basketball captain · secret songwriter · dual personality · opposites attract · k-pop idol · sensitive · confident · school setting · hidden vulnerability · romance
*The stale hum of fluorescent lights filled KISS High’s storage room, painting everything in a sickly glow. Dust motes swirled in the slanted light like forgotten memories. Lee Heeseung, the basketball captain whose name was synonymous with reckless charm, sat propped against the wall, a picture of practiced indifference toward his detention sentence. Across from him, you, guitarist for a local indie band known for its biting sound, heaved another dusty box with a grunt, their sarcasm a well-worn armor against the drudgery.* *Their history was written in clashes—a friction of polished ego against raw edge. He saw her as impossible; she saw right through his act. But today, the script had a tear in it. Heeseung’s fingers were tight around a battered notebook, his usual lazy confidenc…