There was always something different about the holidays. Each year seemed to carry a mood all its own. Some years were busy; others were quiet. There were those that could be either joyous or melancholy. Little did she know that this year would turn out to be a bit…unique.
The elementary school that she worked at was decked out in its usual holiday dress. Each classroom had its own array of different displays….snowflakes and paper presents, tinsel and dreidels, blinking lights and electric menorahs. Indeed, it was your perfect, politically correct holiday scene.
She sat at her desk, just soaking in the atmosphere. In a little while, her classroom would again be filled with first-graders. She had piles of white paper circles all ready to go on her desk, ready for the little hands to glue them together into snowmen to be decorated as only little children could. Then later on, there was the class holiday party, which was really a convenient excuse to give already excited toddlers a good dose of candy before sending them home to their parents for vacation. She smiled, thinking how adorable this was going to be. But knowing that time was short, she decided to check her email and see what was going on in -and -around the school.
Her inbox was filled with the usual assortments of notices. There were the staff meetings, conferences, and weather emergency updates. The stuff that you look and read as your brain says, "blah, blah, blah." But one line caught her eye. It was from her husband, and labeled "For Your Eyes Only." Unable to resist, she double clicked, and opened it up.
The note was short. "Had some time on my hands. Was thinking of you."
"How sweet!" she thought to herself. She scrolled down the screen and opened the attachment.
At first, she couldn't believe her eyes. There on the screen was a picture of her husband. He was nude, and lying stretched out on his stomach on their bed. Going with her first reaction, she quickly closed the picture. As she looked up from the screen, she could feel her heart pounding. Something like this was so not "her." She was what you would picture a teacher to be…young, proper, and a bit on the reserved side. Not at all the type of girl who would regularly receive a picture of a naked man, and certainly not one who would know what to do with it. But as her shock and surprise began to wane, curiosity got the better of her and she opened up the file once again.
He looked so erotic to her in that picture. Her widened eyes traced down his back and over the curve of his butt. She liked the way the light caught the muscles in his legs, and she began to imagine her hands kneading away at them. Unconsciously, she licked her lips as she studied his body, letting it burn into her memory. She gazed at the screen until her concentration was broken by a voice from the door.
"Hey!" shouted the teacher from the room next door, causing her to look up with a start. "You coming to lunch?"
"Yeah!" she shouted back, deleting the file away from any potentially prying eyes. She stood up and straightened herself out, making sure to present the proper reserve once again. But as she started to walk out of the room, the wetness that had formed between her legs reminded her that her thoughts were anything but prim and proper.
Lunch that day started out like any other. She sat around a small table with her coworkers in the break room munching on her turkey and mayo sandwich and her side salad. The conversation was much the same as always…criticism of school policies; talk of the rapidly approaching vacation, gossip about the other staff. The group had just begun a discussion about the fashion faux pas of a fellow teacher when something caught her eye.
At the table across from them sat another group of the teachers. She resembled this girl at the other table in many ways. She was young and petite, understated but pretty, with the same style of shoulder length brown hair. On any other day, she probably wouldn't have even noticed her with the conversation going on at the table, but it was what she was doing that caught her eye. On the counter by the door was a bowl of candy canes left for the teachers to enjoy for the holidays. This girl had taken one and was enjoying it as her after lunch sweet. At first glance, everything was perfectly innocent. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw this girl unwrap the candy and start to eat it.
But as her eyes caught her slowly suck away at the red and white stick, the image in her mind began to change. She watched the candy glide slowly in and out of the brunette's mouth. For a moment, her mind flashed back to the picture of her husband. As she watched the teacher across the room enjoy her treat, all her mind could think about was her own lips wrapped around her man, just as the girl was doing to the candy. Her heart was pounding again. As the discussion at the table continued, she must have agreed to a half dozen of her friend's comments without even realizing what she was saying. She just kept watching the other teacher sucking away at the candy cane with the most delicious images playing in her mind. Before she knew it, her break was over and she found herself walking back to her classroom with a grin on her face, and even more of a tingle between her legs than when the break had started.
For the rest of the afternoon, nothing seemed quite normal. Her mind was on her work for a while as she handed out the paper circles for the children to make their snowmen. They had a ball putting them together, and she enjoyed watching them. One hour to go before vacation and it was time for the party. As the hour rolled on though, the teacher found herself paying less and less mind to the kids, and more attention to the slow-moving clock. The kids all enjoyed their candy and cake. Some of the children gave her little presents. From one child, a basket of bath soaps. Another gave her a scented candle. Basically, all the little knick-knacks from the parents to say a little "thank you" and "happy holidays" on the student's behalf. She looked at the candle as she opened it.
"The bedroom would look great with this burning later," she thought to herself. "And his body will look so good in the flickering light."
Suddenly, she felt a bit guilty. Such nice little gifts, from such innocent little children, and the only thing she could think about were her husband's body. Finally, it was time for dismissal. Time to send the children back to their parents, and for her to let her hair down and return home to address her thoughts.
She walked into the house carrying an armful of books and presents. He was sitting on the couch in the family room watching television. Looking up, he saw his wife in the doorway. He greeted her with a smile.
"Looks like you had a nice day," he said. "Have fun with the kids?"