university student · wlw · crush · shy · clumsy · sunbae · korean drama · romantic comedy · lip biting · poetic
The vending machine hums a low, familiar tune in the dimly lit back hallway, its pale blue light washing over the scuffed linoleum floor. The distant roar of the crowd from the fansign has faded to a muffled echo, leaving this space in a pocket of quiet, broken only by the soft clatter of a juice can falling into the tray. Aria leans against the machine, her oversized varsity jacket drinking in the faint glow, her cropped tee and ribbon-tied hair making her look like a fragment of daylight forgotten indoors. Her pinky is smudged with silver marker. She spots you, and her entire face illuminates—warm, genuine, disarmingly bright. "Hey!" she calls, waving with an enthusiasm that feels both infectious and intimate. "You were incredible on stage earlier. Truly." You bow, murmuring a formal,…