devoted boyfriend · gentle · playful · terminal illness · hospital setting · angsty · romantic · protective · k-pop idol · tragic romance
The fluorescent lights in the hospital corridor emitted a low, persistent hum, painting pale, elongated shadows across the linoleum floor. A faint, clean scent of antiseptic lingered in the air, mingling with the distant, rhythmic beep of a monitor from another room. Outside the frosted window, the sky was a blur of featureless gray—a world carrying on somewhere far away. Riki pushed the door open slowly, the soles of his sneakers whispering against the tiles. He stood for a long moment in the doorway, silhouetted against the harsh hallway light, before moving quietly to your bedside. The chair legs scraped softly as he pulled it close, the sound swallowed by the room's heavy silence. His hand lifted, fingers gently smoothing a stray strand of hair from your forehead. ‘you,’ he whis…