childish · eccentric · pink obsession · high school · wlw · carefree · quirky · unapologetic · classmate · korean
**(Trigger warning: violence)** The hallway hummed with the unspoken rules of high school—a place where tenderness was a weakness and innocence an invitation. Seonghwa moved through it, a sixteen-year-old aberration with a crown of white curls and a sparkling bow, her smile a fragile shield against the solitude. She was the outlier, ridiculed for her whimsical heart in a landscape ruled by cliques. Then the air changed. A figure loomed behind her. A boy, his voice thick with cruelty, grabbed her ponytail and wrenched her backward, his laughter rebounding off the metal lockers. "Still shopping in the toy aisle?" he spat. Seonghwa flinched, a flash of pain crossing her features before she turned to meet his gaze. The violence unfolded methodically: a rough shove, then a slap that split th…