Lisa was standing in front of the room. He was watching her. His mind was in two worlds. One was admiring how far she had come, how hard she worked to have a good job, a career. The other was how good she looked in tight pants and heels.
She finished up her story with advice. "So don't give up. There were times when I thought about quitting, I dropped out, but I came back and finished, right P?"
He was looking at her, but not listening. His mind was undressing her.
"Right, Mr. Singer?"
He kept his cool. "Yeah." He nodded.
She was looking straight at him, smiling, almost laughing, with a "everything ok?" look. She turned back to the class and asked "Any questions?"
Even though he was caught day dreaming, he was not embarrassed. Her hair was perfectly done; wavy, shoulder length with one side up to the left in a barrette over her forehead. She had gotten new glasses since he saw her last; they were clear plastic and styled perfectly for her round, happy face. Her shirt was a dark red silk button up that was only a touch looser than the black, stretchy painted on pants she was wearing. The perfect curve of her ass was highlighted as was the outline of her legs which ended down at a little cuff scrunched up on top of her black suede platform heels.
There were a couple questions about grades and interviews. It was now time to wrap it up.
"Ok folks. Thank you Lisa for stopping in..." he started clapping and some students laughed in mock and sloppily joined in. Lisa laughed too.
"Hey, anytime. Hope it helped."
With that the students started packing up and leaving. Lisa hung around- they had planned to catch up after her little informal "successful graduate" speech.
She was checking her phone the whole time she waited while he took a few assignments from students and answered the "what do I owe" questions.
After they all left, she came over "So how was I?"
"Oh it was good. Thank you so much. They prefer guest speakers over my boring dribble about DNS and host records."
"Were you like sleeping?"
"Ha. No. I was daydreaming."
"Jeez I was like he invites me in and doesn't even listen. You're worse than the students." She playfully slaps his shoulder.
"Yeah well... I can't help it."
"Whaddaya mean?"
"Oh shut up. You know what I mean."
"I know." She smiled widely. "You love these heels, don't ya?"
"I love what's poured into 'em."
"Yeah right." She slapped him again.
He always smiled around her. Ever since their tryst in the hotel room, he was proud of himself. Proud that for whatever reason, she was into him. That she was nice enough to allow him the chance to be with her.
He was especially thankful that she was discreet. He had a life. She had a life. He would have been in a lot of trouble if anyone found out. In most ways, she had all the power in this relationship. She could ignore him. She could be a real bitch. She could fuck with him, mess his life up. But he knew she wouldn't.
He had helped her a lot. He got her through some classes, pulled some strings, helped her with some assignments. He got her the interview that landed the job she had. She knew she owed him some, but really, he would have probably gotten into some trouble if folks knew how much he helped her.
At one point, after she had quit classes, then came back after he called her and talked her into it, he broached the subject. He asked if she could be discreet. She asked "What?" He explained he would be open to getting together with her. She said "Yeah. I know. Let's just see what happens, ok?"
So now, after a year of sexting, nude pics exchanged and one steamy night in a hotel, he was hoping for something. Anything.
"So what's new with you, sexy?" he opened with.
She revealed that she worked with a bitch, but she set her straight, and that her and Jack, the on again, off again boyfriend, were doing well and he was "so sweet" on her birthday last week.
"Well Happy Birthday!" He grabbed his phone and punched the date into it for next year as she described the flowers at work he gave her.
"Well P, I gotta go." It was 10pm on a Thursday night. "Meeting some friends. I'll see ya around, K?" She turned and looked at her phone as she headed toward the door. He ass and legs were perfect. He snapped a pic. She didn't notice.
"Sure. Feel free to drunk text me!"
She spun around smiling "Ha. Yeah right." She spun back around and left.
He was a bummed she had to leave. He finished organizing his papers and making sure the attendance was entered correctly.
He packed up his stuff and swung by the instructor room. No mail was a good thing. He chatted with the other tech Instructor about "crappy lab procedures" in poorly written curriculum for a while before he left.
He stopped for gas on his way home. He decided to text her. What the heck, right?
"Drunk yet?"
"Haha. Nope. Soon. lol"
It was a :30 drive from the school to his house.
As he pulled down his street, his phone lit up.
It was a simple message "He's an asshole."
He kept driving right past his house. With this news, he sensed something might happen.