Best Friends With Benefits: Anthony Ramos

Three: Teaching

I watched as Ryeli walked into the classroom. "Anthony?!" She exclaimed. "You're the new theater teacher?!"

"Shit...my girlfriend is now my student..." I said. "Look, Rye, I swear we aren't breaking up. I love you so much hermosa. You're my best friend and my girlfriend of almost a year. I'm not breaking up with you over this."

"Well that's a relief..." my beautiful girlfriend giggled. A smile crept onto my lips. "Love you Ramos."

"Love you too Blackwood." I answered with a smirk. Ryeli ran a hand through my shoulder length hair, kissing me. I wanted to keep kissing her but I broke away after a few seconds. Right in time as other kids started walking in.

Rye recognized a few and socialized a little. One of the students was an oddball guy with green hair. "Kenny! Shut up!" Rye said. She turned to me for a moment, meeting my eyes.

"Ryeli, stop salivating over the teacher. That's gross." Kenny said. Rye broke our eye contact, almost making me sad.

"I'm sorry he's cute. It's not my fault. Besides, he played John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in Hamilton. His freckles are so cute, too."

"Wait?! Philip!" A girl asked.

"Yeah, Emma. And John. As in 'I'm John Laurens in the place to be. Two pints of Sam Adams but I'm working on three!'"

"Ah! It's Anthony Ramos!" Emma said. I laughed and nodded.

"Hello class. Welcome to Acting and Film 2. For those of you who don't live next door, I'm Mr Ramos. I played Justin in 21 Chump Street, John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in Hamilton. But, Ms Blackwood already knew that as she's my neighbor's kid. And Emma is clearly a Hamilton fan."

"YES." Emma says.

"LAURENS, I LIKE YOU A LOT." Ryeli sang, causing me to laugh. "What? Lin can get away with singing 'Am I the type of guy who seems kinda gay? Bet on it, bet on it. Bet on it, bet on it.' But I can't sing that?" I shook my head.

"You Broadway fans are too damn much."

"Yes. Yes we are." Ryeli laughed.

~~~

During lunch period, I saw Ryeli walking into the cafeteria. But, I managed to catch her attention and she explained that she had to go to the bathroom.

I escorted her, through texts, to the supply closet. Ryeli met me there and I unzipped her pants. We fucked silently. But only because I managed to kiss her the entire time. When we finished, Ryeli kissed me softly. "I'll be at your place after school. I need to talk to you about something. It's really important."

Too soon we had to go our separate ways.

~~~

The biggest downside to teaching was staying after school for the theater program. Our fall play, which Ryeli picked out during our short time in the supply closet.

One of the two Spanish teachers walked into the room. She had red hair and her outfit made her seem more like a student than a teacher. "Hi Ms..." I let my sentence trail off as I couldn't remember her name.

"Nitka. Molly Nitka." She said. "I'm the supervisor of advisories." I nodded.

"You teach Spanish too, correct?"

"Yes I do." Molly pulled her hair into a ponytail. "I hear you're doing a Spanglish musical." She laughed. I couldn't help but feel like she was trying to flirt with me. But it wasn't going to work. Not at all.

"Yeah. It's called In The Heights. I'm going to be going to New York during the summer to start filming in it for 2020." I said.

"I thought you looked familiar!" Molly's laugh made me want to throw up. Only because she really was trying to flirt with me.

"I have a girlfriend." I blurted. "Uh-uh...back in New York." Molly looked a tad bit disappointed but quickly got over it.

"I'm sure she's great. Now, I should get going. Talk to you later." Molly hurried out of the room, muttering under her breath as she did. "Jesus Molly! Pull yourself together. He's in a relationship as are you. Crucified Christ." I chuckled softly and headed home to Ryeli. And when I walked inside, I cried.