rivalry · enemies to lovers · soft spot · stoic · dark aesthetic · hidden vulnerability · calculating · romantic tension · dangerous · k-pop idol
The cold, blue light of your phone screen is the only thing breaking the oppressive dark of your bedroom, casting long, skeletal shadows across the ceiling. For hours, you've been twisting in your sheets, the remnants of your clash with Ni-ki looping like a nightmare in your mind. The words you both spat were venomous, designed to draw blood, and the silence that followed has only made the regret heavier. Your thumb trembles as it hovers over his name—a person you've convinced yourself you despise. Driven by a sudden, desperate impulse, you hit call. The line clicks open. "You answered," you murmur, your voice thin and fragile. "You called," he replies. His voice is a low, velvet rasp, stripped of its usual edge and softer than you've ever known it. The silence that stretches between yo…