Chapter 04
Embarrassed in School
Hollie walked down the corridor thinking about the next class. By the drinks machine, where she had first bumped into Roger, was a knot of students. They parted to let her get to the machine. Before she could open her purse he loomed before her. He was standing there, tall and handsome as when she first met him.
Her heart fluttered. He hadn't seen her. Roger and a girl were conversing. She was fluttering her eyelashes at him, primping her hair and smiling up at him. The damn girl was unashamedly flirting with her lover!
As a teacher there was nothing she could say or do. Hollie wanted to pull the girls hair, scratch her face with sharp fingernails, and slap the silly grin from the young face. Instead she stood there ineffectively clenching her fists, open mouthed with nothing to say.
"You all right Miss Turner?" the girl asked.
"Eh? Err, yes, something I ate," Hollie mumbled. She felt her face flush red, knowing it was spreading down her neck and over her breasts.
"Here, let me help you. I'll take you to the first aid room," Roger butted in.
When the hand gripped her arm it felt like an electric shock. She shivered and sweated as though suffering from a hangover. She desperately needed to pull away from him and escape them all.
"He's such a nice guy, always willing to help. So handsome too," the girl gushed.
Hollie dropped her bag on the bitch's foot.
Roger scooped the bag up and led her away, in a repeat of Friday's encounter.
"I'll see you later then?" the girl asked, as he walked Hollie away.
Hollie couldn't speak. She was breathing hard from the embarrassment of being manhandled before a crowd of students. A few doors down the corridor she was blindly led into an antiseptic smelling room.
Roger pulled her to him, holding onto her shoulders. "Are you alright, you look as though you've seen a ghost, you're really pale," he said, overflowing with concern.
"Yes, I'm OK, just need to get my breath back," she said.
"There was no need to drop your bag on Judy's foot," he laughed.
"Did I? Where are we?" Hollie asked, only then looking around her.
"It's the first aid room. Don't worry the nurse is over at the football ground. She likes to watch the guys work out and won't be back for another hour or two," he smiled at her.
The big handsome man had a hold of her shoulders, looking concerned for her. She was melting away to nothing, together with all the good intentions of resisting him. He leaned into kiss her and she opened her mouth, without the excuse of preparing to tell him off. This time she just let him take her with his tongue and couldn't help responding.
Would this be her lot in life? Being a pathetic figure watching the football team work out, like the nurse.
"Stop, please," Hollie stuttered, while he groped her. "We are in school, not here, please," she croaked from a dry throat.
Roger realised how much power he had over her, even in school. It would have to be kept a strict secret, otherwise all would be lost.
"You look wonderful. In your business suit you look impressive," he told her.
Hollie fussed with her hair, trying not to respond to his compliments. A bed came into focus and with it an image of them using it. What they could do on that in an hour couldn't be contemplated. Pupils were walking past, inches from them. She jumped when a fellow teacher shouted at someone, from right outside the door.
Excitement from the danger of discover, had her shaking.
"Did you bring that girl in here?" she asked, immediately regretting the question.
"No! Not her," he teased.
Hollie took the bait. "Who then, how many have you taken on that bed?" she viscously whispered. The question and tone of voice horrified her. She was being ridiculous, and the look he gave her reflected it right back at her. She had to regain some control!
"You had better leave before me. I don't want us to be seen together," she hissed at him. Not meaning to be angry, nevertheless it came out that way. With his hand on the door, she stopped him. "It's best we don't see each other again," Hollie firmly stated.
With eyes wide she watched him go, and heard the door loudly closed. She leant against the edge of the bed, feeling weak enough to collapse.
Hollie missed lunch and only just managed to get through the afternoon. She hung around not wanting to go home. He was sure to be there and a confrontation had to be avoided, knowing she wasn't up to it. A motel was considered and rejected as being too melodramatic. The support of a friend was badly needed, but here in the city there was no one.
Calling a handy man might work. When he called round it wouldn't be possible for Roger to weave his magic over her, while someone was there. It would give her a chance to rebuff his advances. Was there something she could break as an excuse to make a call out?