A pleasant surprise

Alex beat the bell by a couple seconds as he bounded into class and saw that a seat had been saved for him between his brother and Taylor. He smiled at them both and took his seat between them. Of all the thins to expect walking in through the door, he didn't expect her. She was tall for a woman, at 5 foot 10, her red hair was pulled back from her face by a black hairband. Though he couldn't see them from that distance, he knew her hazel eyes were surveying them all as she walked to the desk at the front of the class, her eyes widened slightly as they passed over him, but that was the only outward reaction he saw on her face at seeing him.

She turned her back to the class showing how her skirt hugged her ass just right, and from memory he remembered just how it looked, felt and tasted. She wrote her name on the chalkboard, Ms. Stewart, then turned to us once again and introduced herself before going over the syllabus with us. How did a stripper become my college professor? Alex found himself asking in his head. He looked at Matt and saw his brother enraptured by the woman at the front of the class, but with no recognition on his face, he perhaps didn't know who Alex had gone to the VIP room with.

Alex had a feeling as if someone was staring at him, and glanced over to see Taylor looking past him towards his brother. Alex then noticed that Matt's look of enraptured focus was obvious to all that knew him as one who rarely payed attention in class. Alex shot Taylor an apologetic look which caused her to smile at him, and gently elbowed his brother to snap him out of it.

The rest of the class went smoothly, with both Alex and Ms. Stewart looking everywhere except at each other. Unfortunately, a large part of the class involved class participation, so they would eventually have to communicate, but that was something Alex would have to worry about at a later time. As the bell went off to signal the end of the class, the students got up from their desks and shuffled out of the class to go to their next classes. Ms. Stewart stood at the door ushering the students out of the lecture room, and seemed to be about to say something to Alex, who noticed and practically ran out of the room. He knew they would have to talk at some point, and get over the awkwardness that their past actions had inevitably caused, but it was definitely not that day.

The rest of the day occurred without any eventfulness as professors walked their students through course syllabuses and warned students the perils of missing classes and so preached the benefits of contraception to prevent pregnancy. The awkwardness was evident among his friends as they sat to eat lunch together, Nicole joked about having a stash of condoms at the ready, which helped to alleviate the mood at the table. Alex noticed that Joey chose to sat with Cole instead of with them, but knew that the topic of sex was never a comfortable one for Joey who swore it off until marriage as a ways to focus on what she thought was important in life. He wondered how long Cole would wait before giving her an ultimatum of him or her single life, and Alex knew what her decision would be.

As the day came to a close, and he was leaving the building with his brother and Taylor, he heard his name being called from behind. He turned to see that the one who had called him was Ms. Stewart. He knew he would have to talk to her at some point, but didn't know if now was the time, but as he stood there and pondered, the tall red head moved closer, and his friends disappeared into the crowd with an apologetic look on their faces that was no help to him. He could now clearly see Ms. Stewart, but he could also simply merge with the crowd and disappear as simply as Matt and Taylor.