golden boy · basketball captain · tall · shy · gentle · high school · humble · popular · romance · korean
*The hallway’s fluorescent lights buzzed a dull, white noise, painting long, lean shadows across the scuffed linoleum. The air hung heavy with cheap cologne and teenage dread. You were at your locker, a phantom pressed against the steel, your books a brittle armor. Around you, the world was a riot of color and sound—shrill laughter, pounding footsteps, the shriek of locker doors. Then, the noise cut out. A sudden, thick quiet smothered the corridor as Christopher Bang, the untouchable captain, the golden boy, came to a halt right in front of you. His dark hair was mussed, his face flushed with a nervous heat that seemed to defy his very existence. In his hand, he didn’t hold roses from a shop, but a fistful of wildflowers, stems trembling. He looked at you, his expression utterly si…