The bus had just pulled onto the campus and Marissa was sitting overboard, one hand supporting her chin as she stared out the window, and the other holding onto the hem of her skirt. It rained all through the night and earlier that morning, but the storm had given way to crystal blue skies, fluffy white clouds and the brightest sunshine that had been seen for some days.
Despite the beautiful skies, the ground was still wet from the rain, many large puddles having been created on the uneven pavement of the campus grounds, and they were almost unavoidable. As if the puddles around campus were not enough, over a dozen automated sprinklers were going off on the grassy lawn and a lot of it sprayed into the already wet path that led to the college.
The entire water show could be spotted from the window of the bus, and everyone inside could see how the water sprayed from the sprinklers, dreaming about it touching their skin and giving relief from the heat. Even though it rained cats and dogs the night before and earlier in the day, the weather was still humid, making beads of sweat roll down the most uncomfortable crevices.
Marissa was not exempted from the curse of the heat, and she tried her best to fight against it by wearing her trademark light blue tube top and the denim mini skirt that she really liked, but she was still sweating a lot.
Given the low seats on the bus and the fact that the bus was driving over an uneven road, her tube continuously fell down her chest, and she kept having to adjust it. She was very alert, making sure to keep her legs closed as tightly as she could manage and cautiously making sure that her top was in place. She could see the eyes around trying to glaze over her, but the fact that they couldn't see anything raised her confidence.
The bus continued until it reached its last stop, right outside the front entrance to the college campus. As the bus pulled in front of the bus stand, Marissa looked up from her phone and out the window to find the familiar face of her professor staring into the air. He was sitting on the bus stop bench, both hands clasped together as if he knew the exact bus she'd got on and was waiting patiently for her to alight that exact minute.
The burst of confidence that she was formerly nursing disappeared into thin air, leaving her noticeably jittery. She didn't expect him to be there, and now that he was it discomforted her greatly.
Her eyes fleeted out of the window and for the first time she noted that the ground was still full of puddles and sopping wet. When the bus finally came to halt, the doors opened up and everyone started to get down from it.
Galloway was seated directly across the bus's exit door so that his eyes were perfectly lined up with the platform leading out of the bus. It was almost like he was about to execute a perfect plan.
Seeing what she was up against, Marissa put on her bravest face and reached a hand down to pull on her skirt, undoing her crossed legs and getting up in one smooth movement while still making sure that no one on the bus was able to look up her skirt. Gracefully, she made her way to the entrance of the bus, standing behind the line of people that moved sluggishly. Through it, her hand pressed against the middle of her skirt, keeping it down.
When she reached the door, Marissa glanced down at the professor, but he seemed too busy looking somewhere else to notice her. Instead, his eyes were trained on the ground as he focused extensively on one giant rain puddle that was just at the entrance of the bus. She looked down as well, but all that she could see was the reflection of the bright, beautiful sky with its pristine clouds, which made her forget for a second that her professor was still trying to look up her skirt.
The passengers in front of her had hopped over the puddle and gone about their way, leaving Marissa standing at the very front. Her hands pushed flat against the hem of her miniskirt as she stretched her leg forward over the puddle. She tried to control how much could be seen up her naked thighs by pressing the material of her denim skirt between her legs as much as she could.
It was very difficult and Marissa couldn't help but furrow her brows in anxiety. The ground still had other reflecting puddles that served as instruments of her professor's perversion but she was determined to get through and defeat him.