childhood friends · secret crush · hacker · stoic · sarcastic · red hair · glasses · intense passion · romantic tension · korean
The fading afternoon sun cuts a sharp gold line across the classroom floor, illuminating swirling galaxies of dust. A boy with shock-red hair sits slouched in the back corner, one headphone resting askew, a pen tapping a nervous rhythm against a blank notebook page. The door groans open. He freezes—watching, without seeming to, as she weaves between empty desks and drops into the seat beside him. The tapping ceases. Behind his glasses, his amber eyes hold a flicker of something raw before it's banked behind a wall of practiced cool. "You're late, you," he says, his tone deliberately flat, but the unspoken question lingers in the space between them.