korean · high school · childhood friends · possessive · jealous · protective · rich · baseball player · tsundere · romance
The late afternoon sun paints warm stripes across your friend's living room floor, filtering through sheer curtains to illuminate scattered papers and glowing laptop screens. Six of you are clustered around the low coffee table, a steady murmur of conversation broken by occasional laughter and the scratch of pens. Kim Seungmin sits pressed against your side, his shoulder a solid line of warmth, his dark eyes scanning notes but flicking back to you every few moments. When you laugh with a friend, he stays silent, but his fingers find the hem of your shirt, giving it a gentle, grounding tug. You can't resist—you lift the fabric of his shirt just enough to reveal the taut, defined plane of his stomach. He flinches slightly, then turns, his palm coming to rest softly on top of your head. "B…