I combined the last three parts into one.
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Part 8
Discovered
The days that followed passed in a daze for them both.
Heather's friends sensed something different about her. She was always smiling, always in a good mood. Nothing ever bothered her for long except for the fact that she didn't have much patience any more.
She would go school each day as she'd always had but now she just longed for the day to end. She yearned to see Darnell, if only a glimpse. Her all-consuming need for him seemed almost a tangible thing. She felt hollow and empty when a day went by without him.
The time she spent with Master Feng practicing wushu was different, however. His presence and the intense physical training he put her through calmed and focused her, drawing her away from her obsession with Darnell. There, her focus was on self-control, discipline, mastery of the art... an all-controlling obsession of its own.
But when the session was over and she was toweling her sweaty body dry, her only thought was of Darnell, that soon she'd see him and be with him again. She would flush with heat again at the memory of his hands and lips on her body. With a quick goodbye to Master Feng, she grabbed her things and eagerly rushed over to Darnell's place.
But Darnell wasn't always there when she arrived. He'd still be off at work ... or probably avoiding her. He'd been avoiding her a lot lately.
After they'd woken up late in the morning on that incredible Saturday, Darnell had insisted that what they had done was wrong and that it shouldn't happen again.
"You're young, you're smart, and you have your whole life ahead of you," he had exclaimed. "Why do you want to waste it with me? I don't have anything to offer you. My God, girl! I'm an old man and my job is to clean up your school."
"Besides, where do you think all this will lead?" he gestured widely at them and at the bedroom.
"I don't know, Darnell, I don't know ... but I do know that something that feels so right and so good can't be wrong," Heather replied hotly. "I just know it."
"Don't you think I already know how different we are, how much older you are than me?" she continued. "I also know all the rumors going on around the school about us and, to be honest, I just don't care what anybody else says."
"C'mon, girl," Darnell said reasonably. "Why don't we just both move on? We made each other feel good this morning. Can't we just leave it at that? It's really for the best."
Heather stared at him, her heart in her eyes.
"You're what's best for me, Darnell, whether you like it or not," she replied just as reasonably.
Darnell was nodding his head uncomprehendingly when she wrapped her arms around him and molded her tall slender body to his short stocky one.
Pulling back, she leaned her head down to kiss him softly on the lips and said "Don't worry, Darnell, everything's going to work out okay. You'll see."
From that day on Darnell had tried to avoid her as much as he could. He would wander the school, taking care of the projects he'd been putting off. He stripped and re-waxed the hallways, scrubbed the writing and artwork off the bathroom walls, and did many other things he'd slacked off over the past year.
About a week and a half later, during a break between classes, she saw him go into one of the janitor closets, one of the ones that had another door leading to it from the girl's bathroom. She went into the bathroom and after checking that there were no other girls in there with her, used a copy of the master key she'd had made long ago to go into the janitor's closet.
Darnell turned to look at her in surprise, his hands wrapped around the mop he'd been rinsing out in the deep sink. The room was dimly lit and smelled of musty half-dried mops and cleaning solutions.
Shutting the door behind her, she leaned against it and stared into his shadowed eyes.
"Why have you been avoiding me, Darnell?" she asked him quietly.
Darnell just looked back at her, admiring the curves of her young body in the tight jeans and the proud thrust of her cleavage in the tight-fitting half-open blouse. His eyes drank in every lovely detail of her.
More than anything, he longed to reach out and touch her perfect slender body, ached to run his fingers through her long blonde hair. Yet he also wanted everything to go back to the way it had been before... uncomplicated. As friends, they had kept each other company, they had done everything together. It had been simple and carefree. Now, everything was different.
"I ... I ... I want you to move on, girl," Darnell stuttered softly, looking away.
He finished ringing out the mop.
"I want you to be happy ... you need to find that happiness with someone else. Can't you see I'm not right for you?"
Heather looked back at him, also running her eyes over him and drinking in the sight of him. She knew most people would consider him repulsive but she couldn't look at him with anything other than longing and desire. He made her feel safe and protected, and the mere sight of him made her heart beat madly.
Taking the dirty rag he was using to dry himself out of his hands, she grabbed him by his shirt and kissed him hard. Her lips crushed into his and opening her mouth she thrust her tongue into his. Letting go of his shirt, she wrapped her arms around him and molded her body to his.
Darnell couldn't help himself, he kissed her back just as passionately and as she wrapped her arms around him, he wrapped his around her, reaching back to cup her firm ass with both hands and press her closer to him. She squirmed against him, eager to please him, desperate for his touch.
Their kiss was long, frenzied ... almost desperate. Neither one of them wanted to stop. Darnell finally pulled back but before he could say anything, Heather's hands were unbuttoning his belt and pulling his trousers down.