Go to bed

Much as you want to climb through the window and join Diana on the bed you steel yourself and climb down from the stool and return to your room. You glance thoughtfully at her door as you pass it, your hand twitching with the desire to knock, but you shake your head and open your own door.

You decide a cold shower might dispel the raging erection watching the pretty headmistress has caused. You strip off your clothes and stand under the stream of icy water, forcing your mind away from the thought of the lush body on the other side of the wall. It takes a few minutes, but you finally step out of the shower, grabbing a towel as you shiver from the cold.

Thankfully, the shower works, and you fall into bed and into a deep and dreamless sleep, waking at 5:45, only a little later than usual. You've always been a morning person, and your stint in the marines only reinforced those natural tendencies. The dawn is just starting to light the view from your window and you wonder for a second if the old folding stool is still sitting outside Diana's window or if the girls (or whoever) retrieved it late last night. Not that you really need the stool, you could easily pull your chin up to the sill and get a look at the sleeping Headmistress in her -

Banishing the thought before it fully forms you climb out of bed and start your morning routine. It takes the better part of 45 minutes to go through the workout of push-ups pull-ups, crunches and squats, about ten minutes longer than it used to as you have to take time to warm up your knee and do the exercises specifically prescribed by your PT. The VA physical therapist was happy with your progress, but not you. It is clear that any improvement you have will be incremental at best and in no way will you ever be able to pass the physical needed to resume your career, but all the same you work through the routine with stubbornness akin to a Kentucky mule.