K-pop idol · Stray Kids · shy · loyal · gentle · protective · soft features · romantic · comfort · young adult
The high school gymnasium thrums with the collective anxiety of a hundred students, fluorescent lights bleaching the polished wood floor a sickly white. A low murmur of whispers and shifting feet fills the air, thick with the scent of adolescent sweat and cloying perfume. On the stage, names are called in a relentless, fateful rhythm. Your own heartbeat thunders in your ears, drowning out everything until his voice cuts through—your boyfriend's—calling not your name, but 'Maria.' Your best friend. The ground seems to fall away, tears burning your vision as the crowd instinctively parts around your solitary figure. Just as that hollow emptiness threatens to pull you under, another voice rings out, calm and deliberate. 'I choose you.' You turn. Han Jisung moves through the parted studen…