“Ms. Bose!” Laksh shouted in surprise. “What are you doing here?”
“Seems I interrupted quite the party.” Ms. Bose replied with raised eyebrows. “To answer your question, I was just downstairs at the front desk of your dorm to drop something off, and then the siren went off. Somehow I let myself get talked into checking the dorms- not that that is in any part of my job description- to make sure everyone was in the basement *cough* where they’re supposed to be, apparently.” She sternly looked at the group as she said that last part.
“But they never check the dorms!” Sanskar protested as he got his voice back.
Ms. Bose only now seemed to realize that he was also in the room and smiled at him.
“Oh hi, Sanskar… Well apparently they noticed that some people weren’t going to the basement.” She paused and looked at the closet in front of the window. “Although, to be honest, I suppose this closet arrangement is just as good as a wall.”
She then looked at their set-up on the ground. “Are you guys playing spin the bottle?” She quickly eyed everyone in their various stages of undress. “An adult version of it?” She added with a grin and a raised eyebrow.
Sanskar still couldn’t believe that she was standing in his dorm room.
“Uhhhh, yeah Ms. Bose” Natalie replied shyly.
“Haha, I remember playing that when I was in college.” Ms. Bose replied with a laugh.
Sanskar immediately had images of her, half naked, run through his mind and desperately tried to think of something else. A boner in front of her was the last thing he needed. What was said next, made him want to punch Laksh in the face.
“Well, would you like to stay and play, Ms. Bose? Sanskar doesn’t have a partner!”
Sanskar shot Laksh a deathly glance and then inadvertently blushed as he saw Ms. Bose’s face shift from surprise to amusement as she looked at Sanskar.
“Oh, I can’t believe that! I would have thought that you have girls flocking all around you, being the quarterback and all!” she commented.
“Oh, he does, he just turns all of them down. I just said before, that I don’t know how he does it, I couldn’t even go a week without.. ouch!” Laksh blurted as Natalie elbowed him in the ribs.
“S.H.U.T. U.P.” Sanskar hissed at Laksh. Then he looked back at Ms. Bose who was smirking at him.
“I’m really sorry for this, you obviously don’t have to stay, I imagine you have better things to do.” He said apologetically.
Ms. Bose smiled.
“Well,as much fun as staying might be, I don’t think this is really appropriate. I’mnot even sure that you’re all legally allowed to drink and technically I haveto report underage drinking.”
“You could pretend that we’re all 21.” Trish said. “Come on, Ms. Bose, just play one round, you can’t leave thebuilding anyway until the Tornado warning is cleared. Plus you have a reputation as a fun teacher to uphold!”
“Good to hear that I am ‘fun’ ” Ms. Bose replied. She sighed. “I guess… I could stay for one round.” She paused again as some cheered.
“I have one condition, though! This all stays PG.”
“Aw, come on…” Laksh started.
“I’m not finished yet! First, you’re all going to put your clothes back on because I’m not going to be caught in a room with several undressed students. Secondly, no inappropriate dares. And for the truths; while you can ask each other whatever you want, I am not going to answer inappropriate questions. Do you all accept those conditions?”
They all agreed – only Laksh still seemed a littleunhappy- and Ms. Bose sat down between Sanskar and Trish, quickly glancing at Sanskar as she walked towards him, as if to make sure that he was okay with it.
“You’re reeeaaally cool for doing this Ms.Bose.” Trish said, obviously already a bit tipsy.
Ms. Bose just smiled, but she seemed excited. Sanskar couldn’t believe the turn of events. All of a sudden he was very happy that his roommate was on vacation.
“Would you like a drink?” He offered.
“Oh…sure, what the hell, I’ll take one. NO ONE lose a word about this, though, okay?” She looked at everyone individually with a threatening look on her face.
“Cross my heart and hope to die.” Laksh replied in a festive voice. The others murmured a yes.
“What’s your poison?” Sanskar joked.
“Well I see that you have tequila, so how about some of that?” Ms. Bose asked and smiled.
“Coming right up.”
As the game resumed, the group actually was more respectful with their truths and dares, and Ms. Bose seemed to be enjoying herself. Then, finally, the bottle pointed toward her.
“Truth or Dare.” Natalie asked.
“I think I’ll start off with a truth.”
“Hmm, alright. How long have you been with Mr. Sengupta?”
“Almost for twelve years, right after I finished college.” She replied.
Sanskar secretly counted the years in his head. He realized that she must in fact be around thirty three. But of course he kept his thoughts to himself and so the game went on. The questions became riskier again and Ms. Bose felt it the next time she was picked.
“Truth again, sorry everyone.” She said.
“How often did you do it with him?” This time it was Laksh asking the question. Trish burst out laughing.
Everyone nervously awaited Ms. Bose’s response,expecting her to be angry, but she just laughed. “You’re gonna have to get me a lot more drunk in order for me to answer that question.”
“I don’t think that’s a problem.” Laksh replied jokingly. “Sam, give the lady another drink!”
Sanskar looked at Ms. Bose as everyone laughed, and she nodded slightly, so he poured her another shot. The game continued andnothing else was said about the question from earlier. After some time, Ms. Bose asked for a third shot of Tequila and was visibly loosened up. Sanskar tried to observe her as secretly as possible, and he was in awe of how beautiful her laugh was. He could barely take his eyes off of her. He almost wished for a dare so he could do something with her but at the same time he had tons of respect for her and didn’t want to make things awkward.
The next time the bottle landed on him, Sanskar decided to go for it and picked dare. He couldn’t have anticipated what was to come.
Trish seemed deep in thought for a moment, then she smiled and spoke.
“Sanskar. I dare you to do a body shot off of Ms. Bose.”
Author’s Note:
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