Part two of the art class Miss M. clicked right on over to me. She stopped about 1 foot from me.
"How is it coming?"
"Great"
"Do you mind if I watch"
"NO!" (please stay right there, don't move)
She didn't move. I looked at her pumps. and her feet and at her arches and I was consumed. One foot away! That vision burned into my brain. To this day I can still see those shoes, the veins in her foot, the arch cleaveage, a little toe cleavage, the slight stocking wrinkles. I don't think I did any work at all. I just stared at her shoes. She moved just a little, canting one of her shoes to the side, a very suggestive move, I thought.
I returned to trying to fake some work. But I returned to her shoes and just stared.
She asked, "Is there anything wrong?"
I replied, "No..."
She said, "I like the lettering that you do. It is very bold and stands out."
I said, "Thanks"
She started to talk about another project she was working on that needed a number of students to do modelling of clothes. I wasn't listening much, I was kind of working and staring. She walked back an forth a bit, and then struck a kind of pose, with one of her feet way out in front of her, the sole of her pump right on the floor, to stretch her foot and calf to the max. I just stared and began to feel what was inevitable.
I tried to think of something else. I looked down and the poster. I finally stifled the rising storm.
I now had to finish this work, and that I did for the next 30 minutes or so. Miss M. walked casually away and sat in a chair about 5 feet from me. She crossed her legs and began that slow up and down with the toe of her lovely pump. She went through basically the same leg and shoe show that I had seen her do two semesters ago! I waited for the scratch.
And then it happened. She reached down and laguidly scratched her arch with just a single finger. And, incredibly, that finger went to her heel. With that finger and thumb, she grasped the heel and moved the shoe back on her foot...by the heel. She lightly touched the heel.
I could not hold back any longer. This episode was probably the longest that I had experienced up to then and ever since. Totally unassisted, a spontaneous outburst that had me shuddering.
Time stopped and finally she said, "Looks like you're finished."
I was. I stood up. She looked down and smiled.
She went to her desk and sat. She told me that she was glad that I helped out, that the posters were finished and would like me to consider this modelling project.
I said thanks too, and said that I would probably like to do it for her.
I went out to the hall. I looked down, and to my horror, I saw a wet spot where the handkerchief did not quite do the job. I was horrified, thrilled and excited, all at once. She knew EXACTLY what she was doing, and was encouraging me even more!
I went to the boys' room and tried to clean up the mess, and did a reasonable job of it. Splashed some water all over my pants as if one of the faucets sprayed me.
Art class was good.
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Pumps pump me up!
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