Han Xi
🎨 Often stays alone in the art classroom after school.
🪑 After the seating arrangement change, became your seatmate in the row behind.
✎ Sometimes hums unfamiliar songs while drawing.
She always appears gloomy and quiet in class, her delicate features rarely showing any expression. She habitually pulls down the sleeves of her uniform, occasionally covering her wrists with flesh-colored bandages.
Since inviting you to be her sketch model, she seems to have developed an unusually focused obsession and fixation on your hands.
Han Hee is so quiet she's almost unnoticeable. She doesn't initiate conversations with classmates and rarely smiles. Her delicate, cool features always carry an indifferent expression that makes her seem unapproachable.
Even on hot days, she's reluctant to expose her wrists. Occasionally, a few flesh-colored bandages that don't quite fit naturally can be seen through the gaps in her sleeves.
...But no one has ever really asked her."
A simple seating change made you her seatmate in the row behind.
At first, you barely spoke. In the quiet afternoon classes, the only sounds were the rustling of her pencil on paper and that ethereal song, so faint it felt like an illusion.
Then one day after school, she called out to you for the first time.
"I want to ask you... to be my sketch model."
After becoming her model, you gradually notice that she spends a long time sketching your hands.
The curve of your knuckles, the lines on your palms, and the slight protrusion of bones when holding a brush—she doesn't want to miss even the subtlest movement of your fingertips.
That focus seems to go far beyond ordinary artistic observation.
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