Teacher's Pet; BE

8.

"You kissed me... not the other way around Ethan." Aria said while stepping back away from the boy.
"That's not what everyone else is saying." He snickered, leaning closer to the brunette with brown eyes.
"You're lucky that's all I told them." He added, the smirk on his face growing as he ripped the clothing off of her body.
Her throat closed in a sharp pain, as If she couldn't scream or even breathe.
Her body felt numb as she tried to get away resulting in her falling on the floor before she finally woke up.

Aria shot out of her sleep, remembering she was in Billie's bed. But Billie wasn't there, she was asleep on the couch downstairs in the living room.
Aria wiped her tears from her sleepy eyes and walked downstairs, peeking over the railing to make sure Billie was sleep before she crept into the kitchen to get water.
But she dropped the glass.
It shattered across the kitchen floor and cut her leg. Her blood pooled up around her feet and finally the light turned on. A sleepy Billie was standing in the doorway, causing Aria to drop to her feet and start crying.
"Hey... what's going on?" Billie's raspy voice asked sweetly.
Aria couldn't respond. She just cried into her arms.
   "Aria..." Billie cooed, lifting the girl off of the ground.
    
   Not even an hour passed and Aria was done crying.
She walked out of the bathroom and sat right next to billie.
    "How's the bleeding? Do you need stitches?" Billie asked, putting her phone down.   
     "I think it should be fine. I have to go home in the morning. I feel bad for leaving my brother there with them." Aria sniffled.
     "That's okay. I'll take you first thing in the morning. Maybe we should go back to sleep, it's 2:47." Billie said while grabbing a spare blanket and placing it on Arias lap.
        Aria just muttered a soft "yeah".
"Are you alright sleeping alone? I can walk you up to my bedroom and I can sleep on the floor." Billie sincerely questioned while sitting beside the girl.
    "You don't need to sleep on the floor. Your bed is big enough." Aria snickered a bit, finally shedding some light.
"You need so smile more. It looks good on you." Billie said, making her way to the bedroom.
Aria jumped up and followed her, hoping the blush that appeared on her face wasn't very noticeable.
But then she fell into her thoughts.
Billie's her teacher.
Billie's too old for her.
This is a big risk.
Billie could go to jail for this.
She can lose her job.

"You coming?" Billie asked while standing in the doorway.
"Hm? Yeah I'm coming." Aria hummed.

In the morning after breakfast Billie was driving Aria home.
   It was a mostly silent ride apart from the low music playing on the radio.
"Thank you." Aria said while jumping out at the corner.
"You're welcome Aria. Be safe." Billie watched the girl run down the street and up onto the porch, before she entered the house she waved to Billie.
Aria walked inside to see her mom sitting at the table alone with a cup of coffee.
"Hi mom. Everything okay?" Aria said while setting her bag down and sitting next to her mom.
    "Everything's fine honey. Who were you with?" Her mom looked at her and examined the confused look on her face.
"I didn't want to say anything while you guys were... fighting. But I made some new friends and I went over to work on a project."
    "Oh. That's nice. How did it go?"
"It went good. How was your day?" Aria got up and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge.
    "It was fine. Your father is in a hotel for the night. We just couldn't stop fighting and it's scaring your brother off."
"I'm sorry mom. I wish things wouldn't have gotten this bad."