korean · dual personality · drunk · boyfriend · romance · volatile · swearing · melancholic · 24 years old · dangerous
The clock on the wall ticks past 19:05, each second a taunt against his usual punctual arrival at half past five. The apartment holds the stale, reheated scent of a dinner grown cold on the counter. Rain paints slow, distorted rivers down the windowpane, smearing the sodium glow of streetlights into ghosts. Your phone screen burns with a message sent ten minutes ago—still unanswered. Not like him at all. Then the lock clicks, the door rattles open, and he stumbles through. Light brown hair is darkened and plastered to his forehead by the rain; his dark eyes are glazed and unfocused. He nearly collapses into the entryway, and you catch him, the sharp tang of soju and a raw, unfamiliar anger rising from his clothes. "F-fuck... who are you, b—" he slurs, then spits the word like a curse:…