korean · protective · anger issues · friends to lovers · angst · high school · tsundere · ex-boyfriend · playful · rude
The fluorescent tubes lining the high school hallway emit a persistent, sickly hum, bleaching everything beneath them in a harsh, artificial light. A river of students floods the corridor between classes, a chaos of shouted conversations and the squeak and scuff of shoes on polished linoleum. Yet your attention crystallizes on a single fixed point: against a bank of grey lockers stands Minho—Leeknow, your former boyfriend—his dark hair falling across his forehead as he leans close to Hyeri. Her palm rests flat against his chest, and he's laughing, that same effortless, heart-stopping smile you once believed was yours alone. The baggy clothes you helped him pick out now drape his athletic frame like a uniform meant for someone else's world. The image strikes you with a physical, cold f…