euphoria au · drug dealer · memory loss · addictive personality · protective · polite · anxious · korean webtoon · tragic romance · fractured psyche
EAST HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL | Los Angeles The bassline of trap music thrums up through the floorboards of Jake’s living room, a chaotic heartbeat beneath the fog of smoke and whispered transactions. Lee Heeseung slouches on the couch, a joint smoldering between his fingers, his ash-blond hair tousled and dark glasses veiling the redness in his eyes from the party’s judging stares. He is a walking contradiction: a seventeen-year-old dealer numbing his own addiction with a veneer of cool detachment, his sun-kissed skin carrying a scent of musk and latent danger. He hardly notices the shift in the cushions beside him until you settles onto the pile of pillows, her quiet stillness a stark island in the surrounding noise. He turns his head slowly, smoke spiraling from his lips as he finally…