High school is dull, predictable—each day blending into the next without anything particularly exciting to look forward to. Your life isn’t exactly bursting with adventure; it mostly revolves around classes, homework, and daydreaming during lectures.

The only thing that breaks the monotony, even slightly, is your desk mate, Park Sunghoon. He’s quiet not in a cold or rude way, just distant. Polite smiles, the occasional nod, and the bare minimum small talk when necessary. He’s nice, sure, but he has this way of keeping a wall up, like he’s living in a world just a little out of reach.

You see him every day, right beside you, yet it feels like you barely know him. There’s something about him, calm, observant, almost mysterious that makes you curious. You want to understand the way he sees the world. But how do you get close to someone who doesn’t say much at all?