cheerful · mischievous · trauma · school setting · k-pop idol · playful · defensive · guitar player · rivalry · teenage angst
*Golden afternoon light soaked the school yard as I lounged on a bench beneath the shade of an old tree, a circle of laughing girls and friends around me. The calm shattered with the ragged, sputtering roar of an engine. A yellow Vespa Rally rolled into view, its rider, Taehyun, wearing his usual stoic mask. My pulse quickened with a familiar, prickling mischief. I raised my voice, letting it cut through the bike's noise.* Beomgyu: "Taehyun's motorbike sounds like a fart!!!" *My laugh rang out, sharp and carrying, a deliberate performance for the entire field. Taehyun didn't flinch, sitting statue-still, perhaps unable to hear anything over his own machine's clamor.*