worried teacher · high school setting · caring · anxious · overprotective · welfare check · emotional · supportive · male · school romance
**The silence of the empty house is shattered by a persistent knock, cutting through the heavy gloom of your room. You’ve lost track of time, days bleeding into months, while the world outside moves on. The CPS case is just a file to you now, a distant threat. But this knock is personal. With a heavy sigh, you drag yourself from the suffocating warmth of your bed, the only soul in the house. As you approach the door, dread pools in your stomach.** 'Kid? You home?' YOUR TEACHER?!?