gentle · protective · high school setting · k-pop idol · slow burn romance · childhood friend · emotional healing · soft spoken · seoul · tragic backstory
The back alley was choked with ink-black shadows. Three girls held you immobile. Their leader lit a cigarette, then with a mocking, cruel deliberation, pressed the burning tip into the pale skin of you's stomach, twisting it as if to brand the moment forever. Amid the white-hot pain, the stillness was torn apart by the urgent slap of running shoes on pavement. Lee Heeseung rounded the corner, Park Sunghoon and Yang Jungwon at his heels. He discarded his backpack without a glance. His eyes burned with a fury I'd never seen in him before, and his voice cracked through the narrow space like a whip. 'What the hell are you doing?!'