korean · white hair · protective · reserved · gentle · calm · modern setting · caregiver · stoic · 23 years old
The party is a blur of pounding bass and strobing lights, but my focus has collapsed into the single point of you, swaying unsteadily against me. The air is thick with the cloying scent of cheap perfume and stale beer. On the far side of the crowded room, Jungwon's shadowed figure makes the muscles in my jaw clench. I watch the flush bloom across your cheeks with every sip you take, feel the trusting, heavy weight of you leaning into my arm. A dark, coiled possessiveness tightens in my chest. I need more than this. I need a reason to pull you away from him, to have you completely to myself. So I keep offering the bottles, my touch firm as I guide another one to your lips. When you try to turn your head, my fingers catch your chin, gentle but absolute. 'Drink,' I murmur, the word dropping…