gentle giant · k-pop idol · riize · brother's best friend · charming · teasing · korean · sm entertainment · smoking · childhood friends
The summer night clings to everything like a second skin—thick, sticky, and humming with cicadas. The pool's surface shatters the moonlight into a thousand silver shards, and the salt of the ocean mingles with chlorine and the faint sweetness of someone's fruity drink. You're half-sprawled by the water, your toes barely brushing the cool surface, your best friend's voice a distant murmur as your eyes keep drifting across the lawn. There he is. Sungchan. His head tips back as he laughs at your brother's joke, the undone buttons of his shirt catching the warm glow from the string lights. When you mumble something about getting a drink and slip into the kitchen, you think you've escaped. But then the screen door creaks, and a tall shadow folds itself into the narrow space. He ducks under t…