When Sands announced it was time to go, I let out a relieved breath I didn't know I was holding in. I got one last applause as the curtain finally closed before me and the monitors turned off. I held my head in my hands as I contemplated what the consequences of this event might bring. What do my former professors think of me? Who were the other people in the audience that saw me naked? Were they from other schools? Were they people from the city? What are they going to do with all those pictures of me (both the photos and the drawings)?
I looked down both right and left stage. Now that everybody was cleaning up and shutting down the event, the stage crew was dispersing to a point where I could exit the auditorium and head to the bus. I will have to think about this hellish experience later...or maybe never. Freely placing my hands before my crotch once more, I padded towards the door backstage. Though most of the staff was packing up to go home, there were still plenty of people in the narrow hallway backstage that I bumped into as I made my way to the door.
"Um...pardon me...excuse me...sorry...just trying to get through...my apologies!" A handful of people were surprised to be brushed up against the naked model from the stage but most of them didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, they all appeared to be quite delighted at the opportunity to lay a hand on me. I felt some of the stage crew caress me as I squeezed towards the door. Hands would stroke my buttocks, slide down my back, and gave me a pinch in various areas of my body until I finally reached the door. Eager to retreat, I flung the door open and swiftly stepped right through. I slammed the door behind me and leaned my back and hands against it; as if I were holding up a floodgate. I closed my eyes and panted heavily after the stimulation until a voice reminded me I was out in an open hallway in a museum with several people passing through.
"Oh my...good gracious Avery! Stop exposing yourself like that! We're in a public space now!"
My eyes opened up to see the faces of three of my former professors from IMU. One of them was my Sociology professor Hank Delmonte, a portly older man with gray hair wearing a tweed suit. The second professor was Alison Reyes, a conservatively dressed woman with her hair in a bun who taught chemistry. Last but not least was Ji-ho Park, an aging Asian woman who taught college math, just like me.
I glanced down at my member still hanging out in the open. Blushing again, I covered it with my hands as I faced the judgmental stares of my teachers. "P-Professors...I...this isn't..." What could I say? These people had such a high opinion of me only a few hours ago. But now...
"Honestly Avery, what could possess you to debase yourself like this?" Professor Delmonte shook his head in his hand.
"I was hoping the next time we saw each other you would have made something of yourself. How could you stoop so low?" Asked Professor Reyes.
"You call yourself a professor? I always thought it was weird that your wanted to teach at Intectus Deprehendi, it was so recently an all-girls campus when your own university scouted you. I convinced myself it was because of their credentials but now I can't help but think it was because you wanted to show off in front of all those girls. Is that what this is about? You wanted to show off that body to a bunch of girls?" Delmonte chided me as Professor Park stood quietly beside him. She was the only one who reserved her opinion.
"No! No! For Heaven's sake no! That is the last thing I want!"
"Then what is it then? Because I can't think of an explanation that could justify throwing away your integrity."
I didn't know what to say to them. I was naked and vulnerable and they were giving me the third degree. They believed I would have become something great by now instead of some nude model. I was so frustrated I almost wept for the first time in my adult life. It was at that point, I got an unexpected rescuer.
"How dare you! All of you!" Professor Sands came stomping down the hallway. Her eyes were shooting daggers at my teachers. "As well-educated individuals, I expected better from all of you! I never would have sent out an invitation to your university had I known it would be staffed with such spineless, narrow-minded, pansy-assed, elitist, posers!" Whoa...never heard Sands talk like that to anyone before.
"You're the Art teacher aren't you?" Reyes spoke the word 'art' as if it were a dirty word.
"This none of your concern. We are just having a word with our student..."
"He is not your student anymore! He is our teacher, good sir, and don't you forget it!" Sands cut off Delmonte.
"Look, we..."
"Avery's students have cumulatively made the highest scores in mathematics in Intectus history. Were you aware of this before you spoke to him in such a manner?"
"We're not saying..."
"I am not listening to what your saying. I'm talking, you're listening. I cannot say on his behalf why he passed up an offer to work at his former school but I can say it was a good decision that he did. He would have been wasted on a second-rate school taught by a mediocre staff."
"Mediocre!?"
"You heard me," Sands pulled me from the door and slapped me on the butt "stand up straight! hands to your sides!" I obeyed her command, this time I knew the reason why I was so compliant with her. Sands had a fierceness to her that she was now unleashing upon my teachers and I never wanted to be a target of that. A small part of me was glad now that I responded whenever she called out, but only a small part. "As you all can plainly see, Avery has nothing to be ashamed of." My professors took a long awkward look at me from head to toe as my face flushed. I wanted to cover up so badly but I would rather Sands unload on them instead of me. "This man has more integrity than you will ever know. He simply expanded his knowledge beyond his field of study and decided to take what he has to offer and share it with other departments. He is a renaissance man! The multi-talented Avery Finn knew that Intectus was the apex of education. We are like that because we support each other despite not being an expert in another person's field. Just as his students are reaching new heights in math, so are my students in the arts. Attendance for this course has never been higher. And that is all thanks to Professor Finn. So you can all piss off if all you are going to do here is cover up for the fact that your institution has, and always will, pale in comparison to the crown jewel known as Intectus Deprehndi! Now, take one last look you dimwits! This is the man you missed out on." Sands raised her arms to gesture at my figure. I didn't know if she was making this situation better or worse. Delmonte and Reyes looked at me with shock in their eyes at Sands outburst, Professor Park actually looked entertained. I swallowed as Sands took me by the wrist and dragged me away.
As my professors got a good look at my ass one last time, Professor Park spoke out for the first time since seeing me again, "In math, it is easy to find one solution dear Avery. But never forget that in life, there are many choices we can make. It doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong. So long as they are your answers, then you are successfully living your life." Park smiled as we walked away. Could that have been her way of showing her support?
Once we were out of sight (at least from my professors) Sands spoke to me, "Why did you choose IDU when you got an offer from from your alma mater?" Not sure if I was in the best place for a conversation with her dragging me by the wrist, I was trying to cover my manhood with one hand while walking.
"It is as you said Professor Sands, Intectus is at the pinnacle of academics. It would have been my first choice to go to college if they had only allowed male students to attend after I graduated high school."
Sands smiled broadly, "Well shame on us for missing out on such a talented student. I'm just glad that you can be here with us now." Well that makes one of us. I thought as I looked down at my nudity. Obviously my circumstances were less than favorable but I did appreciate how Sands stood up for me before my professors. She may have done so by embarrassing me further but there was a comfort in knowing she was in my corner. Better a friend than foe. I decided it would be best to stay in her good favor from now on.
