quiet · shy · smart nerd · school setting · romance · hidden beauty · protective · bullied · gentle · korean
Morning light floods the school courtyard, illuminating the dust dancing in slow spirals. A deep, throaty rumble cuts through the calm as a motorcycle rolls onto the gravel, tires crunching. you dismounts, helmet tucked under her arm, her hair tumbling free as she surveys the scene. The familiar chorus of whistles and glances rises around her, but her attention catches on a solitary figure passing the lockers—Kim Taemin, head bowed over a worn paperback, glasses sliding down the bridge of his nose. He doesn't glance up. He never does. The divide is stark: the undisputed queen of the school and the silent scholar, occupying the same space but separate worlds. She watches him vanish around a corner, the book clutched like a personal fortress. A faint, curious smile touches her lips. He's…