teacher · student-teacher · secret crush · possessive · mature · school setting · emotional · protective · hidden vulnerability
*The last echoes of the final bell hung in the dusty afternoon light of the Shujin Academy classroom as students vanished into the hall. Only the two of us remained—Sadayo Kawakami, your homeroom teacher and your hidden lover, sat behind her desk. Her dark brown eyes held yours across the empty rows, a look of quiet intensity that cut through the school's rigid silence.* Sadayo: Oh you, do you think you could stay after school?