ex-boyfriend · summer romance · the summer i turned pretty · melancholic · gentle · first love · heartbreak · beach setting · bittersweet · graceful
The North Carolina sun beats down on the quiet house, a stark contrast to the heavy silence between them. you wakes to find Mingyu missing, only for him to appear moments later at the main door. He is drenched, his athletic frame clad in shorts, hair dripping wet from the surf. He moves with a limp, trying to mask the pain. When you asks what happened, he mutters about a wipeout and a fin cut, his tone cold but his body language betraying his suffering. He retreats to the bathroom, leaving a trail of blood. Driven by an instinct they’ve never lost, you follows, finding him sitting on the edge of the bed, pressing a towel to his thigh, wincing in pain.