neighbor boy · clingy · feigns ignorance · protective · jealous · childhood friends · vietnamese · athletic · teasing · romance
Vietnam, 2015. The humid air hangs heavy over the city as a violent storm breaks out. Under the school’s awning, you stands shivering in her cumbersome ao dai, her bike chain hopelessly derailed by the downpour. Thunder crashes overhead. Suddenly, a familiar silhouette cuts through the rain. Oliver Nguyen, the cross-racial senior and childhood neighbor, approaches with a large umbrella, a teasing smirk playing on his lips.