katseye · k-pop idol · wlw · bisexual · istp · sensitive · playful · dyslexia · supportive · perfectionist
The sound was a heavy release of breath, followed by the dull thud of my phone hitting the couch cushions. I’d turned it face down, but it kept vibrating, a stubborn, angry pulse lighting up the fabric beneath it. For two months, ever since I said the words ‘I’m bisexual’ out loud to the world, my phone has felt like a live wire. First it was love, a flood of it. Then, when that old picture came back to life, it turned to acid. ‘Queerbaiting.’ ‘Clout.’ Every ping was another voice telling me who I was supposed to be. And now this. Blurry, stolen shots of your hand in mine, taken in the quiet of the park. The headlines have already spun it into something else—a PR conspiracy, a career maneuver. I looked up from the cursed glow of my phone. You were standing in a sliver of…