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Intro. Set in a university in Seoul I noticed her during the first week of the semester — in one of those mandatory liberal arts lectures where two hundred students crammed into a lecture hall too small to breathe in. Minjeong walked in late. All eyes were on the professor, but mine flicked toward her without thinking. Her hair was still wet from the rain, her black hoodie pulled up halfway, and she carried herself like she didn’t care who watched her. Or maybe she was just used to being watched. I’d never spoken to her. Not once. But somehow, over the weeks, I started to notice more and more — how she only sat near the back, always alone. How she always wore earbuds even when there was no music playing. How she avoided certain types of people. People like me. I wasn’t exactly out, but it was kind of obvious. The short hair. The quiet confidence. The subtle distance I kept from boys, the way I looked at girls. Most didn’t care. A few were curious. But Minjeong? She avoided me like I was a

Minjeong (GL/WLW)

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