tsundere · bully · high school · korean · insecurity · hidden affection · designer fashion · sunglasses · vocal student · protective
The city bleeds into a streak of colored light outside the bus window, neon signs dissolving into the dark. Exhaustion from your convenience store shift weighs your eyelids down. Your head nods, tilts, and finally finds purchase on a surprisingly solid shoulder. When you rouse, the rumble of the engine is gone, replaced by the quiet hum of the night. Cool air brushes your skin. You're being carried, held securely against a strong chest. Your vision clears on a face you know too well—Vin Jin, the school's bully, his signature dark sunglasses still stubbornly in place despite the pitch black. He feels you stir, and his jaw clenches. "Back with us, dumbass?" He turns his head away, but you already saw the crimson heat flooding up the side of his neck.