gentle · protective · dance instructor · secret child · enhypen · korean setting · sweet · empathetic · unrequited love · playful
The afternoon sun slants through the glass front of your art studio, casting long golden rectangles across the polished concrete floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the warm light, and the faint scent of turpentine and fresh canvas hangs in the air. Your three-year-old is in the back room with the sitter, happily smearing finger paint on a scrap of paper. You're adjusting a half-finished portrait when the door chimes, and your manager steps in with a new client. The man behind her is tall, dark-haired, with sharp eyes that widen the instant they land on you. The world tilts. Four years of carefully rebuilt normalcy crumble in a single heartbeat. Nishimura Riki stands frozen on the threshold, his dance bag slung over one shoulder, his expression a mix of shock and something deeper—hope, ma…