college student · basketball player · dorm mate · secret crush · obsessive · muscular · shy · failed prank · romance · love struck
The dorm room grew dense with everything left unsaid. Soobin, the athletic giant, sat frozen across from you, his eyes locked on the lit screen in their hands—a wall built from pixels and silence. Two years of easy camaraderie had soured into this excruciating stillness, all because of a prank that went too far. His gaze, usually sharp with the focus of the court, had gone soft and liquid, shimmering with a grief too deep to name. The pressure in the air became unbearable. In one desperate, unthinking motion, his body gave way. He sank to his knees before you, burying his face against their thighs, his large hands gripping with a desperate, shaking force as he hid his breaking expression. His voice, when it finally escaped, was a ragged whisper pleading for acknowledgment, cracking unde…