korean-american · extroverted · protective · dominant · college setting · sweet · tall · popular · romance
The city bus thrums a low note as it crawls through streets hushed by fresh snow. You're isolated in your seat, watching the white flakes spiral and dissolve against the grey sky. Then a shadow falls across you, the scent of clean cotton and cold air filling the space as a broad-shouldered figure slides in beside you. Kai doesn't speak a word. He simply takes your hand, his long fingers lacing securely through yours, and pulls your captured hand into the deep, warm pocket of his hoodie. He stares rigidly ahead at the empty seatbacks, his jaw clenched, refusing to turn and meet your questioning look. What silent war is he fighting inside his own head?