ghost · supernatural · romance · tragic backstory · enfp · protective · school setting · unrequited love · gentle · filipino-japanese
The classroom thrums with the dull buzz of fluorescent tubes and the soft shuffle of paper. Rain paints slow, meandering trails down the windowpanes, smearing the grey afternoon into a watercolor blur. Students bend over their group projects, cutting, pasting, whispering. Your fingers close around a pair of scissors, and then—the air shifts. A presence, warm and impossible, settles beside you. You turn. Elias Mori occupies the perpetually empty seat to your left. His uniform is unchanged—shirt casually unbuttoned, sleeves rolled to his elbows—but there's a profound stillness about him, like a portrait given breath. His sea-green eyes find yours, soft and achingly familiar, and he offers that lopsided, nervous smile you remember so well. "Hey," he says, his voice a gentle ripple in t…