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I stood there, motionless as I watched them file in.
Each of them sighing, coughing, settling into their chairs.
The chap-stick I had put on not a minute before didn't seem enough for my dry lips as I anxiously watched my only class file in. My first class as a student teacher! Yaay.
They stared, waiting.
"He-hello there, I know probably some of you might notice me from last week. I'm your new student teacher -well in training to be a teacher..- Mister Ketchum! Uh, Professor Sycamore had something come up and he had to leave the country so he could be with family, so I will be teaching your Mythology class this term!" Both my body and my voice shook as I stared up at the faces of my new students.
They stared back blankly, except for a few boys in the back who were whispering to each other, causing the other to grin and turn to the next.
"Sooooo, let's get this started... have any of you heard of Lycanthropy?" I asked, immediately all of them raised their hands.
"You have then! Yaaayy, a little less to explain to- Yes sir?" A boy, no man, no boy? Man-boy? Ugghhh, whatever he's a man but he's still young enough to be a boy! Had raised his hand, he had thick brown spiky hair and forest green eyes.
"Um, excuse me. Uh, tell me if I get this right-names Gary Oak by the way. Isn't Lycanthropy when you are naked and bouncing in my lap as you moan my name?" The boy-Gary-asked, and he looked serious.
I couldn't help but gasp, painful memories where being brought up as Gary and all his friends high-fived each other as they laughed.
Stop, don't you dare let them force you to remember dammit! I pushed the memory away as I recovered from the remark.
I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks as he started to talk again. "Uh, Sir? I'm being like 200% serious, because if that is what Lycanthropy is, I might not skip this class." He laughed again, all his friends were too.
And for a second I imagined it, kissing him as he positioned himself and slid his hard- no.
"Well, it seems I need to enlighten you on just what Lycanthropy is-"
"Well, uh no can do sweet-cheeks, my loads will always be thick and heavy! I would so love to spread it on your-" Gary cut me off as he began talking again.
"Lycanthropy is the supposed or fabled assumption of the appearance of a wolf by a human being. Lycanthropy is a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal. It has to do with the full moon, or genetics in some stories. Basically when a person turns into a-" I was cut off again by Gary.
"FACE!" Gary yelled as he sat up in his chair, staring straight into my eyes, smirking. "You can finish now Sir." He grinned and gestured for me to finish.
"When a person turns into a beast." I finished, shutting my mouth and looked away from Gary and his crowd and his friends.
"LIKE I AM IN BED?" Gary yelled, standing now as he grabbed his books and sat right on the front row. He was staring right at me.
Other kids groaned, they too were getting annoyed.
Memories that shouldn't have resurfaced returned, I pushed them away and rolled my eyes.
"I'm being completely serious Sir, you should try me. I'll show you a good night." Gary whispered as he winked at me.
"So, I am going to tell you the 'myth' of Lycaon. His name is where we get the word Lycanthropy, the proper term or Werewolves. Well the 'myth' says that some of the older people of the earth believed that they owed their lives more to Prometheus, the Titan who gave us the gift of fire, more than to the Gods themselves.
And some followers even named themselves after the Titans to honor them, instead of the Gods..
Lycaon didn't just refuse to honor the Gods, he challenged them. He and his fifty sons invited Zeus to a banquet and tried to serve him the flesh of humans.
Angered Zeus blew the place up with lightning bolts and them punished Lycaon and his sons by turning them into Wolves." I stopped and gave them a minute to process.
"Well, you do know what they say about a Wolf in sheep's clothing.. Come back to my apartment with me little red." Gary said as he ran his fingers through his hair, reviving the spikes.
"The lesser known part of the story is how Lycaon and his sons sought out the Druids, to help turn them back into humans. The belief was that the ancient Druids knew how to shape shift.
Unfortunately they could not turn Lycaon and his sons back into their human forms, but they did teach them how to shift back and forth." I finished as I desperately tried to look at anywhere but Gary.
"You're a cute little thing ya know that right? I love to be able to hear you moan and feel you squirm under me and-"
"MISTER OAK THAT IS ENOUGH, I SWEAR I WILL GO TO CAMPUS POLICE AND HAVE YOU ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND DISRUPTION OF THE LESSON!" I yelled as I slammed my 'little' fists down on my desk.
"Ooohh feisty, I like that, but don't worry I have you soon. And you'll be calling me 'Master' too..." Gary hummed as he sat back in his desk.
That is it, that is it! "That's it. Fine, I want a three page report on Lycanthropy. You can email me here. And you can all thank Mister Oak here for it being so long, really I was only going to ask for one but it would be unfair to only have Oak do three and you all do one!" I said as I turned to the chalkboard and wrote my email in scraggly letters across the board.
They groaned and cursed under their breath, almost all of them directed towards Gary.
"That is the end of the lesson today! See you tomorrow morning, good day get out of my class now!" I yelled as I shoved my books into my bag.
I could hear Gary calling after me as I ran out of the building.
I was walking along the curb towards Starbucks as I heard footsteps approaching from behind.
I felt someone wrap their arm around my waist as we walked along.
I looked up to see Gary Oak, smiling down at me. I rolled my eyes and moved away from his arms.
"Awh, baby, come on. Don't be like that!" Gary said as he once again, snaked his arm around my waist.
"Like what? Don't call me that, because I am not your baby!" I snapped as I sped up, all I wanted was my Caramel Macchiato with broken up chocolate chips and chocolate fudge! But noooo.
"You will be soon, don't worry baby, you'll love me." Gary said as he too began to walk faster just to keep up.
We were approaching the Starbucks, and I ripped open the door.
"Kenny!" I yelled as I saw the tall man walk out from the back, he smiled. "I'm gonna need it to go and fast." I said as I handed him my credit card.
"Hey Ash! Caramel Macchiato with broken up chocolate chips and chocolate fudge right? Who's this? Ah, nevermind, hey Dawn wanted me to ask you if you wanted to come have dinner with us tonight? She us has some news and she doesn't want me to tell you.." Kenny said as he dashed around behind the counter as he fixed my coffee.
"Yeah Kenny, uh no.. I can't, I mean it's not that I don't want to it's just Dawn is vegan and I know that you suffer.." I said as I rubbed the back of my head, Kenny gave me a knowing look. I couldn't stand Dawn's 'cooking' it was always too green.
"And him? He's a fricking pedo from that class that I have to teach to be able to graduate.. Seriously Kenny, he won't leave me the frick alone!" I said as I took the coffee and my card.
"Hey! I am not a pedo! I'm just giving you the chance to have this," He motioned to his body, "Before someone else steals me. But no need to worry Ashy-boy I only have eyes for you.." Gary said, both Kenny and I stuck our tongues out at the same time before I took a sip.
"In your dreams Gary." I said as I began walking out of the building. Oh sooo good.
"Hey! Ash?" Gary asked as he caught up with me and put his arm around me again, I stopped sipping, "WHAT? GARY WHAT?" I yelled as I tried to pull his arm off, but to no avail.
"Are your legs tired? Cause you've been running through my dreams all night!" Gary whispered in my ear. I could see people staring at us, no no, it's not like that. I don't even like him, he's a creep!
I scoffed as I kept walking, maybe he'll go away soon?
"So you know, you actually did say yes to a date with me..." Gary said as he grabbed my coffee and took a sip,
"Hey! What the, no I didn't!" I said, pulling the coffee away from him.
"Yes, actually you did, last year. But you uh," he stopped, "You stood me up, I was so mad for a long time but then I heard that you actually left Kalos for a whole week, and when you came back you.. You wouldn't talk to me.."
Oh! Now I remember you! And I remember that whole week too..
"Oh yea, I uh.. I went home, my father lied and said he was in the hospital, just so he could see me." I said, I could see my condo in the distance.
"Woah, that's..." Gary cut off, his fingers messing with the fraying hem of his book bag.
"Yeah, I uh, that's my place here.. bye Gabe!" I said as I ran across the street, purposely saying his name wrong. Hopefully he'll get the message.
As I was fumbling with the lock on the door I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned around expecting Gary.
But no, it wasn't Gary, it was an old classmate, Tobias, Gary was still standing at the crossway, watching.
"Hey Tobias, been a long time huh?"
"Yea, it has Ash, have you graduated yet?" Tobias asked, his hair pulled back in a ponytail, his bangs loose.
"No, I still gotta be a student teacher for this one class and then I'll be able to graduate, have you?"
"Yea, actually, I got a job at the Starbucks where Kenny works, I saw you, thought I should just say hi." A small smile spread on his lips, making me smile in return. I could still see Gary, in the street, looking angrier than before.
"Well Hi Tobias." I said, turning the knob after I finally managed to get the key in.
"Do you wanna go out sometime?" he asked, his hands twisting together, his nervous habit. He would do it after he turned in tests, it seemed so foolish to me, he was so smart he had no need to worry.
Wait, he just... "Well, um.." I looked up at him, my lips pursed, I haven't been out on a date in a while... "Okay, I'll go out with you.." I said, heat rising in my cheeks.
"Really? Oh, I'll uh, maybe.. umm.." He trailed off, mentally flipping through his calendar.
"How about Friday?" I offered,
"Yeah, Friday's fine! Well, I gotta go.. See ya Friday Ash..." Tobias said as he stuck his hand in his pockets and walked back on his heels before turning away and waited for the stop light.
After ordering takeout for the tenth night in the row, I was sitting on my couch sifting through Tumblr and checking my email every ten minutes.
I had exactly fifteen students in my class, only ten of them had sent in their essays.
I decided to give them a couple more hours before I started to read them.
I had spent the last three hours reading page after page of how Zeus was a slut and how Hera was a bitch for what she did to Hercules.
They probably had forgotten what exactly I had asked for.
Only three alumni took the paper seriously, writing about how it was so cool how Zeus had the power to change man, or about other stories they had heard of Werewolves.
Gary was not one of those alumni. At all.
Gary, well, he had decided to send in an extremely detailed essay, well if you could call it that, on what he would do had we had the chance to be alone.
Like seriously, it was like watching porn, but actually taking the time to write down everything so people could read it.
And, not only did he send the 'essay' he also sent files that ended with jpg. I didn't even bother opening that email, I would be mentally scarred for life if they were what I think they were.
I'm not taking that chance.
Unfortunately, not only had Gary managed to utterly disgust me, and ruin his chances, the small chance that he had at all, he managed to bring back horrible memories.
I spent the rest of the night crying on the phone with Kenny.
For once since I left home, I did not want to go to school.