Sara Stokes sat at her desk grading her research papers for her freshman English comp. class. She smiled as she finished the one that belonged to one of her smartest students and graded her an A. She turned to the next essay and glanced at the heading before reading and her stomach turned over as she saw the name of her most disrespectful and most unmotivated student she had ever taught in her four years of teaching the class.
Sighing quietly, she began reading the poorly written research paper on if Sex Education should be taken out of high school. It was true, he made his point across that he was totally against taking the class out of school but his syntax was screwed, he used the diction of a fifth grader, and his mechanics were atrocious. By the time she finished, all three pages were covered in red ink. Comments, punctuation correction, editing covered the paper when she was finally finished. Quietly she pushed it away and rubbed her temples not believing how idiotic this boy could possibly be. Sighing heavily, she pulled the paper back and wrote the grade on there: 23/F
***
"Class, I've finished grading your research papers. Some of you did excellent," she nodded towards her girl that made the highest grade, "and some of you could've used a little more effort." Sarah held the papers close to her chest as she stood in front of the small class of twenty-five and looked at each of the students' faces. Eventually, her eyes landed on a male's bowed head. He was pecking away on his laptop not paying any attention to what she was saying for all she knew. Her breaths deepened to keep her head as level as she could.
"When I dismiss you, you may come to the front and pick up your assignment for the weekend and then pick up your graded essays on the end of the table." She walked over to the table and placed the essays there and then the bell rang. "You are dismissed"
Each student stood up and walked down off the risers to pick up their new homework assignment and their graded essays. Josh Grayson, of course, was the last one to stand an leave. He packed up his laptop and walked down the risers to the tables where the work was an looked confused.
"Where's my essay, miss," he asked looking up at her
Sarah looked at Josh and sighed pinching the bridge of her nose as she next class started to file in. She took a deep breath before looking up at him and forcing a smile. Josh was tall at maybe 6'3 and quite handsome at the age of 19. He had pretty gray eyes but she didn't let that fool her. This was the most disruptive, rude, arrogant boy (No wait he was a man. Trust and believe he had the body of a man) that God had ever created.
"Um...miss," Josh said a little firmer. "Where's my essay?"
"I'm gonna have to talk to you about your essay," she said quietly as she looked at him. "So you need to come by my office after all classes are done. Then you may pickup your essay and we can talk about it."
Josh only looked at her quietly. "Okay then," he said before picking up his laptop case and walking out of the lecture hall.
Sarah sighed as she could practically see the gears in his head turning around formulating some idiotic plan. He had something up his sleeve and she didn't like it at all. His devious mind was a dangerous place to hang out in and she didn't want to be there at all.
***
Her office hours were starting to draw to a close as she finished grading the rest of her papers. She glanced at her watch and saw the hour of six was just ten minutes away. After cleaning off her desk she sat back down and muttered to herself "If he doesn't show, he just doesn't show. I did my job." Her back was turned to the door when she heard it open. Turning around she saw the one and only shaggy haired, grey eyed Josh walk in caring the same laptop case he had in class.
"Oh wow," she murmured. "You actually do come when called. Better late than never, I suppose."
Sarah sighed as she looked him up and down to see that he changed clothes since class. He was wearing a tight white t shirt accompanied with a pair of blue jeans and boots. He walked up to sit in front of her desk and placed the laptop at his feet. "Why sound so surprised," he replied sitting back in the seat and crossing his ankles.
"Because I actually am surprised," she replied as she sat down at the desk and began to sort through a pile of failed essays. Each of these students had to be conference with about their failed grade, but Josh was the most important. Finally, she found his and looked at to make sure that she didn't miss anything. Confirming that it was indeed the lowest grade of the pile, she handed it over face down. "There is your reason why we are meeting today, Josh."
Josh turned the paper over and saw the grade before shrugging. Seeing a failing grade was nothing new to him, especially in Sarah's class. "So what," he asked again. "You didn't have to meet with me to tell me that I failed an essay."
"No I didn't," she affirmed, "but I do have to meet with you to tell you that you are in danger of failing my class for the semester."
"Well if you gave me something to read that was interesting or let me choose what topic to do my papers on, I might not be failing," he retorted
"Well, I'm sorry that the topics I require you to write on don't have as much sex as you would like to have in them," she replied. "As your English Comp professor, you will write an essay on what topic I give you and you will read what I tell you to read. You chose this course, now you can't get rid of it."
Josh snorted. "Coming from you, Miss, that's pretty rich."
"Really now," Sarah said sitting back in her chair, "and what do you mean by that?" She was looking foreword to see what he had to say about this one. As far as she knew, Josh was the type of person to have an answer for everything. Every time she had a question that she thought she knew the answer to, Josh always gave her an answer that surprised her epically.
He reached down and started pulling the laptop from his case. "Well miss," he said as he started booting up the computer, "they do say that once something is on the 'net, it can't be taken off. Guess who I found."
All of the colour started to fade form Sarah's face as she had an inkling as to what he was talking about. However, she wasn't going to out herself like an idiot. If he wanted her to confess something, then he was surely shit outta luck.
"I haven't done the slightest clue as to what you're talking about," she said sitting back in her chair to say.
Josh noticed the sudden paleness in her cheeks and decided to have a little fun with his full advantage. "I think you know exactly what I'm talking about," he said quietly, "but hey, if you think I'm wrong we can pay a visit to the dean and see what he says."
Sarah began to laugh. "aha, you don't have anything."
The young sophomore sighed and shook his head as he looked at her. "This is the very reason why I came prepared."
She scoffed. "If only you were this prepared for class."