Mrs. Brenda Rothman, history teacher at Turner High School, stood near her desk at the back of the room and whined into her phone. "...and then the conference just wrapped up about ten minutes ago, I swear to god if I have to listen to one more parent tell me I'm being unfair because I accused their kid of plagiarism—he even copied the author and copyright, for Christ's sake!"
Brenda listened and sighed. She reached under her long kinky brown hair and rubbed the back of her neck wearily. "No, no, we'll be late if I have to drive home just for us to head back into the city. Come pick me up. We'll leave my car and you can bring me to work in the morning."
She listened some more, and when she spoke again there was an edge to her voice. "Just take care of it tomorrow, Gary. All you need to do right now is pick me up so we're not late. Those tickets cost a fortune."
She hung up, dropped her phone in her large purse and turned toward the front of the classroom clutching the strap. She dropped it when she saw the young man sitting patiently in a desk by the door. He was turned around in his seat with his elbow up on the desk behind him, smiling back at her.
Justin Fox, who had graduated from Turner two years before, was as tall and broad as he'd been in high school. But he'd also softened a little, putting on a good thirty pounds and growing a scruffy beard. His black hair, which he'd worn in severe spikes before, was longer and combed back so it curled under his ears. He watched the parade of expressions cross her face with his own smirk of amusement: first a gasp of surprise when she realized she wasn't alone, then a puzzled squint as she tried to place his face, and finally a grimace of distaste when she recognized him.
"Justin," she said with a forced smile. "So nice to see you. I didn't recognize you at first."
"Yeah, I've grown a bit more." He patted his belly with a self-deprecating chuckle. "You look exactly the same, though."
He made a show of looking her up and down appreciatively. Brenda automatically pulled her cardigan closed and crossed her arms over her considerable bust. She was a thick-bodied woman in her early forties, not morbidly fat but soft and curvy in all the right places. "God, you're all tits and hips!" A man had exclaimed lustily just a few months before, as he'd felt her up on the bus. She had liked the sound of that; it made her feel like a bountiful fertility goddess.
But she was also a proud upstanding woman, and a force to be reckoned with. She took her work very seriously, and had no interest in stirring the libidos of hormone-laden underage boys, so she dressed accordingly. Her outfit that day was a usual one for her in the chillier months: A long and swishy grey skirt that allowed her to wear comfortable boots, a thick black turtleneck sweater that kept her cleavage under wraps, and a thin but long black cardigan that rendered her silhouette mostly shapeless. During the school week, she did what she could to tame those tits and hips.
The hungry look in Justin's eyes made her feel like she was standing before him wearing much less, and two things happened to her simultaneously: she felt the heat of arousal spark in her belly, and she felt her ears turn red with anger. How dare this smarmy little prick show his face in her classroom again, after all the stress and frustration he caused her.
He'd been a troublemaker and a bully: shirking assignments, cheating on tests, throwing temper tantrums when he was caught, and constantly disrupting the class. And once, when she chastised him for vulgar comments in class, he had backed her into the corner, pressing his body close enough to hers that she'd felt him grow hard against her abdomen. She'd gotten him suspended for that.
But this was public school, and Principal Cartwright was a nervous hamster of a pussy of a man, and somehow Justin Fox had graduated. Just barely. In the end, she didn't really care how he made it through, she'd just been glad to see him leave her classroom forever.
Or so she thought.
"Well it was nice of you to stop by. It can be fun to walk down memory lane, but I was just about to leave. My husband and I have tickets to see 'Jefferson' tonight." As she spoke, Brenda picked up her purse and pushed her chair under the desk, making a show of getting ready to go.
"Of course, the hip-hop musical that's sweeping the nation. The tragic tale of a privileged man who screwed his slaves."
"That's a charming interpretation," she said as she approached him. "Have a good evening, Mr. Fox."
He tried to rise but struggled for a few moments in the small desk. "Goddamn Freshmen Fifteen," he muttered to himself. "And Sophomore Twenty."
Finally he stood, turned toward her in the aisle and extended his hand. For a moment she thought it was a nice gesture, shaking her hand before he left. Maybe he'd even apologize, give her some speech about how he'd matured in college.
Instead, he grabbed her tit. This wasn't just a sly rub or a passing squeeze. He encompassed her melon-sized mammary in his big hand and held it possessively, hefting it the way he'd longed to in high school.
Brenda gasped and lowered her head by force of habit, submitting to his touch. Then she came to her senses and looked up at him, her mouth open in surprise. The audacity of this punk!
Her blood pounding in her ears, the teacher twisted her chest away from him and took a step back. "What do you think you're doing?" She asked, as if she didn't know.
Justin grinned. "I came back to see what's changed, remember the glory days, and finally fuck your juicy ass, Mrs. Rothman."
Finally, here was the disgusting boy she remembered. Brenda sniffed haughtily "You're a pig. My husband is on his way right now!"
The young man made a show of looking around. "He's not here now."
"We are inside the school!" She exclaimed.
"And it's after hours."
"You're my STUDENT."
He laughed and shook his head as though she was being silly. "Not for a while now. Hell, it's not like you're working right now anyway."
"Now, see here-"
Suddenly out of patience, he grabbed her right arm and pulled back the sleeve to reveal the band that encircled her wrist. "Your bracelet is green, so you're not on the rag or trying to conceive. I'm nineteen years old and legally a man with access to your body. You're an unaccompanied woman with no right to refuse. Stop making excuses, BRENDA."
Brenda bit her lip and glanced to the side, not knowing how sexy she looked when she was worried. The teacher was stuck, but didn't want to be; her former student could see the struggle on her face. Everything he said was technically true. Women didn't have to agree to things like marriage or commitment, and it was rude for a man to proposition her if she was already accompanied by a man. But for any casual sexual requests, it was practically unthinkable for an unaccompanied woman to refuse.
Legally, specific locations that served minors, like schools, were out of bounds for free use. Nobody wanted teachers and administrators fucking each other when they should be teaching, or having their authority undermined by the students seeing them get railed. But once the final bell rang, this became a gray area. Certainly no one would proposition Brenda while she walked to her car, on school grounds, and yet she knew that Principal Cartwright bent his secretary Karen over his desk every day at 3:30.
But Justin's request was taboo enough that Brenda had the right to refuse it, and that's just what she did. "Fuck you, Justin."
He smiled, stepping closer to her. She could smell his body, feel the heat coming off him, and was reminded of his imposing size. "Exactly. Fuck me, here and now."
She shoved him aside and marched toward the door with a defiant swish of her hips.
"I've got a picture of you."
She stopped in her tracks, turned and looked at him suspiciously.
He took a stiff photograph from the pocket of his shirt and happily held it out to her. Even before she took in the details, she could tell it was bad news. Her bravado drained out of her, right through the floor.
"Who would have guessed you were caught up in FUSS?" He asked mockingly while she studied the photograph. "The very teacher who I remember saying that free use was proof that we're highly evolved animals. In all of nature the males freely use the females, but they fight and scrap for the right. In our country, that right is self-evident, and we're all the more peaceful and civilized for it."
"Yes, that is what the textbook says," she muttered bitterly. In the picture was a group of six students, the founding members of the University of Michigan's chapter of FUSS. Third from the left was Brenda herself, a smaller, earlier model with tits and hips that were still just the buds of what they'd blossom into. Standing with his arm around her, his hand resting easily on one of those hips, was her husband Gary. She had given her virginity to him, the day after she turned eighteen. An artist at heart, he was a sensitive and gentle lover. Still, after all theses years, he was so gentle with her. So careful.
Behind them in the picture hung a banner, a painted sheet really, that read CONSENT BEYOND 18 and in smaller letters PREPARE TO BE DENIED. That was the real problem.
"This was a long time ago," she tried to insist, but it came out too much like pleading.
"Come on, don't be stupid. I send this around and parents will complain to the school board. Your husband will definitely lose his job."
"Please, Justin."
He smiled. "That's better."
Anger flashed in her eyes again. "How did you find this?"