The sound his fingers made, typing away at his keyboard, made a rhythm that he had grown to despise. The constant necessity of having to read and write e-mails, draft letters and create new tests was not why he had become a teacher. Richard wanted to teach, to stand before a class of eager college students and tell all about the wonderful, sometimes mythical history of our world. But half the time he spent sitting behind his computer, another quarter he spent in meetings and the last quarter he was forced to rouse the least bit of excitement from a classroom full of bored young adults. He tried to think back to the days when he was still in college, so many summers ago, but now at the age of 42, he could hardly remember if he was as useless of a student as most of his pupils turned out to be.
Richard pushed a hand through his salt and pepper hair and leaned back in his chair. Somewhat absentmindedly he read back the e-mail he'd just written, telling one of his classes that they had a test the coming Monday. He knew most of them wouldn't read it, but at the very least he could tell himself that he had tried. As he stared out of the window, looking down onto the courtyard below, his phone suddenly rang.
'Professor Baker speaking.'
'Hey Richard, do you always have to answer your phone so formally?'
Richards flip phone did not have the luxury of caller ID, so he rarely had any idea of who was calling him, but this voice he recognized easily enough, as he answered her question.
'It's a false sense of bravado I suppose, clinging on to my professionalism or whatever. You're the psychologist, you tell me.'
On the other end of the line he could hear Jean Haas laughing and the sound managed to make him smile.
'I'll write it up to mommy issues, that's usually the answer anyway.'
Now Richard laughed aloud, closing his laptop in front of him and leaving his work for another time.
'Listen Richard, I was wondering what you are doing on Saturday evening? Me and Melissa were meant to go to the theatre, see that play that everyone's been talking about, but her kid got sick and she just cancelled, care to join me?'
Jean was a psychology professor at Brightsdale College, the same college that he worked at and also a very good friend. She was without a doubt his favorite colleague, though she did not have very strong competition. It was already Friday and he wasn't too sure if him and his wife had made any plans for tomorrow... Lisa liked to lounge around on Saturdays, work in the garden, at most she'd insist on visiting her parents. He'd have to come up with some excuse to spend the evening with Jean anyways, Lisa had never liked her much.
'I haven't got any plans, I'd love to join you!'
'That's great! How about you come pick me up at 7, we'll get some dinner first.'
'Sounds good to me Jeanie, looking forward to it'
Richard was sure he'd be able to come up with some excuse as to why he wouldn't be home tomorrow night, maybe this time he'd just be honest with Lisa, it wasn't like he was planning on anything nefarious.
After some quick, friendly goodbye's Richard hung up the phone and stood up from his desk. Suddenly his day was not so miserable anymore and as he studied the clock that hung on the wall of his classroom, he saw he'd only have to teach one more class today. Before that class started however he decided he'd have just enough time to go smoke a cigarette, so he grabbed his coat by the door and hurried his way outside.
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Though he had good attendance today, most of the sophomore students in his class looked to be having an outer-body experience, their minds far away from the seats their bodies were planted in. Richard thought he heard one of them snoring, but that might've just been his own cynicism coming to haunt him. Todays subject was Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the French Empire. A subject that normally managed to interest at least some of his students, but it seemed as though most of them were locked solidly to their phones and hadn't the slightest clue what he was going on about.
After wasting about an hour on a lecture going nowhere, relief finally came and the school bell rang. Richard had already moved behind his desk, having given his class some assignment, so he wouldn't have to talk to them any longer. At the sound of the bell he looked up from his computer and cleared his voice. "Do not forget that test on Monday, it definitely won't forget you." Here and there he saw a student sigh and some sulk. Most them seemed happy enough to be leaving and Richard shared their joy.
As his eyes focused back on his computer screen, whilst the last of the students streamed from the classroom, a hand suddenly appeared before his screen. He was about to give someone a stern talking to, but when he looked up, his eyes met the hazel gaze of Brianna, smiling back at him.
"I've been trying to get your attention for like two minutes, what on that computer could possibly be better than me?" The feigned innocence in her voice sounded intimately familiar, as Richard quickly looked towards the classroom door. "Don't worry Professor, everybody's already left." Brianna wiggled her way in between the seat where he was sitting and his desk. She adjusted the yellow crop top she wore, showing off a few inches of her soft, flat belly. The girl pushed herself up on the desk, sitting on the edge and looking down at him.
"What are you doing Brianna?" Richard asked sternly. The light blue pants she wore hugged her figure tightly, but he made sure to focus on her face.
"Oh, you know, just chatting with my favorite teacher..." Brianna put the toe of her left shoe on the heel of her right and kicked the sneaker off. As it fell to the floor, she raised her foot slowly, resting it on the edge of the chair, right in between Richards legs.
"We can't be doing this here Bri, you agreed with me last time." A coy smiled curled the corners of Brianna's lips, as her foot rose from the edge of the seat to his crotch. Richard felt his erection betray his excitement, as his bulge pushed against the bottom of her foot. She kept rubbing her foot up and down the front of his pants, whilst Richard looked around, making sure no one was there to catch them.