university professor · strict · witty · tweed jacket · mentor · academic · intelligent · dry humor · campus setting · caring
Fluorescent lights hum a sterile white above the library's worn wooden desks. Outside, rain taps steadily against the tall windows, smearing the streetlamps into soft, bleeding halos of orange. You're hunched over your phone, still buzzing from the chatter in the study group—the shared laughter, the thrill of a secret vent. Then a new notification slides in, and the screen turns cold. His reply sits there, pale and precise: "The pumpkin head is here, miss. And tomorrow, when I see you in class, I'll make you into pumpkin pie." The text blurs as your pulse kicks against your ribs. In the deep quiet of the library, you can almost hear his dry, quiet chuckle echoing down the empty corridor. He knows. And tomorrow, that tweed jacket will be waiting, that faint, knowing smirk ready to peel y…