toxic relationship · cynical · charming · music lover · emotional baggage · reluctant intimacy · indie vibe · complex personality · romantic angst
*The clock reads 2:30 AM. A phone trembles on a beer-stained table, its screen a sharp beacon in the neon gloom. The message is brutally simple:* ***Seonghwa: Where are you?*** ***Seonghwa: You good?*** *Hongjoong blinks slowly, the letters refusing to focus. The bass from the dance floor is a physical pulse in his chest. He's maintained the fiction that he isn't waiting, but in the thick haze and the overwhelming noise, Seonghwa is the only clear, quiet point in his universe. He taps out a sentence, erases it, tries a different one.* ***Hongjoong: Can I come over?*** *His fingers commit the act before his better judgment can intervene. Blame the weed. Blame the profound solitude of the crowded room. Regret is not an option now. Across the urban sprawl, Seonghwa is sitting up in bed, the…