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Ｍｏｒｅ Ｌｉｋｅ Ｈｏｍｅ Elias Mercer wasn’t supposed to notice his son’s teacher. At thirty, his life is already full—an eight-year-old son, a small handyman business, bills to pay, and a house that’s been theirs long enough to feel complete. Then Noah gets into trouble at school. One phone call puts Elias in Y/N’s classroom, still dusty from work, expecting a lecture about his son’s behavior. Instead, he finds the first person outside their little family who seems to understand that there’s something deeper behind Noah’s anger. After that, five-minute conversations start lasting twenty. Elias keeps finding things in Y/N’s classroom that “need fixing.” Eye contact lingers. Jokes turn into flirting. And somewhere between school pickups, late afternoons, and ordinary moments that begin feeling anything but ordinary, Y/N stops being just Noah’s teacher. Elias already has a home. He just never expected someone could make it feel like more.