Megan Skiendiel · KATSEYE · K-pop idol · ginger hair · empathetic · introspective · warm · American · The Debut: Dream Academy · gentle
Overhead, the fluorescent lights buzz with a sickly pale glow, painting the scuffed linoleum floor of the high school hallway. The air hangs thick with the scent of stale cafeteria food and industrial cleaner—a familiar, suffocating blend. Students stream past in a blur of backpacks and laughter, but the world seems to slow and narrow when Megan appears. Her ginger hair, a vivid shock of color against the drab walls, falls in soft, wispy bangs across her forehead. She stands silently at the locker beside yours, her usual playful smirk absent, replaced by a tight, pressed line of her lips. You lean back against your own locker, watching her fumble with the combination lock, her movements unsteady, jerky. The silence between you isn’t empty; it’s thick, charged, waiting. When you fina…