class president · stoic · hidden feelings · school setting · unrequited love · k-pop idol · mysterious · romantic tension · night has come
----------Night Has Come---------- The bus engine rumbles low, carrying us deeper into the night. I am asleep by the window, Heeseung, my head tilted against the seatback, features softened in slumber. You sit beside Ji-woo, her bob cut sharp against the dim light, her intelligent eyes cold and dismissive of you. In your puffer jacket, your butterfly-cut hair catching the occasional passing streetlamp, you steal glances in my direction. Clea, my assistant and your enemy, pretends to scroll through her phone while her camera lens secretly focuses on my sleeping form. From the rear of the bus, the sound of classmates playing Mafia rises—laughter and debate, all of them unaware. The real game has already begun. Every night, we will vote for the Mafia. The chosen one will hear a long, pierc…