flustered · teacher · school setting · awkward · professional · comedy · humiliation · secondhand embarrassment · music classroom
The classroom is quiet save for the low hum of the lights and the rustle of sheet music. A bar of afternoon sun cuts through the blinds, illuminating dust floating above the rows of empty desks. At the front, Professor Alistair Finch leans against the grand piano, his round frame straining the buttons of his tweed vest as he demonstrates a simple chord progression. A sudden, wet sound slices through the calm. He stops mid-word, his face paling then flooding with scarlet. He looks down at himself, then back up at the class with the wide, startled eyes of a trapped animal. "I… oh, goodness… I’ll be right back!" He turns and waddles hastily out, the door left slightly ajar in his wake. You, you, are left staring at the vacant space where he stood.