If you like build up, this story will not disappoint. Take the time to read it; it'll be worth the wait. I think.
It was late and he honestly hadn't been expecting any company, especially since the school closed down an hour and a half ago. He'd been slaving over paperwork – not students' papers he desperately needed to grade – since five pm and hadn't made much headway in the giant stack that had been given to him. Serving as an accountant for the mafia wasn't as fun as it had sounded, and it sounded kind of boring in the first place. Needless to say his mind was all but taken over and preoccupied. The only comfort he had was the endlessly violent storm that had been rattling the walls for most of the night. All these things considered, he really wasn't expecting someone else to be wandering the school's halls at 12:33AM. Which was why he nearly yelped when he saw someone standing in the doorway to his classroom. Lucky for him, he had taken some improvisation classes in college, and he faked his way out of looking like a complete idiot.
"Well, come into the light so I can see who's been spying on me," he said smoothly. "If you're going to be carelessly spotted, might as well own up to it." The only light illuminating the room was a small lamp he had at his desk, which gave the rest of his classroom a faint shadowy glow. Despite his invitation for the intruder to show themselves, he turned back to his paperwork, eyes down.
"I'm not trying to hide anything, Professor Gordon." The clear, melodious voice accompanied soft footsteps approaching his desk until they stopped and he knew the person was leaning a hand against his desk. He would know that voice anywhere. A few drops of water falling onto his desk made him look up and into the face of one of his favorite students, her hair and clothes soaked and dripping from the rain. He couldn't help but notice how the standard uniform white shirt she was wearing clung to her skin, giving him full view of the green bra she was wearing.
"Alaina," he said, looking at her a bit incredulously, "what are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" she retorted, running a hand through her dark hair, letting more water spill on the floor and, thankfully, not his desk. "That doesn't look like school work to me."
"Don't answer my question with a question," he said, but he closed the folder he'd had open. "I'm a teacher. I'm allowed to be here. Now answer my question."
She took a few steps from his desk and walked to one of the student desks. Turning her back to him, she began to unbutton her shirt.
"I knew you'd be here," she said. "I've seen you working late the past few days."
Pulling the white shirt off her shoulders, she began to tug at her sleeves.
"Uh- what are you doing?" he asked, watching her, and instinctively looking around to make sure no one was around. Stupid.
She paused, looked at him over her bare shoulder as she pulled the entire, soaking shirt off as if it were the most normal thing she could have done at that point in time.
"My clothes... they're soaked." Walking to the trash can, she took the shirt in both hands and wrung it out. Without a word he watched her as she leaned, and the skirt – much too short for school conduct; he wasn't even sure how she got away with that – rose over her plump bottom. Her legs were long, lean... and he finally saw she was barefooted. When her hands moved to unfasten the clasp of her skirt, he snapped out of it.
In a moment he was behind her, draping his black blazer over her shoulders.
"The skirt... leave it on," he said, a command more than a request, but he let his hands fall on her shoulders and rest there for a moment longer than necessary. When he backed away from her, she finally let out the breath she'd been holding. Fine, she thought. The skirt stays... for now. Without removing it, she wrung out the edges, getting at least a bit of water out of it.
"So, you saw I was working late and thought you might pay me a visit, hmm?" he deduced, going back to his desk. She wandered back to the student desk – her own in the front – and sat upon it, crossing her legs.
"Something like that," she said, watching him with dangerous eyes through her black-rimmed glasses. "I... can't stop thinking about you."
"Alaina," he said gently, a bit of warning in his tone.
"It was as bad as it's ever gotten tonight. When I thought there was a possibility I might see you here, I got obsessed. I had to come." She was glad for the dim lighting. Maybe he couldn't see her cheeks blush at such disclosure. "I thought maybe you'd left because of the storm, but I came anyway."
"Without shoes, no less," he said, nodding towards her feet. She pulled her knees up to her chin, lifting with them her skirt which exposed the warm bit of underwear between her thighs. He sighed deeply.
"I don't have to tell you what a terrible idea this was, to come here," he said, forcing himself not to look at her.
"There's no one here," she said, pulling his blazer tighter around her. "It's the safest we've ever been."
He closed his eyes, a great weight upon them. "Don't say it like that," he said.
"Like what?" There was almost offense in her tone.
"Like... like there's a 'we.'"
The look she gave him then... oh, it was almost enough to make him eat his words. But he was right. There was no "we," there could never be a "we." Not unless he wanted to lose his job – a job he rather enjoyed. He knew this and she knew it, too.
Yeah, he knew it. He also knew her being here was solely his fault. He knew at that moment she must have been thinking about one thing and one thing only. He knew it because he was thinking of the same thing.
It hadn't been a week and a half yet since it happened. He had known she'd had an eye for him from the way she acted in his classes. Nothing obvious, but her eyes, they said a lot. It hadn't been the first time a student showed interest. And no, it hadn't been the first time he'd been tempted. Young private college girls, so full of life, so hungry for knowledge, so dripping with hormones. Somehow she and he had ended up in his classroom, just like this. It was daytime; all the students had filed out for lunch – something or other. He was moving things into one of the supply closets, a high shelf. He'd overestimated his ability to keep every paper in place, and the stack began to topple. Here she came to the rescue, arms up and ready to help as she grabbed the falling papers. Together they managed to put it all into place.
It wasn't unusual for her to stay after the rest of them had gone. She usually had questions about the material, or just wanted to chat, completely innocently. But that day had been different. Their bodies had been so close, and when the papers were set and her arms came down, they came down around his neck. He liked the feel of them, the feel of her so close. He'd wanted it for a while now, and here it was, the moment he'd only vaguely fantasized about. Without thinking he put his hands on her waist, pulled her close. For a moment they stood there, faces close, discovering each other. Her smell... it was great. Alluring and deep. And then their lips touched and they were both sucked into the kind of kiss his grandmother would be embarrassed to speak about.