Common denominator

Due to a mistake on my part, some editing of chapter 134 was necessary. I encourage you to go read the first half of it again.
https://chyoa.com/chapter/Icing-on-the-cake.370298
Also a character sheet had been added to the previous chapter
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The students were taking their seats in the classroom and John discovered that he had a seat reserved next to Anna, she hadn't let anyone sit there. John sat next to his smiling girlfriend. He was finding her cute when he met her, but now that she got out of her shell and acted accordingly she was truly gorgeous. The recent boost to her charisma and her weekend makeover were making heads turn toward her, some of the students having trouble realizing that she was the same girl who had always been in their class. John smiled back at her and once seated bent over to kiss her, making some in the classroom gasp or giggle.

Only one person in the classroom could equal her beauty. Living wet dream of most males (and a good proportion of the females too), June Summers was greeting her students, wearing a green light dress at the limit of decency and (John checked using the inventory page) nothing else. Free spirited, she as she sometimes did, continued to go to each student to hug them as a greeting to her class. As enjoyable as it was, it often created a lot of embarrassment for the boys, being pressed against her body would always have a certain reaction in them, that they then spent the rest of the class hiding.

Due to her personality, stunning physique or a side effect of her long term exposure to a magic statuette, everyone loved June. Students, faculty, parents, no one ever complained about anything regarding the way she dressed, acted or anything concerning her. Most girls John often heard calling about every other female a slut or a bitch if they were jealous, never attacked the art teacher, there was something about her that was just so likable.

The hug John received was even more pronounced than the one his classmates got and she used it to whisper in his ear. John on the other hand was watching his girlfriend, hoping she wouldn't get mad.

"She looks radiant, you really did a good job with her too. I just hope it doesn't mean we are done," she said, low enough that only him could hear it. She didn't let him answer and went to hug Anna. The boxers, one of his first real crafts were one of the most useful items he made for social settings. The view of these two beautiful women he recently had sex with hugging... It brought up images in his mind that would have made a hole in his pants.

The subject today had to do with clay sculptures again. John couldn't use craft to make something, the instant result would be too obvious, but he had another idea. While moving his hands and a carving tool on his lump of clay he started using move to push and smooth the clay according to his will. The subject of sculpture was free and John knew what would be a perfect use of this class. After all, once again, he had the perfect model sitting just next to him and maybe seeing herself in another medium once again would make her understand that she was actually pretty.

For a while he only was getting the general shape of her head and new hairdo and it wasn't showing what he was sculpting. He was taking his time, he could have finished it in less than five minutes, but it would have looked weird being so good and so fast. June was helping other students and she was currently helping Anna. Standing behind her and bent down, her boobs resting on her student's shoulders, she was holding her hands and helping her get the feel for the way she should move the clay.

A bit reminding of the Ghost movie, the scene had grasped the attention of everyone in the room. The shape the sculpture was taking was becoming suggestive and their joined hands going up and down were...

'Damn, this is so hot! One more reason I have to come clean with her, well with them...'

Anna was blushing, embarrassed as usual, but she didn't seem to mind the experience, more likely the fact that it was in public. Anna was obviously interested in boys considering what happened with John, but John had no idea if she liked girls too. Being bullied and mocked by the most popular girls wasn't a healthy way to discover such things (or it was just a case of the fact that in the presence of June, no girl was that straight that she could feel nothing towards her). The next changes to the sculpture left it abstract but a lot less phallic, June left Anna to finish it on her own. She threw an interested look at John's sculpture. His deliberately slow progress had finished by giving results and it was now obvious what he was sculpting. John felt a bit anxious sculpting while she was looking. To an expert like her, it would be obvious that what he did should not be giving the results he was obtaining. He did small changes by hand while she watched him, trying to look really focused on it and careful about his moves. He resumed his work once she focused on other students. He did not like having to lie to her either, living her life knowing some sort of magic existed but in the dark about it wasn't a very desirable situation. She deserved to know the truth, but would it put her in danger?

Near the end of the class, John turned a half scale bust of herself towards Anna. He had to remember that he was in class and stopped the sculpture at her shoulders, he intended to have full real scale statues of her to decorate his castle and would include a few other details.

The issues of his secrets were weighing on him further and further. If he had been more honest with Anna, Mrs Wentworth wouldn't have had such an easy hold on him. And sending her to Arcadia for protection would have been an available option. He needed to tell her the truth, soon, before going on this damned mission.

Anna tried to deny the likeness between John's sculpture and herself, to the astonishment of a few students close enough to hear her do it. While getting out of the classroom, John slipped a piece of paper to June. He explained that he could not talk to her in front of Anna yet, that no it wasn't over and that he would explain things to her, soon.

Going to their next class, John began to prepare for the two important things he would have to do. He would need a few things for his mission and going back to his kingdom with Anna was a good opportunity to recover them.

Biology class was really boring when knowing the whole manual already, especially when able to actually modify what was described in class in a few spells.

John was texting Anna and Sylvia at the same time. Anna to tell her that he had an idea of a place to eat lunch but that it was a surprise. Sylvia to tell her to prepare some sleep pollen bombs for his mission, to convince the elves to put some clothes on and to make them behave. The absence of taboos about nakedness and intimacy of the dryad and two elves would create another issue during the first meeting. John tried to explain to Sylvia what was and wasn't acceptable behavior in presence of guests, which would be useful if Tricia came to visit.

He also received a text from Kim, asking him when she would be able to meet with him. John had a problem now, he needed to meet a few girls for various reasons (Danielle/Tricia would probably want to discuss their research partnership soon), but with Anna following him around between classes he would have even less free time where he could disappear for such things. He replied to her that he couldn't free himself for it until the next day. Her answer betrayed her anger about it, John didn't understand why. A different haircut was no big deal these days and a lot of girls would kill to get bigger boobs for free and without surgery.

Math class was the same as usual, John got called to the board for an exercise and gave a perfect answer as usual, if anything it was even easier to calculate things now that he had boosted his Intellect, he could do in his head things he usually needed a calculator for.

It would be useful for the rest of his studies, but his academic endeavors were becoming less and less relevant. He could actually live a very comfortable life right now, just farming for resource spots in his kingdom and selling the gems or precious metals. It was without counting on the other sources of income his powers would offer him. Alchemy and crafting looked very promising once he could set up something to get a stream of components without farming them himself. Who knows , one day he might even be able to just move in his kingdom and live there, only coming back to the real world for some shopping or tourism, his wife may insist on it.

He looked at Anna, busy on the next table, trying to figure out how to solve the equation given to them as an exercise.

Yes, this could be a good life. I really hope it won't end today.

The ringing bell freed the students from having to solve this problem today and most of them rushed out of the classroom, towards the cafeteria. The few items that could be considered edible where in limited quantities and queuing early was often a good idea.

John and Anna split up to go pick their lunch boxes in their respective lockers, they met up again near the entrance. Anna seemed curious about John's surprise, but refrained from asking, it wouldn't be a surprise otherwise.

John led her out of the building and in the garden around it, he found a spot behind a wall and waited to be sure to see only one eye on his stealth indicator.

"Anna, I have something to explain to you. Do you trust me?" he asked her.

"Of course, John. What is it? Are we not eating lunch?" she replied.

"I want you to do something for me, you'll understand everything after that," he told her.

"Of course, anything. What is it?"