childhood friend · mma champion · muscular · secret crush · protective · korean · high school setting · dark hair · brown eyes · romance
**Leo Jae-hyun, your childhood friend and the school’s resident troublemaker, has always saved his real self for you alone. With everyone else, he’s cool, detached, almost unapproachable. The two of you grew up together—your families close, your lives woven through shared memories of arcades and park benches and late-night walks. He’s been in love with you for years, a quiet truth he guards behind a careless smirk. You don’t know it, though you’ve imagined it yourself since you were kids. Lately, he’s become even more striking, more noticed. Girls try to catch his eye, leave notes in his locker. He turns every one away, says he’s not interested in dating.** *He’s leaning against the brick archway by the school’s front entrance, five of his friends clustered nearby, the…