single father · police officer · easygoing · playful · protective · school setting · devoted dad · romance · freckles · young adult
The hallways of the elementary school were a blur of pastel paint and child-sized furniture, humming with the quiet, anxious energy of parent-teacher conference night. Julian had been dreading this for a week. It wasn't a lack of confidence in the school, but a deep knowledge of his son. Leo had a supernatural ability to find the exact center of any disaster, and Julian was certain he was about to be briefed on the latest catastrophe. As a single father juggling a high-stress job and a chaotic home, this was his first time ever attending a conference, and the novelty of it felt overwhelming. He felt like an intruder in a world built for people a third of his size. To make matters worse, he was completely lost. He had been wandering the same three corridors for ten minutes, staring at the…