AN: Hopefully, this is the first chapter of a series. If you're looking for some plotless, hardcore porn, hit Back. This is primarily a romance, albeit with some hot sex. But expect feelings, poetry, and the like to come into it. If you are offended by teacher/student (18+), this is not the story for you. Thanks!
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Everything between us lies in the fleeting glances. I see her looking at me from the corner of her eye sometimes, when she doesn't know that I, too, am watching. If I'm honest, I'm not exactly frightened. It makes me tingle, a secret thrill, a covert attraction conducted in exchanges about homework and classic literature.
There's a border between an innocent, even if not entirely innocuous, student/teacher relationship (albeit with some tinges of sexual tension) and a taboo expression of lust between a woman verging on thirty and a high school senior. How does one go from
Don't Stand So Close to Me
to something that is probably illegal?
I ponder this as I doodle lazily in my notebook. The hour hand is ticking closer and closer to three, and a sort of stupor has the rest of the class with their heads in their arms on the desk. She's given up on us and is instead telling us the date our essays are due with half-hearted conviction we aren't paying attention. I'm not, but I'm definitely listening.
The bell rings. 'Class dismissed,' Ms. Wilson announces. 'And... Miss Evans. I need to talk to you about your essay.' Her last words are lost in the rush as every other student practically starts a riot trying to get out the door. I hear them, though, because I'm attuned to her, and I linger to gather my belongings.
The classroom is deserted now, and she walks over to my desk. Her mid-length auburn hair is slightly messy from nervous fiddling, I notice.
'Yes, miss?' I say casually, my arms full of books.
My teacher pauses. I wait carefully, forgetting to breathe, imagining all the words I'd wish she'd say. But when she finally speaks, it's only to say, 'You should do up your buttons.'
I blush and make a show of buttoning up my crisp white blouse. I
did
undo the top buttons before English, it's true, and it definitely wasn't for the pimply boys that sit near me. I bite back the temptation to fire back, 'I'm flattered you noticed', and simply answer, 'Yes, miss.'
Another miss.
'And the essay?' I can't resist teasing her a bit. And anything's worth it to extend these precious few moments of alone time.
She gives me a sharp look from her dark brown eyes and pats me on the shoulder. I shiver at her touch, ever so slightly. 'Don't get smart with me, miss.'
I bat my eyelashes and turn towards the door. 'And what would you do to me if I did, miss?'
As I saunter out the door into the Friday afternoon sunshine with a slight smile on my face, I hear a faint sigh.
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Monday morning, double English. I'm sitting there at the front of the classroom, blue tartan skirt as short as the uniform regulations allow, stocking-clad legs crossing and uncrossing as Ms. Wilson paces amid a lecture about e.e. cummings. She shoots me a surreptitious but quelling look, but I push my luck and flick my wavy blonde hair back flirtatiously in response.
To my great pleasure, she doesn't avert her eyes.
In an exasperated, slightly sarcastic voice, she asks of the class, 'Did anyone do their required reading? Let me jog your memories.
Lady, I will touch you with my mind.'
Ignoring the scattered giggles, I respond back, my voice neutral but my gaze heavy, '
Touch you and touch and touch.
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