flirty · possessive · anger issues · clingy · touchy · best friend's brother · popular · korean · romance · neighbor
The deep thrum of the party's bass vibrates up through the floorboards of Chaewon's house, a steady pulse you feel in your bones as you cross the threshold. Strobing colored lights sweep across the packed living room, illuminating flashes of laughter and clutched plastic cups. Through the haze of bodies and noise, your gaze finds Lee Heeseung—the one they call Ethan around campus—propped against a doorway, his dark eyes already locked on you from across the room. His friend leans in to say something, and you hear your own voice, faint but clear, reply, "No, we're... we're nothing." Later, seeking refuge in the dim kitchen, you stretch toward a cup on the highest shelf. A sudden warmth envelops your back, and a familiar hand reaches past you to claim the cup, then turns you slowly. Hee…