Page 38 of Student Seduction

Kelsey shot her a hard warning look.

“Sometimes. Why do you ask?”

She sighed then smirked at her friend. “Well…if a girl goes to a party and people see her coming out of a bedroom with not one, not two, not three, butfourguys, there’s going to be talk.” She shrugged as if this was perfectly acceptable. “I’m not saying girls don’t have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies. If Emersyn Tyler wants to let Drew and his friends run a train on her, that’s her prerogative. But it’s a small town. People talk.”

Drew and his friends? What the…

Fuck.

Saturday night. When Derek and Devon got into a fight at me house. My heart pounded like a hammer in my chest.

One of those guys in that room was me.

“My older brother was at a party in Riverside,” Meghan offered. “Said he saw Emersyn come out of a bedroom with Drew, Derek and Devon Owens, and some dude from the hockey team. Some of the girls there started joking around saying she took four D’s.”

“Drew, Derek, Devon, and somedude,” Kelsey clarified.

“I got it,” I bit out. “Enough.”

It had been like a fucking soap opera. Derek had practically been carried out. It definitely had not been the least bit sexual.

But Meghan’s brother saw what he saw, and now Emersyn was shrouded in the shadow of an ugly rumor.

She couldn’t even defend herself because telling the truth would mean outing Drew and Devon.

And technically, me.

Christ.

When we got to the office, I turned to face them. “Look, I’ve never known the three of you to be troublemakers but I haven’t been here long. So I’ll make you a deal.”

Kelsey arched an eyebrow.

“I won’t tell the Principal you were harassing another student in my class, if you promise not to so much as look at her or even think of uttering her name for the rest of the year. Understand?”

Kelsey hesitated while the other two gauged her reaction to determine their own.

Damn sheep. I pushed out a breath. “Or, we go in there, I tell administration about the rumors you’re spreading, which is technically sexual harassment and you and your parents can deal with the school board as that’s a level three offense.”

That’s right, kids. I read the fucking handbookandthe code of conduct.

“I can’t get into anymore trouble,” Meghan said quietly. “My dad lost his job this summer. My mom will flip out.”

I nodded. “Then I suggest you take the deal.”

She nodded anxiously.

“Get back to class.”

She hurried back toward my classroom. Kelsey and Annika remained. One down, two to go.

Annika rolled her eyes. “I didn’t even do anything.”

I leaned forward and looked her in the eyes. “So you didn’t make a train sound in my classroom?”

She shrugged. “Only because Kelsey told me to. I didn’t even know about the rumor until just now.”

Jesus. “So you do everything Kelsey tells you to? You’ve never said anything inappropriate about Emersyn? Or any other girl at school? Never commented on their sexual behavior or clothing? Never started a rumor?”