The Next Day at school

The three of them were on their way to school when Dan felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. The message distracted him from the conversation he had been having with Emma and Randy.

Middleton had some budget issues in the past few years. To cut costs, they had shuttered the East Wing instead of paying for costly repairs. It was mostly used now for students bunking off or as a smoking den. Dan was shocked at the message he had received from Christa. He was tempted to reply immediately but decided to wait and speak to Nicole about it.

“Sorry, what were you guys saying?” Dan asked.

“Randy was telling us that Sarah is available this Saturday,” Emma replied.

“And what about Manny?” Dan queried.

“I've just told him we want access to the gym again and we need his help with something,” Randy explained.

“So we're not telling him what we are doing?” Dan asked.

“I was kind of wanting it to be a surprise,” Randy answered.

“So what are we doing if he doesn't go for it. Plus he's not faculty, but this does mean a member of the school staff will know what we are doing.” Emma countered.

“Yeah, but he buys weed off me and says nothing. If he was going to snitch to the Feds, he already would have.” Randy told her.

They finished their conversation as Randy pulled up in the school's parking lot. They spotted Nicole waiting around the steps for them. Dan told his friends he would catch up with them so he could spend time alone with Nicole. They kissed and greeted each other before Dan showed his phone message to her.

Nicole stood staring at this phone for a moment before replying.

“Have you replied to her?” Nicole asked.

“I was waiting to show it to you,” Dan replied.

“I give you my permission Dan. That one of our teachers is sending you this is such a turn on. I have only one condition, though.” Nicole explained.

“Which is?”

“I want to watch.”

“I'm pretty sure you could find somewhere to hide and watch us.”

A wicked smirk crossed Nicole's face.

“Tell her I don't know. I want her to think you are cheating on me.” Nicole told him.

“I'm loving how devious my girlfriend can be.” Dan complimented her.

Dan watched as Nicole typed out a reply to Christa.

She grabbed him and pulled him into a passionate kiss. Only breaking it off when she realised they both had to go to class. Dan headed to his first class of the day, which was Media studies with Ms Bellamy.. Ms Bellamy was the youngest member of the school faculty. In theory, she was only a trainee teacher who was here on a placement but due to the actual teacher quitting and their school's budget issues, she had been asked to take on the position fully.

Dan arrived on time and took a seat at his workstation, which was a desktop with some basic video editing software installed. He settled in and began working on his assignment in silence. Their class had been asked to rework an existing trailer into a different genre. He had decided to edit Titanic into a horror film, which mostly just involved removing the Jack and Rose romance angle. He was mostly done when Ms Bellamy approached him.

“Dan can I speak to you after class?” She told him.

He was slightly surprised as he wasn't sure what this was about. “ Sure, Ms. Let me finish up here.”

He waited for the rest of the students to file out before venturing into the small room that Ms Bellamy used as her office. Ms Bellamy was five foot four with flaming locks of auburn hair. She had quite a light complexion with pale blue eyes. She looked up at him with a concerned look in her eyes.

“You're not as discreet as you think you are. I don't trust my students to occasionally not do something dumb and accidentally delete their own work. I've got a PowerShell script that backs up any work you've put on our system. “ She told him

Dan quietly muttered the word fuck under his breath.

“Generally this is fairly harmless. A student who is a wannabe influencer editing her Insta reels. Maybe some of our less mature students lighting their own farts on fire. Your friend Lieke has some really good skate stuff. Then last week I found an interesting video project involving four of our senior high school students.” Bellamy continued.

Dan knew he had not copied video files from their shoot with Addison onto a school machine. He suspected it could have been Randy who was more likely to be less careful than Emma would be.

“Does anyone else know?” Dan asked.

“Well, I suspect someone else had to let you into school, but while I have my suspicions, I don't know who that is. But I'm well aware of the identity of the four students who rather brazenly shot a pornographic video on school property. Am I guessing here that you are the ringleader? Randy seems a little too dumb to have suggested this, and I'm guessing Emma got dragged in as a voice of reason.

He decided it best not contradict her. The idea was a joint idea from all three of them, even if it had originally been Randy's suggestion. Dan knew one of them would have to take the fall for this.

“Yeah, it was my idea. I got my friends involved, and I asked Addison to be part of this.” He replied, fudging a few details.

“Well, I appreciate your candour, Dan.” She told him.

“So what happens now?” He asked.

“Well, I'm going to wipe the files and pretend this never happened. You're a decent student, Dan, and if this went beyond me it would likely end in suspension or you being expelled.”

“Really, just a light tap on the wrist and a few stern words. I'm kind of surprised.”

“Nobody got hurt. I'm willing to put this down to a minor misdemeanour that won't be repeated.”

Dan decided to be bold but wasn't entirely sure why.

“So what did you think?”

“Dan, are you seriously asking me for my opinion on your homemade porn film?”

Yeah, I think I am.”

“Your camera work is kind of sloppy. Overall, I think your blocking was okay but possibly needs a little work. There is a very good focus on the action. The interview with Addison captured her story really well. “

“I appreciate your honesty.”

“I worked on a lot of student films during university. The editing is where everything really happens. I'm going to guess none of you has ever edited something like this before.”

“Yeah, we are kind of making it up as we go along.”

Ms Bellamy let out a long sigh.

“I can't believe I'm suggesting this. I think you actually have something here despite this essentially being a homemade sex tape. I could help you with editing or at least give you some basic tips so you can do it yourself.”

“Thank you for the offer, Ms Bellamy.”

“Bring me the rest of the files, and we can take a look sometime soon”, She offered.

“I'm late for my next class.” He told her.

Dan left his media studies class and made his way to his next class. Thankfully, his teacher did not notice his absence. The rest of his morning passed uneventfully as he waited for his free period when he would meet up with Christa.