It was late afternoon,and the college was dark and quiet. Mark Reese, the proud professor of Literature & Linguistics, was sitting, quite bored, behind his tidy desk. When he was admitted a few years ago, he was one of the youngest teachers in this ancient institution and, to the say of some students, the most handsome. Not that he agreed with such statements, but it was obvious that he cared of his body, and his image. He was pretty fit, a tall man in his thirties, with a well groomed brown hair, and beautiful daydreamer green eyes. His hands were slender and graceful, the kind of hands that have someone who has never done manual labour. As always, he was dressing in fine apparel: white shirt, dark blue trousers and a light blue tie that was there to give an appearance of seriousness in front of his colleagues, who frequently looked him down due to his comparatively young age.
His friends considered him a nice person, if somewhat stiff, finding him too ordered and a bit dogmatic, specially regarding academic matters. Nevertheless, most students liked his perfectly ordered way of teaching, and respected his 'hard but fair' style to mark exams.
His office was a perfect reflection of his orderly personality. A clean desk, with only a modern laptop and two binders on it, was placed across the room, with a comfortable armchair behind it and two small chairs in front of. There were a few bookshelves on the walls, but little more furniture. He had received this study a few months ago, and hadn't had the time nor the necessity to decorate it: he had discovered this spartan style helped him to concentrate during his long hours of work. In fact, these days most of the paperwork was done electronically, and the documents were stored in the cloud, so it seemed unlikely that those bookshelves were going to be overflowed with books.
The room was situated at the end of a long hallway, mostly deserted at this time in the evening. He had reserved this late hours to academic tutoring because at this time usually all his colleagues had gone home, and because most students neglected the opportunity of personalized tutoring, so it was the perfect time to advance work. But today he was daydreaming about Linda, the beautiful teacher of Latin. He was planning to ask her out next weekend, and he was selecting carefully the words that he would use. He was aware that his main problem was her gaze: every time he felt her eyes on him, his knees began to tremble, and his thoughts fled from his mind. He was trying to devise a strategy to overcome this problem, but he hadn't had a good enough idea.
His friends considered him a nice person, if somewhat stiff, finding him too ordered and a bit dogmatic, specially regarding academic matters. Nevertheless, most students liked his perfectly ordered way of teaching, and respected his 'hard but fair' style to mark exams.
His office was a perfect reflection of his orderly personality. A clean desk, with only a modern laptop and two binders on it, was placed across the room, with a comfortable armchair behind it and two small chairs in front of. There were a few bookshelves on the walls, but little more furniture. He had received this study a few months ago, and hadn't had the time nor the necessity to decorate it: he had discovered this spartan style helped him to concentrate during his long hours of work. In fact, these days most of the paperwork was done electronically, and the documents were stored in the cloud, so it seemed unlikely that those bookshelves were going to be overflowed with books.
The room was situated at the end of a long hallway, mostly deserted at this time in the evening. He had reserved this late hours to academic tutoring because at this time usually all his colleagues had gone home, and because most students neglected the opportunity of personalized tutoring, so it was the perfect time to advance work. But today he was daydreaming about Linda, the beautiful teacher of Latin. He was planning to ask her out next weekend, and he was selecting carefully the words that he would use. He was aware that his main problem was her gaze: every time he felt her eyes on him, his knees began to tremble, and his thoughts fled from his mind. He was trying to devise a strategy to overcome this problem, but he hadn't had a good enough idea.