Kjem was cramped in the airliner seat, the tray table down with his laptop computer on it, trying to work on a grant proposal during the flight. He knew there was no way it was going to get funded, nevertheless he had to revamp and resubmit it. His heart wasn't in it.
He didn't really understand what he was on this flight for anyway. He was a few years into a visiting professorship at a university in the US, and time was running out on his visa. He had to find a new position, something more permanent or else he'd have to go back to fucking Iceland where it was cold and there were no prospects. But the truth was his heart wasn't into these glorified postdocs any more. He needed something more... well, something more.
He'd applied to several faculty jobs again this year, but the job market was brutal and all he had was a stack of "Thank you for applying, unfortunately..." letters to show for it. When Lisa, an ex-girlfriend from grad school, contacted him out of the blue about an open position at some undergraduate college he'd never heard of in the Caribbean, urging him to apply for it, he'd originally dismissed it as a bad idea. How could this sort of place move him forward in his career? But after a particularly bad day in the lab and a slow walk home in the rain afterwards, he decided to go ahead and apply anyway. Why not? What was one more futile application and rejection letter?
It was a blind application, he knew nothing about the college and could find little specific information online. But he submitted what he had anyway, and included Lisa's name as one of the references.
It was a surprise almost two months later when he got a call from Dean Alice (she insisted on going by her first name) of Green Cay College for a video interview. The interview went surprisingly well, but in retrospect Kjem was flummoxed by how much of the discussion with the Dean was about whether he was serious about working at a small women's college in a remote location rather than anything specific about the job itself or his qualifications. It was clear that the Dean knew quite a lot about him already: his background, teaching and research experience, and history. He wondered how much of this she could have gotten from Lisa, a lot of what she knew was not in his application file, publications, or on his university web page.
At the end of the interview, when Kjem asked about the college, pointing out that he was unable to find anything substantial about the place and admitted that he didn't know much about it, the Dean deferred and promised to answer all of his questions when he came to visit for a real in-person interview. Yes, he was being asked for a face-to-face interview right away! He was quickly transferred to an office manager, an asian woman, 'Hope', who checked his availability and right then scheduled flights for him to come for a visit the week after next.
So, here he was on a last-minute flight to a faculty job interview at a place he'd never heard of and didn't know anything about, based on an hours phone call and the recommendation of an ex-lover from grad school. He was not ready for this. Was it just a waste of time?
Lisa. Yeah, Lisa. That's why he was on this flight. Wow. Lisa had been a grad student in the same department as Kjem, and they'd been lovers for almost a year. He hadn't seen her since she graduated and bailed out of science, inexplicably taking up art instead. He'd heard she'd gotten a job at a small college by way of a family connection. It seemed this was Green Cay College.
Completely distracted from his airplane grant writing, he closed his laptop and put his head back, reminiscing. Lisa had gotten off on sex in public places. He remembered the time they fucked in one of the teaching labs.
He was there working on a fractionation in a fume hood - it was the weekend because that's when the room was available. Normally he would've left the equipment to do it's work, but the machine was old and not reliable and so he was there to babysit it. He hadn't bothered to turn the room lights on, the room was illuminated enough by the sun reflecting off the second-story windows of the dorms on the other side of the quad. He sat at one of the benches grading exams.
Lisa worked in a lab down the hall, and had come in to ask what he was doing. But when she entered she closed the door behind her. She was wearing a sundress, as she often did when in the lab after hours, and had leaned back against the closed door and lifted the hem to show him she didn't have panties on. Clean-shaven, of course. Lifting the dress further, she showed she wasn't wearing a bra, either.
Kjem stopped his work, stood, and walked over to her. He worshipped her body with his hands, and then dropped to his knees and holding her ass in his hands between her legs, licked her slowly to an orgasm. They then spent the next hour fucking in the lab: in one of the chairs, on a bench, even on the floor, being as quiet as they could so that anyone who happened to be working in nearby research labs wouldn't hear.
At one point, a lab mate of Lisa's walked past down the hall, calling her name; they paused and hushed, hidden behind a table when the intruder peeked into the room looking for her, until whoever it was wandering away in vain.
He ended up finishing inside her, fucking her from behind bent over a lab bench facing the window. Afterwards, Kjem pulled up and adjusted his trousers while Lisa blotted up their mess from between her legs with some lab wipes, and kissed him deeply while brushing her dress smooth. She whisked out of the room, but on the way out of the door turned and asked "Do you think they could see us?", nodding towards the window, and then was gone. Kjem looked to the dorms across the narrow quad to see a handful of female students in a balcony of one of the rooms, waving red plastic drink glasses in his general direction and laughing. Surely they couldn't really see into the darkened room? He shook his head and crossed the room to see the puddle and blinking red light on the equipment he was supposed to have been watching; yeah, gonna have to do the experiment over again. It was worth it.
***
The flight landed at the island airport, and after descending the jetway steps to the tarmac Kjem entered the airport building and passed quickly through immigration and customs. He didn't have any checked bags as he was only there for a couple of days, so he passed directly into the airport lobby and on the other side to the exit, where he was greeted by a gaggle of folks holding up signs for many of the local hotels and villas.
At the back of the group he saw a slight young woman in an olive "Green Cay College" t-shirt holding a sign with his full name on it, "Dr. Kjem Gamall-VeiΓ°imaΓ°ursson"; he gave a wry smile when he saw that it was even spelled correctly with the Norse lettering; that's a first! He made his way past the group to her and as he approached she seemed to recognize him, smiled and introduced herself.
"Hi, Dr Kjem? I'm Beth from GCC, I'm so glad you're here! I've got a taxi waiting, let's get out of here!"
Beth looked to be about 21 or 22 years old, 5'6" tall and very thin - not bony but without an ounce of excess fat. She bubbled with energy! Her skin was lightly bronzed from the sun, and her sun-bleached blond hair was pulled back in a pony tail. Along with the green college t-shirt, she was wearing khaki shorts, a white visor hat and flip-flops. She took his arm and guided him out to the curb and into the parking area where an open jeep taxi and driver were waiting.