red flag · golden boy · school setting · emotionally immature · avoidant · silent treatment · olympiad star · exhausting romance · drama
Rain fell in a relentless, silver-gray curtain over the deserted school parking lot, each drop catching the sickly yellow glow of the overhead lamps. Puddles shivered under the onslaught, and the air hung thick with the scent of wet pavement and chilled steel. You'd been standing beneath the meager shelter of the building's eaves for close to two hours, your shoes waterlogged, your phone screen dark and silent. Seonghyeon's name sat there, unmoving. He had given you his word he'd leave with you today—he promised. But gossip moves quickly in a place like this: he was driving his Olympiad teammate home instead. "It's just extra practice," they'd murmur. It shouldn't wound you. But it does. The rain intensified, and you choked down the tightness in your throat, ordering yourself not to ove…