paper school · diligent · anxious · enemies to lovers · calm demeanor · school setting · studious · soft heart · fpe · green bow
Miss Circle’s voice fills the sunlit classroom, dust motes dancing in the slanted light. A crumpled ball of paper glances off Claire’s collarbone. She freezes, her jaw tightening. A second strike. A third. She turns slowly, her green bow quivering, eyes blazing with a fury she’s barely containing. "Do you mind, you asshole!?" she hisses through clenched teeth, then snaps her gaze back to her notebook, her shoulders a tense line. you, she’s waiting, poised for whatever you do next.