Professor Series - Sebastian Stan 🩵

Twenty-One

I walk into class the next afternoon to find Chase already in his seat and Sebastian at the front of the class behind his own desk. When I approached mine, I found a note on my desk. I looked at Chase and he only shook his head, "it was here when I got here." He leaned on his desk towards me, "are you okay? I wasn't expecting you today."

I nod as I take my seat, "I'm okay. I just don't want to be babied. I'm getting it enough from Greg. Okay?"

"Okay." I heard him sigh as he leaned back in his seat and I picked up the note from my desk. I looked up to catch Sebastian's eyes, seeing him grin at me before looking away. I open the note already knowing it's from Sebastian.

Anna
I know I'm not very good at words and I don't have the music bond you have with Tyler.
But I still wanted to find a way to tell you how I feel about you and I know you love music.
So when I can't find the right words to say, I'll give you a song. Here's a few to get you started..

I Will Always Be Yours - Ben Rector
Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy
All About You - McFly

I chuckled, looking back at Sebastian to see him watching me. I mouth a 'thank you' to him as he stands up to address the beginning of class. I feel Chase lean over to whisper to me.

"So you and Sebastian?"

I shrug, looking back at him, "please don't say anything."

Chase nods, reaching out to grab my hand, "I wouldn't. Especially not after seeing how he took care of you after what happened."

I shifted uncomfortably in the seat as he watched me, "well I've been lucky to have great friends."

Chase grins, "am I included in that?"

I squeezed his hand with a chuckle, "of course you are." I turned my attention back to Sebastian for the rest of the class. At the end of class I grabbed Chase's hand before he could leave. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry about Tyler. We ended up connecting and became friends quickly. But I don't want you to think that the reason I didn't want to go out with you had anything to do with him, because it didn't. Besides a few kisses, nothing has ever happened between us. I was already into Sebastian by that point. I just don't want to come between you and Ty."

"You haven't." He squeezed my hand back as he stood up to pull me into a hug. "Thank you for being honest with me. Tyler and I are fine. I'm sorry for not telling you about Lindsey. If I'm being honest it was mostly a way to make you jealous, but I really like her."

I grinned up at him as I gathered my stuff, "I'm glad you do."

As we approached the front of the room, we noticed Hailey was still there, standing in front of Sebastian, obviously trying to flirt. "I see you no longer wear a ring Professor Stan." I almost gagged involuntarily at the fake sweetness in her voice.

Sebastian glanced at me as Chase and I approached, "I don't really like to discuss my private life with students."

Hailey shrugged, resting her hand on his arm, "only your student for a few more months."

I rolled my eyes as I stepped up beside them and Sebastian pulled his arm out of her grasp, "Hailey, flirting with a teacher, you must be desperate, or maybe that's the only way you can pass?" I heard Chase snicker as Hailey scoffed.

Hailey pointed to the bruise that still inhabited my cheek from where Steve had hit me, "looks like you need to mind your own business. Probably got that from butting your nose in where it doesn't belong."

I felt both Chase and Sebastian tense up on either side of me and before I could respond, Sebastian moved in front of me. "Miss Matthews, that's enough. Miss Sloane is right, don't flirt with me. Even if I wasn't your teacher, I'm not interested. I expect you to be more respectful from now on."

Hailey huffs and stomps off and I watch Chase leave right after, leaving me alone with Sebastian in his classroom. I hold up the note he left on my desk, "this was very sweet of you."

Sebastian chuckles, leaning back on the edge of his desk as he crosses his arms over his chest, "you say that like you're surprised."

I shrug, "mostly in our encounters, you're grumpy."

"Grumpy?" He runs his hand through his beard as he sighs, "I think that's probably been a default setting for a while now. I'm sorry."

I grinned, "don't be. I like the grumpy. Especially if I get this side of you too."

Sebastian smiled, leaning slightly towards me as he lowered his voice. "You can have all of it, if you want. And I have another one for you.. My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me, so I die happy."

My heart tightens in my chest at the lyrics and his intense stare. "My heart is yours to fill or burst. To break or bury." I lean in to kiss his cheek, lingering for a moment, "please make the right choice."

"I will. I promise."

I only nod and walk away, leaving him alone as I try to calm my racing heart. I had dated before, but this was the first time I dated someone that made my heart race, made my stomach flutter with butterflies when he locked eyes with me. And yet I was still scared about going all in with a man that was almost old enough to be my father. What will my actual father have to say about his daughter dating one of her professors? Would he forbid me from dating Sebastian? After waiting this long, I don't think I could just walk away from him. Even if it was only for a few months.