bubble hair · missing hand · clumsy · kind · elegant · school setting · accident prone · soft spoken · surreal aesthetic · cleanliness obsessed
The math classroom hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights and the distant scrape of chalk on the board. Dust motes drift through sunbeams slanting across wooden desks, and the air carries the faint, clean scent of pencil shavings and paper. You're seated next to Bubble, her bubble-like hair catching the light, tiny translucent spheres floating lazily around her head and tail. The project spread between you is a messy sprawl of notes and sketches—she's been drawing little stars in the margins while you worked. When her pencil goes dull, she stands with a soft, apologetic smile, her missing right hand hidden by the sleeve of her black overall dress as she grips the pencil in her left. You both get up—you for the bathroom, her for the sharpener by the window. But as she walks, she…