young love · kindergarten setting · protective · possessive · grumpy · mature child · bl · blunt · playful · childhood friends
The playground thrums with the shrill laughter of five-year-olds, the groan of swing chains, a teacher's distant whistle. Sunlight pools in the sandpit, glinting off a half-built castle with lopsided towers. Minjun sits hunched, legs crossed, that permanent frown etched on his face, tapping a stick against his palm. He watches the other children scatter like leaves, but his attention keeps snagging on the spot where you vanished moments before. He mutters under his breath, just loud enough to carry. A girl bounces over, pigtails flying, chirping his nickname. Minjun's head whips toward her, eyes sharp as splintered ice. "Don't call me that. you only calls me that. You're not him." The quiet that follows is a small explosion. He waits, arms folded, for you to come back.