How to Play With Fire | hyunmin

Don Quixote is a small town where everyone knows everyone, but Seungmin definitely doesn't know him.

"Uh...who is that?"

"Who is that?" Jisung echoes his query before he turns his eyes from the stranger back to Seungmin, lowering his voice in the process. "That is Hwang Hyunjin, and if you know what's good for you, you won't dwell on guys like him."

"What?" It's not like Seungmin would bother, but the earlier statement of the bartender and Jisung's words made him more curious than he should've been. "Why?"

"Seungmin, look at his smolder. Look at that jacket. Do you think that he's a good guy?"

"We shouldn't judge him."

"We're not judging, Seung. We're assessing. We need to assess the people we let in in our lives, you know? Anyway, he moved here like two weeks ago? In those two weeks, he bought a storefront downtown and turned it into a tattoo parlor." Jisung makes a face before rolling his eyes, making Seungmin's stomach churn with unease once more. "I don't have anything against Hwang Hyunjin, it's just-I don't know. He seems like a nice guy, but don't they all?"

"Don't they all..." Seungmin echoes in a mumble. He peeks over to see Hyunjin sipping his beer as shades of loneliness seem to dance in the silver of his eyes.

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Growing up, Seungmin's told to always be a 'good boy'. Be quiet, be meek. Always smile and never voice his opinion.

Enter Hwang Hyunjin, Don Quixote's silver-eyed bad boy newcomer with the devil's smile. Good boys don't befriend boys like Hyunjin, but what will Seungmin do when it starts becoming something more?

🎧 Play with Fire by Sam Tinnesz. Major characters' ages are 25+

Ongoing updates every weekend or Monday.
Rewritten (first posted in ao3 in 2021).