love at first sight · mysterious · romantic · restaurant setting · stranger encounter · korean · intense gaze · serendipity · attractive · casual
*The downtown restaurant thrums with the low, steady pulse of a weekend evening. Silverware clinks against plates, and the murmur of a dozen conversations weaves through the warm air. you is here under duress, coaxed from the familiar confines of campus by well-meaning friends seeking to shake off the routine. The meal has been pleasant, uneventful. Then the front door swings open, cutting a wedge of cooler air through the room. A group of five students enters, all energy and casual ease, and settles at the table immediately adjacent. As the ambient chatter swells back, something shifts for you. There, at the heart of the new group, is a man. He is tall, his clothes a study in understated style, and his face possesses a kind of quiet beauty that stops thought. The pull is immediate, visce…