Note:
All characters are over 18.
Heads up! This story will eventually read like a horror movie that Hollywood releases every Valentine's Day. I don't plan on getting graphic, but it'll still have elements of non-consent and a body count.
Feedback and advice on how to describe a beautiful person without putting the reader to sleep would be a great help
.John watched Andrew speed-walk through the European History classroom, weave past a few students still milling about before the bell, and drop himself into the next seat over. Something happened. Something funny, he thought, seeing his friend struggle to contain a grin.
He was about to ask, when Andrew whirled to face him, his friend's hands snapping out to grab John by the cheeks and squishing them together. Finally mastering his expression, Andrew donned a look of feigned alarm. "John," he said, with the sober tone of an oncologist delivering bad news to a patient, "I need you to brace yourself."
"Is that what you're doing with your hands?" John slurred out, his lips bulging out like a fish out of water, "helping me brace myself?"
Andrew's hand disengaged and slapped John's left cheek lightly. "This isn't a game, John! I'm trying to save you from having an accident! In a moment..."Another slap, for good measure.
"In a moment, this woman - our substitute teacher - will walk through that door. She's a shocking amount of hot, John! She's..." he trailed off, searching for the right word.
"A very handsome lady?" John asked, and got another slap, for his trouble.
"Obscenely so!" Andrew tilted John's face toward the light as if to scrutinize it. "Look at you. Look at your dumb face. You think this is all a joke. How little you know what's about to happen. I'm preemptively embarrassed for you, already. I hope you can keep it in your pants, buddy," he replied and pinched John's cheeks painfully before finally releasing him.
The bell rang a few moments later, but students continued to pour into the class, knowing that there would be little repercussion, if any, for being late. Mr. Brown, the actual teacher for the class, has been missing for almost two weeks. Since then, the class has been watched over by a rotating carousel of substitutes who saw no reason to tighten discipline for a group of kids they would likely never have to substitute for again.
John felt his heart quicken with excitement and anticipation as he heard, what he assumed to be, the substitute's heels clacking on the hallway floor.
"Also, I forgot to tell you," Andrew hissed, "I love her and I'm going to ask her to marry me after I graduate, and we're going to make lots of babies, and live happily ever-after. So, keep your filthy degenerate eyes, hands, and thoughts away from her!"
"What a strange and eventful trip down the hall it must've been for you," John wondered aloud.
Finally, by the door, John spotted a glimpse of red hair he wasn't familiar with, as the last two student stragglers hurried inside, revealing her.
His eyebrows shot up at the sight. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw several guys take on the pained expressions not unlike the ones men assume as they cringe in sympathy at the sight of another man getting kicked in the balls, as if this woman's beauty was painful to behold.
From his seat, John saw her in profile, as she made her way up to the podium at the front. Her hair was an auburn waterfall of reflected light cascading down from root to tip like some sort of hair product commercial. His eyes traveled down past a sort of mini-jacket, to the knee-length pencil skirt, the calves of her long, long legs, and finally to her heels.
Dimly, some part of him questioned whether those shoes were dress-code-appropriate. He doubted they were, but that, he realized, had somehow made her wearing them even more appealing.
She turned to face the class for a moment, and John got a brief look at her face. Freckles, he thought. They stood out stronger on her cheeks and faded out around her eyes. The pattern blended with the rest of the flawless features of her face, accenting it, drawing attention to it. John thought of magnets, and moths drawn to a flame, and whether or not she would like it if he composed and terrible poetry on the subject and read it to her and perhaps she has a balcony upon which she could perch and hear him do so. It would have to be a full moon. For that, he'd need a lunar calendar!
Forcing himself away from the tangent, he focused, once again, on the teacher's face. Her eyes were cast down to the cellphone she had in her palm and, when she was done with it, she looked up, before turning her back to the class and busying herself with the white-board. In the space of that moment, John thought he saw her vivid green eyes catch the light and shimmer in the same manner her hair did earlier.
As she turned, whatever spell the woman had over him faded. John realized that he was half-way out of his seat, and quickly forced himself back down. Andrew, he knew, was being purposely dramatic earlier, but he also had to admit that his friend wasn't exaggerating nearly as much as it appeared.
His mind spun, raced, and halted in patternless loops. He felt giddy.