Nigel Ratburn punched the alarm clock and proceeded to get out of the bed, anxious to start another day of teaching at Lakewood Elementary school. Just under two years ago, this nearly proved to not be the case. Nigel had gotten a love letter from one of his students, a kid named Alan Powers, known as "The Brain", one of the smartest students in his class. After rejecting the boy's advances the first time, he gave in the very next time, and thankfully, it never went any further than kissing. Nigel knew what he was doing was wrong morally, spiritually, and legally, and he was prepared to accept the consequences of his actions. Until Alan's parents barged in and told Brain to confess to everything. Nigel was able to keep his job, but the memories of those two weeks still haunted him from time to time.
He counted his blessings that nobody knew about what he and Alan did. He never told the principal, his students, his fellow co-workers, nor the school board. The man was not religious, so he never told any pastor, nor did he pray to any deity at all. If it was found out that he had gotten involved with one of his students, the consequences would be very severe. He would lose his job, he would be sentenced to a prison term, and if he happened to come across the wrong people in prison, he would possibly be killed. And if he survived prison, he would be a lifetime sex-offender, never allowed to be around kids for the rest of his life.