“Hi Eric,” I said.
“Oh hi um, Betty, how are you, isn’t it a nice day?” Eric stammered awkwardly.
I smiled. “Eric, it’s raining and cold today.”
Eric blushed. “Um yeah, so it is, it is raining, I forgot,” he said, me feeling him looking at my breasts today encased in a blue sweater, a blue knee-length skirt on my lower half.
“So calculus first up,” I said. “Did you manage to work out question nine? I only guessed it, I couldn’t make head nor tail of it.”
“Um yes, I mean no, I mean I don’t know,” said Eric.
Again, I laughed. “You don’t seem very sure.”
Eric stared at his brown leather shoes. “Um yeah.”
Adjacent to these lockers was the high school’s main girls’ bathroom. It was a long bleak narrow room with 50 toilet cubicles, 30 along one wall, and 20 against the other, and a long row of sinks. The partitions and stall doors weren’t designed to give the girls maximum privacy, there was a fair bit of space underneath, but there was one toilet few girls dared to use.
This was the first cubicle in the row of 30, and the problem was that the external door of the girls’ toilet was always kept ajar during the day, and this first cubicle was visible to anyone passing by. Therefore if a girl was sitting on this toilet, any person who glanced in could see her feet and her lowered panties under the door and partition. Girls avoided it like the plague, and I don’t think the school would have had to change the toilet roll in there since 1918 due to lack of use.
I turned and indicted the female toilets. “I just need to go to the bathroom, so I’ll see you for calculus first period.”
“Yeah, see you then Betty,” Eric said, giving me a shy wave.
I went into the girls’ room. It wasn’t really a place I relished visiting. Peeing was okay, but if I needed to empty my bowels it wasn’t a nice experience. Reality dictated though that I had to do it once a day at least, often twice and more when I was on my period. Actually periods were another reason these girls bathrooms were not my favorite place, each stall contained an open bin in which menstruating girls placed their used sanitary pads when changing them. Therefore when you went in here to go to the toilet and looked into the bins, you could see the soiled napkins of girls who had been in here earlier in the day.