EFFORT“Wait, where are you going?” Henry asks as he pulls me back. “What?” My eyes are still searching the crowds for my professor. Did my eyes play tricks on me? Was he really not here? If he was, why did he come here? If he wasn’t here for me, he would not have disappeared like that. “I made a killing today. And as usual, you get sixty percent.” He grinned. “You made a bet?”“Of course I did.”He says and hands me a wad of cash. “I wasn’t going to bet today. But a young man pointed out that the other surfer had a lot of fans. She surfs around the state, and because her following is so much, we would make a fortune. And he was right. You showed them who is boss.” He chuckled. “A young man?”He nods eagerly. “He bets on you regularly, that is why I believed him.”“Regularly? Can you describe him for me?” I pin the board in the sand as it kept slipping from my under arm. “Of course, I see him every time you compete. He also has unusual grey ey
INTENSITY Jessica had snarled and my blood ran hot. I don’t look at Cecilia as I walk past her into his office. He looks up, his eyes widen when they find me. He was wearing his glasses and he looked super sexy in them. And she saw that. Was this jealousy?“I did not kiss Leo.” I tell him. I have no idea why I have to explain myself to him, but I do. He blinks,“Miss Roxanne, that is your personal issue..”“Do not give me that bullshit.”He blinks one more time. I sit opposite him. “Remember how we were being honest with each other the other time? Let’s do that again. No mind games, no dodging the question. Just honesty.” “Miss Roxanne..”“Fuck the rules. I don’t plan on listening to anything that has to do with those fucking rules today.” He takes a few deep breaths and moves to take off his glasses. “Leave them there. It’s sexy.”He blushes. “That is not..”“And I say forgot the rules lest I make you forget them.” “Uhm okay.. I uh knew you
DEEPER “Cecilia explained to me that she was giving account for everything that was spent back in Maine. And it had to be in his office because he had a class. She also said we should think better of her.” I am still dazed by what I heard that I am only able to nod. “Then I told her she could not blame us since she was acting weird. But anyway, I’m glad I didn’t throw hands first before asking questions, that would have ruined everything.” We were at the classroom now, for the extra class. Somehow he managed to beat us here, he sat in front, composed and looking worry free. “Okay what went down in there? Did you embarrass yourself further? Although I don’t see how that is even possible.” I sigh and take the last row.“That’s weird. This isn’t where we usually sit.” She says, her eyes keep dancing from my professor to me. “Remember I told you once that he said he cannot sleep with someone he doesn’t love?” I finally break my silence. “He told me he mean
LOVE“You are so unlucky.” Jessica bellowed. She has been laughing like a hyena since I told her everything. “Like I don’t know. I even went to the department, get them to change my name to someone else's. Do you know what they told me?” She wiped her teary eyes, a smile on her face, ready to laugh more if that be the case. “I am quoting everything verbatim from here on. ‘The nomination came directly from the head of department, and to change it, you need to write to the head of department, but through..’, I have forgotten the names of the people he mentioned, but they were up to ten, and they will help me present my case to the head of department. If he doesn’t approve, then it won’t happen.” She laughs until she is unable to breathe, I let her be. It was a little funny to me as well. “You can start drafting your letter now.” She tells me between spiels of laughter. “Each person has to take at least a day to review the letter before passing it to the next pe
TOPIC Sarah had been reluctant to let Prudy go, and Prudy promised to return the next day, this drove Sarah to rain more praises on her. “Did you finish everything?” I ask Prudy.She was finishing off the last of her nuggets we got at McDonald's earlier. “Yes mommy.”I smile and get her ready for a bath. “Why are you still here?” I ask Jessica who kept walking in and out of the bathroom. “I told you i was moving in, weren’t you listening?”I roll my eyes. “Then use the guest room and bathroom.” By the time Prudy slept off, I find Jessica in the living room scrolling through my laptop. “What are you doing?”“Finding a topic for you. I am the best type of friend right?” “And I am the worst?” Cecilia asks as she enters.“Does everyone know my passcode?”“Its the professor's birthday. The most obvious thing in the world.” Jessica says, waving me away.“Really? That’s really it? Are you sure you are not in love with him?” I burn under their stare
ATTRACTION I let it ring to the end once more, promising myself that if he does call again, I will accept the call. Otherwise, we will see each other tomorrow. So why do I feel nothing but sweet relief when I see his call come in again? I meet Jessica's eyes and they are burning with curiosity. “If you don’t accept it this time as well..”I accept the call whilst she is still talking, her words screech to a halt and she gives me a thumbs up. “Hello?” I fake a sleepy voice.Ignoring the raised brows from both Jessica and Cecilia, I concentrate on the words. “Did I wake you up?” His voice was soft and tinged with concern. Warmth spread all over my body and i can’t help but feel giddy from hearing his voice. “Sort of.” My reply is breathless.“Sorry, I should have waited till tomorrow.” I know that he feels terrible since he comes off as inconsiderate. I can almost see him run his hands through his hair. “It's okay.” “How is Prudy? Where was she when y
CUM When I walk into his office the next day, he seems overly busy. I always see his calm and collected side, this bee part of him was something I had not seen before today. So I stand in a corner and watch him do his thing. He looked even hotter as he rifled through stacks of paperwork whilst simultaneously responding to calls coming through his phone. “I am so sorry. I did not expect everything to be everywhere.” He apologises, throwing me off guard. I didn't know he knew I was here, he hasn’t looked up at me since I walked in. “It's okay. I understand you are working.”“Thank you. Can you please start your research here? There are textbooks that definitely contain whatever topic you want.” I eye the unending rows of text book that lined the walls. I would drown in those books whilst looking for a textbook. “You heading somewhere?” “Yes. I have to do the filing of paperwork, I don't know how it will take; but I will do my best to come as soon as I ca
HUG I don't speak of what happened earlier in his office. I don’t tell Jessica that I jacked off on my professor's table. Neither do i tell her that he knows about it, and i ran away from his office with my face a deep shade of red. When I get back to the hoyse; I find Sarah there with Jessica and Prudy. “Hey mommy!” Prudy greets.I say quick hellos and rush to my bedroom; I had to change out of the clothes that smelled like sex. “What's the rush?” Jessica calls out but I shut the door in her face. “Are you okay?”“Yeah.. a tummy ache.” I say when she wouldn’t go away. “Diarrhoea? Did you eat something bad?” I wince.“Maybe. I took meds though. It should settle down soon enough.” She says she will be out in the living room and to call her if I needed her. I agree, just so she leaves. Scrubbing my body until I am red and raw; the images still play in my mind. I can still see his mouth form the words; and his eyes on my mess on the table. “F
YOU ARE INCREDIBLE “Urgh. He is the absolute worst. I cannot believe he wouldn't listen to me! Is Leo half this stubborn?” Cecilia winced.“You cannot be stubborn when the only thing that has happened between you is a drunken make out session that doesn’t move past first base.” I sigh and try to concentrate on my stretching. “And Jeff probably doesn’t even consider me a woman for anything to happen. Amongst the three of us you have it perfect right now and I will shove my foot up your ass if you ruin it.” “I’m not ruining anything, he is just not listening to me. Much like you guys right now. And on the day of a big competition like the Bomb, that is the last thing I need.” Cecilia gives me a flat look.“And the last thing I need is my followers hearing this complain so soon into the relationship, because of you guys the surf museum is booming with proposals. And if I wanted a married couple match my parents would give me one, now, my followers have expectatio
ROSE “Where am I supposed to meet him again?” i ask as I play with the hem of my very short skirt. Cecilia swipes my hand away like it was a nuisance, I guess I was a nuisance seeing as she had continually complained about my fingers pulling on the hem of the skirt, trying to get it past my ass, I can feel the wind on my cheeks. “None of your business, I’m taking you there, you’ll know when you get there.” Jeff says as he packs his laptop back into his bag. “You’ll come back after dropping her off right?” Jessica asks him.He sucks his teeth, “I have work, I think you guys can handle the rest.”I watch as Jessica's face falls with inquisitive eyes, but she manages to wipe it away before Jeff could notice. “I would say ladies first, but I have to survey and see if everything is safe before you come out.” Jeff says before sauntering outside. Turning to face Jessica I press down on my squeal. “You totally have the hots for Jeff.”“Nobody has said that
LONG AND HARD I didn’t know when I fell asleep, but I was certain we had both been whispering sweet nothings to each other as our bodies entangled in ways that we probably didn’t know existed before. When I open my eyes I see that it was morning and there was nobody entangled with me on the bed. The other side of the bed though perfectly disturbed, was empty. I lean forward, scanning the room to find that it is as empty as the rest of the bed. I hear shuffling coming from downstairs and smile to myself, he must be down there fixing breakfast. Getting up and slipping into one of his button up shirts, I hurry to the bathroom, I wasn’t trying to look perfect like those women who wake up with a full face of make up in the movies, but I was not exactly going to show up with crusty eyes. My mouth was fresh, my face even fresher, I head downstairs, and into the kitchen. “Great, you finally wake up.” Jessica sighs.I jump in the air and squeal. “What the fuck? What ar
DIVINE My fingers find the ends of his shirt and in a fluid motion, it ends up at a small pile i had created with the rest of our other clothes by the door. "I missed this." I whispered in between kisses.He kissed me harder then let go long enough to say, "You have no idea."My hands roamed the expanse of his chest, fingers dipping into every mould of muscles. He groans into my mouth. Gently, he leads me up to his bed. Our mouths do not leave each other for a second, as my hands roam the entirety of his back, i let him plop on the bed in a sitted position, straddling him and locking him in place with my thighs. Our mouths finally leave each other, and by that time, we are breathing hard and fast. Our faces inches apart from each other. "You are so beautiful." He whispers before nuzzling my neck. I shivered against him as his hands play with the clasp of my bra. His face buried in my neck moved up and down the sides of my face dropping kisses along my jawl
THINKING “What...?”There are so many things I want to ask but the only word I was capable of producing was a single question, well seeing as it was a single word.. what am I even thinking right now? “He fixed it for you, for both of you.” I eye the lady, I honestly don't understand why she is in such a pissy attitude. “He also fixed it for you right? I don’t see you thanking him or being polite to him.” I felt Vaughn tug on my arm, but I was going to get them to be polite to him. And apologise for calling him a predator. “We are grateful we don’t have this problem on our hands anymore, and it was wonderful working with you Mr. Walker, I wish you the very best wherever you end up.” Mr Adam says. I scoff before Vaughn could respond. “That’s it? No thank you? No apologies? You called him a predator, and I demand an apology right now.” The lady sneers at me. “He quit working here doesn’t mean anything. He has clearly groomed his student and if that’s not wha
RUCKUS “Can I discuss this with him first?” I find myself asking. The woman who baited me scoffs. “Would you look at that? She has to run to him first. Do you think a grown man would offer himself up for you?” I ignore her and search the faces of the other board members. “It happened with both of us consenting, I shouldn't have to make this decision alone.” “Mr. Walker was unreachable when we called you in, which explains his absence. We need your decision today, as you know the school's image is at stake.” I swallow.“One hour, I know where he is, I’ll get there in an hour and be back here with your response.” Baiting lady scoffs again. Grating on my nerves. “Do you think we should wait for you? We have important things to do.” “But this concerns him also. It’s only fair that he knows about it.” “Three hours. No more.” Mr. Adam says, startling everyone in the room, including me. When I don't move, he cocks his head to the side. “You really have time
LOVER GIRL I swiped reject on Anne's call again as I head for the door. A text comes from her immediately I do, like she was typing the message as she called. “A heads up, the school board will be calling you in.” My heart dropped to my stomach, as if it was not already there since the whole ordeal started. “Where are you going?” Jessica asked in an urgent tone. Just then an e-mail drops, the one inviting me to sit with the board, the date and time said now, and failure to attend means I was guilty and ready to receive whatever punishment came our way. “School board. And I have to go now.” My voice raised, even in my ears. Jessica cursed and then slipped on her shoes. “Let's go.”“What do you mean..?”She snatched the car keys from me. “You are too shaky to drive, and you will need moral support.” She matches to the car after her spiel. I numbly follow her to the car, and as I fix my seat belt, Leo and Cecilia slid into the back seat. I can only mana
DISGUST It seems all the phones were going off at the same time. I mostly ignored mine whilst scouring the internet for his sister's social media and hopefully, their phone numbers. I had sent dozens of texts to him but got no response, and it had taken a stern talking to from Leo for me to see that going over to his place would only fan the rumours and put him in an even more awkward position. Cecilia’s agents and others were calling non stop, I pretend not to see her grit her teeth as she hit the ignore button. Guilt nipped at my conscience but I was too preoccupied to let it bother me. Jessica kept rejecting calls from people we shared classes with. The whole thing had gone crazy, people were actually leaving comments about how I was favoured in his class and how we always left class together, some might be true but I wish they’d focus on their business, we are two grown adults. “Any luck finding them?” I shake my head, not looking away from the screen. I lef
DENIAL“Holy shit! If love does exist.. it does exist, so I actually do love him.” The words sounded foreign in my ears, but they were true, or else why was my heart banging against my rib cage? And my stomach in tumbles? “I love him.” I whisper.And then with even more conviction, I go, “I really am in love with him!”“Much better isn’t it?”Excitement bubbled in my veins, threatening to burst wide open. “Much! Oh, thank you Leo! Thank you so much! I gotta go let him know how I feel. Do you think he would accept my feelings? Oh my god if I get rejected or something, the world has to end.” He chuckles. “Hey, I got rejected and I turned out okay.” I physically wince at that.“I’m sorry about that.”He waves me and my too late of apology away. “I got over it. Besides, we are talking about you and your first love now.” I bite my lip in thought.“Did you always know? That I was in love with Vaughn.” It still sounded foreign and made me feel t