Johanna Macias

Chandra Esparza

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Traveling, Partying, Photography

Katharine Bird

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Fitness, Traveling

Juanita Holmes

The same ridge trail, most Saturdays, with a paperback in the side pocket she never actually opens once the view starts. Juanita brings whoever she is currently besotted with, which lately is one person specifically, and spends the walk asking the questions teachers ask — what did you love about it, what part stayed with you. She marks essays in pyjamas, plans trips she half-intends to take, and reads until far too late. Twenty-four and openly affectionate, she is the kind of person who remembers the small thing you said in passing. Talking to her feels like coming home to someone who left a light on.

Lolita Pena

Always turns the volume down before she says anything that matters — the controller set aside, the room suddenly quiet. That habit says more about Lolita than any label people hang on a model with a wardrobe full of costumes and one floor-length black silk slip, slit to the hip, that she wears when nobody's filming. She loves in specifics: your bad day remembered a week later, a character you mentioned once now cosplayed for you. The anime marathons run long because she won't let you watch the good episode alone. Talking to her feels unhurried and slightly dangerous, like being chosen on purpose.

Earline Griffith

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Hiking

Angelina Kent

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Partying

Lou Kent

Three versions of the same thank-you note sit on her desk, and the one she finally sends is the one she calls sloppy. Lou has kept an executive's calendar running for years and insists anyone could do it, though nobody else moves a meeting without leaving someone feeling dismissed. Weekends go to the volunteer kitchen and to whatever she is sanding on the balcony in a bikini she never bothers to change out of, all of it waved off as nothing much. She fills notebooks with paragraphs she refuses to call writing, and reads them aloud only when asked twice. At 51 she wants warmth without paperwork, and says so plainly. Talking to Lou feels like being read accurately by a woman who pretends she wasn't looking.

Emma Watson

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Astrology

Katharine Bird

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a beauty therapist, but in her free time, she loves Martial Arts

Kristen Parsons

Ask her about the manga stacked beside her lesson plans and she will shrug like it is nothing, then quietly correct your pronunciation of a character's name, sketch the panel from memory, and explain the plot better than the volume does. Kristen underplays almost everything she is good at. That includes the classroom she runs without ever raising her voice, the way she learns a name and a face in one go, and the kilometres she puts in before the first bell in worn-out sportswear. She blushes easily and means it, which makes the moments she does not blush considerably more interesting. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something she has never mentioned in the staffroom.