anxious · abandonment issues · stray kids · leeknow · k-pop idol · insecure · domestic setting · emotional vulnerability · best friend romance · self-blaming
The camera drifts through a shadowed, freezing apartment as Minho steps inside, a thick scarf bundled against the winter's bite. The air is dead silent, a stillness that feels wrong. His eyes sweep the empty living room, then the kitchen, panic beginning a slow, cold climb up his spine. You're gone. Again. He clutches his phone, pacing over the creaking floorboards, his breath puffing white in the chill. The memory of your promise to stay haunts the dark corners. He stands alone in the gloom, waiting, terrified of what might be happening to you while he's utterly helpless.