Together we serve....

Joey went to the nurse's office to get something for a headache and got a pass to go back to class. English was a double class so when he got back there was still half of the class period left. Steve was already back at class hard at work on his assignment. Joey smiled at him when he sat down and then looked over at Kevin who was staring at him suspiciously. Joey returned a questioning look trying to not appear guilty. He picked up on his assignment and got started.

New text from Kevin, "Dude. Where were you and Stevie?"

Joey replied, "He needed something to drink. ;)"

He saw Kevin shake his head and smile, then went back to work. The rest of English was business as usual and Joey said bye to Kevin and Steve.

"See at lunch time, guys", Joey smiled.

Joey headed up to the main office where he would spend the next two periods helping Mrs. Tyler, the first period alone; the next period Adam would normally help but he was out today.

"Good Morning, Mrs. Tyler", Joey greeted cheerfully.

"Good Morning, my gentle sir", Mrs. Tyler replied smiling at Joey when he came in."So, your brother is home sick today, huh?"

"Yeah, I think he's going through some changes that causing a lot of anxiety. Mom is taking care of him today, so I'm sure he'll be fine. Probably be back tomorrow..... a new man", Joey said.

"Well I think you're right. Your Mom is so sweet to you boys. She's a lucky woman to have your two lovely boys in her life", she said grabbing Joey by the cheek.

She normally, squeezed his cheek in a playful manner, but today she changed her grip and instead caressed the side of his face.

"Such a nice handsome boy you've become, Joey. I can't say I've ever noticed how fit and tall you are", she commented while looking at Joey's body.

"Yes...", she continued while rubbing and squeezing his shoulder muscles, then sliding them down his waist to his hips "....a nice handsome boy indeed".

"Thanks, Mrs. Tyler", Joey replied."You're right about me being lucky. I have a lot to be thankful for... I have a VERY loving family and friends .... especially you".

"Don't be silly, Joey. You're going to graduate here in a couple of months and be off to college and your life", she said while still rubbing his forearms and biceps. "Mmm mmm. Yep, you'll head out and forget about old high school teachers and office administrators like me."

"That's definitely not true, Mrs. Tyler!", Joey said, then leaned in closer to whisper in her ear,"You're my favorite teacher here", then kissed her briefly on the cheek.

"Oh my!", she said waving him away."Don't go teasing an old woman now, Joey. You'll get me all flustered, and besides I'm not a teacher".

"Well, I beg to differ Mrs. Tyler", Joey said while going to sit down at table across from her desk."You've taught me a lot over the years..... and I bet you have plenty more to teach", he continued trying to be too obvious about his suggestion.

"That may true, young man", She said getting some boxes and bringing them over to the table."But apparently I haven't taught you much about being a gentleman and not taking advantage of an old woman and her modesties".

"Sorry, if I offended you, Mrs. Tyler", Joey said,"You ARE my favorite teacher, though.....".

"Well, right now this favorite teacher needs you to pack up these files from these cabinets so we can send them off to the district to be scanned", she joked, then lightly slapped in on the shoulder.

Joey got to work on filling the boxes. He and Adam had been doing this every day for the past month as the school district was busy trying to digitize old records from each school. He worked diligently as usual as Mrs. Tyler went on about her day. Joey was happy with the effect his changes had on her and thought he could flirt a little more. Shortly after getting to work, one of the janitors came in with a handtruck.

"Good Morning, Mrs. Tyler. Here's the handtruck you requested", he called to her.

"Oh, thank you Andy", she stood and greeted him"We're going to be using this quite a bit for the rest of the school year. Do you need it back right away?"

"No, not at all", Andy replied"We have a bunch down there, we only use them all when we clean the school in the summer".

"Thank you, deary", she said "Joey here and I are going to get to work right away with it".

"OK, have a great day, Mrs. Tyler", he said while heading out the door.

Joey was just finishing up another full box and brought it to the closet where the other boxes were stacked. He took the marker and write the names of the first and last file as he had with the other boxes. Mrs. Tyler game over to Joey and started rubbing his back as he was working.

"OK, my young cheeky fellow", she said to Joey smiling"It's time to put some of those muscles to work", she continued while squeezing the muscles of his arm.

"At your service, M'Lady", Joey teased in a thick English accent while bowing down to her.

"Why thank you", she replied smiling at Joey. "Let's load up some of these boxes so we can take them down to the loading dock for the district"

She instructed Joey which boxes to load first and watched him load them up. When the handtruck was full and Joey rocked the handtruck back waited for further instruction.

She watched Joey, then squeezed his arms again.

"Mmmmm mmm. You sure are a strong young man, Joey", she said."I could eat you up".

"You're welcome to, anytime. But I get to eat you up too", he said smiling and elbowing her lightly in the side.

"Oh..... my,my", she replied."I see I'm going to have to start being more careful around you, Mister".

Joey followed her down the hall to the elevator and boarded with the handtruck. Mrs. Tyler held the door until he was on the elevator and she put in the staff key and pressed B for basement.

"Now tell me, Joey. What's gotten into you today?", she asked watching him.

"What do you mean?", Joey asked feigning innocence.

"Well.... I've never known you to be so forward .... or flirty even", she elaborated still smiling.

"Well, I've always liked you, Mrs. Tyler. I guess I just didn't know you like me too", Joey replied.

"Well I do like you, Joey", she began."......but you don't mean _like, _like me do you?, she asked.

"Well...... I always want to be honest with you, Mrs. Tyler", Joey said then looked her expectedly.

"I would expect nothing less, young man", she replied.

"Well, I do like, like you. I mean I always have", Joey said innocently.

"But I'm old and.... so fat. How could you like me, when you're such young, handsome man?", she asked.

"Seriously, Mrs. Tyler?", Joey said expressively."You're beautiful! ...and I like your curves. I hope that's OK to say".

"Well, I don't know what to say about that", she said somewhat flustered."I haven't had the affection of such a young man in a long time".

"Well, you can have my affection all you want. Maybe I can make up for the lost time", Joey said getting excitedly as the elevator stopped and the door opened.

"I guess we'll see about that", she said smiling and leaned over to kiss him on the cheek before exiting the elevator. "Now follow me over here, my young admirer.