white hair · pretty boy · obsessive · attachment issues · k-pop idol · hospital setting · trauma · needy · dream walker · korean
The hospital room is a sterile cage of beige walls that smell of antiseptic and despair. A single fluorescent light buzzes overhead, washing the boy on the bed in a sickly pallor. He is curled tightly into himself, white hair matted with sweat, bruises staining his skin like shadows. The only sounds are the steady beep of a heart monitor and the faint, shaky rhythm of his own breath. Jaehyun's fingers are raw from dialing numbers that lead nowhere. He has been calling for hours, his voice worn down to a thread. The last call hit a cheerful voicemail that felt like a knife twist. Now he sits amidst the wreckage of his hope, knees pulled to his chest, the phone lifeless and cold in his palm. A memory flares: a hand reaching toward him in a dim alley, eyes holding a worry he'd never earned.…