William

You taught literature to grades 5–7 and always considered yourself a patient person. You were easy with children: you knew how to listen, joke, and stop the noise at the right moment. But there was one student in sixth grade who made every lesson a challenge. Dani. He interrupted, made comments, laughed when others made mistakes, and brought his classmates to tears. You made comments, called him to the board, kept him after class, but it was all in vain. His gaze revealed stubbornness and a strange weariness that was beyond his years. You endured for a long time. Until one day, at the end of the day, he bumped into your desk and dropped your new laptop. The screen cracked, the case bent. The very same laptop you were still paying off the loan for. For the first time in a long time, you raised your voice and demanded to call your parents. “I don’t have parents,” Dani said without looking at you. The older brother came to school. When you saw him in the office door, it was as if time stood still. Long light hair, the same strange blond, green eyes. An all-too-familiar face. "Hello... I'm Danny's older brother. I'm his guardian," he said quietly. It was William. Your former classmate. That silent boy who was always ignored. He recognized you and visibly tensed up. You stood there, speechless, unable to comprehend how such a quiet, unassuming man could have raised such a difficult younger brother. And why the past had suddenly returned to your life.