Part 1-Reviewing Her Notes
Illyana held her palms at her ears propping her head up with her elbows on the table, a pencil cradled between her fingers in her left hand. She concentrated on the piece of paper in front of her, a very serious look on her face. "Ah," she suddenly gasped and circled the word "P-L-E-A-S-E" in her word search puzzle and then added it to her list. 15 words she counted. She had found them all.
Looking satisfied she held out the paper, hands outstretched, across the table. But the young woman on the other side of the small table wasn't paying much attention, her own head propped up on a curved palm as well, her elbow resting on her crossed knees. She was looking out the window, the expression on her face giving away nothing as to what she was thinking about.
That was probably to the benefit of the little blonde-haired girl sitting patiently at the table with her.
"I want you Kris!" It was the sound of Alise's own voice in her head, gasping, pleading uncontrollably. Deep inside she shuddered. That wasn't really her was it? She never said, no...screamed, anything like that did she?
She closed her eyes. That didn't help clear her head. Instead it filled it with vivid, undeniable images of that night a week ago.
"Hahn! Ahn! God! Uhn! FUCK ME!" It was like she was standing in the same small apartment but that wasn't her lying on the sofa. That wasn't her naked and covered in perspiration, her legs spread wide, her toes pointed at the ceiling, her breasts shaking and shimmering under the dim lights.
That wasn't her but she certainly recognized the young man, equally naked, equally sweat covered but definitely much larger than the frame of the pretty Chinese woman he was on top of, the one he was taking his pleasure with. Kristoff's handsome face was fixed hard and focused as he pumped his pale white hips hard into her, his solid strokes shaking the old sofa back and forth inches across the floor.
She saw the face of the woman, a contorted mix of carnal pleasure and of someone hanging on for dear life as she took the long deliberate thrusts of her lover. It was her. It was Alise. The face was a rosy red and strained but it was hers.
"Hahn! Hahn! Uhn! Kris!"
"Ms.Zhang?" a small voice called to her. Then she heard the flutter of a sheet of paper.
Alise blinked then shook her head, her dark, slender eyes refocusing. It was as if she was being sucked out of the room with a vacuum. "Hmm?" she muttered almost completely detached.
"I'm finished!" Illyana said unfazed by her tutor's odd behaviour.
Now totally back in the present, Alise looked stunned. She had really been out of it that time. She could feel that her face was flushed like she had been caught leafing through a dirty magazine.
"Yanny! Illyana!" she gasped, "Sorry! Sorry! I was thinking about...I mean, I was sort of not..."
The little girl continued to hold out the sheet of paper and sighed tilting her head to the side.
"Uh. What? Oh, you're done already?" She took the paper and added, "That was fast."
Illyana pouted her lip, looking a bit confused. She thought she had taken too long doing the problem sheet.
"This looks, uh, this looks good," Alise said tilting her head and then the paper, trying hard to focus on the words.
"Will you not be checking?" the girl asked sceptically.
Alise took a deep breath and held it. She nodded her head rapidly and swallowed. "Okay. Sure, I'll check it over."
It took an entire minute before she actually could recognize the letters as her heart steadied slightly. It took another to figure out what exactly was the point of the exercise again. All the while as she stared at the sheet of paper, she could see from the corner of her eye Kristoff's little sister gazing intently at her. She bit the side of her lower lip trying to focus hard on the problem sheet, rubbing her temple with her palm. But those stark little blues eyes were just riveted on her.
"Uh, Illyana," she finally said turning to the girl, "Why don't you read a book or something?"
"Did you have a good time last week?" Illyana asked.
"What?" Alise replied, blinking.
"Did you enjoy dinner with us?"
"Oh. Oh, yeah, it was nice," Alise said, "It was really good."
"Bobo was good?" Illyana continued.
"Bobo...Kristoff? Uh...what do you mean 'good'?"
"He cooks the best!" the girl proclaimed.
Alise twitched an uneasy smile, "Um, yes, he cooks really well."
"Will you come again?" Her student was relentless adding, "Please?"
"I don't know..."
"My brother said he was so happy to have you!"
Alise paused for a long moment then spoke very slowly, "He was happy to have me...over."
Illyana tilted her head, a quizzical look on her face.
Almost gritting her teeth, Alise repeated, "He had me over. He didn't just 'have me'. I mean, he had me over."
And over and over and...
That didn't sound right either. Illyana tilted her head the other way. Was this little girl toying with her or what?
Alise closed her eyes, her uneasy smile turning to a pained grimace, "I mean he had me...uh..."
"Ms.Zhang?" A new voice called to her.
Again she shook her head to refocus and turned towards the door of the meeting room. A short round lady in a long blue dress stood at the entrance clutching a bunch of filled grocery bags. She smiled with her plum shaped face.