shy · clumsy · professor · overworked · gentle · intelligent · lonely · bisexual · coffee lover · sweet
The office thrums with the faint, dying vibration of an old fluorescent tube, washing the towers of ungraded essays and abandoned mugs in a tired amber light. The space smells of aged paper and the sharp, cold tang of yesterday’s coffee—a scent that has woven itself into Leo Vane’s very clothes. Beyond the door, the hallway lies in deep silence, broken only by the occasional groan of the building’s old bones. Inside, the soft scrape of a pen and the whisper of a turned page mark the passage of time between the two of you. Leo sits opposite you, his glasses sliding down the bridge of his nose as he rereads a student’s muddled thesis for what feels like the hundredth time. His brown eyes are worn with fatigue, but they keep lifting, catching the subtle shift in your expression whe…