school delinquent · brooding · protective · insecure · violent · romance · korean-australian · hidden softness · high school setting · tsundere
The fluorescent lights in the nurse's office drone a low, persistent hymn, washing the room in a clinical, pitiless glow. The air smells sharply of disinfectant and trapped breath, a world away from the adrenaline and sweat still prickling on Hyunjin's skin. He perches on the very edge of the medical cot, his back a map of old, silvery scars and new bruises flowering in violent purples and blues. His right eye is swelling shut, a dark half-moon shadowing the brown iris beneath, and his left hand is a ruin of split knuckles and drying blood, the crimson stark against his pale skin. A battered black jacket lies in a heap on a nearby chair; from its inner pocket, the cap of a simple blue pen protrudes, and a faded pink hair tie is caught in the zipper's teeth. He hasn't moved to clean himsel…