He'd never considered himself to be a naΓ―ve person, but when she opened the door he began to reconsider this.
"Good morning, Jack." She smiled and dropped her weight onto one foot. The smell of her perfume seemed to embrace him, a mixture of the ocean and gin.
"Good morning, Patricia." They kissed each other on both cheeks.
She said nothing more and led him inside her apartment. Although it was almost midday, she was wearing a pair of black leggings and a tight, white vest top. They walked down a dim, cool hallway into her living room, a large and bright room.
"Is it a day off or are you working from home?" he asked.
"Working from home." She jiggled her upper body playfully and smiled. "No suit, no office, no meetings. Coffee?"
"Yes, please." He sat on one of the tall chairs at the breakfast bar and mumbled to himself: "No suit."
He watched her prepare the coffee. She had such a large, shapely ass that the material of her leggings was turned transparent where stretched at the widest curve. And when she stood in the blocks of sunlight that slanted through the windows, he could see the outline of her knickers. Some people said that a woman's ass reminded them of peaches; hers reminded him of an enormous pumpkin. It jutted out from her small frame. He could imagine her having a daily routine of a thousand pre-breakfast squats. She turned back toward him to fill up the kettle. While she poured the water, he snatched glances at her breasts: heavy, taut and the colour marble. She reached forward for the tap, and her breasts jiggled together slightly, like two lovers playfully knocking into each other. Jack pushed himself closer to the breakfast bar: his erection was sliding to its full length along his inner right thigh.
While the kettle began its gentle hissing, she sat on a chair on the other side of the breakfast bar.
"How you have been?"
"How have you been?" he corrected her.
Looking above his right shoulder, she repeated the words in their correct order.
"I've been fine," he said once she was looking at him again. "Busy. Lots of classes and working on my Masters. Have you had a busy week?"
"Oh, yes. A lot of work. But today I'm working from home because I have to pick up my husband this night."
"Tonight or this evening."
"Yes. This evening."
She swivelled round and dropped from the chair, her bare feet made a gentle tapping noise on the rose-coloured tiles.
Their coffees prepared, she suggested that the move to the dining room table. The sun rising over the Iberian Peninsula made the table's white surface blinding. With black dots darting like flies across his pupils, he watched Patricia lower a set of venetian blinds. They sat down, him at the head of the table and her on his right, a new A4 notepad and a pencil in her right hand.
"So, today, I thought we could continue working on your language for the presentation." She nodded. "Before that, let's go over some of the vocabulary from the previous class."
Patricia fidgeted in her seat before sitting with her arms resting on top of each other on the table's surface, pushing slightly against her breasts, raising them an extra inch. Determinedly, Jack traced his fingers along his notebook to a group of new words they'd stumbled upon in the previous class. While he at a student's hours, he was determined to be professional. So, he looked from vocabulary list directly to her eyes, as though her breasts weren't threatening to tumble from her top onto her forearms.
"What's the word for three months?"
"Trimestre."
"And the word for redimiento?"
"Performance."
Jack continued to test her recall of the vocabulary. Although she was a successful woman, the head of the human resources department of one of Spain's leading newspapers, she was prone to regressing to teenage behaviour during their classes. She began to swivel in her seat, pick at her nails and glance at her phone. After giving an answer to one of his questions, she would pull her ponytail to her nose and sniff it. Normally their classes took place in a cafΓ© close to her office, but they'd rearranged for her apartment. Comfortable in her surroundings, she began displaying a greater lack of interest than usual. After twenty minutes had past and the sun had risen beyond the orange umbrella that served for shade on the small, planet-littered balcony. Patricia got up from her seat to raise it. She worked a small handle in a clockwise motion and the venetian blind moved upwards. When she'd finished she readjusted her leggings, pulling them up at the waist, bringing the silky material deeper into her ass crack so that her checks were more defined beneath the material.
"Water?" she asked after turning around.
"Yes, please," Jack said, quickly looking back down at his notes.
She returned to the table with two glasses of water, each with two large ice cubes clinking in the glass. She'd let her hair down, and it fell over her right shoulder and swirled outward on her right breast. He could see thee faint outline of her nipples, hardened by the freezer's cool breath. The knowledge that her nipples were hard, pressing against the material, caused his cock to twitch to attention again. He could feel its warmth easing along his inner thigh.
As she apologised for sending a text message, he was thinking about naivety, especially her insistence on meeting in her apartment. There had been weeks of harmless flirtation, culminating in a selfie of her taken at the beach. In the picture he could the see the impressive swell of her breasts. To add a faint professional context, she'd added the caption Sunbathing today. Not taking the sun; a reference to a minor language point from a previous class.
She huffed and said in way of explanation: "My husband."
"Don't worry, it's fine. When you're ready we'll work on your presentation."
She slapped the phone screen down on the table's white surface.
"Do you think we can do something else?"
"Of course."
"I'm working so much, and I enjoy our time together. Maybe something a bit more fun today."
"For example?"
"Something not to do with business."
"Ok. Travel? Leisure time? The news? Family?"
She tittered, and he knew that her disruptive side was imminent. She brushed at the table's surface, moving imaginary crumbs before she said: "How about...sex? The vocabulary. I want to learn to talk about sex. It's much more interesting, do you think?"
"Don't you think," Jack replied mechanically, emphasizing the negative question tag after an affirmative statement. He swallowed and didn't dare more or change his expression.
There was an awkward pause. Patricia readjusted herself in her self and sat upright, very prim and proper. She resembled a grade A student on the first day of a new term, ready to learn, eager to please the teacher with her attention and wit. She was smiling, and Jack noticed the faintly bright sheer or recently applied lipstick.
"It's not in my curriculum," he began, "but I'm sure we can improvise."
"Very good." She laughed again, the same churlish sound, loading with meaning. There was an unmistakeable flirtatious element to her look, rapaciousness and desire. He felt like something greedily coveted, an animal in the sight of a hunter's scope.
"Umm, what words do you want to begin with?"
"Let's begin with the body parts. I know penis and vagina. But how do you say them in a more natural way?"
His face reddened as he answered: "Cock and pussy."
"Like a cat?"
"A little cat. A baby cat."
"Pussy. Pussy." She repeated the word slowly, carefully, exaggerating the two syllables, the p was soft explosion of air leaving her lips and the tail of the word leaving her painted lips in a smile.
Jack was mesmerised by her lips and the glint in her eye, but he cleared his throat and encouraged her to say cock.
"Cock. With a k sound, like cake."
"Cock. Cock."
Did she just lick her lips? Did I just see that? Jack's brain was as befuddled as it was during his teacher training in a backwater school in rural Morocco, when 25 twelve-to-fifteen years olds became overexcited with the arrival of the tall Englishman. For a completely different reason he was once again at a loss for how to proceed. Luckily, Patricia had taken control of the class.
"And what do you call this?" She rested her hands against her large white breasts. The slim gold band on her ring finger was an aberration of bright colour against her pale skin and the white material.
"These. What do you call these? They are your tits." He coughed. "Your big tits."
She repeated the words. Then she stood and half-turned her body away from Jack to reveal the bulbous swell of her hips, thighs and bottom. "And this?"
"Your ass."
"My big ass?" she laughed. "You don't have to answer that."
"Your lovely ass. Your sexy ass."
"Sexy. I like that word. Your sexy smile. You have sexy shoulder. Did you know that?"
"Sexy shoulders. I don't think I did. Thank you."
He was sweating, and he began to worry that he was being awkward. He gulped down some water. When the drink was finished, he sat back and breathed in deeply while Patricia was looking at the far end of the room formulating he next question.
"Coger is to fuck?"
"Yes."
"Mamar?"
"To suck. To suck cock, for example."
She nodded in studious understanding, as though he was teaching her the names of office equipment.
"And anal is sex in the ass?"