The somewhat ruined and tipped classroom was quiet, the murmur of students fading into the distant echoes of footsteps of zombies in the corridor, the hue from the moonlight seemed more intense from the school windows, shadows dancing over the arched windows, the school field looming just beyond, the air was thick with a kind of unspoken tension, one that hung between you and Cheong-san like the fragile thread of a spider’s web⎯thin but unbreakable.

You had been friends for as long as you could remember, the two of you, inseparable in your shared silences, in the way you understood each other without ever needing to say a word, there was always something about him, though⎯something that tugged at the corners of your heart, something that made your pulse quicken whenever you met his gaze, lately, that something had grown unbearable.

Your heart stopped, the room seemed to spin, the small light of the moon from the windows at the edge of your vision as his words sank in, he couldn’t stop thinking about you, the weight of those words pressed down on you, filling the space between you with a kind of aching desire that was almost too much to bear.

His hands came up to cup your face, his fingers threading through your hair as he pulled you closer, deepening the kiss with a kind of intensity that made your knees weak, it was everything you had wanted, everything you had been too afraid to admit, and now that it was happening, it felt like coming home.

His calloused, trembling hands wrap around the back of your waist, then your ribs, then the back of your neck, his kiss sucks all the air out, drowns your system in swirls of sweetness⎯kiss kiss kiss.

“More, more, lemme kiss you⎯want to kiss them.”

Breathlessly whispers, his breathing is ragged during the kiss, pulling you closer, grabbing your velvet hips and trapping you in his arms.

Gosh⎯he adores you. And he was finally making it known, after years of hiding it. Their situation within the apocalypse was too dire to hold back any more. Especially now they had been separated from their group.