"Professor Porter?" Tina called out just as class ended. Bette turned around leaning back against her desk to face her grad student. 

"Yes Tina?" Bette replied to her.

"I’m sorry I haven’t been paying very much attention during your lectures." She knew the professor had caught her dazed off more than once recently. Tina paused to look up at the beautiful professor, only to see her staring at the ground. Tina softly cleared her throat to catch Bette’s attention. Her eyes quickly came up to meet Tina’s assuring Tina of her full attention.

"It’s just…" Tina went on to say. "My mind has been other places lately and I just wanted to apologize, I never meant any disrespect."

"I understand Tina, thank you. If you ever need to talk just let me know."

Tina tried to hold back her smile seeing as how she’d had a crush on Bette for almost two years now. "That means a lot, thank you." Tina smiled as she exited the classroom and made her way to her dorm. Bette sat back in her seat and sighed. Tina was like no other student she’d taught before. Tina always paid attention to what Bette was saying intrigued by the new information the professor was displaying to the students about the history of art itself. The professor thought back to the first day she saw Tina. It was the opening day at the University  for the year and all the new students had a chance to come talk wit their professors about the course, Bette was sitting in her desk, talking with a group of students about their first project of the semester, warning them that the course would not be easy and it wasn’t for slackers. Stopping her in mid-sentence was the image of a beautiful young woman in tight jeans and a purple button up shirt that lifted slightly, enough to see her flat stomach underneath as she reached in to shake the professor’s hand. That beautiful girl, was Tina.

The only thing pulling Bette from that memory was the sight of a notebook under the desk where Tina normally sits. She walked over and reached down to pick it up. She knew it was Tina’s she’d seen Tina take notes in it before. Bette wanted to read what was in it, but she knew it was wrong. As Bette was making her her back to sit down a small partially folded piece of paper fell from the notebook. When Bette picked it up she noticed it had her name on it.’Now I HAVE to read it, I see my name for fucks sake’ Bette finally came to the conclusion that her reasoning was enough to invade Tina’s privacy ‘just this once’

-It’s obvious that you’re staring lol

– Oh shut up! I am not!

– you got it bad don’t you?

-whatever. I wasn’t staring.

-Deny it all you want but we all know what you want ;)

– If we weren’t in class I’d smack you. I don’t think of her like that, it’s wrong.

– Oh okay, so you DON’T want Professor Porter all over you, huh? You’re such a bad liar.

– Whatever, I’m done talking to you.

– Fine Tina, but you know it’s true. 

 Bette’s eyes widened as she read the words on the crumbled creased page over and over. The beautiful Tina had a thing for her Professor and Bette couldn’t believe it. She knew it would be wrong to act on it, to take advantage of such a young girl so she didn’t want to say anything to Tina. But the note did relieve Bette, now she knew Tina felt the same. With a smile on her face she returned the note back to it’s rightful place inside the notebook and began to grade some test papers.

 ’Oh shit!’ I left my notebook in Porter’s room!’ Tina started thinking about all the worst possible things that could happen if Bette read some of the things in there. After taking a few minutes to calm down her phone rang. She was slightly confused because it was the dorm room phone, no one ever called her on that.

"Hello?" 

"Is this Tina speaking?" Tina could recognize that sexy voice anywhere.

"Last time I checked, yeah." Tina said with a smile.

"This is Professor Porter, I believe you’ve left your notebook here." 

 "Is there a time I could come get it, or would you just like to wait until class tomorrow?" Tina blurted out eagerly. Bette smiled at how nervous she could tell Tina was, she thought it was adorable.

"Well…I have a meeting in just a few minutes so you could come in about an hour if you’d like to pick it up today."

"Sounds fine to me, see you then." Bette smiled and hung up the phone.