Teachers Pet by Briar Lane

Author:Briar Lane [Lane, Briar]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Wait, so, she just stormed into the office?” Katie asked as she sat down on the kitchen countertop. As soon as I got to her house with Alex, I started cooking pasta for us and it was nearly done.

“Yeah…” I said. “It’s a little weird, right?”

“It’s completely weird,” she agreed. “Did anyone from the office call you?”

“Not yet,” I said. “But it’s only been an hour.”

I had to admit, I’d been nervous ever since that encounter with Josh’s mother. I didn’t think I had done anything wrong, but she seemed really offended. Was I actually going to get in trouble? I wasn’t really the kind of person who got into trouble. I was a model student and now I was a model teacher… that was kind of my thing.

“Babe, don’t stress,” Katie told me. “We’re two consenting adults. We’ve done nothing wrong. She can’t get you in trouble just because she’s homophobic.”

My eyes widened. I was so scared about whether or not I’d really done anything wrong that this didn’t even pop into my head as a possibility! “You think that’s what this is about? That she’s homophobic?”

“What else could it be?” she asked. “You’ve done nothing wrong except date a woman and she clearly has a problem with it.”

“Yeah, I guess that has to be what this is about…” I said, feeling a little dejected. “Wow. I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to deal with this from any of my students’ parents.”

As bad as getting in trouble was for me, somebody discriminating against me because I was a lesbian definitely felt worse. Especially since it was one of my students’ mothers who adored me a week ago.

My phone started buzzing from the kitchen table and my mind went straight back to thinking about being in trouble. There were only two kind of calls I got: the first was a call from Katie, which obviously this wasn’t, and the second was a call from my school. And I did not want to hear from the school right now.

“Here, I’ll finish this up,” Katie said, getting off the counter and stepping toward the stove. “You just go answer that.”

I would’ve rather kept cooking dinner than answer the phone, but I had to know what was going on.

Sure enough, it was the school on my caller ID. I recognized this particular extension as being from our principal’s office.

“Hello?” I answered nervously.

“Hello, Miss Andrews? It’s Principal Byron.”

“Oh, hello, what can I do for you?” I asked.

“I’m sorry to do this to you, but I’m going to need you to come in about thirty minutes early tomorrow and meet me in my office. Is that possible?”

“Yeah, sure,” I said, barely able to croak the words out with my anxiety rising. “Can I ask what we’d be meeting about?”

“Just… a situation we need to address. We’ll talk more tomorrow,” he responded.

“Okay, sure. I’ll see you then,” I said, trying very hard to sound friendly.

“See you,” he replied before hanging up.

My heart sunk in my chest.

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