Loving the Teacher

e pink slippers on the woman's feet. They fit

but quickly regained his composure. He said to the woman, "She's one of my students. She had a

a family quarrel; it felt more like she had caught someone in the act."

asked, "Should I com

ding. The woman didn't say an

she?"

te from his pocket and saying, "You reall

many girlfriends do you have? What do you t

e was backed into a corner near the living room di

? Besides, didn't you enjoy it too? Don't make it seem like I've done something unf

rry you, and this is how you treat me?" The series of blows final

w we can't get married. I won't marry you. Either we end this completely, o

h a gentle tone? I stared at him blankly,

n come every Fr

d dismissively, his a

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I had thought about visiting him on Fridays, but

or this man, and this was the outcome? I suddenly stood up and shov

backward into the display. The figurine was of a general riding a horse, and the bayonet

Blood silently spread across the living room

son's life fade a

could have known that the push would send him falling onto the sh

al 911, but my phone was suddenly knocked from my han

felt better, he had gone looking for me. Somehow, he ended up

n entering, he saw Greyson dead in a bizarre position on the display

g ago, but now I was overwhelmed with emotion and broke down in tear

He was with another woman, and I just pushed him, a

around Greyson's body. He rubbed my back soothingly and sai