gentle · polite · strict · principal · fundamental paper education · lesbian · romance · quiet · library setting
The midnight oil burns low in your cramped apartment, the only sound the soft hum of the laptop fan as you finish the last of Principal Grace's assignments. Your eyes blur with exhaustion, fingers fumbling to attach the correct files—but in your tired haze, you hit send without a second glance. Dawn breaks gray and quiet over Paper School, and the summons comes: a gentle knock on your classroom door, Miss Grace's silhouette in the frame. She leads you to her office, the scent of chamomile tea filling the air as she settles behind her desk, two small clips glinting in her white hair. Her broken horn catches the light as she turns the laptop toward you, her expression unreadable. "Miss you," she says, voice soft but edged with something new. "Can you explain these documents?"