Chapter 2 - T.
This story takes place in China. I moved here when I graduated to live with my girlfriend (now wife) in her home country. After a couple years moving around South China and Hong Kong, we settled in her home city of Beijing, where we have lived ever since.
At one school I worked at, I encountered T. She worked there at the time as a college counsellor. We didn't really have much to talk about but flirted a little and got along as most colleagues do. She is about 10-15 years older than I am, but stunningly beautiful for her age.
At the end of the school year, because of how dodgy the school was, they had to move campus to the far north-east of Beijing and T. and I grew closer as we were setting up the new campus. I was in a relationship at the time and was so happy with my lot in life that I was planning to propose. Because of this, I rejected a very clear invitation from T. to enter her bedroom after a night of food and cheap Chinese beer and spirits, where told me some of her secrets to me.
Much of the rest of the story is highly fictionalised. The scene where we were preparing classrooms did occur, and there was some flirting, but it has been exaggerated greatly. The problems I describe with my girlfriend are also exaggerated - as was previously mentioned, we were very happy and had sex regularly enough to meet our needs, but I did have the frustrations that have been described in the story. In the dinner scene, we did not play the game specifically IRL, but there was a lot of sharing of secret pasts and wishes and desires. The game is used here as a structural device.
I left the school not long after this event happened and later learned that she had proceeded to fuck her way through most of the male foreign teachers for the next few years until she was promoted up the school hierarchy and could no longer do so without getting into trouble. In all honesty, I probably dodged a bullet by doing the honest thing and not sleeping with her when I could have. My relationship would have ended for sure, and I doubt I would still be with her today if we had hooked up. That said, I do sometimes find myself wondering what it would have been like if I had taken the chance to share even that one night with her. The following is one possible outcome.
I did not plan for this story to run as long as it did, but I think it is all the better for it. Enjoy!
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As I arrived in Beijing, I was feeling of a mixture of disappointment and excitement. It would be a new experience for me, but leaving the scrambling metropolis that is Hong Kong, and the friends, colleagues, and gorgeous women I had met there was was not something I was thrilled about. We were leaving because my girlfriend was tired of the stress that came with her work and I had been forced out of my job after losing a close family member and leaving for England at short notice. Her stress had put a lot of strain on our relationship and the sex-life we had once enjoyed had completely dried up.
I had a job lined up when I arrived in Beijing, and, after we found an apartment where it was reasonably convenient for us both to go to and from work, I went for my first day on the job. The school was not exactly the most prestigious institution ever, operating out of an already dodgy "university" aimed at music students, but as a temporary stepping stone, it would do. I was met at the gate by my supervisor, who showed me around.
the other new teachers and I were then given initial teacher training and introduced to the administrative staff. One in particular stood out - T. She looked young despite having worked there already for nearly a decade. She had a great, slim body, but with an arse to die for, which was only accentuated by her office-lady pencil skirt. Her Asian features were packaged well in her round face and I was instantly attracted to her. She introduced herself as the college counsellor and shook my hand, lingering slightly before pulling away and giving me a smile.
As the year went by with the usual dramas that come with working at shady schools in China, we didn't really have much contact. I found myself working later and later to avoid being at home with my girlfriend and noticed that T. would also work late. Despite this happy coincidence, we never struck up conversation that was anything more than you would expect - casual flirting and small talk.
As the end of the year approached, it was announced to us all that we would be moving to a district in the far north-east of Beijing. This was not a popular decision and a large number of teachers and students left. I would have joined them but for a lack of other opportunities. On top of this, I had been promoted for my loyalty, so I accepted a dorm room there with a promise to my girlfriend we would see each other at weekends and be in regular contact. Deep down, I was glad of the opportunity to have some distance from her, but we had begun to grow closer again and the sex that was now occurring every few days, however uninspiring, would be a loss.
We arrived at the new campus - a sprawling complex of buildings so far in the middle of nowhere that nobody else had wanted to rent it out. Perfect for our little ramshackle school. Our new principal welcomed us on the first day and we were shown to our tiny accommodation - it was barely enough for one person to live in, but I was in no condition to complain. I unpacked my suitcase and changed into something more professional for our first meeting. There, our new boss informed us that we were to set about cleaning and arranging the classrooms for the day and would be working in pairs to complete each floor. Much to my delight, I was partnered with T., and we went together to the 3rd floor to get our classrooms ready.
We decided to work together on each room to make the work more enjoyable and, entering the first room, began to understand why we would need a whole day for the 9 classrooms. There were pigs living in hovels that had less mess and dirt to contend with. Regardless we came up with our plan of action - I would clear the mess and arrange the desks, and she would run them over with a cloth and some soapy water. Not exactly fair, but as she jokingly reminded me, I was the tall, strong and handsome man, and she was the dainty woman and wasn't built for such work.
It was a hot august day and the AC had not yet been turned on. After moving a couple of rows of tables into position and throwing some old cardboard boxes full of crap into the corridor, I was regretting my decision to wear a white, collared shirt. As the sweat began to soak my shirt, I contemplated undoing the buttons. I looked at what should have been the teacher's desk to see T. with her feet up on the desk, her black-stockinged feet free of her shoes, eating an apple and checking her phone while I finished. I looked up her legs and saw that her skirt and bunched up a little above her knee but could not see what was hidden below the desk. All I knew was that her legs looked sexy as fuck in those stockings, and I wanted to see more. She caught me checking her out and gave me a smirk before noticing my sodden shirt.
I looked down and realised that nothing at all was hidden. My shapeless, skinny, but not toned chest was on full display. T. got her revenge on me for checking her out by giving a wolf-whistle and telling me I had great tits. I played it cool, sarcastically rolled my eyes at her and told her to behave herself. We laughed a little, and I got on with the task at hand.
Eventually I couldn't take the heat any longer and asked her if she didn't mind me undoing the buttons on the shirt. She didn't look away from her phone and told me to do whatever I wanted. As I undid them, I caught her glancing my way, and upon being caught she smiled and looked at her phone again. We had flirted many times in the past, but this was new territory.