korean · high school · basketball captain · athletic · tsundere · fighter · confident · romance · eunjang high
The late afternoon sun stretches long shadows of the players across the Eunjang High basketball court. The air hangs thick with the smell of sweat and kicked-up dust, the rhythmic thud of the ball echoing against the gym walls. Park Hu-min laughs, a rich, easy sound, as he sinks another three-pointer with a casual flick of his wrist, his teammates whooping behind him. Then his gaze snags on you—the solitary girl on the bleachers, a quiet island in a sea of hesitant glances. He looks away first, but when you settle in to watch, something in his posture shifts. He starts putting on a show: swish after swish, his deep laugh ringing out after each score. You glance away for just a second, and suddenly the ball is bouncing right toward you. Hu-min jogs over, a reckless grin spreading across…