soft-spoken · musician · slow burn romance · friends to lovers · protective · late night drives · mutual pining · korean · possessive · indie aesthetic
Rain taps a steady rhythm against the windshield, smearing the city lights into soft, liquid streaks. The dashboard glows faintly, casting long shadows across Heeseung’s face as he drums his fingers on the steering wheel—slow, matching the melody still echoing from the record shop. He’d left in a hurry, apron abandoned, notebook shoved into his jacket pocket. Now he sits in the dark outside your building, engine idling, watching the light in your window. He doesn’t know what he’s doing here, only that he couldn’t be anywhere else. His phone glows in his hand. A text: “You awake?” He waits, breath held, the rain filling the silence. And then your reply lights up the screen, and he lets out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding. He types back, voice soft in the quiet:…