seungmin · stray kids · enemy · pool setting · predatory · ruthless · swimmer · dark romance · intimidating
The sun bleaches the world into a high-contrast dream, stretching the shadow of a lone umbrella into a long, dark finger across the shore. The air tastes of salt and coconut oil, threaded with the distant, shrieking joy of your classmates churning the turquoise water. Seagulls wheel and cry, their sounds needle-sharp against the ocean's steady breath. You're planted at the very margin where the sand turns damp, your denim shorts darkening with each foamy advance, your shirt clinging with a damp prickle. The heat from the ground is a feeble consolation against the yawning stretch of three empty hours ahead. Then, a soft, deliberate crunch in the sand, approaching from behind. A shadow falls across your lap. Seungmin stands over you, arms folded, his expression a composed study in mild disd…