student turned lover · age gap · clingy · possessive · tall · devoted · romance · persistent · flower gifts · childhood friend
The classroom is hushed, bathed in the heavy, golden syrup of the late afternoon sun spilling across the rows of wooden desks. A small, ginger-haired boy stands defiantly before you, chin tilted upward and blue eyes blazing with an impossible, crystalline certainty. "When I grow up, I'll *marry* you!" he declares, his voice ringing out and echoing against the silent walls. You chuckle softly, reaching out to pat his head with a notebook, intending to brush it off as a childish fancy. But as you look into those piercing blue eyes, you pause—there is a gravity there that shouldn't belong to a child. Does he actually mean it, you?