Intermission 1: Emma Campbell.

To her, everything felt surreal in the best of ways. When was the last time she felt this way? No, it was very possible that she had never felt like this in her life. The only thing that worries her is thinking that these feeling may eventually weaken. That’s what they say about love, right? The first few months are all about that euphoria of being with your special someone, then once that fades away due to the normality of being with them is when the real strength of the relationships is tested.

Even as Emma Campbell sits at her home desk in front of her computer, preparing the questions for her midterm tests, she can’t get these thoughts out of her head. Everything reminds her of him, after all. Comments he’d made about a certain part of a book or even knowing how he’d answer a specific question because they’d talked about it before. It makes her grin despite herself, and she has to **** herself to remember she isn’t making a test for her boyfriend, but for all her students. Just because she’s sure he’ll ace it doesn’t mean she has to make it harder for everyone else.

Her boyfriend, who is a whole 7 years younger, is undoubtedly the best thing to have happened to her, and it came at the time she most needed it. What’s more, she didn’t even know how much she needed it until it happened.

Living alone and away from her parents had been taking its toll on her. The sadly little contact with her father, her strained relationship with her mother and the need to perform flawlessly at her job BECAUSE of that strained relationship made her neglect herself. It was because of a sense of responsibility that she first approached David, seeing him having a terrible time in school. When he first asked her out, she refused immediately and instinctively, but it was only seconds after that she reconsidered. Why not? Why not go out and relax a bit with one of her students? He was a good kid, responsible and kind and had gathered the courage to ask a teacher out. Up until that point, she only ever hung out with Mia, and that was maybe once every two weeks. She felt she deserved a change of pace, but she never imagined it would be her best decision in years.

She took him drinking, and after talking for hours, she knew she wanted to get to know him more. Not as a student, but as a person, a friend. She ended up inviting him to her place and passing out next to him on the futon. When she woke up in the middle of the night, the right thing to do would’ve been to cover him and go to her own bed, yet what did she do? She stared at the boy’s sleeping face, and as she did, something built up inside her. He looked cute and innocent. She ended up covering him and herself with a blanket and sleeping next to him, hoping that maybe, just maybe, things would go a little further. She wasn’t expecting things to go all the way, but God knows she regrets nothing.

Ever since she started dating him, she’s felt at ease. She finally has someone to talk to other than colleagues and someone to trust other than Mia. And, well, there’s also the matter of sex. She swears he only gets better every time they do it, and God how she loves it when they do. It’s hard for her to keep her hands off him most of the time. The comfort she feels when he holds her is incomparable. It’s an amazing mix of excitement and inner peace that makes her feel like everything’s alright, and that she can keep working hard because he’s there waiting for her.

She admits, it’s scary to think that, if he were to ask her to marry him, she’d answer yes in a heartbeat. They haven’t been dating for that long, but that’s how serious she is about him. She’s not even bothered by the fact that there are two other girls. Something in her heart tells her that, even if David is with other girls, he will still love her the same. The fact that she actually enjoys watching her cute, sexy boyfriend having sex with others is just a bonus. If she’s going to share, why not enjoy it to the fullest?

Emma lets out a loud sigh of frustration. That line of thought got her horny. Images of that Sunday flash through her mind. She watched him make love to two girls that day, and it felt weird in the best of ways. Her heart pounded then and it does again now just remembering.

Knowing she won’t be able to work well unless she calms down, she opens her secret folder, putting in the password “David Walker” and browses through the pictures and the few videos of her naked boyfriend. He looks a bit embarrassed in most of them, but that kind of turns her on even more.