Notes:
Additional Cast:
John Slattery as Mr. Emerton
Heather Locklear as Ms. Russell
Joseph's POV
I arrive exactly at 11.30 in front of the building at Elm Street, at Anthropological Sciences Campus. Alice is already there waiting for me. She is standing near the entrance, with her hands crossed and supporting her weight on her left leg. She is wearing jeans with a light white sweater and white converses. She's carrying a blue bag and her light brown hair is in loose curls falling across her face.
The jeans point out her curved body perfectly and I can't help myself imagining my hands exploring it. Why this girl is so attractive and a pain in the ass in the same time? This is so fucking annoying! What's even most annoying is that I find her attractive! I try to choke these thoughts as I approach her.
"Hello partner in crime." I greet her with a smile.She gives me an examining look and then smiles back.
"Hello James Bond wannabe! I am impressed you didn't show up in a tuxedo."
"I was considering it, but I am not sure if you could handle the sight." It's so amusing teasing her and waiting for her reactions. I could do that all day, as her quips never disappoint me. Although sometimes they drive me up the wall, but still, I can't stop it.
"I have seen worse things, so I think I would be fine!"
"Keep saying that to yourself... Maybe you'll believe it in the end." I lean a bit to be inches away from her face.
She stares back into my eyes, but I can't read her face. I can't understand if I make her feel uncomfortable or nervous or intimidated by my presence. I can never foresee her reactions, like with all the other women and that drives me crazy and even more intrigued. Normally any other girl would be aroused, if I was that close to her, but not Alice.
"Keep trying persuading yourself that I am falling under your spell. It's hard to know there is a woman resisting to your ridiculous charms, isn't it?" she shoots back, without avoiding eye contact.
"I haven't even put the least of my charms in functioning. I've already told you. You're not on my interest list, but if you were, you wouldn't know what hit you." I am still inches from her face and all she does is letting go an exasperated huff and giving me an irritating glare.
"As much as I want to answer you back right now, this is not the time and place. We have work to do." she says in a commanding voice.
"I am aware of that! You're the chatty person here, who's getting distracted." I give her a playful look, which meets her glare.
"Me??? You're the one, who-" I look askance at her and she stops annoyed. "Ok I stop! I will rave to you later and you'll listen to me without interrupting." she orders pointing at me with an angry look and all I do is chuckle, because I find her face adorable like that; even though I try really hard not to.
"Fine, but where's the fun if I don't answer you back?" I move my index finger in front of her. "Anyway do you have your precious paper?"I ask, since if her easily distracted brain forgot it, this meeting will be for nothing.
"Yeah it's right here!" She flashes her stick in front of me. "These two days I did all the adjustments, that I spent doing that freaking day in the library." she frowns instantly and I can't help but feeling somehow sorry for her.
Even if I don't know her very well as a person, because all we do is yell to each other and exchange quips, I believe that she's determined and doesn't slack off. Plus she must have worked really hard for it.
"I think library isn't your lucky place. Better study somewhere else for the finals." I remark and I receive a coy smile.
"I think you're right! Imagine how sick I am of that place, that I am at the state to acknowledge you're right." She tells me with a grimace, as I give her a surprised look.
She indeed said that I was right.
"It's the 5th of October time 11.37..." I say looking at my phone, while Alice is giving me a confused look. "I note the day and the time you said I was right. It's going to be like my second birthday. I will even have a cake." I say with a sarcastic/serious voice and face. Alice tries to resist the urge to laugh, but finally she gives in.
"I warn you I will come for the cake."
"Nooooo the cake will be all mine." I move my finger in a negative wave.
"There will be a war then!" She announces and I chortle. "Anyway, we should go to Mr. Emerton's office. It's on the 5th floor." She says with a professional voice.
"Alright! Let's get down to business." I announce as well, before I follow her into the building.
The building's interior isn't something special. The walls are white and the floor is made by also white tiles. There is a reception in the centre with a brunette woman at her early 40s sitting there, but she doesn't give us any attention, since students visit professors all the time. The elevators are on the left.
Once we get in, I press the button with the number 5 and I speak the moment we get in.
"This place brings back memories." I take a look around the elevator, before it ends up on Alice.
"I already feel nauseous, by those memories. Thank God you're solo now..." She says in a relieved voice and I chuckle a bit. "Don't tell me you're hiding one of your bimbos under your sleeve?" She quickly turns her head to my direction with wide eyes on my shirt's sleeve.
"Believe me if I had bimbos under my shirt's sleeve, I would never leave the house." She makes a disgusted grimace, which amused me.
"Let's recap!" She changes the subject. "We will go in, you will do your computer stuff and send my paper."
"That's the plan!" I announce. "Also I'll find the one, who sent your paper. I promise you I would do that."She turns her head at me with a surprised look. She can't still believe that I am willing to help her. Then she smiles as I continue talking. "That someone must have thought the whole process..."
"Because he changed the papers..." Alice continues my thought.
"Yeah! If you both had sent the same paper, the professor would have put a zero to both of you, so all this stealing would be for nothing."
"Yeah that's true! But on the other hand he or she could have deleted the file, so no worries." Alice concludes nodding her head.
"That could have been a solution, but you would realise it immediately and you would have sent the saved file from your computer."
"But how did that someone know I had a saved file on my computer?"
"Ιt's the logical thing to think. I guess he bet on your carelessness to send it without opening it. That dude or chick was very lucky. The plan had holes, but he did it anyway. That person must have been really desperate." I conclude.
"Have you become a psychologist now?" she observes raising an eyebrow.
"I don't want to brag, but Ι bed many women. To do that you have to know how to approach and talk to them. My good looks are pretty helpful, but it's not the only thing that counts." I wink at her and she looks at me really irritated.
"I am not interested in knowing how you flirt with women. It's disgusting and loathsome. Not to mention it's disparaging for the women. We don't all fall with the same stupid things." She spits at me really angrily.
"That's the point! You don't say the same things to all of them. I am a master in what I am doing and trust me I know what to say to every woman..." Alice is about to start retaliate, but I keep talking. "To every woman except you." She closes her mouth and my eyes find hers.
"I am not like other women." She answers with sassiness and determination, giving me a burning look, before she goes out of the elevator, since we arrived our destination.
To be honest I wouldn't expect any other answer, coming from her mouth. She really is like no other woman I've ever met. She's a challenge and maybe that's why I find her alluring. Because I love challenges.
"The office is that way." Alice is showing me a corridor with doors left and right. "All we have to do is wait for the professor to leave in 10 minutes." She tells me, looking at her watch.
"Ok let's sit here." I show her some chairs near the elevators. "And when you see your professor leaving, we can hide from him in the stairs." I propose, since I can't see any other way he could exit the building.
Alice nods and we sit next to each other. Alice crosses her fingers and she supports her angles on her knees. Me on the other side, I sit as comfortably as I can.
"Are you nervous?"Her voice breaks the silence.
"No! Hacking is my specialty. I've done much more difficult things."
"Seriously? You hack bank accounts for a living?" She raises an eyebrow and I chuckle.
"Well I could do that, but I am aware it's illegal. I have done other things... but I have to kill you if I tell you." I look at her playfully.
"I would love to see you try that!" she smirks. "But how did you learn all this stuff?"
That's a change! Me and Alice talking like normal people. I am curious to see where this is going.
"My father is a computer engineer and he basically taught me all the basic stuff, but I learnt many things on my own afterwards. Things he's not very pleased with." I say in a straight voice.
Well me and my father share this common love for the technology, but it seems it's not enough for us to get along.
"I am sure you erased a crappy high school record of yours." she teases me with a smile. "Let me guess... public sex at the school toilettes?" I chuckle.
"Close enough!Sex in the dressing room with the protagonist."
"Really????" she widens her eyes and I nod chuckling.
"Don't tell me it was at the premier night!" She tells me in stupefaction. All I do is give her a playful guilty look. "Oh my God! You are indeed disgusting." she insults me giggling, hitting me on the arm.
"Yeah big time!" I admit, chuckling as well.
"So what happened?" she asks, waiting for the story in anticipation.
"Αs you expect, the protagonist didn't come up for the second act and everyone got worried. Not to ramble, the Drama Arts prof found us, behind the folding screen and she called the headmaster. Anyway the night was a bit mess, but the show had to go on. In the end I was punished to do voluntary work at school, but I couldn't have this unfortunate moment stop my college career, so I somehow made it disappear."I look at Alice, who's trying not to laugh out loud.
"You really can't hold yourself!" she says between her laughter and I do the same remembering that day.
Suddenly she stops.
"That's Μr. Emerton! Let's hide." she drags me by the arm to the stairs.
We watch him coming and calling for the elevator. Mr. Emerton has white hair and beards. He must be around 50. He's wearing glasses and though he's a tall man, he has a belly, which emerges like Mt. Everest. He's wearing a Lacoste gray blouse and black trousers and he's holding a small black bag for men. He is indeed a robot, like Alice said. It's exactly 12 and he's already leaving.
"He's gone! Let's do this." Alice announces,going to the corridor.
I follow her and fortunately there is no other person around. It's lunch time after all, so I guess the majority of the offices must be empty. I just hope Alice's breaking method isn't tearing the door down, as I am sure she is capable of doing that.
"This is it!" Alice stops in front of a brown door with a label hung on it, having written Mr. Emerton's name.
"I can see that. How are we going to get in? Don't tell me you're going to kick the door. Remember we want to be discreet, even if I know you're not familiar with the word." I give her a warning glance and she looks askance at me.
"Don't worry smartypants. I've got you covered." She smirks and shows me a bobby pin.
"You know how to unlock the door with a bobby pin?" I ask impressed.
"With eyes closed." She answers with confidence and she puts the bobby pin in the lock.
"You were raised by a gang? Do you pick pocket too?"I ask her still impressed, while she's trying to unlock the door.
"Sorry that my father wanted his daughter to know some methods to keep her safe."
"Who is your father? Al Capone?"
"An FBI Agent!" That moment an unlocking sound is heard. "Here you are!" She opens the door with ease showing me to come in.
Amazing! She did open the door, something she did perfectly and in zero time. There is no break in sign on it. Who is this girl? She wasn't kidding when she said she had special abilities. I am amazed and I wonder what her other abilities might be. Wait, what she said? Her father is an FBI agent?
"Excuse me, FBI agents teach their daughters how to break into houses? It's no mystery why this country is falling apart." I tell her in astonishment, as I am going in the office.
The room has two mahogany desks, whose edges shape a corner. There is a laptop on the one. That must be it! I go over there to turn it on.
"My father has witnessed too many things, so he's trying to prepare me for pretty much anything, in order to keep me safe. You can't believe how crazy this world is." she says in a huff and takes her eyes away from me.
I noticed a sadness passed them, but then her commanding nature is on charge again.
"Take the stick and do your thing! I'll keep an eye on the corridor."
I grab the stick and I take out from my pocket my own, with the necessary programs to crack the password. Alice still keeps an eye outside.
"How is it going?" She asks after some minutes, still looking for any intruders.
"Great! I am in! Mr. Emerton sucks on matters of technology!I barely hold myself not to leave a post it: Birthday Date is not indicated as a security password. Also he looks much younger than he really is. He must have a great plastic surgeon."
"Stop saying gibberish and just get on with it." she yells, but I see her mouth edges rise.
"Ok your paper is on!" I announce and she comes immediately next to me, closing the door in case someone passes.
"Seriously?"
"Yup right there!" I point to the screen showing her paper file. "Let me change the date on the system, because we don't want to leave any suspicions and we are done with this part."
Her eyes lighten instantly and I feel very satisfied and happy that I am the reason she feels this way.
"Oh my God! You really did it! I can't believe it!" she chirps and her face is lit.
"I can't believe you had any doubt about that!" I try to sound offended.
I know we are not in the best terms, but I am a decent guy! Of course I was going to help her in the first place. I just wanted to play around with her a bit.
"Well no offense, but I wasn't so sure if I could support on you, especially with the past we have." She confesses and I can't blame her. Anyway I am here now and that matters.
"Let's find out the asshole!" I announce and start running a program, which will help me to compare Alice's paper's content with the sent papers'. "And we have a winner!" I proclaim enthusiastically and Alice looks at the name.
"Tracy Fletcher! Oh my God I know her! She was there the day I was showing Nina the paper and she was sitting a few seats away in the library! Not to mention, she was leaving when I was running to take my USB, when I forgot it! That evil bitch! She will pay for that!" She exasperates in anger as she punches her fist on the desk. She is totally burned up.
"Alice, calm down! This is not the time and place to be angry!" I try to reason with her, even I know it's pointless.
"I can't be calm! That skunk stole my paper and thought she would get away with it! MY PAPER! That I've spent a whole week working on that, sleeping 2 hours a day. So don't bloody tell me to calm down, because all I can think is kicking that bitch's ass." She bellows and her face is turning red.
Even though she's right, I am afraid of what she's going to do it, because she won't be thinking with a clear head.
"You are right and I am completely on your side!" I stand up and I grab her shoulders looking into her eyes. "But please don't do anything, without me!" I blurt and out of a sudden she stops raving to look me with surprise.
Fuck! Why did I say that? Why do I care? Alice can go and do what she wants on her own! I am not her babysitter! But I had this feeling that was itching me and I just couldn't let her do it on her own. She would do something on impulse and will find herself in trouble. It's better to be there to constrain her somehow, even if I know that I will be caught in the crossfire.
She opens her mouth to answer, but suddenly we hear voices. Those voices are heard closer by the second.
Alice's eyes widen and I figure out what's going on.
"Damn this is Mr. Emerton! What the hell is he doing here? It's not even 1 o'clock!" Alice starts freaking out, showing me her watch.
"Fuck! I thought you were sure about his schedule!" I run immediately to turn off the computer.
"He told me he stays out until 2 o'clock! You saw that he left exactly at 12!" she whispers moving her hands nervously.
"As it seems he decided to finish his lunch earlier today!" I lower my voice.
"We should hide! We can't get out! He'll see us!" She tells me and I know she's right.
"There!" I point with my hand. "Under the second desk! There is no way to be seen!" I go to look the space underneath it. "It's not a suite, but we'll both fit somehow." Her eyes widen instantly.
"What??? I am not going to be crammed with you! Are you insane?" She high pitches in a low voice.
"That's ok with me! Just explain later what you were doing in his locked office. Maybe he will appreciate your burglar methods!"
"God, I really do hate you!" she exasperates,but she finally complies.
The place under the desk is long enough to sit on the floor somehow, but we can't lay next to each other, so one of us has to be on top. Alice must have figured that out.
"Are you fucking serious? There is no chance to lay on you!" she yells, moving her hands all over the place.
"Unfortunately the presidential suite is booked."
Alice moves her eyes between the desk and the door.
"Sit down!" She commands huffing and I do as she says. There is no time to waste. Her professor's voice is heard crystal clear. Then Alice sits down as well.
I am sitting in a way that half of my back is touching the right side of the desk, so there is room to spread somehow my legs. Alice sits besides me, but her half body is on me. Her face is inches from mine and her hands on my chest. One of her legs is on me hugging my pelvic area.
Her scent is intoxicating. Her body and hair gives off a passion fruit perfume, which makes me lose my mind. I struggle to have my sents shut, but it's impossible.
I try to keep my hands at distance from her body as well and when I say try, I mean fighting tooth and nail. I have this urge to touch her long hair and caress her curved body, especially on the hips. I want to know how her body will feel under my touch and how she's going to react to it. Her leg is rubbing unintentionally on my sensitive spot and I am struggling to keep it calm, but it's too fucking difficult. I know the circumstances are fucking weird and we are almost screwed, but having her like this, while there is danger is so arousing. Her body is agitated by the physical contact and it's on full alarm. I look into her her eyes and she doesn't avoid the eye contact. She keeps staring me back and suddenly we lose focus of where we are.
"Stop doing that! Especially in here!" a male voice snaps us back into reality.
That must be Mr. Emerton.
"I can't! When I see you, I can't help myself." A female voice is heard.
Me and Alice exchange a confusing look. This female voice is familiar though.
"We work here and I like keeping my personal life away from my professional. Define boundaries." Mr. Emerton speaks again.
"I know, but I don't see you as much as I would like! Today was the perfect chance." That female voice again. I am sure I have heard it, but where?
"I strongly disagree! You disorganise my schedule. I was about to have my coffee now, but you dragged me in here." Mr. Emerton exclaims,annoyed.
Alice whispers really quietly into my ear 'I told you so' and I give her a 'We talk about this later' look.
"I like it when you're playing hard to get!" she groans and we hear some kissing noises.
Alice and I exchange a disgusted look.
"Are you insane? In here?" Mr. Emerton shouts.
"It's so arousing, if it's forbidden, right?" the woman says again.
"Why are you even here? Don't you have a lab at this time?"
"Normally yes, but the schedule changed and Compilers Lab transferred on Monday." She exclaims and kissing noises are heard again.
She said Compilers? Don't tell me she's my lab professor? That's why I knew her voice. It's Mrs. Russell.
"Don't resist to me! I know you can't!" she speaks again.
Suddenly more noises are heard and I know what kind of voices are. They are getting laid.
Alice's face is painted with an 'I am going to puke' look and then our desk is being pushed a bit with force. They must have fall on it. Alice's face falls on mine and I can't help it, but smirk on her face, cause the situation is so fucking surreal.
All she does is giving me an irritating look, because she doesn't enjoy it at all. Then she turns my face away from hers with her fingers pushing my cheek, huffing in disapproval. Gasping sounds start echoing in the room.
"Mr.Emerton has a really good taste." I whisper and she gives me a puzzled look. "I know the lady who's groaning right now. She's my professor on Compilers lab. She's a MILF. All her male students have fantasies with her."
"Are you fucking serious? We are stuck under a desk in a way I've never imagined I would be with you,next to us two professors are having sex and the only thing you comment is Mr.Emerton's taste in women?" Alice is freaking out in my ear in a low voice.
"What do you want me to do? Play cards?" I remark and Alice is giving me one of her famous deathly glares.
Another sound is heard. Someone must have hit somewhere.
"That must have hurt." Alice comments. "What the hell are they doing?"
"Do you want me to describe to you?" I raise an eyebrow.
"I didn't mean it like that! God, I can't feel my one leg!"
"Sorry I can't move in here!" I try to move a bit, but all we can do is end up in a more bizarre position. Alice has fell completely on me and by accident my one hand falls on her ass.
"Take your filthy hands off of me." She moves her body, trying to get rid of my hands.
"Any ideas where to put them?"
"Don't get me started!" she groans.
The distance between us is zero and seriously I don't know where to put my hands. Everywhere is a forbidden zone.
"It's this your master plan to isolate me? You could have asked it nicely." I whisper, since this whole situation is insane by itself.
"Yeah Joseph! I am living my fantasy now, having you in this position underneath me in such a closed space." She says in a seductive voice and seriously that makes me want to grab her by the hair and-
"With two professors fucking each other next to us." he finishes in an angry voice and the sexual urge is gone. "I wonder if your parents had you tested." she huffs in my mouth, since she is that close to me.
"No STDs I swear. I always use protection." I answer close to her mouth and she eye rolls. I try to hold my chuckles.
"Not about that, you idiot. About your mental activity, since you come up with the most idiotic quips in such times." she moves her body again to find a comfortable position.
These movements are killing me, since I can feel my erection coming to life and I try with everything I've got to stop it.
"Stop moving all the time. I am not a fucking bed for you to find your spot." I yell at her always quietly, since I am not sure for how long I can hold it.
"I try to find a spot, where my hands are not in weird places." She's right, because her hands are so near in touching me in weird places and it's not time to be weirder than I already am.
Finally the panting stops.
"That was fast!" I comment and even though Alice is being irritated, she tries to hide her laughter. "But I think his efficiency was good for his age. I can't be very strict!" I whisper to her with a playful look and she tries to choke her laughter even more. I put my hand on her mouth to make it stop and we exchange a playful look.
The truth is I really liked how I made her laugh, when some seconds ago she was ready to cut me into pieces.
"You should leave now and I will go back to the restaurant. The other professors will be wondering where I am." Mr. Emerton says in a straight voice.
"If you promise me to come to my place tomorrow." Mrs.Russell tells him purring.
"Yes, yes, I will come. We should go now." He commands her and I hear the door opening, after a few minutes. "Was the door unlocked when we came here?"
"I don't know. I didn't notice anything else, but you!" Mrs. Russell answers. "Maybe you were distracted, because you were thinking about me."
"It doesn't matter! Off you go!" he orders and when I hear the door closing we try to get out of the desk.
"Oh my God! I feel like a truck has run over me!" Alice grumbles, as she's stretching her body.
"Excuse me why are you complaining? You have laid on me like Cleopatra, while I was suffering being a fucking carpet for your royal ass." I start nagging at her, in order to hide that the only unpleasant thing was that I couldn't touch her the way I wanted.
"Don't be a crybaby. Like you didn't enjoy yourself having me upon you and touching what you could." she yells at me, while she's cleaning herself from the floor dust.
Yes I did enjoy it, because I am not blind not to react to this body all over me, but I am not a pervert to touch without permission.
"Of course I didn't enjoy it. It was painful to my amazing body. Did you gain weight, since the time I caught you at the library? It seems like you've gained a pound or two. Do you nibble during the nights Alice?" I smirk, fixing my shirt.
"Look who's talking! You are not a Calvin Klein model either." she shoots back with a smirk. "Anyway we should leave!" she announces, before I quip back.
"You're right I say looking around the place. I don't want to experience a second round as well." I huff and Alice chuckles, as she's unlocking the door the same way as before.
"Tell me about it! I will have nightmares for the rest of my life." she remarks as we are getting out of the office. "They almost tore down the whole room."
"They changed completely the decoration of the office." I point out. "Also Mr. Emerton's sex voice is the worst thing I have lived through. It was a mix of a donkey and a squirrel."
Alice laughs really hard and continues. "Ms. Russells' was better? Like a weasel's." We both can't help it, but burst out laughing.
It takes its toll on us and we can't stop, until we exit the building.
When we finally manage to stop laughing, Alice speaks removing her laughter tears from her eyes.
"Joseph I don't know how to thank you! What you did was very thoughtful and you saved my ass. I know we are not getting along, but I really appreciate what you did for me today. I owe you big time and I mean it!" Alice is looking at me with soft eyes, as she's saying these words.
"You're welcome! I have to admit, I experience surreal things with you. Life is not boring when you're around, Alice." I say contemplating her whole face and expressions. "Also you should know I deleted that Tracy's paper. So you have nothing to worry about."
Then the unexpected happens. Alice puts her hands around me in a hug, which lasted seconds and I didn't even have the time to hug her back. I kind of liked that instant warmth, that came from her. It's inexplicable, but everything is with her.
"Well, thanks again very much." she mumbles like the hug never happened, but I discrete a light blushing on her cheeks. "See you around." she tells me, trying to look indifferent and starts walking away.
I stay there watching her leave and an unwitting smile crosses my face. I do have a small impact on her after all.
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