"Ms. Munroe?"
Ororo looked up from the quiz she had been grading, "Yes, Bobby?"
"What exactly does our essay have to be?"
She put down her pen and looked at her notes, "Just your standard format. It needs to be typed, Times New Roman font, double spaced, size 12, and six pages."
The class groaned, making her smile, "Why six?"
"Because, depending on how big you write, it is only three sides of notebook paper. Given the history of the Spanish, it won't be difficult to find enough information."
"But Mr. Summers already gave us 43 problems to do in Pre-Calc," Kitty complained.
The other students nodded in acknowledgement, even though she knew most weren't in Pre-Calc. She was positive, however, that Scott had assigned just as much, if not more, homework to his other classes. She grinned, "Did he now?"
"Yes, he did," a deeper, more familiar, voice said from the doorway.
She looked up into the smirking face of Scott, whose ruby lenses glowed dangerously, "Do you think I should shorten their essays?"
The look of hope of their faces was pitiful. He laughed, making gooseflesh of her skin, "I'd make them longer, ten pages. You're too nice to them. This is the Advanced World History class, yeah? College level?"
"You heard the man," she said to her class. "Ten pages, but you have the weekend to do it. Easy."
Some of them looked like they were about to cry as the bell rang and they exited the room toward a Friday night of research and writing. He closed the doors and leaned against them, "How many of them do you think we can have in tears by the end of next week?"
"You're the teacher we all hated," she laughed, running her hands through her white hair. She stood and walked toward the doors as he grinned predatorily.
"What does that make you? The one we all loved?"
"Of course."
He reached down to cup her face in his rough hands, "You don't need to lessen their work to get them to love you. No one could resist you."
"Even you?" she breathed, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Especially me."
He captured her lips with his and pulled her body closer. She groaned into his mouth and slipped her tongue in to stroke his. After sucking on her bottom lip for a bit, he kissed his way across her jaw, down her neck to suck on her exposed collarbone. He growled against her skin, "Do you want to do this here?"
Heat flashed across her skin where her shivers had been earlier, "How about we find somewhere more comfortable?"
And so while their students were up all hours of the night trying to get their homework done before the weekend, they were alone, showing each other how much they were in love.
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