Author note: If you are familiar with my previous submissions, you should know that I tend to leave a lot to the imagination in my stories. This one is no exception.
Disclaimer: Although not stated explicitly, the scene takes place at a college, not a high school setting, and all characters are over 18 years old.
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"I want you, Professor."
She uncrossed her hands, dropped them on the desk and got closer, leaning forward, tilting her whole upper body toward me. Her loose top hung down, revealing the very sight she knew would win me over.
I stared, I didn't pretend to avoid them. The dress was designed to make people stare. Her whole posture was perfectly coordinated to force me to stare. So, out of respect for her efforts and attire, I couldn't but stare.
I wasn't the kind of teacher that got hit on. I was the one students grew close to, asked for help, wanted to be friends with. I was the nice professor, the one that never got to tell β or hide β any naughty stories, I was always the one others told these stories to. I didn't have a list of extravagant proposals ready to share with my colleagues during faculty events or as fun quips at parties and social gatherings. I was just the one everyone thought of as kind and approachable, but never as a potential bed trysting partner.
I guess it had to do with my casual looks and demeanor. I wasn't sexy. At least I never thought of myself as such. Jeans, sneakers, t-shirt or hoodie, and a casual jacket on cold days. I could pull off a dress or a skirt when needed, moderately high heels on important occasions, but they weren't part of my everyday wardrobe. On any given day, I looked average at best.
So I had always wondered what it would be like to receive some unwarranted attention from a student, especially a female one. And when I heard stories of young women throwing themselves at some of my colleagues who brushed them off easily and often indignantly, I admit, I felt jealous and a little annoyed. Why couldn't this happen to me?
"I can take the whole thing off, if you need to do a more thorough examination, Professor." She smirked. I saw it from the corner of my eye, since I was still focused somewhere lower than her face, then gulped.
I hadn't seen it coming, this forward and blatant conversation. It was simultaneously off-putting and exhilarating. Was this it? Was I finally discovering what it felt like to be hit on by a student?
I tried to recall how it all started, or at least pinpoint a time when the dynamic shifted, but I couldn't. She was one of my best students, always present, actively listening, she participated in the extra-curriculars and, as with most of my good students, we had forged a comfortable yet respectful rapport.
There were boundaries between us, or so I thought. But here I was, sitting in my office, when she walked in, or should I say waltzed in, and after a few heavily disguised innuendo-filled remarks, had blurted that sentence out. What was it again?
I raised my eyes and eyebrows, looked at her sternly, and asked, "What did you say?"
"I said I want you, Professor."
Ah, there it was. The subject, the verb, the object, and the title. Such a perfect, direct sentence. And the way she pronounced it, seductively and slowly, made it all the more effective. I felt my whole body clench, and the moment it relaxed, the slickness between my thighs spread immediately, as if by coordinated magic. I had needed to hear it again and I'd probably want to hear it some more to convince myself that this was real, I wasn't imagining things.
"Why?" The question escaped me, betraying my lack of confidence.
She smiled. "This is why," she pointed at me and waved her finger. "Because you don't seem to be aware of how awesome you are. How beautiful, considerate, and breathtaking you are. How you take care of everyone and never expect anything in return. How, even now, even after what I just said, you are still so blissfully ignorant of the effect you have on me. Because no one seems to have ever picked you up passionately, tore your clothes off, pressed you against a file cabinet or a whiteboard, and let you feel how much and how fast and how often they wanted and needed you. This is why I want you, Professor."
The innocence had gradually faded from her face with every word uttered in those last sentences. She wasn't making a statement anymore, she was openly seducing me.
And this wasn't about grades, recommendation letters, or favoritism. She was genuinely attracted to me, wasn't she? I almost found that too hard to believe. She sensed my hesitation and quickly moved to dispel it.
She stood up, taking her chest out of my direct line of sight and forbidding me the pleasure of this visual feast. "Professor," she repeated. If only she knew the effect that word, pronounced by her, had on me. Or maybe she did. "I'm not here to make up for a missed paper or to get a better grade. You know I have a great record, and I honestly wouldn't mind getting an F, should I deserve it for my work. I am here for you, because of you, because I am attracted to you," she pinched her lips adorably, then continued, "attracted isn't enough of a word to describe this feeling. I can't look at you without being consumed by how much I desire you."
Her voice went down two octaves, the contralto vibrations feeling rushed and unorganized without their masterful command. "I've built up fantasies of the many ways I want to have you, and they are," she shook her head and sighed, "terrifyingly clear. I can almost," she paused for effect again and accentuated it with a confident smirk, "taste it."
I caught myself smiling, my lips extending and arching in a manner that I couldn't stop. She didn't need to hear my words to know she had won me over, or at least the parts of me that she wanted to taste and that immediately took charge of my decision.
She stepped to the side while holding my stare, and walked around the desk. She was now in front of me, in my personal space, invading it like she had the right to. My mind flipped through all the teacher/student fantasy channels that the R rated industry had long ago given an image to, then settled on the video feed of ignorance and confusion.
She lowered herself until her face was level with mine, stared into my eyes, and smirked again. This wasn't a seduction as much as it was an assertion of power; she had kneeled in front of me but I was the one crumbling defeated at her feet.
I wanted, nay needed, to break the eye contact to peek into her dress again. I could see it hanging loose from the corner of my eye, but I wouldn't dare. This whole display felt more like a taunt, one she would win whether I looked or not, but I had to keep a semblance of dignity.
When I didn't flinch, she got her face closer. If I wanted to, I could check out its details but I was focused on her eyes, green with dark golden flecks. The naughty flicker in them had me spellbound, waiting hopelessly for her next words. Or actions. Why was I so desperately rooting for the second option?
"Professor," she repeated, that tenure title somehow inverting the power equation each time it left her lips, putting her in charge and making me more vulnerable. "I think about touching you every day." I shivered and she pretended not to notice. "I imagine how soft you are, every..." she broke our eye contact to take a lingering look at my lower abdomen and thighs, "...where."
"I picture," she brought her eyes back to mine, "your mouth, gasping for air when I come close. I don't want to just kiss you, I want to know how much you," she emphasized, "want to kiss me. I want to lean in, open my lips, and then stop." She parted her lips and let out a steady stream of air in my direction, the hotness of her breath doing nothing to appease the rising temperature of my cheeks. "I want to pause to see that flash of disappointment in your eyes when you realize that I stopped, and watch in awe the raging battle between your pride and your lust. Would you wait for me to lean again or would you erase the remaining distance yourself?"
I frowned involuntarily. There was no doubt in my mind that I would be the one reaching for her, and that image of me, recklessly surrendering my vanity to this young woman was as alarming as it was exciting.
She didn't smirk, she openly smiled this time. "Can you picture it too, Professor?" Without waiting for the obvious answer or catching her breath, she continued, "But it's not just a fantasy, it's not just a story I tell myself before I go to bed, and it's not just an image I paint of you to feed my attraction. It's what I want to do," she closed her eyes for a brief moment then reopened them with a newer and stronger resolve shining through, "it's what I will do."
The fatality of that statement hit me like a high-speed train. I believed her, I knew I had no choice in the matter - or maybe my choice had already been made. Still, I equally feared and anticipated the moment I'd have to face and accept the veracity of her promise.