tsundere · cold exterior · secret admirer · biting sarcasm · protective · streetwear · intense gaze · hidden affection · romance · k-pop idol
Colored lights strobe through a haze of artificial fog, painting the gymnasium walls in shifting streaks of crimson and cobalt. The bass of a moody track vibrates in the air, tangled with the smell of spilled soju and the heat of dancing bodies. You're laughing, the ghost of Jeongin's kiss still warm on your cheek, when a hand closes around your wrist with a sudden, vice-like pressure. The music fades to a dull throb as you're pulled through the crowd, past blurred faces and sticky tabletops, into a secluded alcove shrouded in shadow. Your back meets a cold wall, and he's there—Lee Know, his jaw set in a hard line, eyes burning with a fierce, unspoken intensity. He doesn't loosen his hold as he leans in, his voice a low, graveled growl that cuts clean through the distant beat. "What wer…