Bella's POV
I was standing by my locker, putting back some books in it. It was my study/free hour, it was almost to an end and I hadn't got a single thing done. My head was just filled with images of Edward. Some very fresh, just from last hour and some from our night in New York. I was trying to process all the information. Eddie was Emmett's best friend. Eddie was Alice's brother. And Eddie was Edward. My teacher, whom I had sex with. This was gonna be bad, really bad, I could feel it. He was probably furious, English was gonna be hell. I wondered if..
"Miss Swan?"
I froze, I had been so deep in thought I hadn't heard someone approaching me from behind. And not just someone, I knew that voice, just like I had in the classroom. I turned around slowly, bracing myself, expecting the worst.
"Or do you prefer Bella?" He said seductively, putting up his hands on the lockers behind me. Trapping me between him and the lockers. I couldn't believe this was happening, my heart was beating rapidly. I didn't say anything, to shocked to make any sound, so he kept on talking.
"I was very surprised, as you may understand, when I found you in my class last hour. Because you see, I was under the impression you were in New York. That you were older, in college. That you weren't my student." He moved closer, letting one of his hands run from my neck, touching my breasts briefly, tracing my waist and sneaking around, grabbing my butt. I opened my mouth to say something
"I...I..." was all I could get out before he put the hand still on the lockers on my mouth.
"Sscchh...it doesn't matter right now. What matters right now is the fact that I haven't been able to get you out of my mind, and here you are. It's almost like a sign." He pushed his groin against mine, I gasped for air.
"You know what I think?" he asked. I shook my head. "I think, no, I'm sorry, that's not quite right. I KNOW I have to take you right now." I nervously looked around us, the hallways was still empty, but I knew the bell would ring any minute.
"Bella...I need you." He started kissing me all everywhere and I couldn't help myself. I was kissing back and soon clothes were flying through the air, landing on the floor around us. In the hallway. Then the bell rang.
I woke up still aroused from my dream, the one that had been rudely interrupted my alarm clock. It was Monday morning. I sat up in bed, sighing heavily. I had been having this dream every day since learning Edward was my teacher. I had been dreading going to English the next day, I had considered skipping, but that would not make a good impression on my second day here. Instead I had dragged myself to school, I had walked in the English classroom in the very last second, and rushed out right as the bell rang. I distracted Alice from any talking about Edward as much as possibly. I had managed to avoid him all day. But I knew I wasn't going to be able to do that forever. Sooner or later I was going to have to talk to him. It could be him asking me to stay after class, to yell at me. Bumping in to him in the hallway, but definitely not as in my dream I was afraid. Or through Alice or Emmett. It was really just a question of time. Speaking of time, I had been sitting here way too long. I had promised to meet up with Alice before school. She had been away to a spa over the weekend with her mom. I was pretty grateful for that, that meant no Edward seeing or talking. Out of sight, out of mind. Yeah, right. I looked at the time again, damn it! I only had about 10 minutes before I had to leave
As I was parking my car Alice walked up to me. I got out, and walked to her to give her a hug and ask about her weekend. But she held out her arm to stop me and looked me up and down. Several times.
"Alice?" I said after a while. "Alice?"
She snapped her eyes up to meet mine.
"So, Bella. I'm all for you dressing sexy, but...as your friend I feel I have to say that this is borderline slutty. For school at least."
I looked down at what I was wearing.
"Shit! I...ran out of time this morning, I didn't have time to do my makeup, my hair or anything."
"Not even dress, apparently" Alice said looking pointedly at my black, silky, spaghetti strapped and short night gown. "But, lucky for you, I can fix you!" She started walking to her own car, I followed her. She got out a bag from the back of her car.
"Here," she said, throwing me something. "Put it on." It was a white, waist cropped jacket with ¾ sleeves.
"And these, good thing you have small feet!" She handed me a pair of white pumps with peep toe. Then she studied my face. "You don't look too bad without makeup"
I rolled my eyes "Gee, thanks Alice!"
"You know what I mean, you know you're gorgeous! It just..."
"Yeah, yeah. Just do your thing" She applied some light makeup. Then we could hear the first bell. She quickly put some mousse in my hair to give it some volume.
"You really should leave your hair like this more often. Well, now you look rockin'. Thanks to me, of course. You owe me so big for this."
Then we hurried to class.
Edward's POV
After the 2 first days of school I was convinced I was royally screwed. Either way this was gonna have a really, really bad outcome. I had pictured a hundred different scenarios in my head.
Nr.1: Bella tells Alice, or Emmett, or her dad. Either who, I'm fucked.
Nr.2: Bella tells the principal, I'm fired.
Nr.3: All my students noticing me staring at Bella in class, because I just can't keep my eyes off her.
Nr.4 ... yeah, they just keep on going.
But I didn't really think of Bella to be the kiss-and-tell type. That was not the impression I got from her. But then again, what do I know? I'm just her creepy teacher who picked her up in a bar, where she was slightly tipsy, though not intoxicated, and had sex with her several times and several ways. Except, I didn't know at the time she was underage, or my future student. Why not? Because SHE lied to me about that. I tried telling myself that over and over to justify what had happened, but I didn't seem to work. And if that was true, then why couldn't I keep myself from looking at her, thinking about her? I should know better, really.
However, what was done was done. I couldn't take it back. But I knew I had to talk to her, get to know what she was thinking about all of this. Find out if she had told anyone, if she was going to tell someone. If she was so uncomfortable that it was not going to work, maybe I would have to transfer to a different school. Though, that would be hard, might not be possible to find a new job now, here in Seattle. And I didn't really want to leave, I had my family here. Emmett and Jasper lived here too, my two best friends. We had met in college, UCLA. All very different, Emmett was from New York, and looked like your typical High School jock, but he was a nice one. He had a passion for football like no one I ever seen. Jasper grew up in Texas and was on of those southern gentlemen. He was a history major. Jasper and I had come there at the same time, two excited but nervous freshmen. We were looking at fraternities, what made us make our decision; Emmett. He had already been there a year and took the two of us under his wings you could say.
No, I wasn't keen on leaving that, not now at least. I had to talk to Bella to figure out what we we're gonna do. But that wasn't the easiest thing, the day after our rendezvous, she had been the last one to set her foot in my classroom, and the first one to leave. And I didn't see her anymore all day. Honestly, I was kind of relieved.
Then the weekend had come and gone, I went out with Jasper on Saturday night. He had been talking about his new job when he stopped mid-sentence.
"Eddie? What's up man, you haven't said anything all night"
I rolled my eyes at that stupid nickname. I hated it, who wanted to be named like a cartoon character or something?
"Nothing, just a lot on my mind. School actually."
"Well, spit it out, so I can go back to talking about MY job."
I hesitated, I hadn't told him about my night with Bella. In fact, I hadn't told anyone, which I was immensely grateful for now. But I felt like I could need some advise, I knew he had dated a quite younger girl before, so he sort of had some experience in this question.
"Well, after you went back home and I went to NYC, I met this girl..." I didn't get to finish, he interrupted me.
"Oh, I get it. So now you're madly in love with her and thinking about moving there?"
I sighed
"No, just listen, will you? No, we just spent one night together." One fucking mind blowing night. But I left that detail out. "The thing is she was younger than I thought."
"How much younger?" he asked
"She said she was in college, but she's actually around 17."
"Okay, so...7 years apart. It's kinda bad, but see it from the bright side, it could have been worse."
"I'm not finished."
"Oh"
"2 days ago, she walked in to my class..."
He didn't say anything, just looking at me, to continue.
"...as my student."
"Oh fuck." He said
"Tell me about it", I left out the part about her being friends with Alice, or the fact that she was Emmett's little sister.
"That's really, really bad. What are you gonna do about it?"
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking you."
"Has she told anyone? What did she say to you?" he asked
"I don't think she has told anyone, but I'm not sure. And I haven't talked to her yet." That wasn't entirely true, I had, when Alice "introduced" us, but I couldn't tell him about that.
"You gotta talk to this girl man, you could be fired for this, you realize that right?"
"The thought has crossed my mind a few times, yes. In my defence, I didn't know at the time that she was a minor, or my student."
"You think a school board will care." He wasn't putting it out there as a question. I knew they wouldn't. All they would see was a teacher who had sex with his underage high school student.
Jasper had only confirmed what I thought would be a good thing to do; talk to her. Unless I wanted to be fired, and have all the bones in my body broken by my best friend for sleeping with his little sister.
It was Monday. Today would have to be the day I would have to talk to Bella. My second hour had been cancelled, all freshmen were gone for something, I don't what it was. I went to my third hour AP English class right after first hour, waiting in case she would come in early so I could talk to her. But I didn't expect her to, and she didn't. The whole class was almost here, and still no Bella. Maybe she wasn't even here. A few seconds after the second bell rang someone burst trough the door. The whole class got quiet. They always found it interesting when someone was late, acting up or doing anything that would require some kind of punishment.
I was standing by my desk with my body angled in a way so that I was looking out at the class, but I couldn't see who it was coming in late. Still, I just knew it was her. I didn't turn around right away, I was bracing myself from meeting her eyes. So I looked at the class for a few seconds to calm myself down, I was so nervous. Most of the girls looked mad, I figured the reason for that was that most of the boys were almost drooling. It made me surprisingly annoyed knowing that the reason for it all was Bella. She was gorgeous, no doubt, but I thought the young men being able to behave them self. When I heard someone in the back making a wolf whistle, it made me really irritated.
"That's enough" I said.
I knew I couldn't keep on not acknowledging her, so I turned around.
When I saw her standing there by the door, I caught my breath, I felt tempted to whistle at her myself.
"I'm so sorry I'm late, I got held up in my last class" she said. It was the most I had heard her say since we had met again. I found myself surprised I had even heard what she had said, I was so distracted by her appearance. She was wearing a dress so alluring it might as well have been lingerie. And some very nice fuck-me shoes. Her hair was beautifully messy, long dark curls against the white jacket she had over the dress. My mouth felt dry. I cleared my throat. This would be a great opportunity to make it possible for me to talk to her, alone. Though I'm not sure that would be a good idea while she looked like this.
"It's alright, but I would like for you to stay a minute after class. Please take your seat."
She nodded and went to sit down.
I started with today's lesson, I found it very hard to focus when she was sitting right in front of me. The end of the class didn't come soon enough, and when the bell rang I was very relieved. Until I realized had to be alone with her.
I went to my desk, putting some papers in my briefcase. I was watching as a boy named Mike Newton approached her. He was a typical jock, but unlike my friend Emmett, not the nice kind.
"Hey beautiful. I'm Mike" he said as he hovered over her desk.
"Hello Mike." She said his name as it was a disease. It amused me. "The name is actually Bella."
"Well, doesn't that mean beautiful?" he gave her a smile, very proud of himself for thinking of that. "So, since you're new here I feel it's my responsibility to take care of you. Be your friend, and as friends, I'll take care of you...and you'll take care of me?"
Bella raised one of her eyebrows. "I prefer to take care of myself, thank you"
"But think how much more fun it will be if I do that for you" he was grinning big. "So, you think about that, then come find me." He stood up to leave, but before he did he put his hand on her shoulder and ran it down her arm, briefly touching her breast on purpose. "I'll see you". It made me furious to see him do that. I tried to calm myself down.
As he turned around to walk away, I saw Bella shudder at the sight of him. I liked that.
Then she started walking to my desk. The classroom was empty now. She stopped right before my desk. This was it.
