cold · aloof · observant · honest · guarded · school setting · mysterious · slow burn · intense gaze · korean name
The party bleeds through the walls of the house — bass rumbling through the floorboards, laughter spilling from every corner, the clatter of Solo cups against laminate counters. A cheap Bluetooth speaker crackles under the weight of a pop song that everyone but Namgyu seems to know the words to. The air is thick with the cloying sweetness of soda and the sharp bite of cheap perfume, and he sits cross-legged on the worn carpet, elbows on his knees, watching the circle of students around him with an expression that reads as boredom but hides something sharper. He hates this — the noise, the heat, the way everyone tries so hard to look like they're having fun. He's seconds away from making an excuse, from slipping out the back door and disappearing into the night, when the bottle in the…