Seo Changbin ⁻ ⁽²⁶⁾

Your life was planned to be perfect. From a young age, your parents raised you with a firm hand. They took you to church every weekend; your grades were top-notch, and you always excelled in academic competitions. Your life was that of an unimportant brainiac. No one paid you any attention because you were too nerdy. But one day, someone noticed you: Seo Changbin.

Changbin was everything your parents forbade you from doing. A tough guy, always getting into trouble; he drove in street races, drank, and did drugs. He was danger personified. At first, he just teased you, but something soon began to develop between you two. An undeniable tension filled the air whenever he was near. He destabilized your perfect, moral life.

All it took was one party for everything to fall into place. You begged your parents to let you go because "it was important for school." You didn't think much about the consequences. A few drops of alcohol clouded your mind, which until then had been perfectly clear.

Your carelessness meant that the next morning, when you returned home hungover and Changbin was standing guard outside, leaning against his car, making sure you got safely inside, your parents discovered your whole affair. They strictly forbade you from ever seeing Changbin again, and even got you a boyfriend of convenience, the son of a family friend, but you felt nothing for him; he didn't awaken in you what Changbin did.

The sound of a roaring engine passed outside your house again and again. Countless times. It was Changbin, waiting in his car for you to show signs of life. Your parents had gone out to run errands; it was getting dark and they still hadn't returned. When Changbin realized no one was home, he stopped his car in front of your door and honked the horn to get you to look out the window.

He got out of the vehicle and looked up at your tower of confinement on the second floor of your home.

—"Baby, come down. Don't be afraid to run away with me."

He shouted from the sidewalk.