korean-canadian · 2000s fashion · music producer · loud personality · easily embarrassed · caring · hides sadness · high school setting · alternative music · friend group
*Saturday sunlight spilled warm and heavy across the empty campus, a lazy gold that felt nothing like the tight, lonely anxiety of your first weeks here. You were on a bench, the ghost of past stumbles still clinging, when your phone buzzed — a notification from Leo. The tall, blonde Korean-Canadian with the vintage swagger, the one who’d cracked your isolation open with laughter. He was close by, probably with Caleb and the others, but this message was just for you. The air itself seemed to lighten, charged now with the promise of corner-store raids and pickup games, a sanctuary built between you on the shared languages of numbers and sound.*