Cassie's Misadventures Chapter 01: Home Tutoring
Being a secondary school teacher is hard work, but it does have some rewards. One came in the shape of 18 year old Cassandra, or "Cassie" as her friends call her.
Cassandra was one of the students in my A-level physics class. She was always attentive in class, completed assignments on time and was always friendly. She sat near the side of the classroom and worked away quietly.
She was a very attractive blonde (but not an airhead or a dizzy blonde), with long legs a beautiful smile and a great body, including large breasts for her age and frame, a fact that was not lost on me, although I didn't let it show of course.
She was generally very good at grasping a new concept or idea, but there was one topic she came to me to ask for help with. With mock exams coming up she was keen to understand all the topics. Unusually, at the end of one class, she came up to me as the other students were leaving and told me she was having difficulty with the magnetic flux concept and calculations.
I tried to explain quickly, but it was clear that more time was needed than we had there and then; we both were due in other lessons. I suggested we arranged a time during school when I had a free period and she had revision time. When we looked at our respective timetables however, it was clear that there was not mutual time free in the entire week.
"Couldn't you go through it for me after school sometime?" she asked hopefully, (batting her pretty eyes at me, I don't know whether on purpose or not.) I couldn't see it.
"Well the caretakers and cleaning staff kick us out at half past, so that only leaves me enough time to clear up in the classroom. Technically that only leaves the staff room where you are not allowed to go." She was disappointed and felt that she needed my input, so suggested something a bit more unusual.
"Well if you are willing to spare the time, couldn't you pop around to my house for half an hour instead, and we could go through it there? I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind."
I looked up, a little taken aback by her suggestion. This was not usual practice, and generally not even considered, especially between a male teacher and a female student. But knowing that she didn't live far from me, and knowing her parents a little, I considered it.
"Well, maybe. We could I suppose with your parents there. Just for 30 minutes. Are you sure they wouldn't mind having me there?" She brightened at my positive response.
"No. I'm sure it will be fine. When could you come round do you think?" I considered for a second, checking my pretty empty diary.
"Well, actually later tonight for one, while the topic's nice and fresh" I offered.
She thought about it for a few seconds, then smiled at me. "Yes, that would be great if it's alright with you?" she beamed.
"Very well" I said. "I'll see you at about 8 tonight?"
"That would be fantastic! Thank you so much, Mr Jenkins. I'll see you later."
She bounced off to her next class, her pert round bottom jiggling nicely in her short school skirt, leaving me wondering if I'd made the correct decision or not. I had no hidden agenda and it was with genuine academic interest that I had agreed to this. But I knew things can be construed a different way given half a chance, and so I was keen to keep this low key and not make a habit of it. At least her parents would be there and I could do with catching up with them a little anyway.
Just before 8 o'clock I walked round to her house and rang the bell. I was expecting one of her parents to answer the door, but Cassandra herself opened it, still in her school uniform, and warmly welcomed me in. I slipped off my shoes before she ushered me into the dining room where her physics stuff was spread out over the table.
"Would you like a drink?" she offered.
"Yes please. A coffee would be great" I replied as I put my bag on the table. As Cassie busied herself in the adjacent kitchen fixing my drink, I listened out for her parents, and even peered around the corner into the living room, expecting to find at least one of them there. But they weren't. Nor could I hear any signs that anyone else was in the house (I knew she was an only child).
Starting to get a little uneasy, I called through the kitchen door.
"Cassandra, where are your parents?" I asked.
"Cyprus" she called back. "They've gone to visit my uncle who lives there."
I was completely taken aback. I had presumed that they would be at home. I thought she said they would be? Didn't she get my condition of them being here when I was? I thought.
"When you asked me round, I thought you said they would be here." I queried. "You said they wouldn't mind me coming round"
"No, I didn't" she countered. "I simply said it would be fine. I knew they wouldn't mind you coming round, and the main reason is, they are in Cyprus!" She delivered that last sentence as if it was a witty joke.