Although this is a teacher/student story, please rest assured that Evie is over 18!
Evie James chewed absently on her pen, her chin resting on her hand, elbow on the desk as she stared towards the man who had long been the subject of her daydreams. Her eyes melted away his black shirt, imagining what might lie underneath. Would he be hairy? Smooth? Waxed? She imagined deftly unfastening those shirt buttons, running her hands across the planes of his chest, his nipples. Maybe she might kiss him, and then --
"Evie?"
She jerked out of her reverie with a start, elbow slipping off the desk. Oh, shit. He was looking right at her. She felt a blush creep up her cheeks.
"I -- er - sir?"
"I asked you whether you could provide some insight as to why our protagonist acts the way she does in the opening chapter. Obviously not." He looked at her with disdain, turning to address someone else. "Carla? Perhaps you can fill in the gaps in Ms James' knowledge."
Evie slumped down in her seat as Carla, ever happy to oblige, fixed the class with a dazzling smile and a bat of her eyelashes. As she watched the other girl's mouth move, her mind was again elsewhere. She was fucking up this class. Badly. Something had to give.
The bell rang to signal the end of the session, and Evie let out a sigh of relief. She clumsily slid her belongings into her bag and made to leave the room with the other students. She was almost at the door when he spoke, not even looking up from his desk.
"Evie. A word."
Shit.
She hesitated and then moved to stand in front of his desk, dropping her bag on the floor, suddenly uncomfortably aware of his proximity. The thing was, she knew she wasn't the only one who wanted him, and it wasn't as though she could help it. He wasn't that much older, really -- fifteen years, tops -- and so worldly, so clever. He had lived. In a way she despised herself for it. A crush on her teacher. It was so adolescent she felt like punching herself. Surely this was something she should have grown out of years ago, not carried across to college. She was 18 years old, for goodness' sake. This was ridiculous.
He still hadn't looked up at her. She cleared her throat and saw the smallest hint of a smirk playing about the corners of his mouth.
"I'll speak to you when I'm ready, Evie. Have some patience." He finished the line he had been writing, carefully placed the lid back on his pen and looked up at her. "Have you finished your assignment? You know it was due last week."
"I -- no." Evie looked down at her feet. "I haven't. I've been having some trouble at home and --"
"I don't care. You knew full well what was required of you when you signed up for this course. You're lazy, girl. Too busy daydreaming to focus on the task at hand. I've spoken to the department head and she agrees with me; we can't carry on like this."
"What do you mean?"
"You get that assignment to me tomorrow -- first thing, by 9 o'clock -- or we'll have to ask you to leave the course."
"Sir! That's impossible -- there's no way I can do it." Evie's mind raced, panic flooding her body. She had tried to start the assignment so many times, but each time something more important had come up. There was no way she could have it complete by tomorrow.
An idea popped into her head, one so ridiculous that she dismissed it immediately. But it was persistent, and kept coming to the front of her mind. It was something she had read, seen in the dirty videos she secretly watched at home -- but this was real life -- surely it would never work? A little voice inside her head piped up, arguing with her rational side. Do you want to get kicked off the course? It's got to be worth a try.
"Sir." She almost cringed as the word left her mouth, trying as hard as she could to make it sound as sultry as possible. "Maybe... maybe there is something else I can do..." There was an awkward pause as her words hung on the air between them. She felt a blush spread from the roots of her hair down throughout her entire body. He stared at her for a moment, almost disbelieving, and then let out a harsh bark of laughter.