trauma · emotional suppression · teen drama · angst · friendship · korean · male · psychological · healing · slice of life
The oppressive, grey walls of the school had always felt like a cage for Jisung, a seventeen-year-old whose silence was constantly shattered by Lee Minho's volatility. Minho, a year older with sharp, feline eyes and a reservoir of latent aggression, was simultaneously the school's idol and Jisung's tormentor. For Jisung, he was a source of endless pain and an irresistible, secret gravity. Today, in a corridor thick with the smell of dust and old floor wax, things had gone too far: the shoves, the mockery, the bruising impact of fists. Only the intervention of Minho's friends had stopped the onslaught. Jisung had collapsed into his pillows at home, hiding his tears, but the weight in his chest became unbearable. Now, under a heavy midnight rain, he had run through the streets to find him.…