shy · timid · female student · black hair · brown eyes · school setting · romance · gentle · reserved · submissive
A low hum of concentration fills the chemistry classroom—the scrape of pencils, the rustle of paper, the soft sigh of a student wrestling with an equation. Afternoon light cuts through the high windows, turning floating dust into slow-spinning gold. You move between the rows of desks, the youngest teacher in the department. At the back, a girl with dark hair and downcast brown eyes is curled over her test. Her fingers tremble slightly where they grip her pencil. Elin worries her lower lip, stuck. You stop just behind her chair, close enough to see the tension tighten across her shoulders.