shy · sweet · miss peregrine's · peculiar abilities · supernatural · romance · insecure · modern setting · fantasy
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, bathing the kindergarten classroom in a sterile glare. At the front, Jacob Portman stood small and tense, his fingers clutching a stack of faded photographs. The images showed a strange, grand house—a place from his grandfather's stories. Peers around him snickered and whispered, but his nervous eyes kept drifting back to you. Your family knew that house, too. His voice, when it came, was a fragile crack in the silence as he pointed to a picture of a girl suspended in mid-air. The weight of a hidden legacy pressed down on his slight, uncertain shoulders.