Room 2D

From New Blushes 2.12 continuing the story from the previous edition. The late afternoon light produced changing effects in the viewfinder. Sometimes there was a clear view into the classroom, and then it was mostly reflections. Odd effects sometimes. An apparently headless girl… with her bottom bare… He wondered how the shots would come out. Would the film also record these weird effects? Probably. But he was sure he had plenty of good straight shots of the three participants in the seductive little cameo. Mr Elway of course, the senior English master, he was recognisable enough. And the two girls: one of them he didn’t know, but the other was Annabel Ashby. She was the means by which he came to be here on a cold and wintry afternoon observing this remarkable scene from the snow-dusted shrubs. And with the long lens camera pointed… ----//---- He clicked the shutter again. Annabel was over the chair. Her ripe bare bot...

The first of two parts, from New Blushes 2.11 George Elway peered searchingly out of his classroom. The end wall was virtually all glass and faced onto an enclosed space of grass surrounded by thick shrubs. This afternoon it presented a cold and wintry scene: the grass and shrubs liberally covered in snow under a grey sky which promised more. There was no person to be seen, but of course there wouldn’t be. Nonetheless George peered intently around. It was 3.45 on a Tuesday afternoon in February and getting dusk already. Round at the front of the school pupils would shortly be leaving, dashing out in their coats and scarves, with no wish to hang about. That was good. George didn’t like the thought of people hanging about. Not when he was going to have a Special Detention. But of course people wouldn’t be hanging about here anyway, at this side of the school. It was not accessible, there was a fence at either end. And outside Room...