All Characters In This Story Are 18+ Years Old.
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Melissa Perkins adjusted her ponytail. The rubber band under the scalloped-edged pale green hair ribbon grabbed as her fingers worked. She involuntarily winced when several caught strands of light chestnut hair felt as if they were being ripped from her scalp. She sneezed delicately and her left eye watered. Squinting into the round mirror taped to the back wall of her metal school locker, she quickly dabbed the tears with Kleenex before they could ruin her mascara. "Criminy, that's ALL I need right now," she muttered softly, relieved that she would not have to fix her face in the five minutes she had left before her geometry class. Closing her locker and spinning the combination, Melissa gave a swift tug on the hem of her light angora sweater, then looked over her front. She smiled as invisible wrinkles disappeared and the fuzzy pastel mint field swooped smoothly over her swelling chest.
Satisfied with her appearance, she turned and joined the flow of students thronging the hallway on their way to their next classes. She scooted into her desk and ironed her hands over her gray pleated wool skirt just as Mr. Trotter walked into the room while the period bell clanged. He crossed directly to the blackboards at the front of the classroom and wrote the current date, October 14, 1954. For thirty years it had been Trotter's habit and pleasure to begin his classes at George Washington High School with historical subject matter related factoids. Pivoting, he faced his class of more or less attentive students, cleared his throat and began speaking without further ado.
"Good Morning. On this day, in 1801, Joseph Plateau was born in Brussels, in what we know today as Belgium. He was a celebrated mathematician and teacher who advanced math theory with 'Plateau Problems' regarding surfaces with minimal area. These are important to calculus of variations, a special field of higher order mathematical analysis." Trotter glanced around the room at the teens shifting in their desks with uncomfortable trepidation and not a little bit of confusion. He laughed heartily. "Don't worry... This is not our subject today, or even this year! If you will all please pass forward your homework exercises, we'll return to cones and cylinders."
Melissa sat dead center in the front row and was therefore the natural endpoint for the rustling papers migrating from the back and sides of the room. After twisting and hauling out her notebook from the shelf beneath her seat, she slouched slightly with calculated casual precision. Pushing the heels of her saddle-shoes together, she flopped her knees out and slumped. As her bottom slid forward on the hard wooden seat, her chest pushed the least bit against the edge of the curved writing surface. Her hills rose on its horizon. Distractedly, her fingers fiddled with the small gold open heart necklace resting on her sloped bosom while she watched her teacher scan her and her classmates, but mostly her.
Early on in the new school year Trotter had noticed Missy Perkins' well assembled physical features. He particularly enjoyed the daily homework hand-in routine as a brief, but welcome, chance for him to reassess them anew. He was, after all, a man with appetites and weaknesses which he had, infrequently but significantly, indulged throughout his teaching days. In fact, his wife, Mary, had sat in Melissa's desk nearly twenty-five years ago, as had Cindy and Helen, fifteen and nine years ago respectively. Edward's dick throbbed with the uninvited mental roll-call of his peccadillos, while a heat wave flashed from his loins to his larynx.
"Christ, man!" His struggling superego screamed in his mind. "You're fifty-four years old. Ten years from retirement! Count your blessings. Neither the school, nor Mary, has an inkling of what you've done. Don't risk everything again!" Meanwhile, just as loud, Trotter's id cajoled, "OK, OK, so don't FUCK her... you can still take inventory and jack off in the coat closet, can't you? No harm THERE, is there?" The superego shot back, "Why do you have to do ANY thing at ALL?" Id was quick to respond, "It's not like you've gotten any LATELY... Mary is ready to have her new baby at any minute and you're not going to fuck HER again anytime soon, ARE you?"
This last thought reminded Trotter that, after twenty years of tepid periodic marital intercourse, his wife had suddenly, inexplicably, gone 'hot' again; like a long dormant volcano reawakened by some seismic shift. Even more amazing, she had conceived three times now, in as many years. He had had no idea that she still wanted kids, or that he was so virile. Unexpectedly, his formerly only son, Arthur, still living at home at age twenty-two, was very attentive and loving to his new siblings. Edward found it heartwarming, if perplexing, that Arthur sometimes seemed to treat Kent and Pearl as if they were his children instead of his brother and sister. In the final analysis it probably came down to just the double decade age difference. Certainly Arthur's affection was genuine and Mary never raised an eyebrow.
Meanwhile, as his silent inner argument continued, Trotter was treated to a remarkably seductive view of Melissa's bare bowed legs, from her bobby-sox to her knee caps, plus an inch or two above, below her desktop. Regrettably, the loose skirt material draped discreetly over her thighs. Its intriguing muted diagonal lavender-and-beige plaid pattern marched across the gray wool without revealing any secrets. Edward licked his lips, reached out his hand and stepped a half-step forward for the collected assignments. "Thank you, Missy," he said, hoping his benign smile covered his darker lustier thoughts.
"You're welcome, Mr. Trotter," Melissa replied sweetly, knowing full well her teacher was no more immune to her charm than any other boy or man. She had particularly become aware of this phenomenon in the last few months when her adult woman's body had begun asserting itself. She had seemingly grown up and lost her stick-like childhood form overnight, but in actuality the visible changes had begun in the spring and she had truly blossomed over the summer.
When Melissa taped herself, two weeks ago on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she proudly recorded her 'vital statistics' in her locking leatherette diary: "34 inches across the chest; 23 inches at my belly button; and almost 35 inches at my hip points." The pencil marks on her bedroom door jamb said she was sixty-four and a quarter inches tall ("That's an inch and a half more than when school let out last June, Diary!") while the bathroom scale showed one hundred twenty-one pounds. ("And all in the right places, TOO! It's no wonder my pedal-pushers are getting tight. Mom's taking me shopping for my clothes tomorrow, Diary. I'll be a real woman!")
On the mother-daughter outfitting outing, Melissa had been especially excited to replace her childish fiber-filled B-cup Maidenform Junior bras with sexier soft-fit Warner C-cup brassieres. Of course, that was after she got over her snit because her mother refused to allow her to get stiff pointy cupped bras like Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe showed off in the glamour magazines. Melissa had complained, without success, "I'm EIGHTEEN years OLD, Mom!"
Her mother rejoined calmly, "Maybe so, Missy... but you're still in high school, still under our roof, and, I HOPE you're still sensible enough to listen to your mother. You have very nice breasts which are already large enough to fill out your sweaters as good as 'The Sweater Girl'... they don't need any help. Trust me on this. These more natural Warners will be plenty flattering and comfortable, too." Mrs. Perkins dropped her voice, winked, and continued, "And, you know what? Lana and Marilyn are quite a bit older, and bigger, than you are. They probably NEED the engineering to keep from sagging!"
Melissa had snickered at her mom's surprisingly catty comment but immediately felt better about the advice and had happily bounced her boobs in their new holsters in front of the mirror in the store's changing room. Now, looking down at the mint angora clinging to her preciously pert bust, she could see that the form-molding new bra was the right choice. Slyly raising just her eyes, she saw Mr. Trotter thought so, too.
With difficulty, and a nearly imperceptible last look at Missy Perkin's perky tits, hiding not very well behind her stretched pistachio sweater and sloping up to her snow-white blouse's Peter Pan collar peering over the fuzzy crew neck, Mr. Trotter turned and retreated to his desk. Uncharacteristically, he kept his back to the class for several seconds while he noisily shuffled their papers around on top of his briefcase. When he again faced the room, he looked as pleasant as ever and picked up the lesson from the day before in a seamless easy-going style.
Forty-five minutes later the class bell rang and the room exploded as thirty-two teenagers jostled to get out the front and rear doors to their next destinations. In thirty seconds flat the room was as quiet as a library and Edward Trotter was alone. Except that Melissa was still seated with her notebook closed in front of her. "Missy?" Trotter queried with raised eyebrows. "You don't want to be late to your next class," he continued with a matter-of-fact tone.
"Oh, it's OK, Mr. Trotter," she assured her teacher. "I have study hall next period. I can't really be late."
The next group of students began filing into the class and the room noise amplified. "Well, I don't have that luxury," Trotter said evenly, with a smile to further remove any edge from his words. "My next class is already coming in." Turning to a pimple-faced boy hovering nearby and ogling Melissa through his Buddy Holly glasses, Edward greeted him, "Hello, Harvey." Re-addressing Melissa, he asked, "Missy, could you please let Harvey sit in his assigned desk?" As she stood and changed places with the disappointed gangly boy, Trotter continued speaking. "Did you stay late to ask me something? Let's stand over by the flag and talk for a moment."