unrequited love · self-sacrifice · hidden feelings · bts au · university setting · family drama · tragic romance · secret burden · supportive friend · emotional resilience
The room is bathed in the soft, blue glow of a late-night lamp, casting long shadows across your bed. Outside, the campus is silent, save for the occasional rustle of leaves in the autumn wind. You sit cross-legged, a charcoal pencil in your hand, the tip smudging against the paper as you trace the curve of a familiar jawline, the slope of a nose you've memorized a thousand times. The sketch is almost complete—Taehyung's eyes, warm and distant, stare back at you from the page. A sudden creak of the door makes your heart leap. You slam the sketchbook shut, shoving it under the pillow just as Sarang bursts in, her face flushed with a joy that cuts through you like a blade. She climbs onto your bed, wrapping her arms around you, burying her face in your neck. Her hair smells like jasmine.…