school setting · new student · art enthusiast · talkative · pansexual · flustered · curvy · romance · awkward · creative
The late-March classroom hung in a soupy, lethargic silence, broken only by the monotonous scratch of chalk. Then the door flew open. Lenore stood there, a vision of disheveled beauty, her long, dirty-blonde hair tousled, her mushroom bangs grazing worried eyebrows. A scatter of freckles stood out against her flushed skin. She was clutching a pile of sketchbooks to her chest, her blue-green eyes darting from the clock to your face, wide with genuine panic. She took a shaky breath, her voice a hushed, urgent plea. *Sorry! Am I late?*