My phone starts beeping at me. Who is facetiming me?!
- hey Josephine what's up? holy crap is that your real hair?!
Her previously brunette hair is a vivid metallic blue.
- hi mr. Jones. do you like it?
- wow! I love it. insane colour. will they let you go to school like that?
- oh yeah. they only have rules about our clothes. and makeup. and... well ok they have lots of rules but not about hair colour. speaking of clothes, do you like this top? I made it myself. well actually I "hacked" one of my school uniform tops.
It's the typical private-school-type white shirt. Josephine has cropped it to show a couple of inches of midriff, and also darted the bust. Josephine is an attractive 18 year old whose body has developed generous curves at a relatively young age.
- um it's very nice - looks great - but again would they even let you in school with that on?
- *giggles* - probably not - but they'd only see that it is not "regulation" if I take off my blazer.
- right. sooo... why did you call me?
- oh yeah. I wanted to ask you what piece we're going to work on at my next lesson.
- what a memory. I'm the one who is old enough to have memory lapses, not you. it's the Haydn my dear. and the pages I marked in your ear training book - DO NOT forget those. moreover, I wrote it in your notebook.
- oh yeah...
- so this means you haven't touched the Haydn since your last lesson?!?! I'm seeing you in 2 days dude - get to work!
- ok ok. *pause* can I show you some more clothes that I made?!
- no get to work - to the piano - now!!!
- come on just one more then I'll go.
- *sigh* quickly then.
- yay! ok look away for 5 seconds.
- *sigh*
- ok look!
Jo has taken off her top revealing a white lace bra.
- shit Jo - not cool!!!
- come on it's just a bra. I told you, I made ...
I hang up. She calls back right away but I don't pick up. She stops trying after the fourth attempt. Did I over-react? Fuck I don't know. I'm no prude but, boundaries right? Propriety. I mean I'm her teacher not her damn' fashion consultant.
A few hours later she calls again. I guess/hope that enough time has passed and she's over it... so I pick up.
- what the hell was that Jo?!
- but it was only a frikking bra...
- come on you know better than that. NOT APPROPRIATE! seriously. I could go to jail for shit like that.
- ok ok I'm sorry. but I am 18 you know so legally...
- stop. just stop. conversation. over.
- ok sheesh!
Long pause.
- but did you like it?
- I didn't look!!!! jesus Jo you're relentless. I'm not going to check out my 18 year old student's breasts.
- I wasn't asking you to check out my breasts, perv. just if you liked the bra. do you know how hard it is to make a bra?! took me hours.
- *sigh* well in the 30 or so milliseconds it took my brain to register what I was looking at before looking away, let's just say your bra looked very nice. you're clearly a talented tailor.
- thank you. was that so hard?! *giggle*
- everything is a struggle with you, and you damn-well know it!
Pause.
- I made the matching panties too!
- stop. just stop.
- but I'm not wearing them right now... *giggle*
- goodnight Josephine. see you on Friday. be ready to play me some Haydn! at least the exposition.
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Friday
- come on in Jo, just finishing up with Tyler. have a seat.
- k
Tyler is collecting up his books as we discuss his pieces and the upcoming recital. I see him out the door and go back in.
Jo's wearing her school uniform but with a sweater instead of her blazer, and of course the stereotypical plaid skirt, knee-socks and black buckle-ups. She's acting a little sheepish today - gone is the devilish bravado and flirting of the other night - at least for now.
- ok let's get to it. are you warmed up?
- yeah, I got a practice room at school right after classes.
- ok let's see... A major scale. 4-octave formula pattern please.
- k
- very nice. um, F minor arpeggio 4-octaves.
etc.
- ok so you are warmed up! Debussy please. I know you're going to find a way to play it so let's get it out of the way. it is a good warm up piece...
She plays her beloved Clair de Lune. Why do teenage girls seem to love this piece so much?! I mean, yeah it's beautiful, but it's sooooo over played.
- Mr. Jones it's really hot in here. do you mind if I take off my sweater?
- go ahead.
I suddenly remember her shenanigans the other night:
- wait...! you're decent underneath right?!
- I'm wearing a camisole - but it's one that can be worn as outer wear.
- you better not be trying it on again young lady.
- what?! I'm just hot.
- k
Jo stands up from the piano and starts to lift her sweater. But it's rather tight and she struggles to get it off. The camisole is lifting along with the sweater. She gets the sweater up almost to her shoulders but the camisole has ridden up to just below her breasts. I can't tell if she knows what is happening to her camisole so...
- hold on. Jo stop! you're pulling your camisole up too. here, let me help. we don't need a Wardrobe Malfunction...
I move over to her and reach for the bottom of the camisole to pull it down but in doing so I inadvertently touch her, just below her armpits.
- oh!
- oops! sorry.
Jo pulls back a bit in surprise but keeps trying to pull her sweater off.
- shit I'm stuck! can you help me?!
Then it happens: she gets the sweater over her head but in the process pulls the camisole up to her neck and I'm suddenly presented with her stunningly beautiful breasts. I can't help but drink them in, while Jo continues to struggle, seemingly unaware of the show she's giving me. Or is she?
- Jo come on. this is too much!
- what?! I'm stuck. I can't see a thing.
I regain my wits and reach up to disentangle the camisole from the sweater, pulling down the camisole while she pulls the sweater the rest of the way off. The camisole is a lovely cream coloured satin with spaghetti straps.
- did you do that on purpose?
- what?!
- you just exposed your breasts to me dude!!!
- oh did I?! *pause* did you like them?! *giggle*
- you are too much. seriously. teacher. student. boundaries.
- I'm an adult now.
- fuck!
We stare at each other for a long moment.
- so, "outer wear" huh?!
- duh! where have you been? women wear these all the time with a skirt or whatever. see, you can wear it like this. or like this...
...she says - that mischievous twinkle is back in her eye - as she pulls the camisole forward and down to show more cleavage.
- Jo stop! jesus christ you are bru. tal. ok ok it's very nice. let's move on. let me hear the new piece.
She sits back down at the piano with a playful pout and starts into the Haydn. She seems a little flustered now and struggles a bit with the piece. I'm flustered now too. I don't know what game she's playing but I am only human after all - I can't unsee what I've seen. Nor can I deny (to myself at least) I'm aroused. I decide to play her game a little bit and see what happens. Teenagers are always testing boundaries, trying to make sense of all the physical and emotional changes they go through as they deal with puberty. Let's give her a new test!
I step behind her and look over her shoulder to consult the score and verify what she's playing.
- here.
I point.
- bar 19. if you start that run with finger 4 then you won't get into trouble - you know, kind of like how the editor marked it!
- smart ass.
- hey! respect authority.
- pfff.
- again!
au debut
. a little slower.
While she's playing I reach up to her shoulders, take the straps of her camisole and pull them forward so the front falls lower, revealing more cleavage. At first she keeps playing but after another moment I pull it so far forward that her nipples are on the verge of popping out. She stops playing and looks up over her shoulder at me with a smirk.
- see I knew you like my breasts!