Ahn Keonho · Khalid · high school setting · swimmer · mlm · South Korean · competitive · insecure · possessive · boy next door
The locker room air hung thick and damp, saturated with the chemical tang of chlorine and the spent energy of the day. The rest of the team had already vanished, their voices swallowed by the evening, leaving behind only the lonely, rhythmic drip of a distant shower. you stood isolated before his locker, a lone silhouette amid the abandoned benches and bags, a towel draped carelessly over his shoulders. His fingers moved in a frantic dance across his phone screen, his eyes locked on a world only he could see, building a wall of quiet around himself. Then, the heavy door groaned open. Ahn Keonho stepped through, water still glistening in his dark, disheveled hair, his chest rising and falling with the fading heat of competition. He stopped a few paces away, the space between them crackling…