Kelly’s got Layla’s plans

You’re about to go home after lunch when there’s a knock on your office door. It’s Kelly. She looks stunning in her school uniform. Her blond hair is tied back. Her green eyes glitter with mischief.

“Hi, sir, can I have a word?”

“Of course, Kelly. Come in.”

She walks in and closes the office door behind her. She saunters across the office, round the desk and sits down in your seat.

“That’s my seat, Miss Golden.”

“Yes, well, I’m the teacher today, because I’ve got information for you.”

“Information? About what?”

“About Miss Coventry. About her plan.”

“Her plan?”

“Yes, to get you sacked. She told me. She plans on catching you with one of the students. I volunteered to be that student, but she said no. She said some nonsense that my father would cover it up if it was you and me, that it had to be another student, preferably one from the Lower Sixth.”

“I don’t sleep with my students,” you tell her. Ok, that’s a lie, but she doesn’t know that. “Especially not one under 18.”

“You wouldn’t be tempted by me, sir?”

What can you say to that? The truth? Yes, you’re tempted by Kelly. She’s a gorgeous, blond, fit teen. The monster in your trousers is responding to just the thought of it. No. You can’t do that.

“You’re my student,” you finally come up with.

“But I’m 18, sir. Unlike most of the others. Don’t you fancy me?”

She stands and saunters towards you, her hips swaying. Her skirt flutters. It’s far too short. You can see so much of her legs. She pushes out her chest, and her white blouse bulges delightfully.

“Let’s not talk about that, Kelly?” Because talking about that is sending blood to your groin.

“But you haven’t heard the best of it yet, sir.”

“Best?”

“Yes. Best. Because the last time she didn’t want to talk about you. She wanted to talk about some new guys joining the groundskeeping force.”

“What, the men from the Altobello Estate?”

“That where they’re from? What are men from the Altobello Estate doing here? Keeping an eye on Melanie? They’ll have their work cut out.”

“It’s a punishment.” You go through the events of last week, and of yesterday. Telling her about the incident at the Leisure Centre and Mr Altobello’s response to it.

Halfway through Kelly takes offence. “She wants me to seduce men like that. The bitch.”

“Kelly, that’s no way to talk about staff.”

“But she is. She said if I seduced the newcomers in the groundskeeping force, she’d see I was expelled. But I’m not sleeping with Altobello thugs or even letting them grope me. Or kiss. Uh,,, Talking to Melanie’s bad enough. She thinks she’s my equal, just because she’s got money. Yes, money, all of it from drugs and prostitutes and crime.”

“I know those thugs have been trying to ingratiate themselves with my father. Always making proposals we should go into business with them. Never going to happen. And if I went along with Miss Coventry’s plan, well, you can imagine how it would go. No. No. I’m with you, sir. Totally. Tell me what to do, and I’ll do it. Anything to get back at that bitch. How dare she. How dare she.”

It appears Layla has hit a nerve. Before you thought Kelly an unreliable ally. But with one suggestion Layla has turned her into a committed one.

That doesn’t help work out how you’re going to use her.