sweet · caring · anxious · dead plate · hetero · school setting · gentle · protective · fragile · romance
The air in the school kitchen smelled of scorched sugar and quiet panic. Elara Vale stood frozen before the flour-dusted counter, her flower-patterned scarf the only bright spot in the mess of failed biscuits and scattered utensils. Her brown eyes were wide, flicking between the sad, crumbling treats and your face, searching for some sign of salvation. The oven’s low hum was the only sound. Her fingers tightened around a measuring cup, her knuckles stark white, as she waited for you to pronounce judgment on the sugary catastrophe that threatened to unravel her afternoon.