Chapter 4

She seemed to relax a little after that, and she spoke to us in a gentler tone to her voice. “Jack, Phil, River, please don’t tell anyone. Bria ... Sorry, if you tell the Principal or the Department of Education, Mr. Burke and I could be transferred or even lose our jobs.”

“You’re one hell of a sexy fucking milf, kinky too...”

“WATKINS! ... Don’t you dare use language like that towards me, or...”

“As I was sayin ... You’re one hell of a sexy fucking milf, kinky too. Naw, we won’t tell if you let us fuck you, besides we’ve got you on video, so you better do as we say, or you’re in deep shit,” River said.

There was a lull in conversation as Stevo gathered her thoughts, and when she replied, she was back to her confident self.

“Do you think you can blackmail me into having sex with you? Is that what you want? You know it’s illegal to share revenge porn, don’t you? You could end up in jail.”

“But ... but it’s not revenge. We haven’t had sex with you,” Phil stammered in desperation.

“Guys, you’ve put yourself in a more difficult position than me. All I have to do is tell the police you videoed me and Mr Burke having consensual sex, then shared it amongst yourselves. You will be in more trouble than you can handle, and what will your parents think?”

Stevo had taken back the initiative. We had to get her thinking differently, or we’re dead meat, I thought. We had to get Stevo back on the defensive.

“River, you fucking dickhead. Don’t threaten Ms Stevensen like that. We need to work it out like adults, not make demands. Blackmail will only get you in trouble, and now she might drop us in the shit by going to the cops,” I said.

“Who elected you as fucking captain, eh, Jack? Just because you’ve got a crush on Stevo, you’re going to defend her honor now, you dropkick,” River replied.

“Well, what are we going to do?” Phil asked nervously.

“We didn’t mean we’d post the video online, but what about showing it to the school board? You’d still be in big shit, Ms, and we’d only be doing our rightful duty. I mean, it can’t be right you and another teacher fuckin’ on school premises, would it? But maybe we can work things out someway?”

“Jack, thank you for suggesting we can work this out some way. Please let me think about it overnight, and I will talk to you tomorrow at lunchtime. Now please, go home.”

On the way home. “Hey River, why the fuck did you tell Stevo we had her on video? We could go to jail, you fuckwit,” I said.

“Keep your trap shut tomorrow, dickhead, and let me do all the talking, because we still have an ace up our sleeve. Can you two dopes guess what it is?”

Phil and I looked at each other as we shook our heads.

“Burko is married with kids. Just imagine the nightly news and the newspapers with the headline. ‘Cheating teachers caught by student’s wrecks marriage.’ What a disaster, don’t stress. River will fix things not like you, eh, Jack?” River said smugly.