Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:37:42 +0000
From: franzvonbayros@protonmail.com
Subject: A Learning Pod 2

2.

Dressed from the waist up and with large red-eyes delivered from the corner
cafe, the teachers got on Zoom with Sakura and her husband at ten. Javier
was a rakishly handsome, olive-skinned Spaniard with long hair and a
perpetually open collar, but he somehow managed to seem elegant rather than
eurotrashy, as Mai put it. On Zoom he seemed to be wearing only a robe,
which Sakura kept pulling slightly more closed over his chest. She wore a
spaghetti-strap lacy thing that was almost exactly the same color as her
skin.

"Guess we're overdressed," Mai said, muting the call and talking without
moving her lips. It was a trick they'd gotten good at. She squeezed
Martin's cock, which peeked from under the tails of his conservative Oxford
shirt. Sakura was going over their contract. Martin kept an eye on his face
in the camera window, making sure it was composed even as his cock began
irrepressibly rising. He tried to focus on the legalese on Sakura's
screenshare.

After the contract came the Q&A. They talked about curriculum, schedules,
arts and nature enrichment, and the network of seaside hiking trails with
interesting rock formations that would facilitate the latter. Martin and
Mai were clearly excited, and the parents noted approvingly the sparkle in
their new employees' eyes. If they guessed that some of it came from the
action off-camera, it didn't show.

When they'd covered everything they could think of, Sakura dropped the
bombshell. "So there's one more thing we wanted to talk about right
upfront," she began. The two pairs both exchanged glances.

"We always try to be totally transparent with anyone we work with," Javier
said.

"And we wanted to let you know a little bit about our personal lives, since
we're all going to be living in close quarters."

"Sure," said Martin meaninglessly. He had an odd feeling in his stomach.

"We've always had a very open relationship. In every sense," continued
Sakura. "The kids have grown up used to both of us having different
partners around, sometimes living in for a while, sometimes just visiting."

"They love having all their Aunties and Uncles around," Javier added.

"So of course we've all really missed having other people physically in our
lives this year. And so we're all overjoyed to have you two joining us. But
we wanted to see how you two felt about living with another couple who have
that lifestyle--not that we'll be having a bunch of random partners in and
out of our bubble, of course not, but..."

"And sorry," Javier interjected, "I'm not actually sure you two are a
couple, even."

"Oh it's fine," Mai said, all her charm on. "We're mostly colleagues and
housemates but only mostly." She winked at Martin. "So yeah, I think I can
speak for us both here: we're not weirded out at all about you guys having
a poly lifestyle or anything like that. We aren't exactly a
picket-fence-and-a-dog kind of family either. More like a family of freaky
misfits, honestly."

"But such wholesome misfits we couldn't ask for better role models for the
kids," Javier laughed.

"Definitely," said Sakura. "So look, we've known you two for what, five
years? But always in a professional setting. This pod is going to be a
really different environment in some ways, and we're excited about it
because we've always wished we could get to know you better, just socially
and as adults, right? So look, I'll just put it right out there: Javier and
I agree that we would be very much open to having you join our little
getaway as friends and, if the vibe develops, potential partners."

Javier nodded and said, "Of course we want to be super conscious of the
potential power dynamic here. You two have always demonstrated that
mentoring and nurturing our kids is so much more than a J.O.B. But on paper
we are employing you, so we wanted to be totally clear at the outset that
our being personally intrigued by you both is one hundred percent separable
from that professional relationship. We have a lot of practice with this
lifestyle so we are boundaries and communication zealots. We wanted you to
know everything before you're already in the situation, and underline that
you are very much wanted as pod leaders whether or not you share our
interests in the outside-of-work aspects."

"Right," said Sakura. "And we were assuming you both would want some space
to kind of process all this, so please, feel very free to take that
whenever and however you need it."

Throughout this speech, Mai's ever-busier hand on Martin's ever-harder cock
had already given both teachers a few non-verbal cues as to how they felt
about the parents' painstakingly tactful proposition. But after exchanging
one of their telepathic looks, Martin said, "Javier, Sakura, we so
appreciate your forthrightness. We'll absolutely take some time to check in
about it all, but just speaking for myself I can say I'm really grateful
for how you've gone about communicating with us, personally and
professionally."

"Totally," added Mai. "We appreciate you both. Should we have another call
soon?"

"Take as much time as you need," said Javier. "Really. We can talk any time
next week that's good."

"Oh, gosh," said Mai, "I think I'm less patient than that. We can get back
with you, say..." she looked at Martin.

"In an hour?" he offered. Mai nodded.

"Works for us!" Javier said. They said their goodbyes with big reassuring
smiles.

*

"Whew!" Mai closed the laptop and fanned herself. "What do you think of
that, huh?"

"I dunno, am I thinking what you're thinking?" asked Martin.

"I think you're thinking what I'm thinking," said Mai, her eyes gleaming
with lusty sparkles.

"Good. But we're also probably thinking with our junk," Martin said. Should
we take a walk and take a little critical distance, like good teaching
method and neuroscience would suggest?"

"Yeah, you're probably right," said Mai.

So they took a walk and tried to have a serious adult conversation. The
upshot was this: yes, it was a potentially weird situation. But Sakura and
Javier were special people and they both trusted them from years of working
closely with them as parents at the school. Yes, shacking up with the
parents in a house full of kids was potentially weird, but it sounded like
the kids were used to it and had even found their parents' partners to be a
positive presence in their lives as "Aunties and Uncles." And yes, they
both found Javier and Sakura totally irresistible, and at the end of the
day not much was going to stand in the way of getting into their bed.

They called the couple back in much less than an hour. The conversation
pretty quickly took on a life of its own and turned to sexual preferences,
the excitement palpable even over Zoom. They discovered that everyone was
very bisexual, and that there was plenty of room in the house and the kids
were very well-trained about respecting "grown-up alone time." Before the
steamy details carried them all away, Sakura suggested they pause the
conversation and let things develop "more naturally, face to face."
Everyone agreed and they said their goodbyes again. The smiles this time
were much less practiced and much wider.