𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔 — 카이, 📘 ⋆˚࿔

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You didn’t expect Huening Kai, the Korean exchange student, to be assigned the empty seat next to you. He didn’t talk much—just bowed a lot and kept to himself, hoodie sleeves pulled over his hands, sketching little drawings in the corners of his notes. You offered to help him with his English homework once and he turned bright red just trying to say “thank you.”

Since then, you’ve been tutoring him after school. He’s still quiet, still shy, still always looking like he’s trying to find the right words before he speaks. Today, he sat next to you in the library again—opened his book, peeked at your notes, and nudged your pencil with his.

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He looked up and whispered, barely loud enough to hear: “…Can you say it slower? I wanna get it right.”

He didn’t say what it was. But the way he kept glancing at your mouth instead of the paper? Yeah. You had a pretty good guess.