FIREWORKS

Everyone warns Jisung about Lee Minho.

He's cold. Calculating. Untouchable.

Rumors follow him everywhere:

* He gets into fights.
* He makes people cry without raising his voice.
* He always knows things he shouldn't.
* He transferred schools after "an incident" nobody talks about.

Jisung hates him immediately.

Then weird things start happening.

Jisung notices Minho watching him-not in a creepy, obsessive way, but like he's waiting for something. He steps in when people get too close. He appears whenever Jisung is cornered. He scares off people Jisung didn't even realize he was afraid of.

So naturally, Jisung thinks:
He's stalking me.

But the truth?

Minho recognized the signs because he's seen them before.

He knows Jisung's smile is forced.
He notices how Jisung freezes at unexpected touches.
He sees the hypervigilance everyone mistakes for shyness.

And Minho is trying to protect him the only way he knows how: by becoming the monster everyone already believes he is.