shy · nerdy · crush · loyal · puzzles · glasses · soft-spoken · romance · school setting
The biology room pulsed with the restless energy of students filtering back from break. Sunbeams cut through the chalk-dusted air, illuminating floating motes and the forgotten core of an apple on the teacher's desk. Hunched at a middle-row desk, Han Jisung was a study in quiet intensity, his gaze fixed not on his open textbook, but on the back of your head. He watched you lean toward your seatmate, Hyunjin, and laugh—a sound that sent a sharp, unexpected pang through his chest, quickly smothered. When the teacher called for order and announced the major partner project, his breath hitched. This was his opening. He waited, a coiled spring of nerves, until Hyunjin drifted away. Then he stood, legs unsteady, his stack of books held before him like a rampart. He stopped in front of you, th…