The tension in the room was obvious, if not only to them. Jen moved around the art room, talking to students and making suggestions about their work and Tilly watched, following her with her eyes, she couldn't keep her eyes off of her beautiful brunette teacher.

Friendship was getting harder; it had been about a week since they had talked about it all and had both realised and decided that this would be the only possible answer to their 'problem'. The rules had been set, but the cracks were beginning to show.

Tilly tried to spend as much time in the art rooms over lunch as she could. They would just sit and talk like friends do; it was the only time they got. She'd told Maddie that she had too much coursework to do before the deadlines and staying in over lunch was the only way to get it all done in time. Thankfully this was believable; she was a work conscious student and cared about her grades, so doing extra work was never unheard of for her. It made the whole story that little bit more believable. It also meant that she didn't feel so bad for lying.

Her hand worked across the page, continuing with the piece they'd been set for the hour lesson. They were practising drawing the human form and each of them had one of those wobbly men they used to give away on the Generation game to practise. Every now and then she'd look up and catch Jen looking her way; she'd raise her eyebrow at her, and carry on with her work, a subtle smirk across her face.

'MEET YOU AT LUNCH, MISS MY FAVOURITE GINGER! MADS xxx'

Hiding her phone under the table she texted back, she really did hate lying to her best friend but on the other hand she wanted it all to work out with her and Jen; telling Maddie could just mess everything up. She couldn't risk the rumours, even if she did feel horrible.

'STILL GOT WORK TO DO SORRY :( DEADLINE NEXT WEEK. AFTER SCHOOL? TILS xx'

"Tilly, phone!"

Her head bolted up at the sound of Jen's voce and felt her cheeks blush from embarrassment.

"Erm, sorry...miss"

Her face was stern, but it softened when she saw the redhead blushing and Jen carried on staring until she noticed Tilly's eyes urging her to stop.

She darted her view back to the student's work in front of her, having forgotten that she was in a room full of other students.

It was all getting so hard. She was trying to keep her feelings for Tilly under control but sometimes she'd falter, she'd catch herself looking for too long or other times she'd reach to touch her hand when looking over her work. She'd forget the risks and the possibility of losing her job and just be wrapped up in the beautiful girl she so desperately wanted.

By the end of the lesson they were both ready to burst. It was undeniable how sexy Tilly thought Jen looked working her way around the classroom; and Jen could say the same about Tilly. She would watch the way Tilly worked so effortlessly on her pieces, how she interacted with the friends around her and the other pupils in the class

That was one fact Jen was trying to remember. Pupil. That's what Tilly was, but however wrong she thought even this friendship was, she just couldn't seem to get the girl off of her mind. In the real world the two of them could be happy and that was perhaps the worst part of it all.

"Okay guys, that's it for today. Any of you are welcome to stay behind to work on your coursework, if you do so wish. Deadline's next week remember. "The last bit was almost shouted as the students hurried to get everything into their bags and leave as fast as they could.

Jen watched as everyone shuffled out of the room, knowing full well that none of them were interested enough in their work to stay any longer than was absolutely necessary.

"You not coming Tils? Maddie said you were meeting up with us at lunch today?" George said interrupting Tilly from her work.

"Oh yeah, sorry, I text her earlier and I said I had more coursework to do. Sorry for being boring." Teamed with a melodramatic sad face, it seemed the lie was sold.

"Okay, well we'll se you later though right?"

"Yeah, I said I'd meet up with her after college." She smiled and watched him leave the room before turning back to her sketchbook.

Within the next few minutes there was an obvious presence behind her and she smiled before turning her head to catch Jen's gaze.

"Looking good." Jen said, eyes focused on the perfect human figure on the page in front of her.

"Oh I know I am"

"Oh come on Tilly, I know you can do better than that." The teacher stepped away from the table, a smile covering a face, her look challenging Tilly.

"Sorry miss, was that not up to my usual standard." Tilly's expression was teasing, she didn't know it but those were the looks Jen adored the most.

"Well you know everyone's got an opinion."

Jen walked back over to her desk, taking a pot of ink and a pen from the supply cupboard and moved back behind to redhead.

"Here, try using this, it'll give the figure more dimension and you need a few more mediums in your sketchbook to get the mark you want." She smiled down at the girl in front of her as Tilly turned her body, taking the pot and pen from her teacher's hand. Jen could feel the girl's fingers obviously graze against the rest of her hand for longer than was completely necessart

She knew full well that this was not how friends acted. That Tilly staying in over lunch time every day that week was not normal of a teacher student friendship but she just ignored it, pushing it to the back of her mind.

"So do I just do the cross hatches to build up shading?"

Jen was pulled from her haze by the question and tried to answer, but lost her words and ended up spluttering "erm...yeah...what? erm...just yeah."

Her cheeks blushed a bright pink and Tilly laughed nudging her in the hips.

"Yes, just build up the colour and that should give it a more... womanly shape." She replied raising her eyebrow, eliciting a chuckle from the redhead

The idol chat carried on for the next 20 minutes. Tilly sat on one side of the table, working little by little on her work and Jen on the other side slowly moving through a large pile of marking.

"How come you have so much work to mark, you're only a trainee teacher?" Tilly asked looking over at the vast splay of work on the table.

"It's all the people from your year worrying themselves about the coursework deadline. It would make my life a whole lot easier if they just stayed in like you and asked me questions here."

"Well I'm sad to say it, but we can't all be as amazing as me can we?"

Jen tore her eyes away from the paper in front of her and locked eyes with Tilly.

"No, sadly we can't. " She offered the girl a week smile, her eyes instantly dropping, a rush of worry working it's way through her mind.

Tilly, noticing this change, shifted her weight off her stool and moved round to sit closer to Jen.

"Hey, what's that look for." She gently slid her hand across the table touching her fingertips lightly onto Jen's making sure that it was nothing too intimate.

The brunette's eyes moved from the desk to where her and Tilly's hands lay resting together. She yearned that this could last, that her and Tilly could just be.

Age had never been a thing that worried her so that was never going to be an issue. But being Tilly's teacher just messed the whole thing up. She could feel her chances as a teacher disappearing if this carried on, but the more time she spent with the 16 year old the more the didn't want to leave her.

"I'm just finding this really hard," she nearly whispered, so that it was only audible to Tilly, just a metre next to her. "I'm finding it hard to deal with it all. I'm trying so hard to be responsible, but every time you smile at me all that goes to pot." She smiled a little with that last part, a breathy half laugh making its way out of her mouth. "You have no idea how much I want to kiss you when we're in here." Her head lifted to meet Tilly's gaze and saw the corners of Tilly's mouth raise.

"I think I have some idea" Tilly chuckled "but I don't want you to give up on your teaching, I can see how important this is to you, how hard you've worked. How when we talk you're so enthusiastic and excited about it all. However much I want us, I wouldn't want you to risk that just for me."

"Eurggh, and then you go and do that and make it all harder" Jen let out a proper laugh this time, grinning. This is the reason she adored the teenager so much. How she was so mature and collected. She wished that she'd been like that at her age.

"I wish I'd been as mature as you at your age."

"Well, like I said before we can't all be as amazing as me" She stuck her tongue out at the teacher squeezed her hand quickly and went back to her work where Jen watched her in awe.

The rest of lunch went by as usual. There'd be jokes shared and Jen would help with Tilly with her coursework. Light, friendly yet flirty smiles and touches passed every now and then before the imminent end to the lunch period came.

They always stopped a little before the bell rang so that Tilly left in time for Jen to set up for her next class and Tilly wouldn't be late for hers. So with ten minutes to spare Tilly started packing up her things, moving her work over to the drying rack and putting everything back in to her oversized bag.

"Where shall I put this?" Tilly asked holding up the pen and ink pot that Jen had given her earlier to use.

"Oh, just come over here, I'll show you were they're kept so you can come and get one any other time."

She stepped around the table, behind Jen's desk, following her towards the supply cupboard.

"Erm it just goes here." Jen said, pointing up to one of the higher shelves.

Tilly reached up placing the pens in the pot with all the others and pushed the ink pot next to it. She felt another hand on hers as the slightly taller woman helped her with the last bit. Her back pushed up against the students, and Tilly could the material of Jen's dress brush up against her skin where her shirt had ridden up.

"Sorry...erm... I was just worried that it was gonna fall, erm yeah, that was it." A slightly flushed Jen explained, playing with her hair in the nervous way she did.

"Yeah... of course" the sarcastic, teasing tone in the girl's voice put Jen at ease and she carried on putting the other supplies back onto the relevant shelves.

Just as she was reaching for the last shelf Jen felt a body pressed up against her back, much like she had just done to the younger girl just moments before.

"Sorry I thought you were going to drop it," Tilly whispered into her ear staying exactly where she was.

"Tilly." Jen was trying to stop herself wanting Tilly to be there, but it wasn't working. She was meant to sound authoritative but instead it came out as a feeble excuse for a demand.

Turning on her toes she was bought face to face with the young girl "Tilly, we can't...remember?" She wished she didn't have to utter those words, but at this moment she was being the responsible one.

The redhead looked almost defeated after hearing that and tried to step away, but Jen pulled her into a tight hug.

"I'm sorry...I really am...I want to so badly...Just not here, not now."

"I know," Tilly replied who was gently running small circles over the base of Jen's back with her index finger.

Jen placed a small and chaste kiss onto Tilly's head before pulling away properly and making her way back into the classroom where her next class were waiting patiently outside in the hall way.

The women shared one more look before Tilly grabbed her things to leave.

"Bye Miss, see you tomorrow."

"Yeah, see you soon Tilly." Jen replied with a quiet sigh

A/N: Hey I hope you all enjoyed this. I haven't written in absolutely ages so I hope anyone reading this who read any of my other stories doesn't hate me.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this and any feedback would be amazing. See you all soon