She'd made the Dean's list for three consecutive semesters. She was in the scholar's program, and she had been offered a spot on one of her favorite professor's teaching staff. Needless to say, Aurora was smart, but apparently all of her academic success didn't keep her from doing something as thoughtless as pursuing a risky relationship.
She was no longer a freshman, so she couldn't use that as an excuse for falling into this trap. Aurora was not, nor had she ever been, a helpless school girl who couldn't think for herself. She had felt the overwhelming pressure to do well and excel beyond everyone's expectations for her entire life. Aurora was strong-willed and capable of accomplishing whatever she set her mind to which raised the question: was she willing to throw all of that away for a-what? Something that was essentially nothing more than a fling?
The blonde didn't know what to do, and for the first time in her life she didn't know how to find an answer. Usually she would face any problem thrown at her head on and with a sense of determination that was just short of intimidating. But now? Aurora had no way to figure out what she should do. She couldn't go to anyone for help, not her friends, and especially not her family. Her father would probably disown her for doing something so foolish.
Aurora knew all of this but she couldn't help it, she just couldn't. Even when she saw the warning signs the blonde couldn't bring herself to do the right thing, to step away and avoid jeopardizing her future. Instead Aurora had succumbed to temptation and embraced the danger with open arms…
The real irony of the matter was that one of the lectures that her father had given her about going to college dealt with the exact situation that she found herself in now. "The dangers of the student/teacher relationship" he had called it. Although his arguments had been valid, ranging from ethics to STDS, all of it flew from Aurora's mind the second she stepped foot into Dr. Maleficent Moor's classroom.
Aurora didn't know what made this professor so special. She had definitely experienced her fair share of crushes, but nothing like this. Sure Dr. Moor was an attractive woman-stunning actually, with piercing green eyes and perfect cheekbones, but it still didn't make sense. Never before had someone had such an effect on Aurora. The older woman's voice was smooth as honey, but the sultry undertone sent shivers down Aurora's spine each time her teacher called roll. The way her name sounded as it passed those sinfully red lips turned Aurora into a blubbering mess. On more than one occasion her behavior had earned her a curious look, and the arching of a single delicate eyebrow only made the blonde's blush deepen and her embarrassment more evident.
Maleficent wasn't an idiot, far from it, for she had experienced this sort of thing before. In her years of teaching, she had been on the receiving end of such affection countless times. However, this was the first time that she found her own responses surprising. Typically she would ignore it or shut down the hormonal student's attempts with an icy stare, but with Aurora she found that she was the hormonal one. It was a foreign feeling that she had resisted at first, but after their first encounter in her office she learned just how weak her resolve had been.
Unfortunately she had messed up and revealed their…arrangement to her T.A. Diaval. His reaction was unexpected he wasn't even that mad when he confronted her about it, but he had made it clear that he expected better. The open-ended statement left Maleficent unsatisfied and frustrated, but at the end of the day all that mattered was that she and Aurora had been caught. The younger woman's future was on the line, hell so was hers at this point. Although what they had done-what they were doing-wasn't against the law, it was more than likely that anyone who found out wouldn't be as forgiving.
Now all that she and Aurora could do was wait. They had agreed to stop seeing each other until Diaval made his intentions clear and declared whether or not he was going to report her. It had been almost a week since the incident and still nothing has happened. The suspense was driving Aurora crazy, and Maleficent wasn't much better off. Still, despite what they were going through neither of them regretted it. Regardless of the situation they still felt strongly for one another. They would still steal glances in class and Aurora would get one of those rare smiles from the older woman from time to time, but they were definitely more careful. They made sure that Diaval wasn't looking before they turned to each other, so far they hadn't been caught in the act. It didn't matter though, Diaval already knew what was there and he knew he had to make a decision.
However, until this decision was made, all Aurora and Maleficent could do was wait…