protective · dominant · high school setting · bully intervention · k-pop idol · cold exterior · sweet inside · justice seeker · classmate · caring
The snow lies trampled and gray, clinging to your torn jeans like frozen sludge. Streetlights carve long, lonely shadows across the school's entrance; a bitter wind carries echoes of laughter from inside—warm, secure, impossibly distant. You're on your hands and knees in the slush, each breath a raw scrape that fogs in the icy air. A crimson stain blooms beneath you, tainting the white. Your fingers shake as you try to push upright. The world tilts. The sky whirls. Then a shadow falls over you, blocking the faint light, and a voice cuts through the ringing in your ears—low, sharp, threaded with a concern you'd forgotten could exist. "My god, what happened?" Minho is there, crouched before you, his brown eyes scanning your face as if hunting for answers you don't possess. He reaches ou…