Pumpkin Pie #5, Chocolate Gelato #19 + gummy bunnies + fresh peaches
Story: Trick or Treat
Title: Does It Count?
Prompts: Pumpkin Pie #5: skeleton, Chocolate Gelato #19: semper fidelis (always faithful) + gummy bunnies (500themes #349: beautiful friendship) + fresh peaches (The discussion could end with plans to dig up more facts on the subject. What you find will probably bring up more questions than answers!)
Rating: PG13 for grown-up talk of sex
Words: 575
Characters: Gwyneth Tremayne, Isabel Ruiz Iglesias
Summary: So things are gonna kinda jump around because I'm using the Pumpkin Pie challenge to try out different plot ideas for NaNoWriMo. In this one, Gwyn is a teacher at a school for magical beings. Isabel is a fellow teacher and close friend. And yeah, these teachers are a little irreverent about their jobs. ;)
"I can't decide if I cheated on Julian or not." Gwyn announced as soon as she shut the classroom door shut behind her. It was the students' lunch period and the only time that teachers could talk at school without prying ears listening in.
Isabel's blasé response was exactly why Gwyn had come to her with her worries. The curvy Spaniard only glanced up long enough to pass over half of the stack of skeleton bones she was diligently cutting out. "I assume we're speaking of the tasty bit, Alek?"
"Oh yeah." Gwyn got shivers just thinking about him.
"Did you engage in romantic activities with the Eye Candy of the Month?"
"I wouldn't necessarily call it romantic, but there was activity. A lot of activity. Great activity."
"Then yeah, I would say you cheated."
Gwyn made a face and picked up a pair of scissors and a sheet of bones. "It's not that part that I'm undecided about. Yeah, I had sex with another man, but since when have Julian and I been exclusive?"
That made Isabel pause. She looked up at Gwyn, her brow furrowed in thought. "Huh. That's a good question. You didn't say anything about it to me."
"Because I didn't know it was happening! Julian and I have been messing around on and off for as long as I've been teaching. But then this year started and Julian somehow changed things without me knowing and now it feels like we're...together."
"I take it that's a bad thing," Isabel surmised from Gwyn's shudder of distaste.
"I don't want to be in a relationship. Not a real one with emotions and expectations and all that shit. Fucking him was good enough for me."
Isabel grinned. "You're such a shallow slut."
"I'm a witch," Gwyn corrected. "I'll jump into bed with whoever I want whenever I want and I won't feel bad about it like some silly repressed human girl."
"Amen, sister."
Gwyn sighed. "Except I have this guilt. But it's like guilt a la Twilight Zone because I honestly don't know why I should feel guilty. We never talked about a relationship. Shouldn't there be a talk before bed buddies turns into boyfriend/girlfriend?"
"It should at the very least be a mutual thing," Isabel agreed.
"And it is most definitely not." Gwyn stated firmly. "So I'm not going to feel guilty about last night."
"Well, he might think you're in a mutually exclusive relationship. I think it's still counts as cheating then."
Gwyn groaned in pain. "I'm going to have to talk to him, aren't I?"
"It does seem like the inevitable conclusion," Isabel said, and gave her friend a commiserating pat on the arm.
"Ugh. I hate this talk. And there's no telling how Julian is going to respond. He might go all understanding shrink on me."
"Then you'd have to kill him."
Gwyn grinned at Isabel. "You know me so well." She finished cutting out the bones on the paper then did a double take as she finally realized what she'd been doing. "Hold the phone. What the hell are you doing with these?"
"It's for Halloween. I thought it might be fun for the kids to decorate their own skeletons."
Gwyn shook her head. "Isabel, these 'kids' are seventeen, not seven."
"You think it's too young a project?" Isabel looked at the pile of bones she'd already cut out. "Eh. So I won't make my AP class do it."
(4 pieces!)
Title: Does It Count?
Prompts: Pumpkin Pie #5: skeleton, Chocolate Gelato #19: semper fidelis (always faithful) + gummy bunnies (500themes #349: beautiful friendship) + fresh peaches (The discussion could end with plans to dig up more facts on the subject. What you find will probably bring up more questions than answers!)
Rating: PG13 for grown-up talk of sex
Words: 575
Characters: Gwyneth Tremayne, Isabel Ruiz Iglesias
Summary: So things are gonna kinda jump around because I'm using the Pumpkin Pie challenge to try out different plot ideas for NaNoWriMo. In this one, Gwyn is a teacher at a school for magical beings. Isabel is a fellow teacher and close friend. And yeah, these teachers are a little irreverent about their jobs. ;)
"I can't decide if I cheated on Julian or not." Gwyn announced as soon as she shut the classroom door shut behind her. It was the students' lunch period and the only time that teachers could talk at school without prying ears listening in.
Isabel's blasé response was exactly why Gwyn had come to her with her worries. The curvy Spaniard only glanced up long enough to pass over half of the stack of skeleton bones she was diligently cutting out. "I assume we're speaking of the tasty bit, Alek?"
"Oh yeah." Gwyn got shivers just thinking about him.
"Did you engage in romantic activities with the Eye Candy of the Month?"
"I wouldn't necessarily call it romantic, but there was activity. A lot of activity. Great activity."
"Then yeah, I would say you cheated."
Gwyn made a face and picked up a pair of scissors and a sheet of bones. "It's not that part that I'm undecided about. Yeah, I had sex with another man, but since when have Julian and I been exclusive?"
That made Isabel pause. She looked up at Gwyn, her brow furrowed in thought. "Huh. That's a good question. You didn't say anything about it to me."
"Because I didn't know it was happening! Julian and I have been messing around on and off for as long as I've been teaching. But then this year started and Julian somehow changed things without me knowing and now it feels like we're...together."
"I take it that's a bad thing," Isabel surmised from Gwyn's shudder of distaste.
"I don't want to be in a relationship. Not a real one with emotions and expectations and all that shit. Fucking him was good enough for me."
Isabel grinned. "You're such a shallow slut."
"I'm a witch," Gwyn corrected. "I'll jump into bed with whoever I want whenever I want and I won't feel bad about it like some silly repressed human girl."
"Amen, sister."
Gwyn sighed. "Except I have this guilt. But it's like guilt a la Twilight Zone because I honestly don't know why I should feel guilty. We never talked about a relationship. Shouldn't there be a talk before bed buddies turns into boyfriend/girlfriend?"
"It should at the very least be a mutual thing," Isabel agreed.
"And it is most definitely not." Gwyn stated firmly. "So I'm not going to feel guilty about last night."
"Well, he might think you're in a mutually exclusive relationship. I think it's still counts as cheating then."
Gwyn groaned in pain. "I'm going to have to talk to him, aren't I?"
"It does seem like the inevitable conclusion," Isabel said, and gave her friend a commiserating pat on the arm.
"Ugh. I hate this talk. And there's no telling how Julian is going to respond. He might go all understanding shrink on me."
"Then you'd have to kill him."
Gwyn grinned at Isabel. "You know me so well." She finished cutting out the bones on the paper then did a double take as she finally realized what she'd been doing. "Hold the phone. What the hell are you doing with these?"
"It's for Halloween. I thought it might be fun for the kids to decorate their own skeletons."
Gwyn shook her head. "Isabel, these 'kids' are seventeen, not seven."
"You think it's too young a project?" Isabel looked at the pile of bones she'd already cut out. "Eh. So I won't make my AP class do it."
(4 pieces!)