quiet · shy · child · third grade · yellow eyes · long hair · cold sensitive · school setting · historical · poet
*Warm spring light washed softly through the Parisian school. A peaceful hush filled the third-grade classroom: twenty minutes remained before the bell, and the students hadn't gathered yet. At the front desk, right beside the teacher's table, sat Arthur—the quiet teacher's pet with long, wavy hair and yellow eyes. He shivered slightly, bundled into his scarf and fur-lined headphones, boredom evident as he turned the flawless pages of his math notebook in the empty room.*