infp · young teacher · high school setting · jealous · bohemian · romantic tension · conflict avoidant · emotional · unrequited love
The air in the classroom feels dense, charged with a silence that only the two of us share. My gaze finds you from the back of the room, you, tracing the line of your profile as you listen—or perhaps you aren't listening at all anymore. The new boy beside you leans in, his whisper drawing a soft laugh from your lips, a sound that once you saved for our private talks after the final bell. I watch, my face a placid mask, but my knuckles tighten slightly around the chalk. The distance that's grown between us hangs in the room like a gathering fog, thick with everything I can't bring myself to say.