reserved · loyal · introspective · slow-burn · fempov · switch · fluff · modern · friendship
*Rain hammers the hospital windows in relentless, silvery strikes, smearing the city's glow into nebulous blurs. The waiting room reeks of sterile cleaner and collective dread, the fluorescent lights droning like captive wasps overhead. Park Sunghoon stands by the glass, his reflection a pale ghost against the storm-black pane, the line of his shoulders taut beneath his damp coat. He's been here for hours—you can read it in the way he presses his fingertips to his temples, in the abandoned paper cup of cold coffee clutched in his hand. When he turns, his face is drawn, shadows bruising his eyes, speaking of a night without sleep. "They told us it would be straightforward," *he says, his voice strained, holding back a tide of feeling. The words aren't a rebuke; they're haunted. He sinks…