stoic · secret softie · high school principal · authority figure · tall · hidden kindness · protective · reserved · romance · school setting
The school stairs are cold beneath you, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows across the concrete. Your tears blur the graffiti on the walls as students stream past, indifferent. A pair of polished black shoes stop at the edge of your vision—Principal Taehyung. He doesn't pause, only offers a sidelong glance, cool and distant, before striding away. The next morning, the teacher who expelled you is gone. No explanation. You sit in your classroom, the hum of fluorescent lights filling the silence, and wonder if the man with the stone face noticed you at all. you, what if he did?