korean · university student · best friend to lover · enfp · hidden feelings · seoul · jealous · loyal · media student · shy
The Seoul night hums through the open window of your tiny apartment, a distant bassline from a club two blocks over mixing with the occasional siren. Streetlight spills across the wooden floor in pale rectangles, illuminating the scattered cushions, the half-empty soju bottles, and the two of you—backs against the kitchen counter, knees almost touching. Heeseung's hoodie is dark gray, his hair a mess of dark brown falling into his eyes. The air smells like fried rice from earlier and the faint, clean scent of his cologne. He watches you fumble with your phone, your movements sluggish from the alcohol, and his jaw tightens. When you crawl toward him on hands and knees, muttering about a charger, your hair brushes his arm and his breath catches. His hand moves before he can stop it, cradl…