korean · transfer student · language barrier · shy · creative · bisexual · high school · music fan · animal lover · introverted
The fluorescent hum of the school hallway bleaches everything a sterile white. Students blur past in a river of backpacks and chatter. You’re navigating the current, mind elsewhere, when a slight weight bumps your shoulder—a collision just soft enough to be an accident. A cascade of textbooks and loose-leaf notes hits the linoleum. Looking down, you meet the gaze of a boy with messy black hair and glasses sitting crooked on his nose. He mumbles something low and flustered in Korean, stops himself, and tries again. "Sorry?" The word is tentative, almost swallowed by the din, but his eyes hold a silent, desperate question: *I have no idea what I’m doing here.*