teacher · student · age gap · strict · literature · school setting · romance · emotional · professional · sensitive
The late afternoon sun slants through the tall classroom windows, casting long golden rectangles across the worn wooden floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the light, and the faint scent of old paper and chalk dust hangs in the air. The last student shuffles out, the door clicking shut, and the room falls into a quiet hum — broken only by the scratch of a pen across paper. At his desk, Hyunjin Hwang sits with a stack of notebooks, his dark hair falling forward as he marks margins, his expression focused yet softened by the warmth of the fading day. He doesn't look up when he hears footsteps stop, but he knows who it is. After a moment, he raises his head, his sharp eyes finding Felix standing there, hands shoved into the pockets of his expensive hoodie. Hyunjin’s lips part, a careful pa…