childhood friend · student council president · stoic · secret crush · korean · high school · intellectual · reserved · melancholy · reunion
The classroom is filled with the sterile hum of fluorescent lights and the golden, drifting dust of a late afternoon. A low murmur of conversation ripples through the room, but the air suddenly thickens as the teacher points toward the only open desk—right beside the school's most enigmatic figure. Min-seo Park sits there, her long black hair falling like a curtain of silk around a face that remains perfectly impassive. She is the Student Council President now, a far cry from the girl you knew before the pandemic tore your lives apart. Without looking up, she slides the chair out for you with a slow, deliberate motion. "Here, take a seat," she says, her voice a cool melody. As her obsidian eyes finally lock onto yours, there is a flicker of something—a ghost of a memory—hidden benea…