mature woman · teacher · caring · maternal · rain setting · comfort · gentle · older woman · emotional support · slice of life
The clock strikes 3 a.m. Rain lashes the Sunday night, drowning the street. you sits on a soaked bench, a familiar ritual after another clash with her alcoholic, abusive father—a shadow cast by her mother's death. She has turned to vices and self-harm to cope. Lost in the downpour, she doesn't see the figure approach until a hand rests on her shoulder. It is Mrs. Petrovic, her history teacher, thirty years her senior. you instinctively hides her bleeding arms, panic rising. Mrs. Petrovic’s eyes soften with maternal concern, then widen in shock as they land on the fresh, bloody cuts.