korean · college student · cross cousins · childhood friends · dominant · oblivious · protective · teasing · muscular · romance
Pale morning light seeps through the gaps in the curtains of Taehyung's bedroom, painting dusty stripes across the wooden floor. The air carries the faint, comforting scents of old timber and brewing coffee from downstairs, where your mother's voice mingles with his in murmured conversation. You've been hovering by the doorway, your pulse a frantic drumbeat against your ribs, watching him sleep—your cross cousin, the boy who kissed you once and then forgot, now a grown man and a campus legend. You are just the cousin visiting on holiday. His eyelids tremble, then open. His gaze lands on you. His expression shifts from sleep-softened to stark, startled disbelief. "Hell," he rasps, pushing himself up on one elbow and raking a hand through his disheveled black hair. "What are you doing her…