Seducing a Professor: A Summer of Desire and Academic Manipulation I stood in the doorway watching him. He was sitting in his office, feet on the desk drinking coffee and finishing the last of his bagel with hungry bites. It was a little past 7 in the morning, and the rest of the English building was quiet. The newspaper sat unread on his desk, he preferred to gaze out the window. I smiled to myself as I realized that he was busy watching the female students walking by. His eyes were out on stalks as an extremely attractive brunette strolled past the window and I swear I heard him sigh as her hard toned body glided by. This was going to be much easier than I had expected. "Uhm, Professor Thornton?" I said in a tentative voice from the doorway. "Susi, you're still alive!" He teased, beckoning me in with one hand as he took another swig of coffee and pulled his feet off the desk. "Yes" I smiled shyly, taking a step into the office. "Come in, have a seat. You didn't happen to bring me a bagel did you?” He teased again. "Uhm, no, but I could get you one" I said in pretended confusion. "No that's all right" he cut me off "not your fault I didn’t buy enough for my breakfast" "So what's up? He asked as I sat down in the chair opposite. This was the second term I had been at college. I knew I was a decent student, paid attention and took notes. I made a "B" in my introductory English course. This summer I was taking the second half of English but had missed the last four classes. In the express world of summer school missing four consecutive classes puts a student in an extremely difficult position, but I had known from the moment I had set eyes on Professor Elliott Thornton that I was going to make him mine, whatever it took. "I'm getting really behind in your class. I've had problems at work and home I lied, and, well, I don't know what to do" I looked up at him with my big, hazel eyes filling with unshed tears. I had dressed very carefully for this meeting and was wearing a short skirt, and the ubiquitous tight, spaghetti strap tank top, which I happened to know, made his eyes positively swivel. …and then things took a turn
