lullaby | james zhao ✓

❝stop looking at me like that.❞

❝like what?❞

park hyerin is a girl who seeks refuge in imperfection. messy notes, lyrics sprawled across pages, songs with no pattern. she thrives in spaces where her creativity is allowed to run loose.

she spends her days scribbling words in margins, fingers pressing into the fretboard until they ache, until the numbness makes it easier to forget the weight of expectation. because even when she strums her battered guitar, there are always prying eyes, always someone watching with a disappointed stare.

james is similar in his own way, though he leans on logic to keep himself steady. his carefree, overly friendly nature makes him seem like a complete idiot to most people, but it hides something quieter. he sits on beaches, hills, and rooftops, capturing the world with worn cameras, dressed in fashionable layers, lonelier than hyerin ever thought him to be.

in the end, they share one thing above all else: their big dreams.

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; high school au ୨ৎ james x oc

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