Taylor's eyes fluttered open and she saw that she fell asleep on Chad in a weird position. She tapped him on the shoulder to try to wake him up. With no success of waking Chad up, she began playing with his nose and soon Chad was moving his hand and trying to remove Taylor's hand. She giggled.

"Chad you have to get up. We have work soon." Taylor laughed when she seen Chad open one of his eyes.

"I'm too tired Taylor, my body is sore." Chad's other eye opened and looked down at Taylor. "From last night." Chad kissed Taylor on the lips.

She got up and stood before Chad.

"You're so beautiful, you know that?" Chad smiled as he looked at Taylor's naked body.

"I know." Taylor smiled before turning around to walk away. She walked to the stairs and then turned to look back at Chad. "I was going to take a shower. But of course you need to take on too and it wouldn't make sense if we took two separate showers."

"So what are you suggesting?" Chad smirked.

Taylor smiled before walking up the stairs to the bathroom. She closed the door behind her and began running the shower water. She stepped inside and ran water through her hair and on her body. Seconds later she felt someone behind her and kisses going from her neck all the way down her body. She turned around to see Chad standing in front of her and smiled before she backed him up against the wall and kissed him.


Gabriella was at the school in her office when she looked up to see Taylor standing in her doorway.

"What's up Tay?" Gabriella asked.

Taylor sat in a chair across from Gabriella's desk. She folded her arms and crossed her legs as she talked to Gabriella.

"I quit last night." Taylor announced.

Gabriella's eyes widened. "I knew you were going to quit but I didn't think you would quit so soon."

"I had to."

"Well did you see her last night?" Gabriella asked.

Taylor got out of the chair and walked around the room. "I did, we talked. She kissed me."

Gabriella's eyes widened more, "what? Are you serious?"

"Three times." Taylor responded holding up three fingers.

"Taylor, that's crazy." Gabriella said just as there was a knock on her door.

"Can I come in?" Gabriella and Taylor looked over to see Lisa standing in the doorway.

"Do come in Dr. Banks; is there something I can do for you?" Gabriella asked.

Lisa looked over Taylor, who played in her hair to avoid eye contact.

"I just wanted to get a confirmation to see if you guys were coming to my Christmas party or not." She looked back over at Gabriella.

Gabriella looked over at Taylor, "um I'll be there, Taylor?"

Taylor looked up and looked over at Lisa and gave a slight smile, "yeah, I'll be there." Taylor continued playing with her hair.

Lisa looked at Taylor, "Okay thank you." She walked out of the room.

"You're really going to go?" Gabriella asked.

"I have to, if I don't and you do, she'll probably be suspicious." Taylor responded.

Gabriella sat there quietly, "I'll see you later Taylor."

Taylor walked out of Gabriella's office and patrolled the halls of busy students. Taylor didn't have a class that period so she spent her time catching up on work. She could hang out with Chad because he had a class.

Taylor had two phones: a work phone and a personal phone. She stopped working and took out her personal phone. She pulled out the card with Lisa, well Sunny's number on it. She looked at it for a minute before she put the number into her phone and sent a message.

Hey it's Brittany.

Taylor placed her phone down and put the card in her pocket. She continued grading papers until her phone buzzed. Taylor looked at it and picked it up to see a message from Sunny.

Hi beautiful.

Taylor hesitated before responding back. That whole period, Taylor spent it texting Lisa, well Sunny. A few periods later, Taylor was teaching a class. There was a knock on her door and she went to answer it.

"Dr. Banks, hi." Taylor looked to see Lisa at the door with a cell phone in her hand.

"Can you step outside for a minute?" She asked.

Taylor grew nervous and she slowly nodded. She told her class to do work while she stepped out of the classroom. Taylor closed the door and stood outside with Lisa.

"Is there something wrong?" Taylor asked.

"No, everything is fine. I'm going around and I'm reminding all of them that there is a meeting after school about the activities before Christmas break." Lisa responded.

"Right, Christmas break. I'll be there." Taylor smiled.

"Kay, I'll see you then." Lisa said before she turned to walk away but then she looked back at Taylor.

"You have nice eyes." She said.

Taylor grew nervous. "Thank you."

Lisa nodded before walking away. Taylor watched Lisa walk away and turn the corner. Taylor let out a deep breath before she walked back in her class and finished teaching.


After school, Taylor was on her way to the board meeting when she saw Chad talking to one of his students.

"Danforth!" Taylor shouted.

Chad turned and smiled when he saw Taylor standing there. The student walked away from Chad and Chad ran up to Taylor.

"McKessie, how are you? I haven't seen you since lunch." Chad said.

They continued to walk to the board room together, they were the only ones in the hallway. "I know. I missed you."

"So, I told Dr. Banks that I'd be at her Christmas party. You're going right?" Chad looked at Taylor.

"Yes, I get nervous every time I see her now." Taylor responded.

Taylor didn't tell Chad that she began texting Sunny today. She didn't know how he would react so she left that part out. They got to the room and walked in to see Gabriella sitting next to Lisa. Taylor and Chad sat in the first row, next to a few other teachers.

"Thank you all for coming. I wanted to talk about this Christmas break. I wanted to plan a few events for the students." Lisa started.

She looked at Chad, "I know our boys have their last game before break."

"Are there any suggestions for what we could do with the students?" Gabriella asked.

Taylor spoke, "I've been hearing that the kids would like to go ice skating maybe. Like a field trip."

Gabriella began writing on a notepad. She wrote down Taylor's idea.

"Maybe if we do a day where kids bring gifts for those whoever they want to bring gifts for." Another teacher suggested and Gabriella wrote that down.

"Um, how about a concert?" Chad suggested.

Lisa looked up at Chad for him to elaborate. "I mean the drama and choir club and dance club could come up with a show centered around Christmas and they could perform it that night before we go on break."

"I like it." Lisa said.

"Yeah, that sounds fun. And then maybe we can invite parents and whoever wants to come." Taylor said.

Gabriella wrote more on the paper. "Maybe candy canes? Students can pay to buy some and they can send them out to other students. It'll be like a candy cane gram."

She looked up at Lisa, who nodded, and Gabriella smiled as she wrote her idea down.

"Miss Barkley, I want you to start doing projects based on Christmas with the students. That way we can hang them around the room." Lisa said to the art teacher.

Miss Barkley nodded her head before she went in her plan book and began writing things down.

Thirty minutes later the meeting was over and everyone was walking out of the room. Taylor was walking in the hallway with Chad, on their way to Taylor's classroom.

"Dr. Banks was giving you a lot of eye glances today." Chad spoke.

"I know, I just keep my cool and act normal when I'm around her." Taylor responded. "Hopefully if I keep it up, she won't suspect a thing.