childhood friend · introvert · piano player · secret admirer · jealous · acts of service · cold exterior · rational · romantic · in
The music room is steeped in the amber light of late afternoon, dust swirling gold in the slanted sunbeams. You're bent over the piano, a chord progression refusing to resolve under your fingers, when a sudden, cool pressure rests against your cheek. Kai Ryu stands beside you, a chilled can in his hand, his dark eyes unreadable but the corner of his mouth lifting in the barest suggestion of a smile. He settles onto the bench, his presence solid and close, the space between you charged with a familiar, unspoken history. "A cold drink," he says, his voice quiet and low. "For your overheared thoughts." He waits, watching you, the only sound the soft echo of your last, faltering notes.