Calm Before the Storm

John felt as though a weight had been dropped onto him. ’Shit! Why would she just suddenly want to see me? I mean it’s not exactly the first time she’s done this, the last time Frank and his lackeys kicked my ass and locked me in the janitor’s closet. But this seems pretty random; usually, it was because I pissed her off in some way… Unless she figured out I have powers? If so, why not just out me? Is she planning on blackmailing me?’ he thought.

“F-Fuck!” he stuttered as he jumped out of his seat and landed his ass on the ground. Luckily for him, his classmates couldn’t really care less about whether he was alright or not. After a quick laugh, the class seemed to just ignore him.

“Oh, I’m sorry, John. I didn’t mean to startle you. Are you alright?” June got down onto the floor to help him, though she seemed to also take advantage of the situation to move her legs and flash him.

The pink scrap of cloth between her legs covered nothing. The thing was almost completely made up of thin strips of bright fabric, which vanished between the outer lips of her pussy. Other than not hiding anything at all, what John assumed was a G-string did have a larger piece of lace fabric further up which seemed to connect the thing together and hid the small patch of hair on her crotch. June took note of his staring and leaned in a little before whispering, “Seems you aren’t that hurt, like what you see?”

“Y-yeah,” he half-choked.

His attention was again drawn to her legs as they snapped shut in a hurry. “H-hey, a-are you okay?” Alison stuttered.

“Aww, you are such a sweetie for coming to check on him; he’s alright, dear. I think he might have been deep in thought when I sat next to him and I scared him out of his train of thought right onto the floor.” June smiled genuinely. “Oh, I just had a nice idea, if you’d agree to it that is. Why don’t you bring over your things and work with John? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the two of you are my top students and the ones I feel have a lot of artistic potential. Of course, if you are already comfortable in your current group, that is fine too.”

Alison’s face began to flush. “Oh uhm, y-yeah. I c-can do that.”

“Okay, dear, how about you go get your things and bring them over here?” June suggested.

Alison nodded and briskly headed off, back to her desk. June decided to take a seat right across from John and an impish grin formed on her face. Though June was amazingly beautiful, John couldn’t help but notice Alison talking to the two girls on her table, and as soon as she finished and began collecting her things, the girls looked at him with scorn in their eyes. John quickly averted his, looking back to June. The devilish smile had faded and now only warmth remained.

Soon enough Alison was back, and she carefully placed her things on the table and sat next to John. He noted how she shuffled a little closer to him when she thought he wasn’t looking, causing a new line of thoughts to trouble his mind

“Okay, so you two-” June’s voice unfocused as John retreated back into his mind.

His stomach dropped as a new idea surfaced, ’Fuck, I’ve been so worried about Vanessa finding out about my magic… What if she found out that Alison and I worked together on Friday, or that we’ve been texting? Should I be less worried? Probably not, if anything, that’s probably the worst-case scenario. I mean, she’s bullied me and encouraged Frank to do so too all because Alison liked me, I can’t even imagine wha-’

His thoughts were interrupted by June, “What do you think, does that sound good to you John?”

“Oh, uh yeah, perfectly fine,” John awkwardly laughed.

“Good, so I’ll see you after school for that then, and you are coming too, right, Alison?” June asked, looking at the blushing girl.

Alison looked at John, then back to June. “Uhm, I-I uh, y-yes,” she agreed.

“Wait, what are we talking about?” John asked confused.

June’s expression showed a slight amount of irritation. “Were you not listening to me at all for the past five minutes? Well, you’ve already agreed now, you are joining Alison and me after school for a little art project. And John, I think we’re going to have to talk during the morning break. I have a feeling something is bothering you, and I want to help however I can.” June’s expression softened towards the end looking more concerned than anything else.

“Oh, uhm, I can’t. I have to be somewhere during the morning break, could we do it another time?” John asked. He would much rather spend time with June during break but he knew from experience that avoiding Vanessa would probably make things so much worse, it wouldn’t be the first time he’d tried to get out of whatever she had planned.

June sighed. “Fine... Listen, there isn’t anything you can do about whatever is bothering you right now anyway, so come back here at lunch and we’ll try to figure out a way to deal with what’s bothering you.”

John nodded, knowing lunch would be much too late. Though June was right, there wasn’t anything he could do about it now and worrying about it was only stressing him out.

“Okay, you two, so now that we’ve decided to have a little after school lesson, where would you say your greatest inspiration comes from? What is your favourite subject to create art from?” June asked. “Alison, how about you answer first?”

The shy girl blushed again before pulling out her sketch pad and flipping through a few different scenes. Some were of the cliffside he’d seen her draw out on the graphic computers, some were of woodland areas, but all of them had one thing in common. “I, uhm, I l-like dr-drawing landsc-scapes. Th-they’re really re-l-laxing and p-peaceful.”

“Landscapes are beautiful, though I do feel that you sometimes limit yourself to them, Alison. Now it’s not a bad thing that you’ve found what you love to depict but you should try out different styles of art and different subjects to see if you enjoy other things,” June explained in a soft voice. Alison nodded. “And John? Your focus? I am very intimately aware of your favourite subject but you should share with Alison.”

John blushed a little at June’s emphasis on “intimately”. Not only that, but the fact that her foot was now rubbing up his leg was very distracting. “I, well, I like fantasy and, uhm, I usually draw characters and, uh, scenes.”

“Oh, actually that gives me a good idea of what we should do for our after-school session. Alison likes to draw realism, and John likes drawing characters or figures. So we can combine them. This will be rather fun, I’m looking forward to it,” June bubbled; though something told John that she knew exactly what their answers would be and that she’d already planned whatever it was she had in store for them after school.

The time seemed to have run away with them and John’s worries returned as the bell that signified the first break of the day rang. “Uhm, b-bye John,” Alison said as she packed away her things and hurried out of class following the crowd. John, as usual, was the last to leave, which meant June was able to openly flash him a wink and blow a kiss at him as he left.

John slowly made his way towards the old wing of the building. The classrooms in this part of the school were mostly used for storage now. Someone had funded the new section of the school a few years ago and the school hadn’t bothered to do anything with the old building since. The fact that it was essentially a second school seldom used and hardly ever visited by teachers meant it was a hotspot for students to do things the school would frown upon, things involving **** and sex being among the most common.

As John walked down the dark empty halls, the sound of students grew quieter and ever so slightly more echoey and his steps grew louder only furthering his anxiety for whatever Vanessa wanted. He’d decided she couldn’t have realised he was the one using magic on her, she’d have texted him on his other number and used his name. Or at the very least mentioned it in her text to him. No, it had to be finding out about Alison, he couldn’t think of any other reason right now, not that his panicking brain was in any state to try figuring anything out. The only thing he did manage to do was to plan that he’d play dumb and deny anything; it was the only way… probably.

By the time he was standing outside of the girls’ changing room, his footsteps were almost headache-inducing and he could hear his heartbeat booming in his ears. He stopped dead in his tracks right outside of the locker room. He wasn’t sure what hell he was about to walk into, but he could always use his powers if things got too bad.

Those thoughts vanished, though, when Vanessa’s voice cut through the silence, “I could hear your flat-footed stomps coming all the way down the hall. Get in here!”

John didn’t want to move. Funnily enough, he’d run away from a dragon, fought a headless woman and stormed the home of kobolds, but this still seemed more frightening than any of those, maybe it was because Vanessa had been one of his biggest bullies for so long.

“I’m still waiting!” she called impatiently.

His feet felt like lead but he managed to put one foot in front of the other, slowly approaching the door. His arm refused to rise but he **** himself to push against the door. As it opened the fluorescent lights from within **** him to squint.

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