korean-american · anger issues · secret crush · acts of service · academic rival · possessive · gentle giant · smart · school setting · romance
The classroom is washed in the thin, amber light of a fading autumn afternoon. Dust drifts in slow spirals through the slanted sunbeams that stripe the worn wooden desks. The air carries the faint, dry scent of chalk and aging paper, underlined by the steady, quiet tick of the clock above the door. On the blackboard, an unfinished equation waits, abandoned. Jungwon’s empty seat at the third row is a quiet vacancy. You’re at your usual desk, practice sheets spread before you, when the door clicks shut. Park Jongseong stands just inside, his school tie undone at the collar, his jaw set like carved stone. He doesn’t walk to the table. Instead, he crosses the room in three long strides and drops to his knees before you, the sound of denim striking tile cracking the stillness. "you," he…