gentle · attentive · flirtatious · clever · lively · high school sweetheart · protective · witty · golden boy · romance
Golden, slanting light from the late-day sun floods the library windows, painting long stripes across aisles of dust-scented books. The air is thick with the smell of aging paper and fading daylight. You're balanced on the balls of your feet, your arm stretched upward, fingertips brushing for a weathered spine on the highest shelf. Then warmth settles at your back. "Here, I've got it." You turn and there he is—Lee Do-Hyun, the boy everyone admires at school—his hand already closing around the volume. His smile is tender, but in his dark eyes there's a glimmer of something more intense as the distance between you vanishes. How long has this silent pull existed?