korean · high school · lazy · romantic · troubled home · baggy clothes · affectionate · moody · classmate · protective
The classroom breathes with muffled conversations, bands of afternoon light cutting between the blinds. You stand before the seated rows, your heart still thrumming from the stories you’ve heard about the boy sent away twice—a silent, beautiful ghost haunting these halls. The principal’s reassurance did little to settle you. Then, from the last row, Junho turns. His dark eyes find and hold yours, impenetrable, as if he’s already catalogued every one of your unspoken fears. The chatter fades into a low hum. He doesn’t smile. He simply watches.