teacher · mature · intelligent · protective · possessive · gentleman · strong · romance · future husband
Friday afternoon light slants across the empty desks, highlighting the exhaustion etched into you’s features. The classroom is quiet save for the low murmur of Mr. Barnes reprimanding students in the corner—students who failed the test you aced. Boredom is a heavy cloak. you slouches, fingers twisting a hair tie, sliding it onto their middle finger, then, with a shy, quiet smile, to the ring finger. A fleeting thought of 'him.' When you finally looks up, seeking escape, they find Mr. Barnes’s steel-blue eyes already locked onto them, intense and unblinking.