This is a work of lesbian fantasy, and should in no way be misconstrued as a realistic or plausible scenario. But, girls will be girls.
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My name is Lisa Denton, I'm 28 years old, single, lesbian for those who need to know, black for those who for some reason care, and newly employed by the Kensington School for Girls, a private high school for teens of privilege in a middle-sized town in Middle America. That's probably a lot to digest, so I'll break it down a little for you.
Three years ago I earned my teaching certificate after bouncing around for the three years prior to that after graduating from Vassar with a degree in primary education. I'm from a relatively wealthy family, the third child of a mixed race mother and black father. He is a very successful economics professor turned consultant who, somewhat to my embarrassment is a staunch Republican, but then I've only reaped the benefits of his worldviews and the bank account they've created, so I don't really complain. Like in most things, I generally keep my mind active and my mouth reserved.
My mother, equally intelligent and similarly conservative as her husband, is by almost all standards beautiful, born of a black father and Asian mother. She met my father just after college while he was doing an internship in New York, working as an administrative assistant, as they were called in those days, at the firm where he was getting some real life experience before going back for his second and third degrees. Their subsequent marriage of forty-two years has been loving and picture perfect, as has the arc of their life together, raising two sons and myself, all of whom have gone on to lead comfortable lives.
I am told I look a lot like my mother. My eyes are not quite as almond as hers, and my lips are more full, but it's from her side of the family that I get my athletic frame and modest bust. I also several shades darker than her, which is about the extent of my father's contribution to my appearance. There's never been any question of my race, and I've endured the usual tribulations thereof, albeit softened by moving in somewhat wealthy circles throughout my life. We've only lived in very upper middle class neighborhoods, and I've always been a gifted and intelligent girl, so my peer group has not exactly been the picture of what one might assume. I never really gave much thought to my race growing up, and when I got to my teenage years I was far more preoccupied by my other major difference, my attraction to women.
As a black woman, there are secrets you keep that your white friends will never know, even if they could understand them. As a closet lesbian, those secrets are ten fold. I walked a tightrope of lust and secrecy all through high school, and even in college I felt like I needed to be cautious. When all the girls were "experimenting" with their orientation, I was calling it the same thing even though I knew I'd found my true self. Since then I've been careful about who knows what about me, including my family, and since I hold three trump cards of political correctness - female, black, lesbian - everyone is so busy not stepping on one of those eggshells that they tend to forget about the others. With my battlefields thus divided, I rarely have to address more than one front at a time, and I've gotten very good at playing one against another to keep that field shifting.
This sounds like I'm constantly in a state of conflict, or forever at odds with my surroundings. I'm not. In a lot of ways, most ways, I'm just a normal young woman starting out into adulthood. Mommy and Daddy have taken care of me, and I know they always will as I move forward, so really I just go about my days trying to be happy.
My current girlfriend, whom I love very much but not overwhelmingly so, is a terrific young butch named Ronni. She's white, bleached blonde, vibrant, attentive, and thrilled to death to call her very own what she likes to refer to and I permit, my sweet chocolate pussy. We get along well, party a lot, and have a fun social network together. I'm not exactly out, so I'm careful when and where we get together, but we do so quite a lot, mostly at her apartment, and then mostly on weekends after going out. I'm not obsessed with her, but I do cherish and anticipate any moments we can share. She respects my boundaries as I respect her enthusiasm, and above all we both respect every last, dripping morsel of each other's bodies. It doesn't hurt that we make a striking yin-yang pair with our crisp pixie haircuts and perfectly tight bodies.
As for my job, I'm a newly hired English instructor to tenth and eleventh grade girls, and yes it's a dream job. I am of course happy to be among the lucky few who've managed to find employment in their chosen field, but am absolutely ecstatic that I get to eyeball the young girls every day in their darling skirts and tidy blouses. I am doing my very, very best to keep untoward thoughts as far from my mind as possible, but with a roomful of endless possibilities five times a day, there's only so much distance I can create. Poor, poor pitiful me. As it turns out, and more to the point of this story, I am not the only one. Not by a long shot.
The school itself is somewhat large, enough so that there are distinct areas of campus I don't have reason to visit with any regularity. The campus is laid out in eight or ten buildings that I've yet to take the time to memorize, housing the various departments, a dormitory for the non-local students, and a small faculty building that doubles as a hotel for visiting parents and academics. My building sits in a group of three containing performing arts, letters, and sciences, the latter being between the administration offices and mine. I've really only seen the inside of my own and a portion of admin, having only been here a semester and a half, and I haven't really met many of the faculty outside the English and Languages departments.
I had been working a little later than usual the Friday after midterms my second semester, trying to get all the grading done before the three day weekend the school gives at the end of the marking period. I had finished my stack of essays, and looked up see it was nearly 5pm. I'd almost forgotten to swing by my mailbox in the main office, knowing I had two more papers delivered by two students who were already on break with their families and whom I'd given permission to drop off in lieu of taking the exam in class. I'd been sitting at my desk for two and a half solid hours, alternately sipping water and tea to stay alert, and at the conclusion of my grading I realized I had to pee quite urgently. But with less than five minutes before they shut down the admin building, I had to run straight over without stopping. Which unfortunately was not fast enough, and I found the building locked, with my essays inside, but more critically, denying me the chance to relieve myself. But I couldn't take it any longer and ducked into the Sciences building on the way back to use the facilities.