750... 751... 752.
I stood in front of the door, puffing from the exertion of climbing the stairs. This was it. There wasn't much decoration. No comic clippings, or assignment drop envelopes, or notes. Just a business card in a slot.
"Lisa M. Rohdes, Ph.D., Manfred Jamison IV Professor of Finance."
For a few seconds I just looked around like an idiot, afraid to knock. I know what it seems like: the male student goes to see the hot teacher and gets all distracted. Or perhaps there's just something intimidating about going to see the star professor that has more awards, prizes, citations and published papers than you have brain cells. It wasn't really about that, though. I was here to beg for mercy. From a prof who routinely made a C plus the class average.
"Can I help you?" I jumped and turned around. I could pick out that lovely English accent anywhere. There she was, smiling gently at me. I'd never seen her do that before.
"Oh uh hi, Professor Rohdes. I was just about to..."
"Well, I'm right on time then—I was having lunch." she said, unlocking the door.
Up close, she was even more imposing than in the lecture hall. She was half a head taller than me, and her shoulder-length sandy blonde hair was brushed into a slightly unruly feathered bell.
"I've got a meeting at 2:00, I hope 40 minutes is enough time."
Her office wasn't typical. It didn't have the clutter that most tenured professors seemed to accumulate over decades of research. She had a rather large L-shaped desk with the usual computer and other gadgets. Her books and papers were neatly stacked, with a couple exceptions.
"Have a seat," she said, settling into her chair and gesturing to another in front of her desk.
There was a plush rug under me, and a nice couch crammed into the corner against the wall by the door.
"Now, what was it you wanted to discuss?" she asked. Her stare, which was usually spread out among a few hundred of us in class, was fixed straight at me. She was young for a full professor, but at around 45 years old she was a lady--far older than the chicks I usually run with. She had these little wrinkles around her eyes that always made her seem like she was smiling, even when she wasn't.
"Well, uh, about that paper that was due last Wednesday," I said.
She peered at me over her black plastic rimmed glasses. It wasn't really the best moment for naughty librarian fantasies, so I tried to get my explanation out.
"So, um, yeah, I had to fly back home the past week on short notice. My sister got hit by a bus."
Her head tilted to the side a little as she looked at me, one eyebrow raised.
"Are you sure a dog didn't eat it? Or perhaps a meteorite hit your backpack on the way to class? Well? Is she all right?"
Her concern took me by surprise, which didn't make me look any more credible.
"She pulled through, but I spent a whole week with her, you know, to help her recover and all," I stammered.
Then I remembered, one of the nurses had happened to have an ancient Polaroid camera and took a shot of me with my sis at the hospital. Sometimes older technology really does come in handy. I pulled it out of my wallet. The nurse and my sister had dated and signed it as a thank you for me.
"This is Jenny. Nurse took it the day before she was released from the hospital."
Professor Rohdes took a look and burst out laughing.
"Oh dear, I'm sorry... your sister! She's so cute!" Jenny had her tongue stuck out at the camera and I had the goofy, crosseyed grin I always seem to make in pictures. "And that look on your face," she chortled, handing me back the photo.
"So yeah, I was wondering if I could..."
"You want an extension? After your sister got hit by a bus? Get out of here, you've got until next Monday!" she said, grinning.
"Thanks, that's really great of you," I said, standing awkwardly.
"Oh, I don't really mean you have to leave, sorry."
I sat back down, again awkwardly.
"Are you in a hurry?" she asked, leaning back in her chair a little and glancing out the window. She was wearing a nice pink blouse buttoned up demurely, with the sleeves rolled to her elbows. Her posture made the fabric stretch across her chest. I couldn't resist.
She caught me staring at her boobs and, shifting in her chair, quickly ducked her head so her eyes were level with mine, where her chest had been earlier. Her lips curled into a smile.
"Hmm..."
"Sorry, I'm pretty jetlagged is all—"
"Oh, now you're making stuff up buddy. You want me to think you were just staring into space?"
"Yeah, um, I think that'd be best," I said, trying to defuse the situation. Apparently in as inept a way as possible.
"Do you now?" she asked rhetorically. She stood and turned her back on me, staring out the window for a longer moment. She had on a classic ruffled dark gray skirt made of some heavy fabric—wool I think—coming down to her knees, and as she leaned on the windowsill and looked back at me it draped nicely over her figure. I marveled at her slim hips and tight ass. Her slender legs were clad in dark stockings, the kind that seem to hold themselves up as if by magic. She was the living embodiment of every schoolboy's sexy-teacher dream.
"It must be nice, having someone to pamper you for a week," she mused. "You know, I can buy the part about your sister. But I get the odd feeling that you were fibbing about the jetlag. You mentioned in class discussion once that you pay instate tuition."
Oh, shit. Liar, liar, pants on fire. How the hell did she remember that? Absent-minded professors, my ass.
"Well, uh,"
Professor Rohdes spun around, arms crossed, and stepped towards me, her heels clicking on the floor, then going silent as they crossed the rug. When she stopped she was right in front of me, looking down. I stared up at her.
"Gotcha," she said, with an impish grin on her face.
"Sorry, Professor Rohdes. I..."
"Couldn't resist? Staring at my tits? No, I don't suppose you could, just like almost every other male student who's taken my class. The difference is... you're doing it in my office. And I caught you red-handed. Or is it red-eyed?"
I just averted my eyes in embarrassment.
"You don't need to apologize, you know."
"I didn't mean to do anything inappro—
"You're a man, and I'm a woman. What's more appropriate than that?" she quipped.
"But—"
"I know, I know, I'm twice your age. Don't think I don't realize it."