At the small New England college where I was an English professor for many years, all of the professors were required to coach one extracurricular activity. The one I chose was Drama, since I loved the theatre, enjoyed directing plays, and found that I was pretty good at it. We generally did four plays a school year, or two a semester: one a Shakespeare, one a classic, such as something by Ibsen or Arthur Miller, one a comedy or farce, and one a musical.
I had a great deal of success with our production of "Othello" and have already written about my "enjoyment" of the lovely young blonde student who played the part of Desdemona. So this year, I decided to do "Romeo and Juliet." I thought it naturally would be popular with the students, and who knows, I might get to enjoy the favors of another beautiful student.
About 30 students appeared for the auditions. Twenty of them were girls, as expected, and ten of them were boys, just enough. My requirements were basically three: In addition to being potentially good actors, they had to be dark-haired, since the originals of the story were from Verona, Italy, and Romeo and Juliet had to be very youthful-looking, since the originals had been 16 and 14.
I finally settled on two freshmen for the roles of Romeo and Juliet: Damon, a curly-haired young man who was on the debating team, and Keisha, who had long dark brown hair that hung nearly to her waist. She also had a beautiful slender figure and a sweet innocent smile. I asked both of them to come to my office individually so I could talk to them about their parts. But the one I really wanted to talk to was Keisha. As a freshman, she had just turned 18 but looked more like 16 or even 15.
"Have you ever seen the movie version of 'Romeo and Juliet?'" I asked her.
"No."
"You should see it. The director, Franco Zeferelli, wanted to make the movie sexier and more appealing than the stage play, so he took the second half of the famous balcony scene and put it in Juliet's chamber the next morning. Juliet and Romeo are seen, apparently naked under the covers, in her bed and obviously have spent the night together. After embracing and kissing and caressing Juliet's breast, Romeo walks naked to the window with his back to the audience to look at the sunrise, but Juliet merely sits up in the bed. So she is seen half naked. Do you think you would be able to do that?" I asked.
"I don't know," she replied softly. "I acted in plays at high school, but there was never a nude scene."
"But this is college, and you're a young woman now."
"I know. And since my parents live in Idaho, they won't be coming to the production, so I don't have to worry about that. But can you tell me more about the nude scene and how it would work? I don't want to be walking around backstage naked."
"Better than that, I'll show you. Why don't you meet me at the theater after school today around three p.m. No one else will be there, so I'll run through the scene with you, show you how it will work, and you can decide yourself if you can do it."
"Okay. I really DO want the part."
"I know. You would be perfect as Juliet."
One of the things I had learned about the college administration was that even though they frowned on it, they knew that some of the professors would seduce and sleep with their students. But as long as there were no complaints about it from the students or their parents, the administration turned a blind eye to it. So I was free to run the drama department as I saw fitβand I did.
I had unlocked the door to the theatre/auditorium, which was a separate building on the campus, and arranged the stage in a facsimile of Juliet's chamber, with the narrow bed in the foreground and the window Romeo would look through in the background. I didn't know how far Keisha would be willing to go in this scene, but I would soon learn.
She arrived right on time, wearing the usual college garb of jeans and a gray sweatshirt with the name of the college on it. She looked a little uneasy and nervous.
"Relax," I said, "There's no one here but you and me, and if you decide not to do it, that will be that."
"But I WANT to do it."
"Okay, this is an approximation of the bed. The stage will be dark between scenes, so you and Romeo, both wearing bathrobes, can come out here in the dark, take off the bathrobes and stuff them under the bed. Then you can get in the bed, pull the coverlet up, and the lights will fade on. But they will be dim since this is early morning. You will be face up on the side of the bed closest to the audience with the coverlet pulled up, and Romeo will be on this side facing you, with the covers to his waist. You can lie down now if you want to see what it will feel like."
"I don't know what it will REALLY feel like unless I'm naked."
"You want to try it that way?"
"Yes, I might as well find out if I can do it."
"Okay. Let me close the curtain first." I went to the side of the stage and pulled the ropes that closed the red velvet curtain, leaving only the stage lights for illumination. "I'll turn my back while you take your clothes off and get under the coverlet. Let me know when you're ready."
"Okay."
I began to think this was going to be more fun than I had first imagined.
"I'm ready," she said after about five minutes. I turned and saw that she was lying face up on the bed with the coverlet pulled up to her chin. Her clothes were piled neatly on the side of the bed away from the audience.
"Now, you will have to pretend for the time being that I am Romeo, which will really test your acting skills since I'm old enough to be your daddy." I lifted the edge of the coverlet and for a moment had a nice view of her lovely skinβand also saw that she was wearing white cotton panties. I got in the bed beside her. "Romeo will lean over and kiss you," I said, "But I will spare you that indignity from me. Then he will gently push the coverlet down to your waist, and I think you should see what that feels like." So I gently pushed the coverlet down, exposing her small but lovely breasts with their quarter-sized maroon nipples. "You have lovely breasts," I said.
"Thank you," she murmured.
"But what is this?" I snapped the waistband of her panties.