Veroe
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IC: Collin Wallace
Collin was in trouble. He was failing his biology class. He was a smart and studious student and doing well enough in his other classes, but Biology seemed to be the proverbial monkey on his back he just could not shake off. He'd gotten into Greenwood Academy on a scholarship for the swim team, which was the one sport he actually enjoyed doing, but it required his GPA not to go any lower than a specific number...and the F he was destined to get in Professor Hawthorne's biology class was going to sink it just under that number. He came from a very poor single-parent family and his mom had already sacrificed so much working two jobs and weekends just to get him this far. He didn't want to tell her he'd lost his scholarship and gotten kicked out of college after his first semester there, and all because he could not control himself when he was around Professor Hawthorne.
It was all his own fault. He'd always had a big problem around pretty girls. He'd get nervous and shy and generally unable to think, like at all, about what he was supposed to be doing or saying or anything. And it was even worse with Professor Hawthorne. He was a mess with pretty girls his own age. With Professor Hawthorne he was utterly hopeless.
Twenty years ago she could have been a supermodel, and now as middle-age has laid its hands upon her time only seemed to heighten her beauty. The wrinkles around the eyes only made a pretty face blossom into a mature and beautiful one. The fat that came with the inevitable onset of age on a lean slender body only made it voluptuous and sexier. And then there was the way she acted: mature, experienced, confident, and straight-forward always...none of the games girls his own age liked to play in relationships with him-that is if he could ever pull his foot out of his mouth to ask one out in the first place.
Also he was certain she'd caught him staring at her ass or breasts a time or two like a total perv...which shamefully was not so very far from the truth.
Augh, this was so mortifying! It was almost entirely without hope for him.
There was still one hope left however. He still could pull this out and get enough of a grade to pass biology with a C. Professor Hawthorne offered a list of voluntary research papers on topics she chose and if his paper could impress her it would take the place of 40% of his final grade. He just had to impress her, which sounded great to him. He could write this paper away from the constant distraction of being around the sexiest woman alive. The problem with that was the only topic left on the list was a paper on the subject of neuron signaling, which was not something they've covered at all and all the things he'd read on it only seemed to confuse him more on the subject.
So he had bitten the bullet and asked-more accurately mumbled at her-if he could get her help in understanding how these neurons worked for the grade-saving paper he was trying desperately to impress her with. So, here he was after class walking up to her desk with his heart in his throat. She was busy gathering up her notes she'd referred to during her lecture so she was not noticing how his eyes seemed to rake over her in the most innapropriate way. She was wearing a simple business suit straight from the rack of some department store or other, completely normal, nothing sexy at all about it, however...the pencil kirt molded over an ass that seemed to be made out of glue for his eyeballs, the cut of the blazer she wore over a pristine white blouse only made her impressive full bust underneath her clothes more apparent. She turned and blue intelligent eyes regarded him behind a pair of staid black-framed glasses. Her silky black hair she'd tied back in an austere bun today, only one or two of those hairs appeared grey.
Good god, she was gorgeous!
"Uhhhh...." He said standing there like an idiot, "...Uhhh..."
Jesus Christ, he needed to say something rather than standing there with his mouth open like a fool. "I need help...with my research...Uhhh...I mean...my research paper...you know...from your list or papers we can do...and I..."
Collin's eyes had been pulled by the force of gravity and was now locked onto the mesmerizing swell of her bust. With an effort worthy of gods he shook his head and shut his eyes closed to force the words out past a clumsy tongue. "Can you explain Neuron signaling to me a little in depth, Professor. Everything I've read on it is only getting me more and more confused."
There. He'd said it, at last. His eyes opened to find she shifted forward in her chair elbows on the desk and her hands steepled before her as those cool and icy crystalline blue eyes evaluated him...measuring him up...for what? Collin could not say. "Uh...Professor Hawthorne?"