Scholarly Misbehavior

Well, I've been getting a lot of reviews, so I'm happy and inspired to write more.^-^ So, without further delay, I give you a new chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own jack…or jill for that matter. Anyway, I wish I owned Sailormoon…but I don't…and I'm not even worth suing since I'm as poor as a church mouse…I'm just borrowing the characters for a little while…

Chapter 5

Rei felt lost in a swirl of pleasure. It was as if she had lost her sense of sight, her sense of sound, but not her sense of touch. She craved Jared's caresses, his gentle strokes, and whatever else he was doing to her at the moment. All else be damned.

Then came the knock.

"Rei, are you in there?" Mina voice carried through like a shining beacon on a foggy day as she rapped repeatedly on the door.

Rei blinked slowly, her world still somewhat hazed and Jared's face still buried in the crook of her neck. Annoyed, he breathed out, his hot breath prickling her tender skin.

"Don't answer her."

"I have to."

She pushed his intrusive form away, and then straightening her clothes to no avail as she wobbly made her way to the door, Rei tried to make herself look somewhat presentable. She unlocked the door hesitantly and peeked through just a little bit.

"Mina, what are you doing here?" Rei whispered, unable to talk louder, and afraid that she might give something away.

"I was just about to ask you the same thing. Why are you still here?" Mina asked, her brows scrunched up in genuine confusion. Then, she secretly whispered, "I thought you might need a little rescuing."

"I assure you that Ms. Lambert is very capable of taking care of herself." Jared calm voice carried across the large classroom.

Rei flushed an interesting shade of neon pink and Mina glanced at both her friend and her biology teacher with curious shock.

"Oh. Mr. Campton, I didn't know you were in here, too."

"Ms. Cambridge, if you'll excuse us, we still have some unfinished business."

Jared said it almost impatiently as he combed his fingers sloppily through his golden bangs. Just the shine in his eyes warned Mina away, and since Rei didn't say anything, Mina could only nod slowly and defeatedly as she backed out of the doorway and closed the classroom door.

Rei turned around tentatively, almost afraid of what might happen if she looked into Jared's eyes again. She would undoubtedly lose herself this time. He had baited himself and she had snapped him up without reservation. In part, she was ashamed for her loss of control, and the other part of her was undeniably angry that he had taken advantage of her vulnerability and zeroed in for the kill.

To her surprise, he hadn't even made the slightest motion to move across the seemingly endless room to reach her. He stood calmly and collectedly with his arms folded across his muscled chest, just eyeing her. Rei felt a queasy feeling rising in her stomach, but she couldn't explain it. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing, not the type where you just want to retch over a toilet bowl, but it was a feeling that left her tingling and yearning. But for what? She didn't have an answer for that.

Then that damn smirk found its way back to his tanned face again. Rei's confusion and bewilderment changed to fury in one second flat.

"And just what are you looking at?" She scowled with enough force to drive a whole army back.

"There's only one other person in this room besides me."

"Well, I guess I can remedy that." Rei started shoving her belongings haphazardly into her battered bookbag, and was valiantly racing for the door, when once again, he stopped her by clamping his unyielding hand onto her thin arm.

"Come back to my apartment with me, Reichel."

Rei's demeanor instantly turned frigid. She coolly brushed away his unwelcome hand and looked up to his misleadingly angelic face with unconcealed distaste.

"Mr. Campton, I don't think that would be appropriate. Besides, you forget, I have a date tonight."

"No you don't. I know a lie when I hear one."

"That's no surprise. You must have had ample practice."

Jared's eyes narrowed suspiciously.

"And just what is that supposed to mean?"

"Don't play stupid, Mr. Campton. For an 'intelligent' man like yourself, you should know better. Besides, I've already heard of your so-called 'reputation'."

"What about my reputation?"

"Hm…let's see…do you want the bad part first or the good…oh wait, there's only bad things, isn't there. Well then, I guess I'll just have to start somewhere. Oh yeah, that teacher in the English department, what was her name again? Was it Ms. Oppenheimer? Didn't she have a fiancée? I always wondered why she resigned, but then again, I'm sure you know even better than me."

Jared remained silent, unable to speak in his own defense against her implications. After all, they were true.

Rei continued.

"Rumor has it that she was one month away from getting married when a scandal broke out. Something about her having an affair, wasn't it? Someone from this college I heard, even though she wouldn't say who. But I guess that it's fairly obvious now."

"How did you find out."

"I have my sources."

"Who?"

"I don't see how that's even relevant. The point is, Mr. Campton, that I refuse to become a second Ms. Oppenheimer. You can find some other cheap whore tonight. I'm sure she'll be willing. Isn't that what they're good for?"

For once, Jared had nothing to say. She had found him out. Rei whipped around, her ebony hair splaying around her as she confidently walked out of the door. Jared just stood there numb. She knew everything. He had hoped that no one would find out. That Jane Oppenheimer always had been a fool, but just how did Rei find out? That whole sordid incident was almost two years ago, and according to him, had been very well hushed up. He was only 26 then and just starting out in his teaching career, and Jane had been a close friend, having graduated from the same class as he did. Both were just novices, inexperienced fledglings in the teaching world. They had gone out one night to a local bar with a few colleagues and had gotten a little more drunk than intended. He had walked her home that night. Jared hadn't meant to stay the whole night, but then again, a lot more things happened that night that he regretted. What he regretted more was the fact that they didn't stop. What was originally just a one-night stand ended up carrying over for several months, until her fiancée Ian Gilvens had come over to her apartment early one day and found the two in bed together, her screaming out his name right in the middle of their intense lovemaking. Naturally, there was no wedding afterwards. What's more, Ian the jealous bastard that he was, threatened to ruin the both of them by saying that he was going to report the whole affair to Carlton University. Jane, scared for both herself and her long-time friend, guiltily resigned and even moved out. Later, Jared threatened to pummel Ian's face into the concrete if he didn't keep quiet about the whole affair, and after gauging the taller and stonger Jared, Ian backed down. The whole thing was a taboo topic among Jared's friends, of whom only his four closest knew the truth anyway. After all, the less people who knew, the better.

But now she knew. He didn't know how, but she knew. He would definitely have to remedy the situation now.

Rei breathed out in relief as she walked out into the refreshing spring air. March was always one of her favorite months; the snow had melted away under the resplendent sun and the newborn grass was just beginning to grow out of the renewed earth.

Mina was sitting nervously on a nearby bench when she saw Rei finally come out. She immediately zoomed for her friend and carelessly poked her in side to wake her out of her stupor.

"Hey you. What happened in there?"

"Huh?" Rei's mind was still somewhat fogged up from her encounter with the dangerously attractive Mr. Jared Campton, but under Mina's insistently questioning look, she shook her head for a bit more clarity. "Oh, in there. Nothing happened. He just wanted to talk to me about my grades."

Mina blew out her breath.

"Oh thank god. I thought for a second that something freaky was going on between you two. But I guess that's kind of silly since you two can't even stand each other."

Rei laughed uneasily, but kept up the charade. She hated doing this; she always shared whatever was on her mind with her friends, but for some reason, this time, she felt like she couldn't. This was between her and Mr. Campton.

"Hey, want to go shopping? You look like you could need a little break," Mina offered thoughtfully.

Rei thought about it for a moment. She had a splitting headache right now as well as a hickey on the right side of her neck, which was thankfully being covered up right now. Thank goodness for long hair. What she really wanted was to soak in a nice steaming bath until she turned into a prune, but one look at Mina's begging eyes sent her cracking up.

"Sure. I don't have that much work today."

Mina squealed happy and did her little victory dance. There was no use in trying to stop a shop-a-holic. She went on blithely.

"Oooh, let's call Lita and Sere and see if they can come, too. It'll be a total girl's outing."

"What about Amelia?"

"Oh, I bet she can't come today. She's still working in her dad's lab right now."

"And speaking of work, don't you have an internship interview today?"

"It was, but the secretary called me on my cel this morning and told me that her boss came down with a cold or something, so my interview's next Friday."

"Oh, ok. Well, let's call up Lita and Sere. You better hurry up if you want to get there on time. You know how long it takes Sere to get anywhere."

The two of them looked at each other and then grinned simultaneously.

"Models."

Two hours later and a after a screeching match between Rei and Serenity, who had claimed that her make-up artist had held her back, the girls finally made it in one piece to the mall.

"Ooh, I saw the cutest top in Express last week. Let's go." Lita then proceeded to drag the whole crew down the crowded halls with unerring expertise in trampling people.

"I don't know how you manage to get all this money for this stuff, " Rei shook her head.

"Well, I do work 6 days a week."

"Oh I see. So have you been giving Mario a little overtime lately?" Serenity waggled her eyebrows suggestively, which sent all of them into a giggling fit.

"Haha. I'm sorry but I don't go after 60-year old geezers who are my boss. By the way Sere, don't give up modeling. You have no future on the silver screen."

Three hours and a million shopping bags later, the four girls made their way exhaustedly back to their own cars. Mina had come in Rei's zippy little red Beetle, and was currently trying to jam all of her bags into the backseat since trunk was already packed with Rei's stuff. After she triumphantly slammed the door shut, she and Rei waved goodbye to Lita who had driven her junky old Jeep and Sere who was at the moment starting up her silver Jetta. The afternoon had been productive indeed and for the most part had kept Rei's mind off a certain biology teacher of hers.

Rei was carefully backing out the parking space when all of a sudden…

"Rei! Watch out for that car!"

She felt a bump, and she and Mina lurched forward. After she recovered, Rei cursed off while banging the steering wheel. She agitatedly pushed open her car door and went out like a raging bull breathing steam and fire to scream at whoever had just rammed into her precious car.

Rei thumped with her fist on the top of the other car, not even waiting for the driver to get out before starting her tirade.

"You asshole! Didn't you see where I was going? What the hell are you doing? Do you even know how to drive? If you see me backing out, why the fuck do you try to go behind me? Are you an –"

She stopped mid-sentence as she saw the door on the driver's side open and one suit-clad pant leg step out, followed by a golden head of hair.

"Well, Ms. Lambert, seems like we keep on bumping into each other, figuratively and literally."

Jared's amused voice wafted over the entire scene and Rei could only gape open-mouthed. The man looked absolutely delectable in a sleek black suit. Not only that, why did she have to keep on meeting him in these most inopportune times? It was like she was cursed or something.

Her first reaction was, "God must fucking hate me."

~ Well, you like? It's kinda fate that the two keep on bumping into each other. Now the question is whether they're ever going to settle their problems….hm….well, I guess you'll have to wait for the next chapter then. Don't worry, it should be out soon.

I've introduced most of the girls in this part. I already have plans to right stories for each one of the Senshi/general pairings. All of their stories are going to be interlinked, so the characters you see in this story will be the exact same ones you'll see in the other ones. I think I'm doing the Amelia/Zyler one next. It's going to be called "Gliding on Thin Ice". Well, what do you think? Good? Cheesy? Suggestions?

Well, here are both of their profiles. I'll have a teaser for the story up next time.

Amelia Lason-21-Senior Undergraduate student at Carlton University.

Daughter of Professor Lason, the head of the Physics Department.

Helping out her dad in the lab after classes.

Zyler Tennyson-26-Senior Graduate student at Carlton University

Working in a fellowship with Professor Lason

Well, tell me what you think! Thank you for all the reviews and comments I've been getting! Yay! Don't hesitate to tell me whatever you think! Please leave a review or just email me. I love getting mail!:P

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