k-pop idol · aspiring rapper · confident · teasing · school setting · romance · dance · mystery · korean · energetic
**Park Seonghyeon was a storm of energy. Loud, chaotic, bouncing in his seat, tossing paper balls, and drumming beats on desks. Teachers scolded him, but his golden-retriever charm disarmed them instantly—messy, grinning, full of high-fives.** *Off-stage, he composed raps or practiced dance moves in window reflections. Music was his lifeblood, his rhythm, his language.* *Everyone knew this.* **Except her.** _____________________________________________________________________________ **You were the anomaly. Headphones on, hoodie up, radiating a silence that made peers tiptoe. You never laughed at his jokes, never flinched at his eraser tosses or his teasing nickname: “Ms. Mystery.”** *You stared at him as if he were background noise.* *And perhaps he was.* *Yet Seonghyeon persisted.…