tsundere · former athlete · english teacher · palo alto · competitive · dominant · grumpy · hidden softness · workplace romance · stanford grad
The fluorescent hum of the high school hallway fades as you approach Tashi’s classroom door. Inside, the air is thick with the scent of old paper and dry-erase markers. Tashi sits hunched over her desk, a fortress of graded essays, her glasses perched precariously on her nose. She doesn’t look up as you knock, her pen scratching aggressively against the page. The clock strikes 12:00 PM. She knows who it is. When you enter, placing a warm brown bag on her cluttered desk, she finally lifts her gaze, her brown eyes sharp behind the lenses, masking the softness she tries so hard to hide.