A/N: Got stuck at the airport with my flight delayed by 6 hours. Update Time!
I pulled into the school parking lot 30 minutes before the first bell rang. Even with Belle helping me last night, I was still a little confused with some of the formulas. Wanting to get in for some tutoring with Ms. Mills this beautiful Friday morning, I got up 45 minutes earlier, took a shower, actually washed my hair, and picked out a decent outfit. Khaki's that I don't remember being this tight, and a black long sleeve shirt that had a hood attached. Matching, I had my black vans on.
Reaching behind my seat I got my backpack and physics text book, then locked up my car and headed to the school. My cell phone vibrated in my back pocket and I dipped my hand in and pulled it out.
Hey sweetie! You're father and I are heading out of town shortly. We have prepped some food for you so all you have to do is cook it. There's extra money in the drawer in case of emergencies. You know the rules, you can have your friends over, but no parties!
XOXO Mom
Yes that's right! I forgot they told me they were going out of town this weekend. I think after all the studying Belle did with me my brain was mush and any communication after that was hardly heard.
I stepped into the hall Ms. Mills's class was in and her door was propped open with a small stopper. My heart skipped a beat and I began to pick up my pace. Today my only goal was to remain calm and some what collected around her. If I had any ounce of passing this class, I needed to recognize and acknoledge a few things.
One, she's hot.
Two, she's smart.
Three, she's doesn't take shit from anyone.
Finally, all those things together made me attracted to her.
Not a crush, no. But I definitely seemed to respond to her. Maybe if I just let that sink in, it won't feel so weird for me around her.
I took a deep breath as I neared her room, then with all of my enthusiasm, I walked in.
"Good morning Ms. Mills-"
Stopping in my tracks, I watched as a very tall man, like super fucking tall, rubbed her shoulders tenderly. He was giving her a massage. At the time Ms. Mills had her eyes closed, but at the sound of my voice her head jerked up, her eyes met mine and the hands of the giant man stopped.
It was tense. Awkward. And it's possible I imagined it but I swear she glanced her eyes over body with a flicker of...something that crossed her honey brown orbs.
I was the first one to break the silence.
"I can just, um, come back..." I said trailing off on the last word and slowly backed up.
"Miss Swan no, it's fine. He was just leaving."
She shrugged his hands off her shoulders and he looked at her with his brows furrowed.
"I was?" he asked seriously.
Ms. Mills just arched an eyebrow.
"Yup, I was."
The man bent down and kissed her on the cheek. So I'm confused. Is she dating Coach Robin? Or this beast of a human? Or is she dating both of them? Like in an open relationship.
My mind's thoughts were running so wildly it was forming a small headache. God I needed to stop obsessing over my teacher's personal life.
"I'll call you tonight Regina." he said before politely saying bye to me and walked out of the room.
She seemed to flinch at the use of her first name. I didn't understand why. Her name was beautiful.
Regina Mills.
Regina Mills.
Re-gi-na…
I wanted to say it out loud. Soak in the feeling of her name rolling off my tongue.
"Miss Swan have you decided to take me up on my offer?" Ms. Mills asked sending me a smile and standing up.
So we are back to Miss Swan? At least she's being playful. And today's outfit worn by the sexy physics teacher was skinny jeans, a sexy pair of black boots, and a black plaid fitted shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows.
Fuuuuuuuuuck.
"Miss Swan?" she questioned lightly.
"Uh, yes...yes I am. Unless you meant only when volleyball started."
"We are good. As I said, my door is always open."
I walked over to her desk and grabbed the chair I used yesterday, placing it right next to her rolling one. Sitting down, I began to thumb through the pages until I landed on the one from last night, then pulled out my notebook from my backpack and opened it to my work. Ms. Mills sat down in her chair and rolled it over, our chairs were touching now. She crossed one leg over the other and the tip of her boot grazed over my calve.
"Alright, let me see it."
Ms. Mills didn't make any indication whether or not she felt those strange vibrations whenever we barely touched so I ignored it as well. For now anyway. I passed her my notebook and not even two seconds later she was shaking her head and setting it down.
Did I fuck it up that bad?
"I don't understand what you want from me Miss Swan."
Uh, what I want from you?
I kept my eyes glued to the scattered papers on her desk.
"I need your help."
"No you don't. This-" she said passing back the paper. "-is correct."
My head turned towards hers and her honest eyes held me.
Can you repeat that please?
I must've looked as puzzled as I felt because Ms. Mills light giggle left her chest.
"Emma, you solved it properly." she said matter of fact.
Emma? Yes, and we're back.
"Okay, I get that but, how?"
This is not me playing dumb. I may have answered it right, but I don't really understand how I got there. Belle was helping me through it, but this shit is hard to retain.
Now it was Ms. Mills turn to look confused.
So cute.
"Do you really not know?"
I shook my head no.
"Okay, come here."
Scooting over, most of my ass was on the side closest to her chair. My knees were now brushing up against hers. I waited for any sign of discomfort but she made none, surprising me by leaning in closer and wrapping her left arm around the top of my chair. Her scent wrapped around me, this time I didn't fight it.
If I was going to come in here and get tutored by her occasionally, her smell would be something that I would have to get use to.
"So in this example their saying that every centimeter equals a force of 10 newtons. So, a 50 newton force vector would be an arrow with a length of 5 centimeters. When adding two vectors how do you position them when you scale?"
"Tip to Tail."
She nodded proudly at me. There's hope for me yet!
"So to subtract two vectors you do something similar, but the one you're subtracting goes in the opposite direction. With this info, what's the formula?"
"If we are subtracting, the formula would be V=Vf-Vi, 3 cm=30N=Av, so the final formula would be v/t=30/3=10 m/s/s."
Ms. Mills smiled broadly.
"See, you've got it."
"I guess I do. Belle is pretty good. Sometimes she uses big words as if everyone knows them, but overall, she's decent at tutoring, You however have that little thing that just makes it click."
That's right, I complimented her.
She nodded her head then sat back in her chair. Her eyes never wavering off me.
"Well thank you. It seems she really helped you out though."
I shrugged in response.
"So you guys are close?"
What was that in her voice?
"Yea we are. Belle, Ruby, Jefferson, and Killian are pretty much my family."
"Are you not close with your real family?"
Her question surprised me. I turned my chair so I was facing her directly, propping my elbow up on the desk and rested the side of my head in my hand.
"I'm definitely close with them. They are...the best."
My phone vibrated in my pocket, lifting the mood of how deep this conversation was about to go. I pulled it out and smiled.
It was dad.
Alright Little Swan, we are officially on the road. Call us if you need anything. Love you!
The house to myself. So ready for that. I'm not like normal kids, I definitely value my alone time.
"Do you need to leave?" asked Ms. Mills curiously.
"No, it's just my dad. The 'rents are going out of town today."
"So you'll be home...alone?"
I detected a hint of worry in her voice. That's strange. But also sweet.
"Uh, yea? I'm not some helpless girl, I can fend for myself for a few days."
Ms. Mills laughed and matched my pose from earlier. The way she had her head leaned to the side made her hair fall in front of her face. In a lithe movement she tucked the strands behind her ear. Her brown eyes swirled with mystery and I found myself wishing I could get to know her a little more.
Maybe I will stop in every morning.
"I did not think you were helpless." she said reaching over with her unoccupied hand and placed it on my knee."
I tried to hold back the shiver in my spine but it was too strong. She stared intently at me, and that stupid cute smirk graced her lips.
Did she feel that? God I hope not.
"If you need anything, let me know. My email is in the syllabus I passed out."
That is nice of her. However alone time with Ms. Mills in my house seemed like an absolute red flag. But what was I going to say. Nope, that can't happen because every time I'm around you I turn into a nervous wreck and my mind goes blank. Yea right.
She shifted in my silence.
"Thanks Ms. Mills, but doesn't that breach student/teacher relationship guides?"
That was smooth.
"I know Mr. Davis and his wife go rock climbing with some of his students on the weekends. I can't imagine this would be any different."
Wait, so she wanted to hang out? Or was I as usual reading into this.
"Okay, I'll definitely let you know."
Sensing my hesitation she did a mock surrender.
"I promise I won't say anything if you're worried about your status."
My status? Ah my high school status. She's kind of right, if my friends found out I hung out with my physics teacher, I would never hear the end of it.
"So do you have any plans for winter break?" she asked quickly changing the subject.
Standing up from her chair graceful as fuck, she slid past me and began to erase the barely legible equation I had put up yesterday.
"I'm not so sure yet." I replied honestly. "You?"
"Going out of town to see my family in Boston and my sister wants to plan a cruise for my birthday."
Her birthday is coming up?
I nodded my head casually. Standing up I walked over to the middle row and sat on top the first desk. Ms. Mills was still facing the board and I was getting a perfect view of her ass in the those jeans. My cock throbbed at the sight, and I had to shift to get comfortable.
"So when's your birthday?" I asked making my voice sound indifferent.
"In February. The 1st actually. When's yours?" Ms. Mills replied matching my tone.
She began to write today's date and then 'lesson:' in her amazing handwriting. I hopped off the desk, walked over to stand next to her, grabbing a marker in the process. In black, I wrote out October 23rd. My lettering was clean for once.
From the side I watched as she glanced over it then look at me with a smile on her face.
"So you're a Scorpio."
So she's into zodiac signs? I knew a little bit about them except the months they fell on. I didn't really like the thought of an animal made up by who knows predicting the type of person I am. I'm the boss of me, and nobody else.
"And you're an Aquarius." Turning to face her I leaned my shoulder on the whiteboard and took the time to slowly rake my eyes over her profile.
Ms. Mills continued writing on the board, paused for a moment then shifted her weight from one foot to the other. She could most likely feel me looking at her but I didn't care.
"I hear those 2 don't go together very well." I replied breaking the silence.
And for the first time, I realized how laid back I was. Even in this close proximity, my state of mind is at peace. I'm not over thinking every word she's saying, or what I'm about to say. I'm not tense. My posture is informal, and felt a swirl of confidence. I smirked at myself feeling proud of how I was acting.
There's the Emma I know.
I caught the small smile the graced her lips before she covered it up.
"That's because their misunderstood."
Okay, now I'm intrigued.
"Really? Well I'm not all that familiar with the zodiac stuff. So you'll have to explain."
I took a step closer to her, then returned to my previous position. Ms. Mill dropped her gaze to my feet, then slowly brought her head up to meet my eyes. She raised a perfect eyebrow, then slid the marker into her pocket, and walked around me. I followed her with my gaze turning around at to face her. She stood inches from me, leaning her back against the board, folding her arms under her breast and crossed one ankle over the other.
Falling into a state of repetition, I leaned my other shoulder on the board and stared at her hard. The front of her teeth came out and she gently bit her lip. I will never get tired of seeing that. She looked over her shoulder, eyes meeting mine.
"Well, these two signs together can make a powerful couple, of course if the level of maturity is not there then it can be world war 3." she chuckled as if she was remembering something.
Ms. Mills turned over on her shoulder and copied my body. The more I was around her the more I realized she did that when the conversation was about to get a little heavy.
"The Aquarius has a mysteriousness about them. Not quite like a Pisces, but close. This level of mystery draws in the Scorpio and puts them in a forever spiral of being on the so called 'chase'."
Interested I nodded my head wanting her to continue.
"A Scorpio is a strong masculine sign."
I laughed inside. If only she knew how true that statement was for me.
"They love to go after people they can't peg right off the bat. The Aquarius is complex and deep enough to pull them in. Scorpio's like complexity and love, they are deep signs heavy with emotions. Sadly they are often presumed as brash and arrogant, but in fact they just can't deal with stupidity. They think, 'If I get it, why don't you?'. This personality generally leads them to go against the flow of traffic, and make their own way."
As she talked about the 2 signs, I was more and more shocked with how accurate a lot of this stuff was in my particular case.
Maybe I should look into some of this stuff.
"But a true mature Aquarius will understood you."
Her gaze was unwavering. Her pupil dilated as her iris's darkened. She looked like she was searching for something in my eyes. I fought hard to keep it off my face.
"And you won't be able to easily figure an Aquarius out, but you have the ability to get inside their minds more than any other sign. Even though we are tough, our motives are pure, we have different range for ethics, and huge hearts full of love. The downfall between the two, is that the Scorpio can have some bad insecurities, how can someone like us, an Aquarius..." she pointed to herself. "Be intrigued by, the most disliked of zodiac signs. They don't find themselves worthy of the big heart."
The air between is tense and charged. I could feel the sparks flying off of my body and energy pulled me towards her. I was sinking into brown pools, my heart fluttering out of my chest.
"But, if you can look past your personal demons and into the eyes of the air sign, the relationship could be truly beautiful. They can represent the ultimate sexual freedom, no restrictions, and no faults."
My cock throbbed at the way her voice dropped. It felt like she was talking from a current experience and her words were heavy in my mind. It seemed like she everything she described, was about me, right down to the sexual freedom. Would she be okay with my dick? Or did she already know about it and was telling me it didn't bother her?
No, how could she know? Nobody would've told her, not even Lily, her mom doesn't even know. The warning bell rang obnoxiously loud jarring me out of my competitive stare with Ms. Mills. She smiled then turned away from me and blushed.
"Sorry about that, I tend to ramble." she muttered quickly.
The sound of students filing into the halls grew louder as everyone made their way to their class.
"Don't apologize. You're cute when you nerd out." I smiled and blushed.
Jesus, did I just say she's cute out loud? To her fucking face?
"You should go Miss Swan, I don't want you to be late again." Ms. Mills said still with a smile on her face, but her eyes were glued to the ground.
Her gaze returned to me but it was now professional. She straightened up and fixed her shirt. Okay, I'm starting to understand. She calls Miss Swan when 'school' is happening, but Emma when she feels she can be comfortable. I shouldn't feel special about this, I'm sure she did this with other kids. Right?
"I'll see you later, okay?" her voice floating to my ears.
Like that's even a fucking question. I wouldn't admit this to anyone, but physics was becoming my favorite class.
"Of course, I'll be sitting in my seat!"
Back to unnatural, weird Emma. Bitch relax! Still Ms. Mills was awesome and chuckled lightly.
"Looking forward to it."
With her hand she politely dismissed me, so I grabbed my things and walked out of the classroom. I wanted to know more about her zodiac quirks. She was such an interesting person. Every time I think I've figured her out, she surprises me with something new.
"Hey Emma!"
I shook the thoughts from my mind and turned my head. Killian was running up to me a wearing a huge smile.
"Hey Killian, what's up?"
He slowed down when he got closer and I felt his eyes drag over my body. I should've assumed he'd do this.
"Wow, you like...wow." he stuttered out.
"Yea yea, I know. What's up?"
He gently slapped his face and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Sorry, trying to stop staring." His smile was wide. "I was wondering if you had any plans this weekend?"
This question was always asked between us. So why did it sound so weird this time.
I reached behind my back and scratched nervously.
"Um, nothing much."
"Cool, we should hang out then."
"Yea, definitely, maybe we could go to the arcade."
I was trying to lighten this dense feeling.
"Yea, or maybe a movie." he said shyly.
Mmm, this sounds a little date-esk to me. I'm not sure I like it. But he should also know by now, I'm not into him that way. Shaking off the awkward feeling I smiled at him.
"That would be fun."
"Great, let's do dinner before. I'll pick you up at 8 tonight!"
Killian leaned in and wrapped me in his arms. His hug felt different, less friendly, more sentimental. I patted his back the best I could and he finally released me, with a small blush on his cheeks.
"I'll uh, see you at lunch?" He was backing away from me now.
Finally.
"Like always." I replied trying to sound calm and not the least bit annoyed.
He gave me a thumbs up then winked at me. Um, no thank you sir. I'm good on that. We are just friends. Him and I will be having a talk soon. He's been acting way more affectionate this year and it was throwing off the normal relaxed vibe we always had. One that I really cherished.
A loud scoff sounded at the end of the hall. My body vibrated and I knew who that was. Only one person could do that. Turning my head I found Ms. Mills nodding to a student in the hall but looking at me. She gestured for them to go inside but held her gaze on mine. A slow crooked smile formed across her lips before she kicked up the door stopper and disappeared in her classroom.
A/N: hope you enjoyed! I've been stuck at the airport since yesterday 8am, with my flight to N.Y canceled because the weather was so bad. Leaving an about an hours on my new flight so fingers crossed. See ya Sunday!