The Teacher and Me

Recovery Day

Uggh my head is pounding when I opened my eyes, noticing I am in my bed with absolutely no recollection of how I got here. The last thing I remember is getting into Blakes car and taking Alister and Connor home. I slowly sit up with my head pounding at every movement and took a sip of water from the bottle next to my bed. God Toby looks after me well. I honestly didn’t think I drunk that much to not remember but I guess I don’t drink like that anymore. I looked at my phone for the time and noticed a text message from an unknown number.

Hey I hope your not too unwell this morning

It’s Blake BTW

Oh my god!, I hope I didn’t do anything too embarrassing last night in front of him!, also how did he get my number I thought?. I decided not too text back straight away as I needed to fill in the gaps, so I got up to find Toby.

“Oh good morning darling, hows your head” Toby said when iu walked in the kitchen. He didn’t even look hungover, meanwhile, I look like a hot mess… and feel like one.

“Don’t even ask!” I said grabbing his coffee that he just made himself and took a sip. “I don’t even remember getting out of the car, thanks for undoubtedly assisting me and leaving the water beside my bed”

“Oh honey, that wasn’t me”

“What do you mean?”

“It was Blake, quite the prince charming if you ask me!, even when you pretty much threw yourself at him”

“What! No way!, I would never…” I reply rubbing my temples trying to remember the end of last night.

“Whatever babe, All I know is that you tried to kiss him and he told you that he would love to but you were way too drunk” I just put my head on the table. I couldn’t believe I did that!, I just wanted to go back to bed and die!.

“I cant believe I did that!, how embarrassing. How am I going to reply to his text message now knowing that!” Toby just looked at me confused. I just threw my phone at him so he could read the message. I looked up to see why Toby wasn’t saying anything when I realised he was typing something back while smiling.

“What are you doing!” I yelled as I swiped in an attempt to get my phone back. I grabbed my phone back looking at what he wrote.

Pretty crappy actually! Thank you for looking after me .

“I know you wouldn’t reply so I just did it for you” He said while laughing at himself.

“Whatever, Im having a shower”. I took two Panadol to try and shake this throbbing headache before hopping into the shower. I don’t know if this sick feeling in my stomach is from the hangover, or hearing that I tried to kiss my high school teacher and can’t remember. Either way I got out of the shower and decided today was not my day so I just went back to bed and fell asleep.

A few hours later I woke to another text message from Blake. I couldn’t help but get excited when I saw his name on my screen. Oh my god what is happening to me, its like im a teenager all over again with these feelings.

Anytime, I’m actually surprised you remember anything! I hope you feel better soon. I thought about messaging back or just ignoring it and forget that last night ever happened. However I do want to see more of him so I decided to text back.

I actually didn’t! I got filled in by Toby this morning! I am sooooo sorry for how I behaved. I just woke up from more sleep and am feeling better, thanks for asking.

Haha, its ok, I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it!, but unfortunately for me, you were way too drunk to be thinking straight. I swear my heart skipped a bit when I read his message. He enjoyed my kiss, even though I cant remember. I am now suddenly glad that drunk Beth is abit more outgoing.

Well I wish I could say the same, considering I cant remember. But I appreciate you stopping me. Toby thinks your prince charming lol!.

Well at least someone thinks so! I would love to see you again soon, maybe just the two of us this time? I just looked at the message, smiling like a dork. Suddenly my stomach starts to grumble. I look at the time its 4pm and I haven’t eaten anything today! How am I still alive.

I would like that too. I hit send and got up to see if Toby wanted food before I die of starvation.

Toby being the best friend that he is, read my mind and already went out and returned home with the traditional hangover food KFC. The rest of the day was going to be dedicated to Netflix and gossip.

“So you and Connor seemed to get along well, should I be worried about being replaced” I started saying before shoving popcorn chicken into my mouth.

“Honey I could never replace you, although I think he would be a nice addition to my bed” He said laughing.

I just started laughing in reply, “I don’t think he bats for your team”

“One can only try!, did prince charming message you back yet?”

I showed him the messages from earlier and we both got excited about the propsect of me seeing him again. We decided that it was a musical type of day and put on the lion king, the original of course, one of my all-time favourite musicals. Throughout the movie Blake messaged me a few times about catching up sometime just the two of us. Although the thought of it excited me I know finding a time would be hard with my 12 hour shifts and next weekend being my ten year school reunion. Lion king turned into two more Disney musicals; Aladdin and Beauty and the beast, before retiring to bed.

The next day I decided to meet up with Connor for coffee after he finished work to ask him if he wanted to escort me to my school reunion. I asked Toby but he just laughed saying he would not be caught dead. As much as I tried convincing him he just refused, questioning why im even bothering to attend anyways. I do not talk to anyone from school and retained no friends so why would I bother? I did consider not going but I just thought I will make an appearance, brag about my cool job being one of the few actually amounting to anything and leave.

We met at a coffee shop around the corner from the school. He seemed happy for my invitation as I think he is just happy to have met some friends that aren’t his older colleagues.

“How did you pull up yesterday” I ask to kick start off the conversation while waiting for our coffee.

“haha! Not very good and you?”

“About the same”

“What about Toby?” He smiled and I noticed his voice seemed to perk up when mentioning Toby’s name.

“We just watched movies and ate bad food for all of Sunday” I replied.

Our coffees came with the conversation flowing nicely while we drank. I asked him if he would want to accompany me to my school reunion. He was hesitant at first but I practically pleaded with him, saying I will forever be in his debt. He found this amusing and agreed out of sympathy. We continued to chat and throughout the conversation I noticed he tried to bring up Toby a few times. I found this odd at first but just thought to myself that he probably wants to just make more friends.

“Do you thik Toby would mind if you gave me his number…. Its just… I forgot on Saturday and he seems like a cool guy?”

“Im beginning to think I’m being used for Toby” I reply laughing.

“No, no it not like that, im not using you at all, sorry if you thought that” He said, sounding very disheartened to have offended me.

“It ok, I was just joking, and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind. Besides its the least I could do for you for coming to my reunion this weekend” I gave him Toby’s number, with a mental note to let Toby know of this exchange. His face lit up when he typed the number into his phone. I mean im sure he is glad to make new friends but is it really that exciting i thought to myself?

I returned home to have dinner and get ready for my next rotation of working. I was not dreading it half as much as I usually do as I actually had a good time with Alister the other night. I thought about Blake before falling asleep.

***Blakes POV***

It was now Tuesday and I was in the lunchroom listening to Connor harp on about how he will be attending the school reunion happening this weekend with Beth. These events happen every year in the school gymnasium and I stopped going years ago as I got sick of being hit on by former students of mine that think just because they have grown up I want them in between my legs. I couldn’t help but get extremely jealous over Connor talking about going with Beth. Since messaging her the other day I could not get her out of my mind. She was a constant thought throughout the day, I even dreamt of her at night time.

“I guess I will see you there” I blurted out to Connor.

“I didn’t think you went to those reunions” Adam stated looking up from his newpaper that he was reading. To be honest I wasn’t expecting to go, but I wanted to see Beth again, and I wanted to make sure she got no unwanted male attention. I mean I wasn’t going to admit that to any of these guys.

“I don’t, but seeing as all of you guys are going, I figured I should make an appearance!”

“Are you that desperate that you can only get some from your former students” Adam laughed at his own joke. He probably remembered that last time I went five years ago and how I vowed I would never go again due to the constant flirting from unwanted females.

“Haha your funny” I replied just as the bell rang for the next lot of classes.

On my way I thought about texting Beth, as I was excited about the prospect of seeing her on Saturday, however I decided to keep it a surprise.