Hello! This is the third installment, and if you're just seeing this I recommend reading the two parts before this, for a context that makes sense. I loved hearing everyone's feedback and comments, and can't wait to read the future ones. Thank you a thousand times over for my editors Alicia and Azure_skies for toning this up. Enjoy!
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Everyone trailed out of the classroom, and with that brought a rising tension into the room. I felt like Nisha expected me to say something, but I just stood there clearing up the materials.
I wasn't going to say anything of consequence though, considering that I wanted her to talk about it first. Yes, I know that it's petty! I just wanted to hear what she had to say first.
"This was the last class scheduled here, no one else should be coming in," I called out to her. My voice came out a little bit squeaky, considering I was nervous. It seemed to me like it echoed throughout the classroom, but I kept a mask of calm.
Nisha got up from her seat and walked up to the front of the classroom, while I took a seat at the main desk. I couldn't help but admire the way she walked, as upset as I was feeling.
It was feline, graceful, and spoke a different story than her running away from me at the club. When I say it like that, it sounds like some Cinderella bull shit.
My chair was turned to the side and she took a seat on the ground, leaning against the drawers of the desk. Her long legs were crossed, elbows on her knees. I tried not to look at how good she looked in shorts. Her legs were smooth and a beautiful mocha that I could imagine how smooth they would be to lick and kiss over.
Damn it, I wasn't supposed to be thinking about this. How could someone be so frustrating and still make me want them at the same time?
Nisha looked up at me with penetrating eyes. Mind you, contrasting completely, it was pretty different from in the club where I had always been looking up at her.
It was difficult to keep staring back at her, knowing that the last time we had looked into each other's eyes was when we were wet and wanting. Not to say I still wasn't aching for her, but this was a different kind of an ache; an "achy breaky heart"- and I didn't even know her!
"Arie..." Just like before, my name came out easily from her lips; however, this time it was weaker. I didn't change the expression on my face though. Sometimes, I can be the master of self-control - at least only so that others don't know what's going on inside of me. "I fucked up ..."
This time I let my eyes meet hers as I couldn't help a tremble from inserting itself in my voice, nor could I help the words that came tumbling out of my mouth.
"Okay so... in what WAY? Because it seems to ME that you know more about the situation than I do." My words tripped over each other, "Not that you owe me anything... I'm just a girl that you messed around with."
"Arie," Nisha said again, softly, her brown eyes glistening, and not in that happy way. "Please, just listen to what I have to say and then you can tell me to fuck off -but please, just listen to me first" her voice was low.
Taking a deep breath, I tipped my head back and I closed my eyes, "Okay, talk."
It was one of those moments when you could feel someone looking at you, but I kept my eyes closed. I couldn't look at her right now if I wanted to be strong. How did a girl I've only known for a few hours affect me so much?
Why was I so angry with her? It felt like we had shared more than just a rising body temperature at that club. It felt like there was something unspoken with us...whatever it was, was making me act like a drama queen. Okay, a big freaking baby.
Just as she was about to talk, I opened my eyes, sat up straight and looked right at her, "I know that you don't owe me anything and that I'm acting like a big baby. It's not like we even know each other really. I just felt like it was different. But I KNOW that you don't owe me anything." There! I could be mature about this. Her next words surprised me, or rather shed positivity when I needed to expect the worst for my own welfare.
"It was different Arie. I promise," her voice was more determined now, but she couldn't hold my gaze. Her hands were in her lap, and she was clasping them together, index fingers making a triangle, Nisha cleared her throat, "The first time you met me at the club wasn't the first time I've seen you. You probably didn't recognize me because I was in a crowd of students... in class. I've seen you time and time again for these classes that you've been one of the TA's for... But I've never picked any of your classes. I didn't know that you would be the TA for this one," she stalled now, her brown eyes met my green ones and she gazed intently into mine. Her hand was up in her hair, nervously curling one of her thick locks around her finger. Even her damn nervousness was cute.
I was completely speechless at the thought that she had known me before I had known her. A little silly too, considering that I had been so convinced that I had never met her before. Though, I hadn't met her per se.
I cleared my throat, "So that's how you knew my name- what else did you know about me?"
Nisha was blushing now; I had seen this look before, though under completely different circumstances.
Flashes of her flushed cheeks, the strobe lights of the club on her skin, how I could see her upper thighs by the way her dress was pushed up by my body in between her legs threatened to make itself the main focus, but I pushed it back down.
However, part of the distraction from that was how adorable she was in her nervousness. While before, she had been this tall seductive woman, she was now showing a reachable, touchable side.
I grabbed her hand and tipped my head down, ignoring the tingle that ran through my body at the touch of her smooth skin, "Nisha, I get why you were scared at the club or even why you felt uncomfortable knowing that you knew me and that I didn't know you, I just want to know why you didn't tell me at first and what else you know about me. I just want to even the playing grounds."
She gave a sheepish smile and bit her lip, "So we're still gonna play?" Her brown eyes sparkled at me, and I couldn't help but let a smile slip between our serious conversation.
"That's all you got out of that? No wonder you haven't taken any of my sections before. You wouldn't have been able to keep up with me!" I was grinning widely now, and she let out a giggle, and then smirked.
"Well, I mean I think I proved I could keep up with you pretty well..." this time it was my turn to blush.
I murmured out, "I plead the fifth on that one."
I then slipped off my chair and went to sit on the ground right in front of her, crossing my legs. I squeezed Nisha's hand and held it in my lap, admiring her strong hands for only a moment, and totally did not think about how they had felt when they had squeezed my ass at the club, "Okay, so answer my questions, since we are literally on an even ground," I said smiling encouragingly.
"Okay, okay," she scooted closer to me so that both of our knees were touching, as we sat on the ground behind the desk, "I didn't want to tell you about this situation, because I thought you would treat me differently knowing that I was a student. Though, you should know that I'm officially graduating after these summer classes end. I wanted to just be with you, without that influencing us. And, like I said, I can be selfish, so I didn't want you to turn me down on that basis." She traced her thumb over my hand and then brought it into her lap, making small circles on my wrist with her nails.
Nisha continued on, "The things that I know about have been through what I've seen at your guest lectures and what I've asked a couple of my friends who have taken your classes before. I know that you always make cheesy jokes in class. That you're a hard grader but you offer more help than any other TA. I know that the students who have had you always try to get you again. I know that the professors like you too. I know that you're intelligent, witty, fair, and kind. But I guess I could also say I know things like how in class you wear your hair in a messy bun...that you chew on the end of your pens, and that you always write a lot of notes. I know that five minutes before lecture ends, you're just as antsy as us. Every new detail just makes me want to find out more and more," and then, she scooted closer to me, angling herself so that her legs were spread on either side of me and so that her lips were close enough to kiss.
I won't even try to pretend like it didn't happen. My cheeks flushed and I felt my body tingle with self-awareness. The fact that someone had cared enough to watch me like that, who had been drawn in by little things about me, is probably one of the most priceless things in the world. I couldn't believe that someone could be so entranced by me.
Nisha's eyes darkened as she looked at my eyes, and then down towards my lips. "I also know things from that night. Like the fact that you touched yourself before you came to talk to me," she was short of breath as she said this. I licked my lips subconsciously, lulled by her words and her voice which had dropped an octave.
She threaded her fingers through mine, and then dropped a kiss on my shoulder. I was still speechless and slightly embarrassed about her knowing that, and I think she could tell.
My voice was low and rough when I spoke out, "How'd you know?"
She grinned wickedly, "Well, for one, it wasn't just perfume I smelled on you, not when your fingers were on my face." My cheeks were even more red - it felt like the room had risen with our own temperatures.
Those big brown eyes were hypnotic as she watched me. Her voice was smooth as honey, "Now you owe me a little. Why'd you touch yourself at the club Arie?" Her hand rubbed small circles on my side as I bit my lip, my eyes going back and forth between her lips and her eyes.
I had to clear my throat before saying a word, but I was committed to not showing how self-conscious she was making me.
Leaning in closer, I brushed a small kiss to her jaw line, and grinned wickedly, "Wouldn't you have wanted to, if just one look at a particular woman, made you as wet as it made me?"