Miss Avery is thirty seven years old and has been teaching at Rupert High for three years now. She has grown close to the group she tutors, who are sadly leaving after their final school exams this year. It's been especially hard as of late as she's six months pregnant and has been feeling very maternal over them all.
Four months ago she and her ex-boyfriend John Clark split up as he didn't feel ready to start a family after making her pregnant. This put such a strain on Miss Avery that she almost quit her teaching job but did not want to let her students down before their final school exams. John is also a teacher at Rupert High and seems to be getting close to one of the younger teachers, Leanne, who just started.
The bell sounds to end the school day.
"Great job, class!" yelled Miss Avery as the students got up to depart.
"You've all done excellent this week in preparing for your exams and I know you're all going to crush them next month!"
Ryan, despite starting the school year off strongly, is struggling the most with school work and mutters: The only thing I'll end up crushing is garbage at the scrapyard.
A pang of concern washes over Miss Avery and she places her hands under her growing belly. She's always felt sorry for Ryan due to his father abandoning his mother when she was carrying him, and she feels that she can relate to him now.
The class all leave but Miss Avery asks Ryan to stay as she wants to have a word with him after overhearing his comment.
"You wanted to speak with me, Miss?"
"Yes, Ryan. How are you feeling about your upcoming exams?"
"Well... to be honest, I've been having difficulty focusing on them recently."
"May I ask why? In most areas you're far above average," Miss Avery says with a serious tone.
"Me and my girlfriend Beth have been spending a lot of time together and I've kinda neglected my studies."
"Oh, wow. I didn't know that you and Beth were in a relationship." She says, loosely smiling.
"Yeah, we've been together for a few months now and she's currently waiting for me by the school gate, so can we chat another time, Miss?"
"Okay, Ryan, but I must remind you that there's not long to go until your exams and after that you're free to focus more on things such as relationships. You must get back on track now or you'll regret it."
"Yeah, yeah, Miss, I know you're right." Ryan rushes to the school gate and Miss Avery catches a glimpse of him kissing Beth, which reminds her of how much she misses physical intimacy.
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Later that night, Miss Avery is marking some papers in bed when her mind starts to wonder back to Ryan. She's surprised that he's with Beth because, despite growing into a fairly tall, handsome man with a frame that fills out his school uniform much more than the other male students, he's never been in a relationship in all the time she's taught him. It's late and even though she reminded him to study hard for next month's exams, she imagines that the only thing he's studying is Beth's body.
She sighs before turning her reading lamp off to go to sleep.
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The next day Ryan bumps into Miss Avery on the way into school.
"Oh, hey Miss, it looks like we're both almost late." He laughed.
"I hope you have a good excuse, Ryan," she says with her arms carefully folded to try to conceal her ever-growing breasts.
"I was... uhh... what about you? Why are you almost late, Miss?" Ryan says whilst looking downward at her pregnant belly and rubbing the side of his neck.
"I was busy having a conversation with your mother over the phone this morning."
"WHAT, WHY?!" exclaimed Ryan.
"Last night I was marking your school work and noticed that you put in much less effort than what I expect of you, given your capabilities."
"I said that I was just distracted yesterday, but today I'll do much better, I promise."
"Ryan, I told your mother about the amount of time you've been spending with Beth and about the drop in quality with your school work. She has decided that you're not allowed to spend time with her until after the exams are over."
"But Miss, that's not fair!.You're being way too strict!"
"It's for your own good, Ryan."
The bell rings for the start of the school day and Ryan storms off to class.
Miss Avery can't help but feel slightly guilty but knows that Ryan will thank her in the long run.
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Lunchtime
During lunch, Ryan spots Beth sitting in the cafeteria and in the corner of his eye he also catches Miss Avery staring at him. Beth has a forlorn expression on her face after she explained to her the situation with Ryan. She knows that expression all too well, as she's been catching glimpses of John chatting up Leanne throughout the day.
Miss Avery is enjoying being able to focus more on Ryan as it helps ease her feelings of loneliness and she wants him to reach the potential that she sees in him.
She beckons him over.
"What have I done now, Miss" Ryan said with a defeated tone.
She smiles and looks up at him. "Your teacher told me that you did great in class this morning. I just wanted to say that I appreciate you taking this seriously."
Ryan chuckles softly. "You didn't exactly give me much choice, miss."
"We all have a choice, Ryan. There's nothing stopping you from walking over to Beth right now and giving her another kiss, but I think we both know that you'd rather be here with me." She smiles and winks.
Ryan is taken aback and starts blushing; his eyes look downwards to her ample cleavage, which seems to be almost bursting the seams of her top.
"Umm, Miss, I thought I'd be in trouble if I did that."
Miss Avery chuckles "Maybe with your mother... but I am not your mother."
"Now go eat your lunch before I get my hands on it, as I have two bodies to feed now" she declared while laughing and cradling her bump.
Ryan feels a stirring below his belt line as he watches her hands supporting her baby while gazing up at him.
'Y-you got it, Miss'. Oh, umm... I just want you to know that I think you're doing a great job with everything that's going on and stuff. Not being able to see Beth reminded me of you and Mr. Clark and all that you're going through."
Miss Avery feels tears starting to form in her eyes.
"That's very sweet of you Ryan, thank you. You're a good man."
Beth overlooks this interaction and scrunches her face up at Ryan when he catches sight of her while walking away from Miss Avery.
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Later that night
Miss Avery's sitting up in bed and flicking through social media when she checks out the analytics of her latest post. She uploaded a picture earlier in the day of her bump and saw that someone named Ry06 had been viewing her photos.
Hmm... she ponders, that has to be Ryan as the name and birth-year lines up... but why would he be viewing my pictures?"
This discovery excites her as she starts to think that he must be obeying her and his mother's wishes to not see Beth.
Out of all the things a hormonal eighteen-year-old boy could be looking at online, he chooses pictures of his teacher's pregnant body?
Flattered, as she's been feeling self-conscious over her growing figure, she clicks on his profile to check it out.
Wow, I have never seen Ryan outside of school, but he has quite the body underneath his uniform.
There's a short video of Ryan at an indoor rock-climbing gym with his sleeves rolled up and forearm veins bulging as he lifts his entire body up to scale the wall. Seeing this video raises her heart rate as she imagines those strong hands and arms protecting her and her baby.
Miss Avery feels a pang of guilt mixed with sexual frustration.
Oh god, I can't be feeling this way about Ryan; he's only eighteen and I'm his teacher. It must be the pregnancy hormones... or maybe I'm just missing John. But having said that, John was never interested in me after I became pregnant, and now he's out there chatting up the new, younger teacher, Leanne.
She starts feeling lonely then goes back to browsing Ryan's profile. A comment from Beth piques her interest; it says:
"Remember when we took this pic? This was when we were allowed to see each other before that fat teacher got involved. I swear you care more about her than me."
Miss Avery quickly turns her phone off.
Am I really doing the right thing by getting involved in Ryan's private life? She asks herself worriedly before sobbing herself to sleep.
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Ryan and Beth are talking over the phone with each other during the night and fighting over the recent strain in their relationship. Beth is adamant that Miss Avery is purposefully causing a rift between them, which Ryan claims is insane as she's his teacher and also pregnant; he emphasises that she has much more important things to worry about.
"Ry, I saw you talking to her in the cafeteria and getting all flustered."
"I-I didn't get flustered; I just felt awkward when she said that I'm doing better in my studies lately. You know how I feel about compliments," Ryan said, stumbling over his words.
"Oh really? So then why did she look like she was about to cry as you walked away?"
"How would I know? She's pregnant so it's probably got something to do with that. And she wasn't about to cry, you could barely see anything from where you were sitting."
"You're such a dumbass, Ry."
Later on in the day, Beth tells Ryan that she wants to meet up with him tomorrow as it's the weekend and it's been a while since they spent some time together. The weekend is also the only time that Beth has any kind of freedom from her overbearing mother, as her mother spends a few hours with her friend on Saturday. Ryan hesitates due to thinking back to what Miss Avery said about focusing on his studies, but agrees because he doesn't want more relationship turmoil with Beth.
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Saturday
Miss Avery awakes to a text from her ex-boyfriend, John:
Hey Samantha,
I suppose it would be right to let you know that Leanne and I have made it official that we're in a relationship now. I hope everything is going well with the pregnancy and if you need anything, then let me know.
