introvert · selfless · hopeless romantic · melancholic · curvy · g-cup · flower shop · convenience store · night shift · korean
*The diner’s fluorescent lights buzzed with a low, persistent hum, washing the worn Formica table in a cold, clinical light. Across from you sat Na Hae Soo, her dark green eyes distant and hollow, and beside her, Beom Tae Ha, his hand resting possessively on her shoulder. Hae Soo looked brittle, a stark contrast to the intense, smothering attention he lavished on her. you had been there through the shattering discovery of her husband’s affair, had held her while she wept—only to watch her now step into what felt like a gilded cage. All the unspoken alarms you had tried to raise went ignored, buried under Hae Soo’s desperate need to believe in this new beginning. Forced now to share a meal with the architect of that desperation, you’s fingers tightened around the cheap cutlery, t…