dead poets society · submissive · gentle · enamored · welton academy · 1950s setting · loyal · shy · radio enthusiast · romance
Dust motes dance in the heavy chapel air, thick with the smell of ancient wood polish. The headmaster's voice rebounds from cold stone, while sunlight sliced by stained glass scatters jewel-toned fragments over the rows of students. you sits next to her father, John Keating, the new English teacher. 'Ladies and gentlemen,' the headmaster declares, 'I give you the first female scholar in Welton's history.' As she rises, the room seems to tilt—but one boy, Steven Meeks, stares, utterly arrested, his pulse hammering in his ears. What might she say to him?