Copyright 2013, 2020 Lisa Summers
"Hi, Janice. Well, don't you look nice!" Ann Hood said to her fellow teacher as she entered the otherwise empty teacher's lounge. Ann raised her steaming cup in a mock salute to her new friend, Janice. Janice Wolfe, a teacher of physical education, and coach of the girls' lacrosse team, the Winthrop Wolfpack, smiled as she strode across the room.
She secured her first cup of the day of somewhat bitter coffee from the ancient Mr. Coffee purchased second hand at Goodwill as a "gift" to the teachers from the school's principal, Oliver Crumby. They both sat nursing their drinks in the teachers' lounge at Winthrop Senior High School, in a suburb of Syracuse, NY.
"Oh...thank you very much. Edward gave me a gift card at Saks for my birthday, and I found this cute outfit there on sale." Janice laughed. "I only had to hint for six months to get him to buy the card there. The last one was from Cabela's."
"Cabela's? What's that?" Ann asked.
"A sporting good store," Janice replied, rolling her eyes. Ann laughed.
"He really doesn't pay attention, does he?" Ann took in her fellow teacher's look, appreciating the way the cut of her blouse accentuated Janice's breasts, with a subtle hint of nipple poking out the stiff fabric. As well, her skirt showed off Janice's shapely legs and sweet butt, all in a way that could still pass muster given the dress standards for teachers at their senior high school.
"No...he's a typical guy," Janice sighed. "I guess I should have known better, but after three years of marriage, he sort of takes me for granted."
"Nobody as pretty as you should ever be taken for granted," Ann replied.
Janice smiled. "Thanks. If only you were my husband, that would have been the perfect thing to say." Ann laughed, and her eyes once again took in Janice's sweet figure, her tongue surreptitiously wetting her lower lip.
The two continued their conversation, one of many since Ann Hood had arrived at Winthrop Senior High School for the beginning of the school year. Janice Wolfe, on the other hand, had been a teacher at the school for the last five years.
Ann Hood was a redhead, her hair long, full and a fiery red that looked hot enough to burn any unwary fool who ventured to touch it without first receiving an invitation from her deeply emerald eyes.
Just two years out of college, cute, petite, full breasted and open to a world of new things, she moved with a bounce and a jiggle that caught the eye of everyone in the school, both male and female, other than old Mr. Krafton, the janitor, who had never been quite right since The Accident with a floor buffer in 1993.
Janice Wolfe, on the other hand, was brunette, with a narrow streak of grey through her bristly short hair, a little plump in bosom and ass, older than Ann by five years, and living a more stable and probably dull life, married to her accountant husband Edward.
A Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, her life seemed to be one of wasted potential, but she always held out hope that something exciting would come into her life, and feed her deep hunger and longing. Often the bright spot of her day was teaching the students a new and innovative way to both hunt down the perfect protein in the supermarket, and to prepare it into a luscious, mouthwatering treat for their pack at home.
The two became good friends in a short time, and it was entirely natural that they agreed to share a room when they were assigned to chaperone the senior class's trip to Washington DC. After a grueling day of wrangling the herd of cats that jubilant high school students are, the two retired to their room.
"How about a drink?" Ann suggested. "Here we are on an outing to our Nation's Capital, it seems like we should mark the occasion..."
"That sounds wonderful...but how, do you want to go down to the bar? That's probably not a good idea if a student spots teachers drinking..."
"I was thinking of ordering a carafe of the house wine from room service," Ann suggested. "We could relax and let our hair down, maybe watch a movie?"
"Wonderful," Janice sighed, kicking off her shoes. "My feet hurt, and just vegging out sounds like heaven." Ann laughed.
"Oh, yeah." She made a call, and within fifteen minutes had a carafe of the house rosΓ© delivered to their room, along with two glasses, on a tray with a single stem rose in a crystal holder.
"How romantic," Janice commented, when the tray was placed on the coffee table in the room by their bed. Ann just smiled.
"Would you like a glass of wine, my dear?" she asked, the carafe poised to spill its contents into a wine glass.
"The wine glasses look larger than normal," Janice observed.
"The better to drink it with," replied Ann, opaquely.
"Oh...okay," Janice replied, running her fingers through her short hair. She seemed a little puzzled at the comment.
"Your hairstyle makes you look like one of the girls on your lacrosse squad," Ann commented, handing Janice a glass.
"The girls are really an amazing bunch. I call them my Little Wolfpack, they're always coming up with something new to challenge me. They sort of talked me into cutting my hair short this year, as the "Head Wolf," as they called it. I guess with my last name, it was bound to happen." Janice laughed wryly.