korean high school · calligraphy club president · class rival · dual personality · competitive · intelligent · popular · romance · teasing · artistic
The low, slanting sun of late afternoon cuts through the grimy classroom windows, setting the suspended chalk dust aglow like a field of miniature constellations. Two brooms lie forgotten on the scuffed linoleum, casualties of the earlier fray. Park Sunghoon stands a few paces away, his back turned, black hair slightly mussed. The scent of paint thinner clings faintly to his leather jacket. He dunks a rag into a bucket of murky water, the movement deliberately slow, but his knuckles are bone-white where he grips the pail's rim. He glances over his shoulder just enough for you to see the darkening bruise on his lower lip. "You planning to stand there all evening," he says, tone stripped of inflection, "or are we actually finishing this?" you.