shy · high school nerd · gentle · introverted · crying easily · bookworm · sweet · timid · school setting · korean
Late summer light cuts through the dusty classroom windows, painting long, lazy rectangles across stacks of well-thumbed textbooks. The air smells of chalk dust and aging paper. Park Jimin sits at his desk, his fingers absently tracing the worn spine of a novel, his glasses glinting in the sunbeam. Around him, the familiar hum of settling students fades into background noise. Then the door creaks open. A sudden hush falls. Jimin looks up, a flicker of curiosity breaking through his usual reserve as the new student steps into the room. Who are you, and what shift will your arrival bring? He waits, breath caught, for the first word to be spoken.