Hello all, here I am with another chapter haha. This chapter is connected with The Teacher series and I am hoping will help fill in a few parts of chapter 10 of The Teacher 2. This chapter takes place after the events of chapter 5 of The Teacher (where Flora has just kissed Helia and has embarrassingly run out of his house after doing so). This also goes along with chapter 11 of The Teacher where Helia is telling Flora about his previous...experiences haha. If you haven't read The Teacher series, I would suggest doing so, that is if you want. The Teacher was going to be a V&P chapter until 5,000 words turned to 20,000 to 40,000 and then I knew I had to make it a long-form story. So if you want some teacher-student action mixed with the sweet romance that Flora and Helia bring, go read it :) If you want to of course haha.
I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Helia and Krystal- What Friends Are For
The door slammed shut, and mid-December's chilled wind ceased from spilling into his house. Helia stared at the door, his lips still tingling from the kiss that he had with Flora.
Flora.
His student.
The kiss had been amazing, and she had been the one to initiate it. Sure, Helia had an inkling that Flora might have some school girl crush on him, but he never thought she would have acted on it. And he never thought that he would give in so easily to her.
Helia knew that it was wrong. He should have pushed her away instead of pulling her closer. He shouldn't have brought her back to his house, but he couldn't have her freeze outside while she waited for the bus. He shouldn't have given her his books or any special attention. But it was so hard when Flora was so...perfect. If only she were just a little bit older.
And not his student.
But she was and he kissed her. He had placed his hands on her hips as his lips moved against hers. She had been the one to pull away from him and run out of his house. She had been the "responsible" one, not him. He had always prided himself on being so responsible and now...well, there were many things that he didn't think he would have done but one girl, one student, had changed that.
Stepping out of the hallway where Flora had just fled, Helia made his way back into his living room where the presence of Flora still lingered. It was as if he could still feel her warmth and smell the faint scent of peaches that had filled his nose. Flora had crept into his thoughts when he lay awake at night. When he saw her name grading papers, he would stare for a moment longer, taking his time to carefully read over every word that she had put to paper. Having her in his house now would make his thoughts of her stronger and the lingering feeling on his lips from hers would burn into his memory forever.
Helia sat down in the large, leather chair that he had inherited from his father and stared at where Flora had been sitting just a moment before. She sat and cried as he comforted her and she returned his kindness with a hug. He knew that he had felt something for her but he had not known what. Maybe it was nice to have a student who actually seemed to care about the things that he was passionate about. That was every teacher's hope, right? Or perhaps he had reckoned that she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen? Her voice was delicate like a flower, her laugh like a song, and her smile was so gentle. Whatever that something was that Helia felt for Flora had only grown stronger after she had kissed him.
Slumping in his chair, his eyes still on the spot on the couch where Flora had been sitting, Helia's back pocket loudly vibrated, pulling him away from the trance that Flora had put him in.
Helia reached into his pocket and looked at his phone to see that he had a new message from Krystal. Helia huffed as he opened his phone and pressed the message that Krystal had sent him. What did she need or want?
K: Hey, can I spend the night at your place? Marco had to leave early to get home to his kids before the storm started so I don't have a ride. Your house is closer than mine and I really don't want to get stuck out in this storm. I'll bring leftover spice cake from the cafe. Sent 4:37pm
Helia smirked as he read Krystal's message. She knew that she was always welcome. She was his best friend and had been since they were kids. If there was one person he could need right now, it was a friend. Krystal had always made him feel good when he was in a funk and he didn't think that this time would be any different. Helia needed someone to talk to about this and he knew that Krystal was a pretty open person when it came to those things. Then again, a teacher falling for his student was wildly unethical and he didn't know how Krystal would react. Maybe it was best to leave out the whole student part...
H: Of course! You know that you don't need to ask right? It is now winter break and I could use the company. Sent 4:40pm
K: Great! I get off at 5 and I hope to be at your place by 5:30ish. Sent 4:42pm
H: That gives me some time to make some dinner. I have a few new recipes that I have been wanting to try. Sent 4:45pm
Helia would also omit the part where he had gotten the recipes from Flora as well. It seemed that so many parts of his life had slowly become filled by the presence and reminder of Flora, and Helia was not upset by that.
H: And there was something that I wanted to talk to you about. Sent 4:45pm
K: Helia Saladin, are you breaking up with me? lol. Sent 4:47 pm
Helia rolled his eyes.
H: I'll tell you when you get here, okay? Sent 4:48pm
K: Fine. I will wait. See you then! Sent 4:48pm
The doorbell sounded throughout the house as Helia set down the spoon with which he had been stirring the vegan pozole. Helia stepped away from the stove and made his way out of the kitchen and to the door where he opened it and saw Krystal standing on his porch, bundled up in her scarf and coat.
Krystal quickly walked into the warm house and took off her boots before unraveling the scarf from around her neck and face and unbuttoning her off-white coat.
"Fuck, it is freezing out there." Krystal huffed as she hung up her coat, "Thanks for letting me stay the night, Helia."
"What kind of friend would I be if I had let you freeze out there?" Helia teased as he walked back into the kitchen, Krystal following behind him.
"You're a lifesaver, Helia." Krystal smiled as she rolled up the sleeves of her light green sweater as the heat from the kitchen had begun to cause her to sweat just a bit, "And it smells amazing in here; what are you making?"
"Um, pozole." Helia looked down at the recipe name and smiled, taking notice of Flora's delicate handwriting.
"I thought that pozole had meat in it?" Krystal asked.
Helia looked up at Krystal and smiled, his attention pulled away from Flora's handwritten recipe, "It is vegan. Made with jackfruit instead of meat."
"Interesting," Krystal remarked, "Did Diana give you the recipe?"
Diana?
No, Diana hadn't...
Diana.
Diana...
DIANA!
How the FUCK had Helia forgotten about Diana?
"No," Helia replied, "she didn't. And that is something that I was hoping that I could talk to you tonight about."
"You want to talk about your new recipe? I know that you have really gotten into the Food Channel now that you are a boring teacher now but when you said that you had something you wanted to talk about, I was expecting something a little more, well, juicier."
Helia sighed as he closed his eyes softly, trying to recompose himself and finding the best way to tell Krystal what it was that he wanted to tell her.
Opening his eyes, Helia wore a serious expression on his face that had not gone unnoticed by Krystal.
"I think I am in love with someone."
"Yeah, Helia," Krystal scoffed, "I know. You kind of asked her to marry you this past spring."
Helia shook his head, "I am not talking about Diana, Krystal."
Krystal's eyes widened as she stared at Helia with shock and confusion, "What?"
"Krystal, I think that I am in love with someone else."
"What?!" Krystal exclaimed as she shot up from her more relaxed posture, "What do you mean you think you are in love with someone else? Who?! I haven't heard you talk of anyone else besides your students. Especially that one you always talk about and loan your books to."
Helia timidly looked at Krystal and his blue eyes told Krystal everything that she needed to know.
"No..."Krystal stared at Helia in disbelief, "Helia Saladin, you didn't...did you...tell me you didn't...with a student?"
Helia perked up and quickly waved his hands in front of him, banishing the assumption that Krystal had made.
"No! No!" Helia protested, "Nothing like that has ever happened and it will never happen. I just..." Helia's voice softened, "we did kiss but it was so quick and I don't think that any of us realized what had happened until it happened. She ran out of the door anyway and I think that is...Krystal, I did not sleep with any of my students. But I think that I am in love with one of them."
Krystal was silent as she looked at Helia. Helia was hoping that Krystal would say something, anything to end the awkward tension that had entered the kitchen.
"Krystal?" Helia nervously called out Krystal's name. "Please, say something. If anyone would be able to help me through this, it would be you."
"Sorry, but I thought that I just heard you say that you were in love with your student."
Helia let out a soft chuckle, "I did say that, Krystal. I was hoping that you could knock some sense into me."
"I have half a mind to knock you out, Helia Saladin. What the hell are you thinking? How the fuck do you fall in love with one of your students? This has to be the one you are talking about all the time. What's her name? Laura?"
"Flora." Helia corrected, loving the way that Flora's name sounded coming off of his tongue.
"Regardless, you know you cannot act on this, right? It doesn't matter what you think or how you feel, and she is your student, Helia. And what about Diana? You are supposed to marry her when she is finished with med school."
Helia groaned as he leaned against the counter, "I know, Krystal...but Flora, she is...when I think about the person who I love the most, I don't see Diana, I see Flora. I had a dream about my wedding day the other weekend and it wasn't Diana walking towards me, it was Flora. I close my eyes and I see Flora. I hear her voice in my head before I fall asleep and I think of her when I smell peaches. Krystal, I am in love with Flora."
"Helia..."
"I know that it is wrong and I will need to get over it but-"
"You have to break up with Diana." Krystal sighed.
"What?"
"Helia," Krystal took a step closer to Helia, "even if you cannot be with Flora, you cannot marry Diana. She doesn't deserve to be married to someone who doesn't love her and you shouldn't be miserable either."
Helia shook his head, "I know what you are trying to say, but if I cannot have Flora, I am going to be miserable anyway, no matter who I marry."
"You know that you don't have to marry anyone, don't you?" Krystal scoffed as she folded her arms across her chest.
"I know, i know." Helia sighed.
Krystal's body language and facial expression softened as she looked up at Helia, "I know that this is not something that you planned for nor did any of us expect things to turn out the way that they did. But you need to break up with Diana, tonight. Rip off the bandaid and tell her that it is over."
"And tell her what, 'Sorry, Di but I fell in love with one of my students and I would rather be with her than you'?"
"Well, maybe omit the part about the student. But just tell her that you found someone else or that you don't think that she is the person for you. Anything, Helia. But tell her. Before it is too late. Lord knows that I do not want to have to deal with all of this the day of your wedding or something like that. You falling in love with one of your students is already too much like a soap opera, I don't need the wedding drama added on to it because I know that I am going to be the one to pick up the pieces at the end of the day."
Helia sighed as he picked up the wooden spoon and began to stir the pozole, "Fine, I will tell her."
"I...I...I don't understand." a soft voice spoke through the phone speaker as Helia and Krystal sat at the small dining room table.
Having finished their dinner and a few glasses of wine, Helia had dialed Diana and had to break the news to her. He wasn't going to marry her, he couldn't, not when he loved Flora. Helia hated hearing Diana's saddened voice and he had wished that he could have just texted Diana. Helia had always been better with the written word but Krystal had smacked him on the back of the neck, yelling at him for even thinking of ending an engagement via text. It was bad enough doing so over the phone. Helia had the phone on speaker so that Krystal could hear and help him if so needed. And Helia knew that he could use all the help he could get.
"I'm sorry, Diana, I am," Helia sighed, hating to make Diana so upset. If this ordeal was awful for him, he could imagine that it had been painful for Diana, "I wish that it didn't have to be like this."
"It doesn't have to be," Diana's voice became louder as she began to plead with Helia, "if I have done anything wrong, please let me know."
"You haven't," Helia quickly replied, hating that Diana could have ever thought that she had done anything wrong, "it's me."
Diana scoffed, "That's what they all say, Helia. Please, tell me if I have done something to upset you."
"You have done nothing, Diana," Helia softly replied, "I just know that I am not the right person for you and I know that I would not make you happy."
Helia really didn't want to tell Diana that he had fallen in love with someone else. How was he supposed to tell her that he had found someone better? Someone who had made his heart flutter and his mind reel in ways that Diana had never been able to. Diana hadn't done anything, and that was the problem.
"You do make me happy, Helia. You always have. I love you."
Helia inhaled and shut his eyes before opening them and looking across the table at Krystal who was sipping on her glass of red wine. She nodded her head and stared at Helia, urging him to speak, to say something.
"Tell her the truth." Krystal mouthed.
Helia shot a glare towards Krystal.
Krystal rolled her eyes and mouthed back, "Not the part about the student, idiot."
Helia quickly nodded his head.
"Diana," Helia exhaled, "I love you. But not in the way that I should. And I love you enough to tell you the truth that I fell in love with someone else."
There was a silent pause as Helia finished confessing to Diana. He stared ahead at Krystal who merely shrugged as they both waited for Diana to say something. Finally she did.
"Excuse me?" Diana asked through the other end of the phone. "You fell in love with someone else? When did this happen? How did this happen? Who are they? Is it Krystal? I always knew that the two of you were way too close."
"No!" Helia exclaimed, "It is not Krystal! Oh God no!"
Krystal reached across the table and smacked him in the arm.
Helia recoiled and shot another glare towards Krystal.
"Tell me then, Helia!" Diana commanded, "Tell me how this happened. I thought that you loved me. We were supposed to be married! How could you do this to me?"
"Diana, I cannot tell you how sorry I am."
"I never took you as someone who would cheat on me."
"I never cheated on you, Diana. I would never do that to you. In fact, I am not even sure if this person has the same feelings for me as I do for her."
"Then you can get over her if she does not love you back and come back to me."
"Diana..." Helia sighed, "I don't think I will ever get over her. She is..." Helia looked up and saw Krystal shaking her head. Best not to sing Flora's praises as he was breaking off his engagement with another woman. "I don't believe that I could ever love you again. In fact, I don't think...I ever loved you."
"But you asked me to marry you! Was this all a lie?!" Diana exclaimed.
"Never a lie, Diana. I have never lied to you, which is why I could not lie to you now. I have never cheated or lied and I wanted to do right. And the right thing is to let you find someone who will love you the way that you deserve. I could have lied to you and we could have gotten married and we would have been miserable because I-"
"Because you are in love with someone else."
Diana's voice sounded defeated. Helia hated to hear Diana sound so upset, but Krystal was right; better to rip off the bandaid now instead of letting things get worse.
"I cannot repeat how sorry I am, Diana."
"Not as sorry as I am," Diana replied and before Helia could ask what she meant, the phone hung up and Diana was gone.
"Well," Krystal said as she finished her glass of wine, "that went better than I thought it would have."
Helia shoved his phone to the side and placed his head in his hands, "I feel awful."
"It had to be done, Helia and you know it."
"I know, I know." Helia groaned. "But that doesn't help my problem with Flora."
"Well, I can't help your issue with being some old perv but...you know what? After this storm is over, how about we head downtown some night over the break and hit up some bars and-"
"You know that I have never been one for the bars..." Helia replied, "and I love Flora."
"Hey, I never said that we were going to find the love of your life. I was thinking that you could use the distraction."
Helia scoffed, "What do you think that I am going to do, Krystal? Fill my life with casual one-night stands to help distract me from Flora?"
"I am not suggesting that at all, but you have to forget about her, Helia. She is your student and you can never be with her. It would not be right. You could lose your job or worse...Helia, you know that you cannot have, Flora."
Helia sadly exhaled before sliding back on his chair and walking out of the dining room and to his living room where he opened the small door to his bar cart and pulled out a bottle of amber liquid. Krystal walked into the living room and looked down at Helia, a freshly poured glass of wine in her hand.
"It is going to take a lot more than wine to help me get through this."
The door to Helia's bedroom swung open as Helia and Krystal spilled into the room. Their steps were clumsy, almost as clumsy as their lips as they moved over one another.
Two glasses of wine and three glasses of whiskey later, Helia and Krystal found themselves quickly making their way upstairs to Helia's room. Neither one of them really knew how they had ended up like this but both reckoned that the other was not thinking straight. Helia had just ended his engagement to the woman he had been with since high school and Krystal, well Krystal had always been one to enjoy a good time.
Now, Helia and Krystal were ridding each other of their clothes, that is, they would be if they could remember how to take off clothes.
"Ow!" Krystal yelped as her sweater snagged on her earring, "Fuck, Helia, stop just a second."
"Sorry," Helia slurred as he stumbled back to give Krystal some space.
"Just take off your clothes and lie down on your bed. You are hopeless." Krystal untangled the earring from her sweater and began to take off the rest of her clothes.
Helia fell onto his bed and struggled to take off his pants. He grumbled as he fumbled with his belt, knowing that this would be better if he were sober. Well, this wouldn't be happening if either one of them were sober. But Krystal was right, he needed the distraction.
"Honestly..." Helia looked up to see Krystal coming towards him, naked and looking...well, Krystal was beautiful. Helia told her that all the time. But she was nothing compared to Flora. Suddenly, in his drunken stupor, instead of Krystal walking toward him, it was Flora.
"Flora" was now standing in front of Helia, a beautiful smile on her face as she looked down at him. All Helia could do was smile back, knowing that he probably looked like some love-sick fool. But that is what he was. She looked gorgeous as she stood naked in front of him and all that he could do was stare as she bent down and pulled his pants down from his hips.
She wanted him. "Flora" wanted him in the way that he had wanted her.
"What are you doing, Flora?" Helia asked.
"Taking off your pants," "Flora" replied as she rolled her eyes.
Krystal looked down at Helia. She had never seen him so out of it. He had usually been the one to drag her ass back home after she had gotten drunk on a night out. Helia had always been so responsible but it was Helia who had fallen in love with one of his students and was now drunkenly hallucinating that it was her that he was about to sleep with. Krystal would have stopped it if she had been any more sober but honestly, she was as drunk as Helia was.
"You are so beautiful, Flora." Helia sighed as "Flora" had now rid him of his pants. As he looked at "Flora", Helia could feel himself becoming harder and harder. He wanted to get his hands on "Flora" and show her how much he really loved her.
Helia reached up and gripped Krystal's arm and pulled her down so that she was now on top of him. His lips found Krystal's, still under the drunken impression that they had belonged to Flora. Helia could taste the wine that coated Krystal's lips and tongue, and she could taste the whiskey.
"I am going to show you how much I love you," Helia moaned between sloppy kisses, "no more poetry. Just you and me, Flora."
"Uh-huh..."Krystal sighed as she didn't listen to a word that Helia had said. All she wanted him to do was kiss her and give her what she wanted.
Helia wrapped his arms around "Flora" before flipping her over so that he was now on top of her. He looked into her green eyes and smiled.
"I had been thinking about a moment like this for a long time."
Krystal reached up and pulled Helia back down to her, "Just hurry up and fuck me, idiot."
Helia didn't think that "Flora" would have ever called him an idiot but maybe she was just as desperate as he was. He would grant her request as quickly as he could.
Moving his hands from "Flora"'s hips, he grabbed her knees and spread them apart before lining his hips up to hers.
"That's it," Krystal moaned, "just put it-"
Before Krystal could finish her instructions, Helia had pushed through her warm entrance and buried himself inside of her.
Krystal let out a loud moan before her arms wrapped around his back, her nails digging into the hard muscles.
"Damn," Krystal huffed as she adjusted to the fullness between her legs, "if I knew that you felt like this, I would have asked you to fuck me a long time ago."
Helia's head fell onto Krystal's shoulder as he slowly moved in and out of her. She felt amazing. Warm. "Flora" felt so good.
"Flora..." Helia moaned out her name, "so good..."
Krystal didn't respond as she had been lost in the feeling of Helia. Did she love him? Absolutely not! But hey, he was a friend, they were drunk, and he felt damn good.
"I love you, Flora." Helia moaned in Krystal's ear, "I have been dreaming of this moment."
"Yeah..." Krystal replied, "you feel great."
"Do you not love me, Flora?" Helia asked as he continued to move his hips.
"Yeah, sure, whatever." Krystal answered, "Just keep fucking me."
Helia did as "Flora" asked of her. He would always do what she asked of him. He loved her so much. Who said that he couldn't have her? She was with him right now in his room. It was a dream come true.
As Helia's hips moved faster and harder, "Flora's" moans became louder and louder.
"Oh fuck!" Krystal exclaimed, "Just like that! Yes yes yes yes..."
"I'm going to cum." Helia groaned as he felt himself reaching the peak of his climax. It felt so good and having "Flora" with him made it feel that much better.
"Don't cum in me!" Krystal exclaimed. "Pull out, idiot!"
Helia did as she said and quickly withdrew from Krystal and grabbed his cock. He gave it a few quick strokes before he came on Krystal's thighs.
As he came, the only word on Helia's lips was Flora's name. He came thinking about her. Her bright green eyes, tan skin, perfect body, caramel brown hair...Fuck she was beautiful and now she was his.
Helia collapsed to his side and fell back onto his bed. He closed his eyes and did his best to regain his breath. As his eyes were closed, Helia felt "Flora" move off of the bed. He hoped that he had made her feel good as she had made him feel.
"Did I make you...?"
There was a soft laugh that sounded familiar but it didn't sound like Flora's laugh, "No, but that's okay. I am a hard woman to please, and I don't think I was the one you wanted to make feel good."
"Of course I was," Helia replied, his eyes still closed.
"It's okay, Helia," Krystal smiled, "really. Just go to bed. I'm going to wash up."
"Okay," Helia sighed as his breathing became more and more regular and deep, "good night, Flora."
The sun spilled through the curtains, waking Helia up. Helia opened his eyes and immediately shut them, the light burning his eyes and his head was pounding. Why the fuck was his head hurting so much?
Helia slowly grabbed his head and rose in his bed. He looked around and saw that he was in his room which was a good sign. However, when Helia looked down and saw that he was naked and there was a naked Krystal sleeping beside him, Helia jumped back.
What the fuck had happened last night?
"Krystal," Helia reached down and shook Krystal's shoulder but she didn't respond, "Krystal!"
Krystal groaned and made a move to get away from Helia but Helia needed answers.
"Krystal wake up!" Helia shook her harder.
She opened her eyes and grumbled, cursing Helia under her breath as she sat up. Krystal rubbed her head and sleepily looked around the room.
"What are you so-" Krystal looked over to see that Helia was sitting naked beside her, a look of horror on his face. She glanced down and saw that she was naked as well. "Shit."
"Yeah!" Helia's blue eyes widened, "Shit is right! What the Hell happened last night?"
"Judging by the headache I have and how awful your breath smells, we got drunk and fucked."
Helia fell back onto the bed but that was a bad idea as his head was now spinning.
"Don't worry, Helia," Krystal shrugged, "it happens all the time."
"Not to me, it doesn't." Helia exclaimed, "I think that I am going to be sick."
"Hey!" Krystal smacked Helia's arm, "I have been told that I am a great lay. And from what I remember, you were enjoying it too."
"Fuck..."
Krystal sighed, "If it makes you feel any better, I think that you were hallucinating that I was Flora the whole time so think of it as a wet dream."
"But we had sex, Krystal. We are friends and we-"
"As I said, Helia. It happens. I won't make a big deal out of it and I won't tell anyone about this."
"You won't."
"Of course not," Krystal smiled, "and it would be extremely damaging to my street cred."
Now it was Helia's turn to smack Krystal in the arm. Krystal laughed and suddenly the tension in the room began to dissipate.
"This will not be happening again," Helia remarked.
"Agreed."
There was a short moment of silence before Helia spoke softly.
"Did I really think that you were Flora?"
Krystal rolled her eyes, "You kept calling me Flora the whole time that we...you know."
"Sorry." Helia winced in embarrassment.
"You really do love her, don't you?"
"I do, Krystal," Helia grinned, "I really do. But I know that this is the closest that I will ever get to actually being with her."
"I am now beginning to feel sorry for you." Krystal slowly climbed out of Helia's bed and searched the room to find her clothes.
"Life is unfair..." Helia placed his hand over his face.
"Well, I am not having sex with you again so you are going to have to find another way to get over your sadness."
Helia scoffed, "I wasn't asking."
Krystal dressed herself and crawled back into Helia's bed. She grabbed the blankets and quickly threw them over Helia's naked body before wrapping her arms around his now-covered form.
"You're my best friend, Helia," Krystal placed her head on Helia's chest, "I want you to be happy."
"I just want her so much."
"I know, Helia."
"Maybe after she graduates we can-"
"Helia..." Krystal lightly scolded, trying to banish the thought before Helia could say it.
"I know, I know. I just thought-"
"I know what you thought and you gotta get over her, Helia. You thought that you loved Diana. Maybe this feeling for Flora is just as fleeting."
It wasn't. But Helia didn't want to talk about the sad reality that Flora would never and could never really be his. So he wouldn't respond other than closing his eyes and nodding his head.
"Good." Krystal smiled before crawling off of the bed one more time. She walked over to Helia's drawers and grabbed some clothes and threw them his way.
"Take a shower and get dressed," Krystal commanded, "you smell awful. I am going to go make us some breakfast and call Diana back."
"She called you? How do you know that?"
"Um, you ended your engagement to her. We are friends and I am your best friend so I bet she is going to try to get some more information out of me."
"Don't tell her about last night."
"Do you think that I want to die?" Krystal chuckled, "She already thought that you and I had something going on between the two of us. I am not trying to add any fuel to that fire. No way."
Helia nodded before looking back up at Krystal, desperation deep in his eyes.
"And don't tell her that Flora is one of my students if she asks. I know that she is going to ask who this new love of mine is but please, don't tell Diana that Flora is my student."
"I wouldn't dream of doing that, Helia."
"Thank you, Krystal."
Krystal smiled before making her way out of the room. Before she crossed the threshold, Krystal looked back.
"Hey, what are friends for?"
Well, there is the chapter. I hope that you all enjoyed it and that it added a little bit of clarification to chapter 10 of The Teacher 2. Let me know what you think!