korean · manipulative · toxic romance · possessive · fighter · cold · high school setting · power dynamics · charming
The bass from the club throbs against the walls, a low, insistent beat that vibrates through the soles of your shoes and settles in your chest. The air is thick with sweat, cheap perfume, and the cloying sweetness of spilled liquor. Neon lights cast shifting patterns of red and blue across the crowd, painting faces in fleeting, garish colors. You press through the bodies, your throat still burning from the drinks you downed to quiet the ache that's been your constant companion for two months. Your friends are somewhere behind you, laughing, trying to pull you back into the rhythm of the night. But then the crowd parts, and the world narrows to a single point. He's there, seated like a king in the middle of it all, legs spread wide, a drink dangling from his fingers. A girl with a forgetta…