Louise Sherman had been teaching English language and literature for about 5 years at St Edmunds Boys School. She was well aware that several of the boys had schoolboy crushes on her. She knew only too well what young boys were like, but she could not help but feel very flattered. She liked to dress 'well' and feeling that she was harmlessly encouraging schoolboy fantasies made her feel good. The older boys, the ones who were soon moving on out of the school were of most interest to her. Already 18, young men, but still for just a bit longer schoolboys. Boys of this age were trying to pick her up in bars. Here she was trying to teach students English Literature, while boys of the same age were trying to fuck her.
Louise knew the way the world worked.
She was, however, still a little shocked and surprised to find among the exercise books collected one morning with the homework from a class of those 18 year old boys, a separate piece of paper, apparently torn from an exercise book, with a short story on it. Short story is probably an exaggeration: it was only about 3 or four paragraphs long, the paragraphs themselves being not that clearly defined. But this was of little importance to Louise. What was of most interest to her was the content. It was not to be ignored. She read the paper several times. It was a young schoolboy fantasy about her. It was crude, childish even, but the fact of it's very existence was a thrill to her.
It was difficult to work out exactly what she should do and, that night, she considered the possibilities as she tried to get to sleep. She could, of course, always do nothing. Louise, however, was not the sort of person to do nothing. That was the easy way out and she liked to tackle life head on.
She still had not decided the following day. The English Literature class would be the last, so she would have time to think some more about it. It was not until the class had already begun that a plan started to form. It had elements that appealed to her. It was risky, but the actual risk was small. It was naughty, but she maintained her authority. It would work.
Final bell.
'Class dismissed. Thomas, can you stay behind for a few minutes please.'
The other boys left. Thomas approached the desk. Louise took the sheet of paper out of her desk and placed it face up on top. When he saw it, Thomas went suddenly very pale. Louise was worried he might faint. He didn't though. His pale complexion suddenly went to the other extreme and his face reddened and he started to look very guilty.
'You probably wondered why I asked you to stay.' She said. 'but I guess you have a better idea now.'
Thomas shuffled nervously and mumbled 'yes, miss!'
'Speak up , Thomas'
'Yes, Miss.'
'Of course,' she said 'I could understand some confusion on your part. It seems to me that you have an entirely different reason for why I might want to keep you after class.' Don't you, Thomas?'
Thomas didn't answer this time, but he went even redder.
'Perhaps I can help you. It seems the reason that you would think I would keep you after class is so that I could ask you if you would let me suck your cock. Is that right?'
Thomas was looking down at the floor now. He nodded glumly. He was not too sure of exactly what kind of trouble he was in, but he was sure he was in it and about as deep as he could get.
'I don't really think you would be stupid enough to hand this in with your homework, but I have no doubt that this is your handwriting. May I ask what purpose this little essay might have?'
'nothing', Thomas mumbled.
'Do you masturbate, Thomas?'
Another glum nod.
'Do these little fantasies help you to masturbate?'
Thomas found his voice. 'Yes, Miss. I'm sorry. I didn't mean anything by it.' Then, presumably believing that showing some honesty might make things easier for him he added 'I think of you when I jerk off.'
Louise looked at him. Thomas was surprised that she did not seem particularly shocked. In fact, Thomas reflected, the person shocked the most was him.
'I must confess, Thomas' said Louise, 'I really have no idea what I should do.'
For several seconds there was a silence between them. Then Louise spoke again.
'I guess I should report this, but I don't think I will. Firstly, I think it will count against you and as a student you show great promise. Secondly, I believe that you are not responsible for placing this amongst the homework and someone else has caused this trouble for you – that seems unfair to me. I think one of your 'friends' has done this and, but for that, I would have been none the wiser and your fantasies would have remained private. Thirdly, as the subject of your literary work, I cannot see how I could benefit from this coming to light. I suspect that in some way, even though an innocent party, my reputation would suffer and I would not wish to risk that. At the very least it could not help but cause me some embarrassment, were I to report it.'
'It won't happen again, Miss.'
'I'm not annoyed, Thomas.'
'Miss?'
'You still have a lot to learn, Thomas. I am well aware of the sorts of thoughts that boys of your age have and most of them are about sex. Are they not?'
'Yes, Miss.' Thomas was unsure where this conversation was going, but agreeing seemed to be the best way to minimise any adverse consequences.
Do you think, I'm pretty, Thomas?'
'Yes, Miss. You're very pretty.'
'Thank you, Thomas. That's always nice to hear. You don't say that in this little essay, though. Do you?'
'No, Miss. Sorry, Miss.'
'In fact you don't say much at all. I ask you to stay behind, tell you I want to suck your cock, you get it out, I suck it … and then suddenly you're fucking me over the desk. I imagine this is all you managed to write between bouts of masturbation. Is that it?'
'Yes, Miss.'
'Well, it's not good enough, Thomas. I want to see more dialogue, more description and a far more plausible role for myself. I think you can do better.'