› STATUS : closed. › LOCATION : sterling tower café. › FEATURING : stellan & summer ( @sundrifting )
there were students in every year group that shone. those that were going to make it big, that were going to be successful, that would leave high school and continue on steady upwards trajectories. stellan — or mr hallström, as his students knew him — could see it near immediately, that sparkle in the eyes of a teenager, that thirst for knowledge that seemed all too rare those days. nearly two decades ago, he had seen it all in summer boone. many a lunch break had been shared in his english classroom, summer at the back with her open books and stellan catching up on admin work. perhaps the odd treat here and there, stowed away in the bottom drawer of his filing cabinet, reserved only for the students that treated him as though he was a human being. as they sat beside one another at the café he could almost feel the girl’s urge to refer to him as his previous moniker. stellan smiled, interrupted the thought before it could emerge. “you know, you could have stopped calling me mr hallström when you graduated,” he chuckled, “i think we’ve known each other long enough.”











