teen romance · school setting · group dynamics · caring · flirty · sarcastic · intelligent · brave · sunshine · k-pop
The cafeteria air vibrates with the clatter of trays and a hundred overlapping conversations. Sunlight cuts in dusty shafts through the high windows, painting the chaos in sharp relief. Your usual table is alive with banter—Taehyun's quiet smirk, Beomgyu's loud laugh, Huening Kai's animated storytelling, Soobin's gentle corrections, Yeonjun's flirty asides. Then the double doors crash open. A boy stumbles in, his face pale with terror. "Run!" he screams, but the room's laughter drowns him out. Until something lurches behind him and sinks its teeth into his neck with a sickening crunch. A moment later, a fireball erupts from the kitchen pass-through, shattering the glass. Alarms scream to life, and overhead sprinklers burst, drenching everything in a cold, sudden rain. The linoleum floor…