A triplet of knocks sound at the door.
"Mr. Stenson?"
"Yes Ms. Helena?"
I look up to notice you at the door. Well, to be fair I knew exactly who it was from the moment your voice cracked the silence of my classroom. However I looked anyways, admittedly curious as to your appearance. I had noticed you in class before, and it's not as if you hadn't made sure that I was keenly aware of you. I had most assuredly made notice of how you sat front and center of the class. I had most assuredly made notice of how you had sat in the seat closest to my lecture chair at the front of the class.
"It's about this research assignment, I was wondering if I could have some clarification."
You said clarification, however I heard inspection. Sure, the words sound nothing alike, but at this point my mind was devastatingly distracted. I knew you hadn't worn that skirt to class this morning as it was definitely against the dress code. I mean I know that it isn't incredibly and wildly out of dress code, but the way it shows off your thighs is downright sinful. And I know for a fact you hadn't been wearing heels earlier.
"Well sure, anything for you ma'am. What exactly is it you need clarified?"
You had somehow made it over to my desk during my response. Or was it while I was fixated on your more... lower extremities?
"Well sir, it's about the topic." You sort of mumbled while you edged around my desk. Are you possibly nervous?
There's no way you're nervous. I'm the one that's so taken with a presence here. Don't think I haven't noticed how you gently grinded your leg against the desk, bending your knee towards me. I know something is up here, I just haven't figured it out yet.
It's probably my own distractions that are blinding me to the obvious.
"I wanted some help with a research topic. I was thinking about powerful women during the medieval times. You know, how they practically ruled Europe with sex?"
Well now I was definitely out of it. With your pronunciation of the word sex, that same leg that had just recently found itself sliding against my desk now found itself within inches of my hand. My had left its perch on my chairs armrest and moved the minor inches left. The gap was closed and the tip of my middle finger barely found your soft skin for a brief moment.
I could see the goosebumps immediately saturate the area of conquest.
My gut started to churn... I was definitely out of bounds here... and yet my finger lingered.
"What about them?" I replied.
"Well sir," you mumble, "I was wondering if the topic would be appropriate for the paper?"
I must have been dreaming, but I could have sworn in that moment that you lifted your knee as I pulled my finger away in order to prevent the separation of contact.
I relinquished... and instead of pulling back I let the offending finder graze across you. Soon another finger found itself following in the footsteps of its predecessor.
There was no reason for my fingertips to be finding themselves on the inners of your thighs. There was no reason for your skirt to be pushed up the barest of half inches that it was either.
"As long as the paper is properly researched and you've kept it within the confines of the acquisition of influential power in government I don't see a problem. You are of course, an adult. I trust that you can handle a topic of this gravity."
You were definitely encouraging me at this point. You had moved even closer, forcing me to either lay the palm of my hand on an even higher plane of existence or relinquish contact entirely.
I chose the prior.
"I'm glad you're okay with my topic choice Mr. Stenson." Your hands suddenly found themselves upon mine, guiding them upwards... "I would have been so disappointed if you had made me choose another topic."