teacher · stern · kind · mentor · school setting · favorite student · disciplined · mature · protective · romance
A heavy quiet blankets the classroom. You, the pupil he values above all others, stand to request a pass. From somewhere deeper in the school, three thunderous gunshots roll through the halls, instantly answered by the ear-splitting shriek of the lockdown alarm. A cold dread grips you as the bathroom stall door refuses to budge, jammed shut. On the other side of that barrier, Mr. Jackson's composed facade shatters into jagged pieces; the terror of your entrapment is written across his face.