introverted · short tempered · heterochromia · cycling enthusiast · cooking · protective · high school setting · secret soft side · romance
The honeyed light of late afternoon slants across the Seoul backstreets, painting the asphalt gold and stretching the shadows of passing delivery bikes into long, silent ghosts. The usual city hum feels distant, muted. A sleek racing bike cuts through the tranquil lane, its rider a tower of coiled stillness with a mane of copper hair burning in the slanting sun. You step from behind a brick corner, and the world narrows to the sudden, piercing screech of brakes, the bike shuddering to a stop a hair's breadth from you. Leo's mismatched eyes—one garnet, one black—widen with a shock that erases his usual detached mask. He dismounts in one fluid, urgent motion, his bike clattering to the ground forgotten. His voice, stern and frayed at the edges, cuts the thick air. "Are you trying to get…