But we didn't.
Instead we slept.
Tangled together, belly to belly, warmed by each other's breath, feeling together the luxuriant vulnerability of lying unconscious in each other's arms.
Me and my student.
Around us the endless tapping of rain on windows.
Who hasn't finished high school
Until the insistent squawking of my buzzer.
I wake, sex-and-sleep addled, unsure where I am and why.
"What?" I ask.
Lara, beside and half under me: "What time is it?"
I glance at the clock on my bedside table. "Ten," I tell her. "Little after."
"Shit," Lara says. She pushes me off her and rolls out of bed. "It's Sarah!"
"Huh?" I try to ask.
But she is already gone, running barefoot, bare-assed out of my bedroom toward the hallway.
I get up, try to find my underwear, which turn up eventually under my bed.
In the hallway, Lara: "Sarah, that you?"
" ... First show got over at 9:30. Took a cab. Did you ..."
" ... Oh yeah, oh really yeah. He's here, yeah. Come up, I'll show you ..."
I am hopping after her, one leg in my shorts.
While Lara buzzes and moments pass and she stands by our cracked open door; and then the door opens, closes and Sarah is here.
She is tall, pale, Germanic, Nordic something. Blonde hair darkened by rain. Soaking wet down jacket over a tiny black dress. Long legs rain-glistened.
Lara is naked.
I have my shorts half on, but hopelessly tangled. So I stand there, dick out, in front of another of my students.
"Well, hello, Will." Sarah says innocently.
I give up, let go of my shorts. They fall and puddle at my feet.
"Hi, Sarah."
Sarah to Lara: "So, did you?"
"Yeah."
"All the way?"
"Oh, yeah."
"Oh, Lara! Yay!" she squeals. And they are hugging, naked girl and dressed girl while I stand, undressed, watching from just outside my bedroom.
Lara leading Sarah to the living room by a hand.
"Come on, come on!"
Right up to where I'm standing.
Sarah: "Hey, Will, you look pretty good naked."
Me thinking:
You can't be saying this to your teacher. Can you?
Saying: "Thanks, I think."
Lara's hand in mine, dragging me and Sarah to my couch.
"Come on, guys. Let's tell Sarah everything."
And then we are sitting, me, naked, between Lara, ,naked and Sarah, who has somehow lost her coat. Lara's bare legs hooking over my left leg. And, surprisingly, or not surprisingly at all, Sarah's rain damp bare legs drape suddenly over my right.
Feel of their thighs on my thighs. The sight of their shins moving slightly in close proximity to my dick. Tentative beginning of a reaction.
Sarah: "Look, how cute! Will's getting a hard-on!"
Lara moving a leg to rub lightly against my balls and the tip of my rising cock.
She holds a hand up and waggles three fingers at Sarah.
"Three?" Sarah asks, half to Lara, half to me. "Already?"
Lara shakes her head, pantomimes first two fingers and points toward herself, then one finger that encompasses the room.
Sarah looking at me, mock wide-eyed.
"Will, I never thought someone who taught poetry could ever be such a stud!"
Laughter. Her leg, like Lara's, has found my balls.
I'm gone.
I'm nobody's teacher anymore.
I relax and let my dick get hard.
*
Sarah: a flirtation.
Catching up to me as I walk toward the subway on 94
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