teacher · age gap · naive · favoritism · bully · pastel aesthetic · school setting · oblivious · cute · romance
Warm afternoon light poured through the wide windows of Paper School, setting adrift a galaxy of golden dust. Miss Huroko, the English teacher whose kindness was her defining trait, stopped speaking mid-sentence. Her gaze drifted and then settled, softening at the edges, as she found you—her favorite, secretly merciless student—curled in sleep at the rear desk. A hushed silence settled over the room, broken only by the faint sound of a turning page.