Laura sat on the edge of her desk watching him laugh; she studied his face and watched him smile as he larked about with his mates. She contemplated the feelings she was having and sighed inwardly to herself.
Seemingly oblivious to her gaze he carried on mucking about with the others on the back row.
"Right,"
She found herself saying
"We have about 6 minutes before the bell goes, so you need to make absolutely sure you have completed all the work on the board".
"Boys, James, and you Alex, have you finished?"
"Kind of Miss, not quite finished the notes yet" James looked sheepish.
"Sorry" he said.
Alex looked at his page.
"Miss could you come here a min please? I'm stuck on question two."
Laura stood up and smoothed her skirt flat against her full hips. The pretty 25 year old moved across the room, manoeuvring between the chairs, as she approached she looked down at Alex. She examined his hair, blonde and short, and his well built shoulders hunched over his work, his form gave her pleasure, and stirred a longing she hadn't felt for a while.
Suddenly he looked up from what he was doing and his gaze met hers, he smiled and she felt her cheeks colour.
She swallowed hard
"Right Alex, what's the matter?"
As she talked she bent over the desk slightly to look at the textbook, she couldn't decide how far it was safe to lean over without being too obvious with her cleavage.
She talked to Alex, and the eye contact between them seemed to linger, she was sure he was glancing at the top of her breasts as they talked, but mostly his hazel eyes stayed locked on hers, more so than was warranted by the conversation. He nodded occasionally and feigned interested response, but work was not what the conversation was about.
The lesson finished and she found herself standing gazing out of the classroom window, her head filled with inappropriate thoughts. Again she sighed, as she relived his exit from the room,
"Do you want a hand taking the books back up stairs?" He had queried, raising his eyebrow and giving her a smile.
She had dared not accept, dared not go alone with him to the store room, and dared not test her control.
Laura Richards had only been teaching for 2 years, and enjoyed the job but she found it tiring. She had suffered a bit of life crisis in the previous couple of months, splitting from her long term boyfriend and despite having good friends; she had begun to wonder if she would find something to give her life back some sparkle.
She had noticed Alex during the first lesson in September, 18, good looking, out going, popular and bright he had shone out from the others. She immediately took to him, in a teacher pupil sort of way, but as the months had worn on she realised he made her smile, made her look forward to their lessons and more importantly she was sure he was interested in her.
She knew the thoughts she had about him would easily lose her the job she loved, but she told herself that as long as they remained thoughts, then that was fine. The problem was that now, towards the end of the year she was not convinced they would stay as just thoughts. She also knew that an opportunity was fast approaching to test her instinct about Alex's attraction to her; it both troubled and excited her.
Monday the 22nd June was to be open evening in the school, prospective parents coming and checking the school out. Each department was expected to look its best and provide displays and students to wonder amongst the parents.
"So any of you lot fancy volunteering to help me on open evening?"
She stood in front of her class and looked at them; the question she knew was unlikely to bring a response from this age group, far too mature to want to help Miss. Yet she hoped.... No hands went up; she looked around, her eyes skimming Alex, no response.
"Oh, OK, never mind"
She sounded unfazed, but her mind was reeling, no response, he couldn't be interested after all, if he had been he would have recognised this as a good opportunity to further their interest in each other.
Laura taught the rest of the lesson, Alex seemed to avoid eye contact and the others busied around not realising the disappointed ache their teacher felt.
The bell went and Laura collected the books, the class emptied of pupils and Alex stood up to pack his things. He packed very slowly.
"I want to take the books for you today Miss".
His voice was firm, insistent almost. Laura looked at him, unsure what her response should be, she still held the textbooks in her arms. Alex moved across the room until he was standing directly in front of Laura, he put out his hands and slipped them underneath the books to take the load. As he did so his hands ran over hers, and paused, he brought his confident steady gaze to meet hers, and spoke softly.
"Would you like me to come to Open Evening Miss?"
She stared at him intently imagining what his lips tasted like, what his breath would feel like on the nape of her neck, how his hands would feel on her flesh.
"Ye.. yes".
She stammered.