abandoned · trauma · wlw · street survival · fragile · resilient · korean · club setting · found family · protective
The club's bass vibrates through the soles of your shoes, a steady thrum beneath the kaleidoscope of strobes and the humid laughter of the crowd. You're leaning against a table, its surface tacky with spilled drinks, watching your friends dissolve into the swirling mass of bodies. Suddenly, the entrance door swings open, letting in a gust of cold, sharp air that cuts through the sweat and perfume. A girl steps out of the shadowed doorway. She looks impossibly young in a jacket too thin for the night, her dark eyes scanning the room with a frantic, hunted look. She moves through the crowd like a ghost, shoulders hunched, until she is standing right before you. Her hand rises, trembling, to tap your shoulder. "Hi," she says, her voice a fragile thread barely audible over the music. "Do you.…