"Okay everyone let's take a look at Chapter 1."
The EMT class for new members was a joint effort between the local community college and the fire department. Many of the instructors were also Lieutenants, Captains and Chiefs. Our EMT instructor Bobby Traine was no exception. He was a paramedic and a Lieutenant in the EMS division and while not like most of the fire guys, he was a paramedic-nurse, and more interested in the medical stuff than the firefighting.
He was also very cocky intellectually, probably because he felt he had to make up for the inadequacy of the fire hierarchy's estimation of the EMS side of the house. In any case it wasn't going particularly well. The fact is I have never been much of a scholar. I suppose it is because of the way I was raised. I don't like admitting this but money and not education were a priority with my mom and older half-sister. My mother was an exotic dancer. Now I know what you might think. Mom was, and yes, my sister did it as well, and so yeah when I was old enough it was why I got into it too. I mean, there was no father. It was just the three of us. My mom was making a lot of money, and it was all based on looks. I really hate admitting it, as much because of how utterly white trashy it probably sounds. It is, unfortunately, an unsavory truth.
It is also why, early on in school I believed that I didn't need to learn to study or apply myself, and there was no one at home in the evenings to make sure I did my homework. I mean my mom and then later my older sister were working so I never developed any academic skills.
Now I needed help.
Sitting in the classroom in my "recruit" t shirt, that despite what I had requested seemed a size too small and tight, and in my BDUs, or fatigue style pants and service boots, I looked like any other basic trainee. Well, almost, I mean I had intentionally dialed down my makeup, in fact I had on almost none, and my hair was pulled back in a ponytail style twist that was held in place by a clip, but in a t shirt that small, with a simple sports bra on underneath, my chest stood out in a way that screamed anything but intellectual. Even worse, my perpetually knobbed nipples made it look like I was freezing or turned on. I wasn't, it was just a side effect from my boobjob, but of course no one would buy that, if they even if they gave me the benefit of the doubt.
The schoolwork was very interesting but it wasn't easy. I knew I was going to struggle. I looked up and saw Bobby looking at me. As usual his gaze was directed lower than my face. To my great surprise and slight alarm, I found that it just made my knobs pop out even more so. Folding my arms over my chest I looked back down at the textbook.
"Okay, everyone. Have scene safety completed by tomorrow and we'll quiz on that in the morning." He glanced in my direction and then away, I suppose so as not show he was speaking especially about me. "If any of you are having difficulty and need some additional guidance or help feel free to schedule some office time or just see me after class."
That was me for sure. I had already all but failed the first evaluation. Not because I didn't know the material. I just... froze on a test. I could know the stuff inside and out but, it was all in the way I read a question. I just blew even the answers I knew to be right.
Dawdling on purpose so that all the others would be gone I headed toward his desk. I was embarrassed. I didn't want anyone to know I was doing so badly. It was already awful enough that so many knew the story about my arrest at the stripclub, and about my washing the trucks in next to nothing. I just couldn't bear for them to think I was an idiot and that all I brought to the department was a pair of 34DD tits and a nearly shaved pussy.
"Hi Kim, did you need something?" said Bobby pleasantly.
I nodded, reddening a little.
"Yes," I almost whispered. "You know I didn't do very well on the exam."
He looked away for a second as if embarrassed for me. "Yeah, it could have been better."
"I'm not an idiot," I reacted. I just really didn't want the bimbo label.
"No, I know you're not."
"I mean when you ask me questions, I give the right answer," I offered.
"Yeah, I noticed. You do know the material. I can see that."
That wasn't all he could see. He was glancing at my big boobs again.
"It's just when I read the test question. I mean the pressure of a test, I guess. I mean is there any way I could take the test with you just asking the questions?"
"you mean like an oral exam?" he said.
It wasn't suggestive or dirty at all. But somehow with all I had done, to get out of probation and into the department and the EMT class, it still really bothered me. I felt humiliated and my nipples stood out like crazy.
"Yeah, well, I mean I guess so," I said.
It was a condition of my suspension of probation that I had to matriculate, to get through the class and work for the department for a year. Frankly, I was desperate. He looked like he was considering it. There is nothing that says I can't do it but the final is a written. No getting around that. It goes to the National Registry.
I looked rocked by that. "Could you help me? Please?"
The pleading I suppose had some tone that really worked with him and he looked a little red in the face himself. "Uh well, uh Kim. I mean my time is really limited."
"Please Bobby... Mr. Traine. Sorry," I said.
"I don't know. I don't want to overcommit and then you know, not be able to make good on my promise."
I was getting the sneaking feeling that he was playing with me now. It was just a hunch, but I couldn't risk flunking out and having to deal with that judge again.
"I'd really be grateful. I mean I'd do whatever it took to justify your effort and help."
I wanted to just shrink into the floor. I mean, I might as well have just flashed him and said I'll do anything your perverse little mind can come up with. From the way he looked, he thought the same thing. At the same time a sudden and obvious bulge in his pants announced itself with involuntary authority.
Bobby was a slender guy, about 5-9 and 150 pounds, built like a runner. He shifted uncomfortably and looked down at his prominent erection ad then again at my disproportionate chest.
"Whatever it took?" he sort of stammered.
We both knew where this was going.
"Yes," said looking away.
"Well, I mean we would have to spend time together. You know if I tutored you and worked with you on improving your test taking. I, uh, was going to get a pizza and just head home," he said. "My ex and I have been separated for a few months and well, you could come over, we could eat, and you know..."
He was suggesting a date of sorts. The bulge in his pants showed that he probably had been on a good few month dry spell sexually. I suspected that once back at his place, the tutoring would probably extend to certain other things. Still, I had no choice.
"Uh sure," I said smiling that well practiced professional smile like I so often wore back at the club.
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"So what is it you are having the most trouble with exactly?"
Both the pizza and a bottle of cheap wine were almost entirely gone and after the obligatory small talk and gawking looks when he thought I wasn't paying attention, Bobby was finally getting to reason I had come over. Not too coincidentally, his social restraint had gone down in direct proportion to the prominence of the tent in his slacks and his disinhibition about looking me over.
"I just get so nervous. I can't even read and make sense of material I know that I know cold."
"Hmm," he mused, looking right at my knobs. "You know what they say is good for nerves?"
"What is that?" I asked knowing full well where he was going.
"Expended nervous energy."
"Uh huh," I said trying not to sound dismissive.
"It's true." He seemed to pick up on my incredulity. "Well, maybe let's try a test. "
"What do you have in mind?"
"This." He reached into his backpack and pulled out a sample test. "I want you to take a test."
"Right now?"
"Mm, hm," he said. "I'll time you and then after what I have in mind, you'll take another one. Same pressures and everything. If it works like I think it will and you score better on the next one. We go with that as part of our plan. Agreed?"
"Uh, yeah, sure. I guess," I said, feeling a little off due to the wine.
"Okay." He got up and walked over to pick up a stopwatch. Something about that seemed to exert a sudden incapacitating rush of academic anxiety. I looked down at the test. "And go," he said clicking the watch.