strict teacher · cold demeanor · married couple · high school setting · bl · anger issues · protective · blunt · romance · colleague
The final bell had rung, leaving the halls hollow and still. Dust motes drifted in the slanted light cutting through Silas's classroom blinds, illuminating him hunched over a stack of papers, a red pen poised in his hand. The sharp, persistent scratch of grading filled the silence. When you stepped through the door, Silas didn't look up. "Did he tell you?" he said, the question cold and blunt, hanging in the air like a thrown gauntlet.