When I was at school we used to call Wednesdays "Hump day," because it was the mid point of the week, by lunchtime the week was more than half over and our chatter became about our plans for the weekend. There was no such feeling at The Academy, but today, if anything, felt to me like a sump day. Every hour that passed brought me an hour closer to whatever would happen to me in detention with Mr Rogers.
Wednesday afternoon I had Mandarin class and I tried to look forward to it, but I didn't have Mandarin on Tuesdays, which meant today was the first time I'd had to look David in the eye since picturing him while I was trying to orgasm on Mr Rogers' desk on Monday.
So it was still with complex emotions I opened the door to his classroom. He was sitting cross legged on his desk smoking.
"LΗo shΔ« hΗo," I said as I entered.
"Afternoon Kassandra!" he greeted me cheerfully then waved me to my seat. He quite commonly smoked in class. It was one thing I could not get used to and as I made my way to my seat I wished it wasn't directly in front of his desk.
"Heh, you still don't approve of me smoking, do you?" Something must have shown on my face. His tone seemed light, but I'd been at The Academy long enough to answer carefully.
"Oh, I wouldn't say disapprove--"
"Why not? It's a disgusting habit. But, ahhh," he stopped to take a drag on his cigarette then blow it out slowly. "But so good. Plenty of men smoke, you'll need to get used to being around it. Here," he slid off his desk and in a moment he was at mine, holding his cigarette to my lips. "Try it." I had no intention of ever trying smoking, but I daren't refuse. I inhaled, but hot smoke hit my lungs and sent me into a coughing fit. David took the cigarette away, doubled over laughing. "Told you it was disgusting," he said when he caught his breath, "don't take it up."
"Yes lΗo shΔ«," I said, still coughing. He leaned back on his desk and smoked in silence for a time while I tried not to look too pissed-off that he'd made me to try.
"Suppose we should do some work?" he asked.
"Well, that's up to you, you're the teacher, aren't you?" I blurted out before I could stop myself, but he chuckled.
"Wanna play video games instead?" he asked, pulling out his phone. Before I could comment he continued, "Oh, wait, you got no phone."
"You could lend me one?" I suggested. All it would take was one quick look at google maps and I'd have an idea where I was.
"Bad idea, you still want to escape, no?" He said it with a twinkle in his eye and I felt he was teasing me.
"You're in a good mood," I observed.
"Got laid last night," he supplied with a shrug. "And again this morning." He chuckled.
"Oh." I wasn't quite sure what to say to this. Good for you? Hope you had a good time? What I said was, "like, with the same person, or..."
"Oh, yes. My driver, remember? The cute Vietnamese one who got away?" How could I forget. "Well, I fucked her." He gave a smug little smile. "She had such a good time, she begged me to fuck her again this morning."
"Oh. I see." Thank goodness he didn't seem annoyed at my question, but was he... bragging?