Aidan takes the homework and looks at it. His heart starts pounding faster than he's ever felt it before. "Did she just give me her personal phone number?" he thinks to himself.
"No, I won't!" he says curtly, his face turning beet red as he spins around and heads for the door, clutching the homework so tightly that his knuckle turn white.
He rushes out into the hallway, his boner back to full mast. As soon as he's around the corner and out of sight he reaches into his pants and adjusts it, tucking it under his waistband. He looks at the homework assignment one more time to make sure he wasn't imagining it.
Nope. It's really there. "Don't be an idiot, she obviously only gave it to you in case you need help with the homework," he thinks to himself. But that doesn't make sense; the teachers have work phones for that. Maybe it's her work phone number.
Aidan hastily pulls up the school website and heads to the Faculty page, quickly finding Ms. Goodwin's entry and comparing the numbers. Nope. Definitely not her work phone. Not even the same area code. His heart beats rapidly and his thoughts are distant as he changes into his football practice uniform. He's sure to save her number in his phone before heading to practice.
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Once he's at practice, Ms. Goodwin soon leaves his thoughts. The season starts in two weeks; after today, they only have one more non-game Friday. He pushes himself hard during practice, eager to impress Coach.
After practice, he heads to the locker room with the rest of the team and showers, relieved to be washing the sweat and dirt from his body. Once he's clean and in new clothes, he grabs his backpack and leaves school, heading home for the weekend.
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Aidan wakes up bright and early on Saturday, having finished his homework on Friday and gotten to bed early. He's excited to have the weekend free; he hardly ever finishes his homework on Friday.
He gets dressed and makes himself a few eggs, and then heads out to walk to the park. As he did, he pulls out his phone and pulls up Ms. Goodwin's number. He looks at it for a moment, and then puts it away. If she HAD only given it to him for help with homework, he doesn't want to bother her with a "Hey what's up" or something stupid like that.
He pushes the thought from his mind and tries to enjoy the rest of his weekend. But every few hours for the next couple days, he opens his phone to look at her number, always on the verge of texting her but never doing it.
All too soon, Sunday night rolls around and he hits the sack early, ready to wake up for school the next day and do the whole song and dance over again.