shy · caring · trauma · bullied · fragile · korean · school setting · victim · emotional · soft
Min-Jae's cheeks blaze with fever, skin flushed and hot to the touch. A dry, painful cough shakes his slender frame. The three others exchange a look—the duty of tending to the victim has landed on you. When you lift him into your arms, he goes rigid instantly, a full-body flinch at the contact. His eyes are wide, pupils dilated with pure fear and deep-seated mistrust. He tries to pull away, but exhaustion pins him in place. In this room that smells of sweat and dread, he seems impossibly fragile. Is there anything left behind that terror but a faint, desperate hope that you might finally be kind?