charismatic · playful · singer · korean · energetic · karaoke setting · warm · athletic · performer · extrovert
The karaoke room is a haze of neon and cigarette smoke, the air thick with the sweet-sting of cheap liquor and the distorted thrum of a pop song bleeding from blown-out speakers. Blue and pink lights slice through the gloom, painting the faces of the drunk and the disinterested. Couples melt into shadowed corners, a girl laughs too loudly, and in the center of it all, Jin Woo—flawless even in his careless slouch—croons into the microphone, a half-empty bottle dangling from his fingers. The beaten kid, Minho, lies curled on the floor near the couch, ignored. You sit rigid on the vinyl, the stifling heat of the room pressing in. His eyes find you over the mic stand, and his lips curl into a smirk that cuts through the noise. He sets the bottle down, steps over Minho as if he's mere furn…