Letters By A.J. Brown A teacher's attempt to get a valentine is interrupted by a strong student **Note to my readers: I write Custom Stories for those who enjoy my work that would like a personal story written for them. Please email me at ajbrown2005@yahoo.com if you would like more information on my Custom Stories** Trevor looked at Mary who smiled at him. He looked back at the clock. 2:51. It had been 6 minutes since the final bell of the day had rung and not a single student had shown up yet. If nobody showed up for this thing it was going to be bad for Trevor for a couple of reasons. Finally, Alan Williams walked into the classroom, almost more of a waddle than a walk. He was such a goofy looking dude, standing at close to 6'2, the 230 pounds that Trevor guessed he was, was almost all fat. Alan wore a yellow baseball cap with letters on it that Trevor never was able to make out and big glasses. The blue collared t-shirt Alan wore was probably some attempt to be stylish but it looked ridiculous on him, especially the way it hugged his fat upper body. The kid was only 18-years-old and he had man boobs. Normally Trevor wouldn't have been excited to have the dorkiest kid in the school being the first one to show up at his program, especially when he was trying to impress Mary, but at this point he was just glad anyone had shown up. "Hi Alan," Mary said and Trevor felt dumb for not saying hello to Alan when he walked in. "Hey Mrs. Conn ... " Alan started to say. "I mean, Miss Hough." Mary laughed with her soft, sexy chuckle. "It's OK, Alan." "Hi Mr. Doss," Alan said to Trevor. Trevor gave him a nod. Miss Hough had been Mrs. Connolly until she had recently gotten divorced. Trevor didn't know why she was divorced and he didn't care. He was 42-years-old and never married. It had been years since he had even been in a relationship and was finding out that there wasn't much of a market for women for teachers in their forties. Why hadn't he been more aggressive in finding a woman when he was younger? Well he wasn't going to make that mistake again. 40-year-old women like Mary that were single did not come around often. She was so pretty, she took good care of herself, and she was just so easy to get along with. He had been nervous about asking her to partner with him in The Letters program but now that she accepted, the next step was to ask her out on a date. With Valentine's Day 4 days away, the timing was perfect. "You can have a seat," Mary said sweetly to Alan. "Oh, OK," Alan said with his dopey sounding voice. He had a seat. Mary started some small talk with Alan which made Trevor happy she was here as he wasn't good at small talk either and it would have been pretty awkward having just him and the school nerd sitting in here alone not talking. At the same time, part of the benefit of him organizing this whole thing was to impress Mary and if a few more students didn't show up soon, she certainly would not be impressed. Trevor finally saw someone else walk in the room. It was Chelsea Drabek, standing there wearing a blue tank-top in February, tight to her body, and showing off her huge breasts. Her upper body was thick, her arms also looking thick and her shoulders looking broad in that tank-top but her boobs still looked big on her body. "Hey Chelsea!" Trevor said, glad that there was finally someone else that came along. "Glad you could make it. Do you know Miss Hough and Alan?" "Yeah, I know you," she said to Alan. "Hey." Trevor was glad to see her being nice to Alan. Not many people were. "Hey," Alan said shyly with a look on his face like he didn't feel worthy of talking to Chelsea. Trevor thought about how he didn't miss being a high school student at all. "I don't think I know you," Mary said to Chelsea. "I'm Miss Hough." "Yeah, I've never been in any of your classes," Chelsea said, speaking so comfortably for an 18-year-old girl. "I know who you are, though." "Well I'm glad you were able to join us," Mary said as Chelsea had a seat at a table across from Alan. "Know if anyone else is coming?" Trevor asked Chelsea. "Doubt it," Chelsea said. "At least not today. The Senior Valentine's Day dance is tonight so everyone is at home getting ready." Trevor had to hold back from shouting out an obscenity in front of two students and the teacher he had a crush on. He thought a Friday would be the best day to start the program as students wouldn't have to worry about homework due the next day so they'd be more likely to do an afterschool activity. Of course there had to be some dance in the way to mess it up for him. It was only February 10th and it wasn't even Valentine's Day, "You're not going?" Mary asked Chelsea. "Nah, no one asked me." Trevor felt bad for Alan that no one even needed to ask if he was going to go. But he felt angrier that Chelsea hadn't gotten asked. Her face was a little pudgy but she was still pretty and her large breasts easily made up for any extra weight she was carrying around anywhere else. These high-school guys these days just wanted the tiny girls. How could no one see Chelsea's beauty and want to ask her? "Well we might as well get started then," Trevor said. "Today we are going to be writing letters to people in a nursing home. I actually got a long list of people from the home we are writing to. Since we have time and not many of you, if you two want to write extra letters that would be great." "Think that arm of yours can handle that?" Chelsea said to Alan. She was making a joke, even kind of a flirty one. Alan unsurprisingly didn't seem to catch on. "Um, yeah," he said. "Why?" "You want to arm-wrestle?" she said. "Alright," Alan said. Chelsea seemed like she was flirting with Alan, probably something that he had never experienced before. He certainly wasn't catching on. Chelsea put her arm on the table in the arm-wrestling position, looking like this wasn't the first time she had done this, and she did it in a sexy way that Alan, of course, didn't pick up on. He just put his elbow on the table and locked hands with her. Chelsea had a strong looking arm for a female but Alan was just thick overall and had at least 60 pounds on her. "Ready," Chelsea said, playing it cool. "Go." The match began and Trevor watched Chelsea start taking Alan's arm down with relative ease. She did have a bicep on her that he could see now that it was flexing. Alan couldn't stop her. She continued to steadily bring the bigger guy's arm down, not being stopped once, and she pinned his hand to the table for the victory. "Not bad, Chelsea," Trevor said. "Yeah, I'm buff," Chelsea said as she pulled her arm away. Alan didn't look the least bit embarrassed and Trevor knew it was because he got picked on so badly that this was hardly the most embarrassing thing he had ever experienced. "You want to arm-wrestle?" Chelsea said to Trevor. She put her arm in the arm-wrestling position in the air. Trevor sat there like a deer in the headlights not expecting this at all. He thought he had to be able to beat an 18-year-old girl. Could he? He was a tall guy standing at 6'3 but he was slim, only weighing about 180 pounds. Her arm was thicker than his, he could see that, and he was glad he was wearing long sleeves so no one else there could see it. And she had just taken down Alan with ease. Alan was a dork and Trevor didn't think any of his 230 pounds was muscle. Still, that was a big guy she had just taken down, bigger than Trevor. He was looking at Chelsea but he could see both Mary and Alan looking at him out of the corner of his eye. He felt nervous and decided there was nothing to gain. "Nah, I'm not arm-wrestling," he said. He expected Chelsea to push the issue but she just shrugged and put her arm down. Feeling a bit relieved, he looked at both Alan and Mary. Alan looked completely indifferent to the whole thing. Trevor thought he detected a bit of a smirk on Mary's face but when he looked away it was gone. He must have just been being paranoid. "Let's write some letters!" Mary said and Trevor felt confident that all was good. ** "You two have a great weekend," Trevor said to the students once time was up and they were leaving, though he couldn't help but feel bad for them leaving to probably go home and sit by themselves after doing this while the majority of the students in their grade were going to be going to the dance. "I appreciate you both coming." "Thanks, both of you," Chelsea said to both of the teachers. "I had fun." Alan didn't say anything and both he and Chelsea left. Valentine's Day wasn't until Tuesday and Trevor had scheduled the next meeting for Tuesday by design. But this first meeting had gone perfectly and if he waited too long she might have another date by Tuesday if she didn't already. He could feel the anxiety building up in his stomach as he thought about asking her out but this might be his best chance. He had to give it a try. He turned around and gave her a smile. "Well that actually went pretty well, all things considered," he said. "We make a pretty good team on this." Mary gave him a bit of a smirk that he wasn't sure how to read, but he knew he couldn't act offended. "What?" he said, trying to play along. "I'm just thinking about how funny it was that you were afraid to arm-wrestle that girl." Losing his cool was the last thing he wanted to do but he felt like he had just taken a smack to the face for a few reasons. He felt that anxiety in his stomach changing to a far worse feeling of humiliation. "I wasn't afraid!" he barked out, unable to not sound defensive. "I'm just not going to arm-wrestle a student, come on." "Yup, mmm-hmm," she said with that smirk still on her face, totally keeping her cool. She looked so pretty like she always did but for the first time he didn't like her pretty face at all. "You have a good weekend, Trevor." She walked out the door. ** Trevor looked at the clock. 2:43. He had been thinking since Friday evening how this was going to go down and he had his whole plan ready. He didn't care who else showed up today but Mary and Chelsea both needed to or all his planning would have been for nothing. Mary walked in confidently wearing heels, black pantyhose, a black dress, and a black blazer with a fashionable white shirt underneath it. "Hey Trevor," she said as she went to sit down. "You have a good weekend?" She spoke with the same sweetness she had always spoken to him with before and it was like the embarrassing part of Friday had never happened. He felt his mood changing in a hurry. "Not bad, uneventful," he said. "You?" "Pretty uneventful as well." Uneventful. If it weren't for damn Chelsea and her arm-wrestling, he probably could have been on a date with Mary over the weekend. But Mary's smile still had him feeling much better about everything. Alan walked in the door soon after the bell had rung. "Hey Alan," Trevor said. "Glad to see you back." Alan didn't say anything and he barely looked at Trevor. Sometimes he didn't feel bad for Alan for not having many friends. "Maybe we'll see more people show up today," Trevor said. "Doubt it," Alan kind of mumbled but he spoke with certainty that annoyed Trevor. "It's Valentine's Day so most of them are probably going out to dinner and stuff." Darn it. Now who knew if Chelsea would even show up either? Trevor thought he had been being so smart putting it on this day to ask Mary out for Valentine's Day but now he was almost definitely going to have another small turnout and look silly. Chelsea walked in the door wearing another tank-top. Even in February, this girl was anti-sleeves. He looked at her arms. They were buff, she was right about that. But that didn't mean she was stronger than a grown man. "Hey everybody," Chelsea said. "Who are we writing to today?" "Prisoners," Mary said. "Oh really?" Chelsea said curiously. "We can do that?" "They're people and need love too," Mary said. "A lot of them need it more than anyone. But we will be sure to sign our first names only." Mary smiled. "Before we start, though," Trevor said. He figured he might as well dive right into this. "I'm going accept Chelsea's arm-wrestling challenge." The way the three of them looked at him with surprise, he knew he had just made a complete fool of himself. 'Were you waiting the last four days to say that?' he could just see Mary saying in her mind. "Um, alright," Chelsea said. She sat down at the table, getting in the arm-wrestling position, so smooth about it all like this was something she had done on a regular basis. Her large boobs were sitting on the table just to remind Trevor that this was a girl he was about to arm-wrestle as she placed her elbow in position. He sat across from her, put his right arm in position, and they locked hands. Her grip was firm but it still felt feminine. "Ready," Chelsea said and she gave him a look like she knew this was all just for fun. "Go." He pushed at her arm and even if this was all just fun for her, she was definitely trying. Pushing at her arm felt like he was pushing at a steel bar. He could feel the pressure in his bicep from the strength of this 18-year-old girl's as he pushed harder. Neither arm was moving but he didn't know how he was going to move hers. She held a small smile on her face, her face not looking like she was putting in any effort, and he was trying his best not to show how hard he was trying. Chelsea started to push and his bicep hurt even more, her arm moving his down, and he was unable to do anything about it. He continued to push his hardest, now just desperate to keep her from winning, him winning quickly seeming like it wasn't a possibility. Even with his long sleeved shirt on he could tell how much bigger her arm was than his. As she moved his arm down more he felt so foolish for spending so much time over the last almost four days talking himself up about how she was just a high school girl and that there was no way he wouldn't be able to beat her. She kept pushing and once she had his arm down past halfway he pretty much resigned to the fact that he was going to lose. There wasn't much skill or strategy to arm-wrestling, whoever had the strongest arm was going to win, and that was clearly her. He felt it more and more in his bicep as she pushed his arm down more. When she had his arm almost all of the way, he curled his wrist. That finally stopped her and he felt a little bit of hope. Even if he managed to hold her off and somehow win, he was still going to look stupid that he got him down this far, but he'd still take that, or even a draw, over a loss. Chelsea gave his hand one more push, though, and quickly put an end to that thinking as he felt his knuckles hit the table hard to solidify his defeat. "Good one, that was close," Chelsea said, and he couldn't help but admire her being respectful. But she wasn't the one he was worried about. He turned his head to look at Mary, fully anticipating a mocking look on her face like she had on Friday. But she was looking at Chelsea "I'll tell you right now, I'm not arm-wrestling you," Mary said. "If you took both of these big guys down, there's no way I have a chance against you." She said it in such a friendly, playful way that it completely changed Trevor's mindset of the whole arm-wrestling thing, making it feel like something that was just a lot of fun and nothing anything anyone should be embarrassed about. Even the look on Alan's face had changed to looking happy and more comfortable once Mary had said that. "Now let's write some letters," Mary said. They all grabbed some paper and a pen ready to do so. Friday's class had seemed awkward and the entire time Trevor had felt like he was responsible for putting on some kind of show. All that seemed gone now and instead of people who weren't able to get dates, they just seemed like 4 good friends who were having a good time together, doing a good deed. It didn't matter if he had a date, or if Mary would be his date, or why Chelsea couldn't get a date, or why Alan was such a dork. These were just 4 people with a common interest and a good group. ** Well thank you both for coming again," Mary said when it was time for them to leave. "You two are going to make a lot of people happy." "Hopefully, my letters put a smile on some of the prisoners' faces," Chelsea said. "I made sure not to put a picture in any of them, though." Mary laughed. "No one is going to blame you for that. See you later. Bye Alan." "Bye," Alan mumbled, already on his way out the door. Chelsea followed. Trevor enjoyed the meeting but during the last almost an hour he had been trying to mentally prepare himself for this. He had already gotten laughed at by Mary about chickening out against Chelsea. Now that she had beaten him. He may as well laugh right along with her. Why not? "Went pretty well again," Mary said to him genuinely. Trevor knew his best bet would be to jump right into this. "Yeah, went pretty well despite me humiliating myself." "Why?" Mary said, looking like she genuinely didn't know what he was talking about and she actually look concerned. "Oh that," she then said. "Why do you feel embarrassed about that?" "Uh." He started to tell her but he couldn't even get the words to come out of his mouth that he had been beaten by a high school girl. "Don't worry about that," she said. "She's a strong girl. Bet you're not the only teacher in this school she can beat. Not even the only male one." She winked at him. "You probably made her day too. I could see her hiding her excitement on her face when she beat you. I feel bad for her not having a valentine so I love that you made her feel good." "Yeah. Well. She's not the only one." Mary looked at him curiously. "OK, are you about to tell me that you don't have a date for tonight and you didn't ask me out?" "Um," the way he kept not knowing what to say to this pretty lady had become much more embarrassing for him than losing to a high school girl in arm wrestling. "Is it too late for you to ask me out for dinner?" she said. He couldn't mess this one up. "I hope not." "I'll text you my address," she said with a little laugh as she walked up to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Pick me up at seven." She walked out of the room and Trevor couldn't hide his smile. **Email ajbrown2005@yahoo.com if you would like more information on my Custom Stories**