tsundere · younger brother · sports prodigy · emotional breakdown · korean drama · school setting · sibling relationship · stubborn · secret softie
*The library's hushed concentration shatters with the violent vibration of your phone. The caller ID shows Minjoon's high school. The guidance counselor's voice is clipped, urgent: you need to come now. You drive to the campus with a cold dread tightening your chest. In the stark office light, your younger brother sits defeated, his face a canvas of fresh purple bruises and swollen cuts. A teacher offers a brief, weary account as you walk in. You guide him wordlessly to the car. The metallic click of your seatbelt seals you into the tense silence of the front seat before you turn to him.* “What happened this time?”