Larry got to work early the next day. He met Simon there and sat behind the table. Simon said: “Ben’s already here. He went to get ready for his PE class. Maybe you should go and bring him a coffee.” Larry nodded and got up, getting on his way. Simon said: “Milk, no sugar.”, and Larry smiled and nodded.
Larry grabbed the coffee on the way and made his way to the gym. He stopped by the door, as he saw Ben in shorts and a top as he was hanging on a bar by his hands. His arm muscles flexed as he pulled himself up. It had to be a lot of work, because Ben was not a tiny guy. He grunted with every pull-up and then exhaled as he was coming down. Larry couldn’t get his eyes off of that toned body, squeezed in a tight top, his sweaty chest heaving, his strong arms pulling the rest of his body up…and that ass.
Suddenly, Ben lost the grip on the bar and slipped, dropping to his feet right below the bar. He said to himself: “Right. Lower it is.”, and adjusted the bar lower.
Larry cleared his throat and Ben whipped his head at him. A bright smile lit up his face as he saw Larry. He said: “Good morning. I thought you won’t want to talk to me.”
By the time he finished the sentence, he already walked over to Larry. Larry handed him a cup of coffee and said: “How come?”, and Ben said: “I don’t know. You seemed upset yesterday. Sort of…not interested.”
Larry smiled and said: “Oh, no. I was just…tired.” He received a smile from Ben and Ben took a step closer to him. He said: “I wanted to text you, but I wasn’t sure if you wanted to talk to me, so I didn’t. I was…”
He adjusted Larry’s hair second bloody time at this point. Ben said: “I was kinda busy. They came home earlier than I expected and…” “They?” Larry cut him off and Ben realised what he said.
He didn’t want Larry to know that he has kids right away. He wanted to give it some time. What if Larry didn’t like kids? He also thought that it could make him less attractive in Larry’s eyes.
Ben said: “They? I said they? I meant I. Sorry. Thinking about other stuff.”
“I get it. I think about loads of stuff and sometimes it just gets mixed up.” Larry said and Ben chuckled, relieved. He said: “Do you wanna play basketball?” Larry smiled and said: “Oh, but I don’t have proper outfit, Mr. teacher.”, and Ben bit his lip.
‘Take it off, then.’ Ben’s mind said and he shushed it quickly. He said: “I think I’ll let you off this one time.” And winked at Larry.
Ben threw him the ball and said: “You begin.” “Why?” Larry asked and Ben said: “Since you’re the smaller one.”, and laughed.
“Oi!” Larry said and chuckled as well. “I may be small but my ambitions are huge.”
‘Ambitions, huh?’ Ben’s mind said and he smiled to himself. He stood in front of Larry and Larry started to dribble the ball. Ben smiled and ran towards him, taking the ball out of his hand and shooting. He scored and Larry said: “Right.”, and took his coat off, throwing it on a bench nearby. Ben stopped and said: “Could you, please just…fold it.” “What?” Larry said, straightening up and Ben said: “The coat. Could you fold it?”
Larry dropped the ball and walked over to the bench. He folded the coat and laid it on the bench. Ben said: “Thank you.”
Larry didn’t understand that, but it wasn’t that big of a deal.
They kept playing and Larry started scoring more and more often. Ben smiled at the smaller man, running around with the ball in his hands. He said: “I quit. You won. I need the coffee now.”
Larry dropped the ball and sat next to Ben on a bench, both panting.
Ben said: “You’re good. You’re fit also.” Larry almost choke on his drink, chuckling. Ben said: “What?”, and Larry replied: “I’m fit? Have you seen yourself.”, making Ben laugh.
As they sat there, Ben moved closer to Larry, placing a hand on his cheek. Larry looked in his eyes and both of their gazes dropped to each other’s lips for a bit, before meeting again. Ben started to tilt his head, coming closer and Larry closed his eyes.
“Morning Mr. Bond! Mr. Rick?!” Toby said as he came to the room. Both men jumped, letting go of each other, Larry flushed red, looking away, and Ben looked at Toby. Ben said: “Morning. We were just discussing…history lessons. Mr. Rickard needed me to help him with some questions.”
Toby smiled and said: “Sure. Well, we’re ready now.” “Alright, come on then.” Ben said and Toby ran back to the dressing room. Ben looked at Larry and Larry said: “See you in the staffroom.”
“Fuck.” Ben sighed and went on with his lesson.
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Love class 101
FanfictionA new teacher comes to the school. He soon finds out, that the public secret about his colleague, Mr. Rickard, being gay is not actually so straightforward. But he also has secrets of his own...
