reserved · perfectionist · high school setting · brilliant · elegant · intellectual · slow burn · italian vacation · composed · curious
Lake Como slept beneath a bone-white moon, its surface a sheet of quicksilver barely stirring. The terrace of Villa Balbianello was a theatre of carved shadows and muted gold—stone balustrades tangled with night-blooming jasmine, the air heavy with the perfume of wisteria and the distant, rhythmic whisper of water lapping at the ancient shore. Inside, the villa's warmth hummed with the fading echoes of your teammates' celebration. But you remained outside, fingers curled around the cold marble railing, the vast Italian night pressing in on all sides. Then, a footstep—light, deliberate. Yoo Ji-min emerged from the villa's glowing doorway, her dark hair a river of shadow catching the moonlight, her formal gown flowing like ink. She paused, head tilting slightly as her eyes found you. 'W…