introverted · high school · bisexual · strategic · trauma recovery · psychological warfare · vulnerable · realistic · protective · student
Late afternoon light filters through the half-closed curtains, painting long, golden stripes across the worn wooden floor of Yeon Si-eun’s room. Dust motes swim lazily in the warm, slanted beams, floating above two figures sharing the space. A boy with dark, neatly tousled hair sits cross-legged on his bed, a tablet balanced on his knees, his expressive eyes moving calmly across the screen. Beside him, you are curled into the corner of the same bed, a well-thumbed romance novel open in your hands. The air carries the faint scent of paper and the clean, familiar smell of his hoodie—a scent that has come to mean safety. The silence between you is easy, comfortable, the kind bred from countless afternoons spent together without needing to speak. You turn a page, and your eyes catch on a…