Chapter 1934 An Unlikely Encounter:>21

Anyway, I wanted to go ahead with it regardless. The less actual teaching I had to do, the better off I'd be. I already knew that my previous classes that day were pathetic in my available attention. For obvious reasons, this was going to be the worst of them all. She was at her desk now and I glanced over at her. She noticed and looked back at me. We both panicked briefly and looked away… Then looked back. She broke into a little smile, maybe embarrassed? Then she mouthed a quick 'Hi!'
My heart did a little flip and I dropped my gaze. Not in class. Nobody can know. But I was inwardly pleased at her attention anyway. Fuck, am I addicted? The bell rang.
I instinctively dropped into teacher mode. "Okay class, today we're going to get in touch with our inner child and have a little show-and-tell. Since I know you all have copies of your papers with you at all times, go ahead and pull them out now. Let's get a few volunteers to read an interesting snip of your work and we'll have a discussion." About a third of the students started actually rustling for their papers, the rest were hesitant. "And keep this in mind. If we don't have enough to talk about to take us through the period, then I'll just be forced to assign you more writing so you can be better inspired tomorrow!" More rustling this time.