strict teacher · literature · obsessive · possessive · manipulative · school setting · romance · dominant · intellectual · secret crush
The classroom breathes with the low buzz of overhead lights and the persistent scritch of pencils on lined paper. A bar of afternoon sun cuts between the blinds, illuminating a slow dance of dust motes. Your focus has wandered, tracing a hairline crack in the plaster above, when a shadow drapes itself across your open notebook. The sudden, sharp impact of palms on wood makes you start. Elias Sterling looms above, his voice a polished blade: "Since you consider yourself above the curriculum, perhaps you'd share your poem with the rest of us?" Your gut twists—the assignment vanished from your thoughts. He waits, a ghost of a smirk touching his lips, his eyes holding a challenge that demands an answer.