Having turned 18 and in the last few months of Sixth Form I felt quietly confident about life and my future. University beckoned with the freedom and fun (and sex hopefully) that that entailed.
Plus, today there were no classes, a trip had been organised to the theatre to see Henry IV Part One. The A level English students were studying it and although I wasn't doing that course my form teacher Miss Summers was teaching it so when a place came open, she offered it first to us and I put my name forward and got it. Better than a day of lessons I thought.
It was a Matinee performance, so we headed off after lunch on the minibus to the theatre, a trip of around twenty miles. As I got on the bus, I noticed that all the others were girls (Donna, Rhonda, Debbie, Carrie, Louise and Nicola), it never crossed my mind that I'd be the only boy there. The two teachers were, Miss Summers and driving was Miss Frost. Miss Frost was a PE teacher and my first form teacher when I started at the school over five years ago. I had a bit of a crush on her back in the day, she wasn't exactly pretty but she had that stern streak that all good PE teachers had and I found fascinating in her.
I knew nothing of the play so on the way I found out a few details that would make watching it a bit easier and also that it was being performed 'in the round', which I found out meant the play was being performed in a circle in the centre of the theatre with the audience all around this circle, which actually sounded quite good to me.
The journey also gave me chance to ogle the girls a bit. We were all in our sixth form uniforms, but they weren't a bad design, white shirt and tie, black jumper and grey or black trousers for the boys and white blouse, black cardigan or jumper and black skirt for the girls. The girls weren't allowed very short skirts, but Donna and Nicola had ones there were just above the knee and both also worn those patterned tights that I found so attractive. All in all, a good trip, and not much traffic either.
Arriving at the theatre we quickly took our seat, luckily, we had front row ones, though to be fair the theatre looked only about half full. Waiting for the lights to go out and the play to begin I looked across the circular stage to the people sitting opposite. Seemed to be another group, possibly school group but they weren't in any kind of uniform and they did look slightly older, so they could have been a university or collage group. Whilst I was wondering this directly opposite me the finest pair of legs I had ever seen took her seat. Long, slim with a skirt much shorter than any of the girls in my group, she crossed them and settled back in her chair.
After several seconds of staring at her legs I slowly moved my gaze upwards. She was gorgeous, short black hair, beautiful face, lovely eyes that were ... looking straight at me! Oh dear, I felt myself turning red and looked away. I sideways glanced at her to she if she had looked away, but she was still looking, and noticing me glance back at her she raised her eyebrows, seeming to say 'Yes, what exactly were you doing there?' I looked away again, turning an even brighter shade of red.
Donna who was sitting next to me must have noticed what was going on, smirked at me and said 'Are you OK? You look a little flush there.'
'Yes, fine it's just a little hot in here' I squeaked.
'Don't worry, she is quite attractive but try not to stare, it's not an attractive trait, plus it might make getting up for the interval quite tricky' she replied, and her eyes glanced down at my crotch.
Instinctively I put my hand across my crotch to cover up which prompted a snigger from Donna.
Her snigger got the attention of Carrie who was sitting next to her, she turned to Donna to see what was so funny and Donna started to whisper in her ear. I heard a stifled giggle from Carrie and she turned to Rhonda and whispered something. 'Oh great!' I thought, soon all the minibus will know I've got the hots for the girl opposite and I popped an erection without even knowing it. Well all the sixth formers anyway, hopefully that isn't something they'd share with the teachers. Hopefully...
The play started but honestly, I couldn't really give it my attention. Although the lights had dimmed, and the stage was the only lit area I could still just about see the girl opposite, her legs illuminated by the low lights around the circle. I found them very distracting and when the lights came on for the interval I was once again caught by her staring at them. Fortunately, I didn't keep my erection through the entire first half so I quickly stood up and made my way to the bar area.
The rest of the group gathered around after a minute or so and talk started on what they thought of the play so far. The general consensus was that it was pretty good, the acting was excellent and the fact that the stage was so close and 'in the round' made it feel all the more real. 'What did you think Brad?' enquired Debbie.
'Err, it's was good yes' I replied.
'He doesn't know if it was any good or not' Donna stated, 'He was too busy creeping out the girl opposite.' She leant in and soft said 'You were playing with yourself through your pockets weren't you.'
'I was not!' I blurted out, much louder than I intended. Everyone looked at me. I turned red again. Donna let out a sharp laugh.
No one else had heard Donnas comment so they assumed I was replying to her accusation of creeping out the girl. 'The Lady doth protest to much, methinks' said Nicola. 'Very funny, a Shakespeare quote' I thought. I excused myself and headed to the toilet, didn't need to go but really wanted to stop my embarrassed face going a deeper shade.
I composed myself for a few minutes then headed back out. The girls were talking as I approached but they stopped as they saw me. Right well that wasn't strange at all I thought, and I felt a little nervous, but no one said anything and the bell rang to signify the second half was about to start.
I took my seat, noticed that the girl opposite wasn't there yet, I hoped Donna wasn't right about me creeping her out. Just before the lights went out, she did appear and took her seat, Carrie also took her seat at around the same time, she smiled at me as she sat down. That was a little worrying as she doesn't normally smile at me, in fact I was pretty certain she didn't like me at all. A year or so ago I'd made a flippant comment about ginger people having no soul, it was just to end an amusing story but she took offence, we had a bit of a row, I tried to justify it by saying I didn't think anyone had a soul anyway but that didn't really help. Since then we had hardly spoken.
As the lights went out, I chanced a look at the girl opposite, wait did she wink at me! The lights dimmed but I'm sure she did. Maybe she hadn't been creeped out at all, maybe she liked me looking at her, maybe I could talk to her after the play, maybe I'd get her phone number and we could chat and go out, maybe she'd be my girlfriend and we'd have... 'Michael!' hissed Donna. 'Eh, what?' I looked confused, opened my eyes and saw Miss Frost in the seat behind looking down at me. I'd slid back in the seat and my feet were about to kick one of the lights. 'Sorry!' I quickly straightened up and looked directly ahead.
The second part of the play went by, I tried to follow it, but I'd missed too much in the first part to really know what was going on, plus I kept glancing at those legs.
When the play ended Miss, Summers asked us to remain in the seats whilst she and Miss Frost went off to speak to the manager of the theatre about booking her fifth form class in. I watched everyone trail out of the theatre, watched those legs disappear through the exit. Oh well I thought, probably never see her again now, why couldn't we leave with everyone else and just meet up at the minibus?
After about ten minutes I started to feel the need to use the toilet, I looked around for Miss Summers, but she wasn't around. I decided I couldn't wait any longer so got up to go. 'Where are off to? We are supposed to wait here.' Said Carrie. 'I need the toilet, I won't be long.' I replied and walk out through the exit. There was no one around, trying to get away before the rush hour started, I guess.
I found the toilet and was out again in a few minutes. Standing in the corridor was the girl with the lovely legs. I looked a bit shocked and stood still, not knowing what to do. She winked at me, I hadn't imagined it, she did like me... then she started screaming 'Pervert! Get out, you filthy pig! Help!' I stood motionless, not knowing what was happening. Her screams got the attention of Miss Summers, Miss Frost and a lady I assumed was the theatre manager and they appeared from around the corner to see what was going on.
'What is going on Anne?' the manageress asked.
'This pervert was spying on me in the ladies toilet mother.'
Mother I thought, she's the daughter of the theatre manager? 'I didn't' I protested, 'I went to the gents and came out and she was there and then started screaming for no reason!' I protested.
A cry of 'Liar!' came from further down the corridor. Standing there was Carrie. 'I saw him dash out from the ladies just after I heard the scream.' I looked shock and Carrie smirked at me before putting on a fixed face.
The three ladies looked at me 'What the hell do you think you are doing young man!' said Miss Summers, her face red with rage. 'I can only apologise for this behaviour and I can assure you that once we are back I will take this up with the headmaster and punishment will be firm and swift!'
'Anne darling are you OK?' said the manageress and she went to put her arms around her daughter.