1. Why Is That So Important?


    Date: 11/11/2023, Categories: Trans, Author: el_henke 

    “Huh,” Laura dryly stated with more of a chuckle than a syllable, browsing through the newspaper, her scanning eyes stalling on a distinct headline.

“What is it?” her roommate, and lover, asked between two generous gulps of overconcentrated cheap instant coffee, while lazily reading Sartre’s Les Jeux Sont Faits, pupils still almost hidden behind eyelids.

Laura looked up from the semi-crumpled paper in her hand and threw Jamie a dismissive glance. “I’ll never understand how you drink that stuff or even how you can chug down something so hot in such large sips.”

“Shrouded in mystery,” came the reply with an exaggerated air of natural coolness trying a bit too hard to suppress a grin, “like so many things about me. Take my missing gag reflex.”

That last addendum was delivered so soberly that Laura nearly choked on the contents of her own mug.

“You do know this causes throat cancer, yes?” Laura inquired with a chiding tone.

“What? Schlucking dick?” Jamie teased with eyebrows raised, still not shifting focus from the book and taking another generous helping of the searing-hot liquid to make a point. “Speak of experience?”

“You know what I mean,” Laura replied, voice heavy with eye-rolling.

“That’s a lot coming from someone who smokes,” the wide-smirked comeback.

Laura rolled her eyes. “And so do you!”

“...but only after the abundant addition of our homegrown,” Jamie completed the remark, still wearing a self-confident air and finally putting the book ...
    ... open side down yet careful not to crease its spine “But what was it that caught your attention, again?”

“Here.” She folded the paper and turned it around, tapping on the headline in question.

Suspended Teacher Back in Salisbury High—Principal: “Deserves a Chance but Keeping an Eye on Him.”

Jamie skimmed the article and caught a few keywords and lines:suspended for relationship with a student... consensual according to official sources... teacher suspected to have influenced student but no evidence... under strict supervision by the authorities...

“Sound like sexy Lexi’s back, huh?” Laura joked. "He used to be a phys ed teacher. Total dick.”

“So he already had a reputation back when you were there?” Jamie asked. “The name, I mean.”

“Oh, although I didn’t have him, I knew who he was. Kids talk. But we gave him that nickname when I was already in college, though, and the media of this sleepy little town jumped at the scandal of the teacher sleeping with his student. Nothing else going on there, except anarchists mowing their lawn during Sunday mass or using the Lord’s name in vain when stubbing their toe—just imagine the blasphemy!”

With an eyebrow raised over the remark of the sheer level of outrage in that little town, Jamie soberly stated, “Yeah, they made sure to milk our story for all its worth.”

“You heard of it too?” Laura replied with a question before backpedaling. Not quite sure she had understood, she tentatively reiterated, “Wait,your story? ...
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