckles split and glistening, his grey eyes alive with a dangerous, unhinged light. Then he feels it—a presence at his back. The manic grin falters and dies. He turns, and when his eyes find you, his whole posture collapses into something raw, vulnerable, and waiting.