THIS STORY WAS CO-AUTHORED BY rva98. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK HIM FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION.
The first day of class in a new semester has a certain energy to it - the newness, the weather, the anticipation and excitement that forms the backdrop of what will come. Strangers in the main, brought together for a common experience yet to be developed. I have been through this many times, but each time it feels like the first.
The class, about 20 in all, spreads out in their seats. I chuckle at the glances that go about the room, the first notices. Students of course come in all descriptions, and this class is no different. I can always count on some grunges and some sloppies, some attentives and some chatties. And so it goes with this class, normal.
I breathe in, and smile. This is my milieu, to teach. I want to grab the class' attention right away, and to use imagery and my words to draw them in. It is crucial to have a certain eagerness, buy-in, right up front. So I march through my spiel, describing the course and its objectives, the materials and expectations, how the course will progress and be tested and graded.
This is so routine to me that I can recite it on demand, and never miss an element. So as I lecture, I subconsciously but naturally size up the class, scan them with my eyes, comfortably.
Up front there are the eager beavers, furiously noting what I say as if their lives depended on it. In the rear are the malingerers as usual, looking a bit uninterested and fingering their cell phones. In between these predictable groups are the "regular" students, who fit into their own subsets, again, as usual. The guys with jeans and running shoes, some girls in their own jeans or shorts mildly paying attention and seeming somewhat interested.
However, looking out among them, I spot a young student more or less in the middle of the mass, sitting a bit towards the rear.
Now as a professor I have had some stunners in my classes, the pin up model types, who for lack of a better word are sultry. I mostly don't pay too much attention, one class being so much like the other. As I speak I find my eye coming back to this particular focus point, not really on purpose but naturally. This particular student is looking at me with a different attention, and honestly I am at her as well. She has a shy and reserved look to her, extremely cute in her glasses and white blouse and navy skirt - a skirt, in this day and time! And as I walk about giving my routine I look back at her and notice again.
She fills out her blouse fully, sensuously. I notice that first. In my next pass across the front of the room I see her legs more clearly, and there is a sensation - her smooth legs extended with ankles crossed present a different picture than anyone else in the room. With each pass, I gaze upon her briefly, but each gaze becomes a little longer, and I become aware that I am doing so.
As I drone on and speak yet more, I find that, much like a photographer searching for the subject, she continues to be in my focus. Really for the first time, I look directly at her, and I see her eyes locked onto mine.
In all honesty, it gives me a start. I smile slightly, and I see her smile slightly in respond and shift in her seat, just a subtle movement. I take a moment and spend a few more moments, not really intending to, but accepting her visage and drinking it in.
As I dismiss the class, I lean on the edge of the bench at the front and watch the assemblage gather and move to the exits, and find myself watching one in particular, this alluring young student who identified herself as Kitty, move out.
As she approaches the door, she looks back at me. Our eyes connect, and both of us smile. I admire her shape, so full and curved in just that right way.
I feel a stir. My loins swell unexpectedly, the blood rushing lower to my organ. And I sense a rising in my trousers, starting at the head of my sex.
I breathe in and exhale. This will be an interesting semester, I think
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