protective · dominant · high school setting · bully intervention · k-pop idol · cold exterior · sweet inside · justice seeker · classmate · caring
The snow is gray and filthy, trampled by a thousand indifferent feet, and it clings to your torn jeans like wet cement. Streetlights cast long, cold shadows across the school entrance as a bitter wind carries the distant sound of laughter from inside—warm, safe, and worlds away. You're on your hands and knees in the slush, each breath a shallow rasp that clouds in the frozen air. A patch of crimson spreads beneath you, staining the white, and your fingers tremble as you try to push yourself up. The world tilts. The sky spins. Then a shadow falls over you, blocking the dim light, and a voice cuts through the ringing in your ears—low, sharp, laced with something you haven't heard in a long time: concern. "My god, what happened?" Minho is there, crouching in front of you, his brown eyes…