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Sometimes I can’t even believe how similarly we think

We agreed slow, yet before I could stop myself, I told you where I work

And I’ve been online, waiting for you, waiting to tell you that I think we should exchange emails

Work emails

So we can use the local intranet and talk during school hours, on our work laptops

My mind reels, spinning out with all of the reasons why her plan is actually fucking terrible. First, foremost, and the main reason why her plan is ripe with trouble? She wants us to chat onworklaptops. The ones given to us by the school district, meant to use in class and at home, creating lesson plans, logging grades, updating curriculum, all that.

They’re for work.

And they’re owned by the district, which means without a shadow of a doubt, they’re both monitored in terms of what we’re accessing, and also who we’re chatting with.

Suede0989

Aren’t those monitored?

I vaguely remember an internet access report from a few years ago, one Leah attached to a monthly Bluebell Teachers Association newsletter. A teacher actually lost her job because the report showed she was reading TMZ for five of the six and half hours of her school day.

They do monitor what we do, I just don’t know how or how closely.

DaddysGirl

Yes but not the Team Chat

Team Chat is our intranet’s message feature, like private messaging onVeiled, or messages on Teams. If you, another person or multiple people wanted to chat outside using the chat feature, you could. I always assumed someone, somewhere, monitored those chats for nefarious things, like teachers discussing students, fudging grades… I don’t know. Now that I think about it, why would a teacher chat be monitored?

DaddysGirl

Private messages within the intranet aren’t monitored.

Then if we talk there, we can talk about anything.

I’m always living in fear I’m going to say something too specific and Veiled will boot me and I’ll never be able to find you again

I’ve felt that same fear before, and realizing she has too sends a wave of warmth blooming in my chest, binding us even closer.

Suede0989

My fingers hover nervously, and I’m glad right now that my bravado is kept securely in place thanks to the screen between us;DaddysGirldoesn’t have to know just how nervous Daddy really is.

Though I don’t know for certain if she’s right about Team Chat not being monitored, and that if she’s wrong, theconsequence of that is the entire school knowing that me and another teacher are… whatever we are.

But I’m desperate.

To know who she is.

To see if our chemistry and affection lives and breathes offline.

If we chat on Team Chat, I’ll know who she is immediately because she’ll have to give me her username. All teacher usernames are the first initial of their first name, and their last name.

If I agree to moving our situation off ofVeiled, leaving the discreet platform in favor of a local chat—and definitely not asecuremeans of chat—I’m opening myself up to the entire town knowing about us, whatever and whoever we are.

Suede0989

You’re sure you want to move to Team Chat?