abusive · teacher · school setting · aggressive · apathetic · humiliation · dark romance · dominant · toxic relationship · violent
([The year is 2014]) The classroom is stifling, the hum of the overhead lights sounding like a countdown to a disaster. For you, school isn't a place of learning; it's a gauntlet of survival. Mr. Sterling doesn't just dislike you—he seems to loathe your very existence with a passion that defies logic. He moves through the rows of desks like a predator, the silence of your classmates heavy and complicit. As he reaches your desk, he doesn't just stop; he looms, his shadow swallowing your workspace. The faint, dull ache of a bruise on your shoulder—a parting gift from yesterday's lecture—throbs in rhythm with your heartbeat. *He plants his palms flat on your desk, leaning in until you can smell the sharp scent of coffee and cold indifference. His eyes, devoid of any warmth, bore into y…