First off, I’d like to begin this story by letting you know that it is based on true events. It happened about 6 years ago, so all dialogue and action is roughly what was said unless otherwise specified. Anything lacking too much detail I either forgot to add or believed it would say a little too much about my identity, and so it ended up being left out.
When I began junior year at Fairfield High, I had a goal to become more well-liked, popular even. Both among my peers and amongst the staff at the school, I wanted to be more of an “it-girl”; funny and beautiful and likeable. My sister, 2 years my senior, fulfilled this ideal far better than I likely ever would, and was even friends with the more idealized girls in my year as well. She was 19 and we’ll call her Ingrid, I was 16 and we’ll call me Anne.
Like Ingrid, I had joined the girls football team in my freshman year, even holding the same position as she did for all 4 years as well as going on a football tour across a neighboring country two years after her. I obviously had idolized her, a fact which only drover her to push me away more and convince me further that I wasn’t shit compared to her. Nowadays, she expresses how much love she has for me, constantly touting a sweet persona I had never seen in her until a few years ago. I’d either never seen it because she’s changed her outlook towards me and finally revealed her loving side after more than two decades, or because she decided that it was more advantageous to have me thinking we’re friends. I guess only time will tell.
Also like Ingrid, I too was (and still am) quite short. However, standing at 161cm (5’3”) tall, I was the tallest amongst my mother, Ingrid, and I. The height difference between us all was only within 3cm (1”) though, making it very hard to tell the difference between Ingrid and myself from behind to the untrained eye.
We both had long, naturally beautiful wavy blonde hair down to our mid-backs, mine both curlier and richer in colour than Ingrid’s. We were both very ample chested, sporting disproportionately large breasts: mine sized at 32G and hers at 34H. Ingrid was built more like the women on my mom’s side of the family, with thinner legs and slightly larger torso in proportion to the hips, ass, and waist, whereas I was built more similarly to the women on my dad’s side, with far more defined, muscular and shapely legs and a slimmer waist than her. My ass was fuller, with greater muscle tone and a fun jiggle to it. I also had paler skin than Ingrid, dotted with more freckles where the sun shone than her more evenly tanned complexion. We also have quite different facial features, her eyes far darker and her lips thinner than mine, her cheeks slenderer and her forehead smaller.
Despite all of this, people would still constantly call out for Ingrid behind me, then turn me around, look at my face and into my eyes, and repeat themselves. I like to feel like my response of “wrong sister” to them was rather dry and witty, but more than likely just made me sound like even more of a bitch than the resting expression on my face would imply.
Come junior year, Ingrid had graduated and moved to a different country for university, and I felt like it was my time to shine. The year of Anne at Fairfield, I had a great looking first semester, specifically due to a digital art class that was a prerequisite for a photography editing class I would be taking next year. I was taking it with my best friend since the beginning of primary school, a 170cm (5’7”) blonde bombshell we’ll call Brittany. On the first day of classes, we walked together after lunch to a small room off the arts wing. To explain briefly, Fairfield High received additional funding due to a specialized program focussing on the arts, including music, vocals, drama, dance, and visual arts; therefore, more space and attention was given to accommodate for the students and teachers in these programs. This unassuming, windowless blue door Brittany and I were walking to in the arts wing is where our story begins.
Desktop Macs sat atop the long rectangular desks lining all four walls of the brightly lit tiled room, only breaking the circle to align two computers perpendicular to the teacher’s desk, leaving the space in front of and behind the desk clear. Quickly seeing the two computers slightly isolated beside the teacher’s desk, we simultaneously hurried to them and sat down to claim them as ours for the semester. Little did I know what a huge impact this seemingly small decision would have on the rest of my life.
Just after the instructor walked in, the bell rang and a couple more students filed in. The teacher walked to his desk next to Brittany and I, placing his brown canvas bag on his swiveling desk chair and opening it to retrieve his slim silver MacBook Pro. As he smoothly slid it out, he noticed my quiet stare looking up at him, and met it with his gentle gaze, providing a tight-lipped smile as he turned his head and looked away. Beneath his pushed-up dress-shirt sleeve I caught a glimpse of a tattoo on his slender, yet well-muscled left forearm before he turned and pulled his arm out of my line of vision. Interesting, he didn’t look too much like the type to have too many tattoos.
Soon introduced to us as Mr. Wilson, Aaron was tall, slender, and almost as pale as I was. He was the type to wear well-fitting jeans with a dress shirt and sweater vest, and always had a full head of short tousled brown hair. He would often show up with small bit of stubble, but it was a bit harder to see when he did because it seemed to come in blonder than his hair. His nose was defined, his brows also lighter than his hair, and dark eyes with a gentle upturn making it look like he was always smiling.
We got into the content, which was very easy for me as I had always had a creative edge and talent for sketching that came in handy for learning programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. As the first days passed, I grew more and more comfortable in testing the boundaries of what I could say to Brittany without drawing Aaron’s attention to our conversation. I began to use “lesser evil” curses, like hell and damn, before quickly graduating to ass and bitch, and eventually sparsely sprinkling in the harder cusses like shit and fuck.
After the first few lessons, the class was given upwards of 45min of time each day to work on a task until it was due or until we’d moved onto another project. Being that Brittany and I had a slight bit of privacy from the rest of the class, we would often have more chatty and gossipy conversations during this daily work time than we normally would have so fresh into a new semester.
Soon enough, I would catch Aaron, whom I thought of as Mr. Wilson at the time, smiling or glancing over at me when I would make a quick quip at Brittany or said something a touch crude to her. A couple of weeks into September, he’d begun to talk to Brittany and I as more than a teacher, giving his opinion on situations when we’d take breaks in our rants to one another. He seemed to take a special and particular liking to me, grading me highly as well as complimenting my wit, humour, and intelligence often. I don’t know if Brittany ever noticed, but to me it felt wonderful. I finally felt seen and appreciated, and the high 90’s on my midterm report didn’t hurt when it came around just after my 17th birthday in late October.
Soon enough my first semester was over, and I knew that out of all my teachers I would miss seeing Aaron the most. I’d look forward to seeing him around the school, but I doubted we’d ever have enough time to catch up passing each other in the halls like two ships in the night. I knew that no one else would make me feel as special and good about myself as he did, his gentle voice assuring me with confidence that I was great in ways I hadn’t ever really believed I could be. But I thought our time together was over, so I accepted this and moved on, as time stops for no one. However, as time proved, I’d thought wrong. Aaron would be very important in my sexual maturation and graduation, something which had been developing since I’d discovered my parent’s hardcore porn and homemade vacation swinger videos when I was 10.