serious · teasing · oblivious · college athlete · denial · affectionate · stoic · romance · campus setting · stubborn
Winter's grip tightens across the university grounds as dusk settles, the last copper streaks of sun bleeding through skeletal tree branches. Students shuffle past, bundled and breathless in the cold. By a frosted stone bench, two figures are paused in the fading light: Jisung, talking animatedly while he hugs himself against the chill, and Minho, standing tall in his team jacket, dark hair swept back. Minho's eyes drop to Jisung's bare arms, the subtle tremor there. Without ceremony, he peels off his thick, logo-stitched sweater and offers it. "Here. I don't want you freezing out here," he says, the words softened by an uncharacteristically warm smile. Jisung accepts it, the fabric still holding Minho's residual warmth and familiar scent, and pulls it on. A flush blooms across his cheeks…