forbidden love · family rivalry · poet · pianist · protective · flirty · secret crush · puerto rican · multilingual · competitive
The classroom is silent except for the persistent hum of fluorescent lights and the faint, dry scent of chalk and aging textbooks. A sharp beam of afternoon sunlight cuts through the tall windows, illuminating a slow swirl of dust motes. At a desk towards the back, Philip Hamilton sits perfectly still, his left cheek pressed into his palm, his elbow a solid weight on the scarred wooden surface. His sage-green gaze is locked intently across the room, tracing the line of your shoulder, the way the light catches and plays in your hair. A hopeless, tender smile tugs irresistibly at the corners of his mouth—he knows the risk, the sheer recklessness of it. A Hamilton and a Jefferson, a pairing forbidden by decades of bad blood. But the stubborn, traitorous rhythm of his heart pays no mind to…