EMMA AT SCHOOL 24
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At School
The
next day, Emma and Deborah sat next to each other in the assembly which always
began the new half-term. The
headmaster, Mr Critchley , ran through the usual boring stuff but the two girls,
like the other pupils, began to listen intently when he started to talk about
classroom discipline. "Over
the past year or so, I have had a number of complaints from parents, and a few
from pupils too, about a small number of young people who severely disrupt
lessons on a regular basis."
Several
heads swung round to look meaningfully at Deborah who grinned smugly. No one was in any doubt that if the head had a list, she was
on it.
"Something
that is brought to my attention repeatedly is the severe limitations on the
punishment that teachers are allowed to use in the classroom. Several people, again pupils among them, have suggested that
there are those of you who consider a paddling over your knickers an
insufficient deterrent. It has also
been pointed out that it is difficult to give a maximum spanking of forty
strokes and maintain the flow of the lesson."
There
were murmurs around the hall. It
was beginning to become clear what was coming.
"I
am therefore minded to consider two measures," the head continued.
"The first is to relax the restrictions upon class teachers and to
allow them to dispense bare-bottom punishment and/or to permit the use of the
tawse, and possibly even the cane in the classroom."
This
time there was more than a murmur as girls, and the few boys present, reflected
on the effect that the proposed change would have.
Deborah, looking rather subdued now, had little doubt that the amendments
would affect her. At least one
teacher, Mr Rooney who taught biology, had told her in front of her classmates
that he wished he were allowed to pull down her knickers and cane her bare
bottom. At the time, Deborah had
laughed at him and managed to take twenty strokes with his wooden paddle without
crying out once.
Now
Deborah found herself closing her eyes involuntarily and picturing herself
standing before Mr Rooney's blackboard with her knickers around her thighs and
her skirt held up by a classmate while the teacher (and in her imagination HE
was now laughing) swung a vicious looking cane at her unprotected bottom.
"The
second measure which might be thought appropriate would be to raise the absolute
limit of the punishment available to classteachers from the present level of
40Pp (for those readers who have forgotten - that means 40 strokes of the paddle
through the offender's knickers) to, say, 8Cb and that of house tutors to 10Cb.
This would bring the maximums for all teachers above the present level
for house captains who are, after all, pupils themselves.
"I
am reluctant to take this decision lightly.
After all, we generally try to allow pupils to maintain some dignity when
being punished. This is clearly
difficult if a teenage girl is receiving a caning with her knickers round her
knees in front of her friends. If
the measures are introduced, teachers will be advised to use such punishments
after the rest of the class has left the room, unless they consider immediate
chastisement necessary to maintain good order, and no pupils shall receive the
new punishments unless they have already received at least three paddlings in
the normal way from the teacher concerned in the course of that academic year.
"My
intention is to conduct advisory ballots among staff, parents and pupils on
these measures and to make my decision after reviewing the results. You parents will be sent a ballot form today.
Pupils will be able to vote at evening call tomorrow.
That is all." With his familiar sign off, the assembly was over and
the headmaster walked quickly down the steps and out of the hall, leaving the
other teachers on duty to calm the buzzing now growing in the hall.
"It's outrageous," Deborah was fuming to those around her.
"They can't introduce a rule like that.
Think of what that bastard, Mr Denby would do with it."
Georgina,
one of Emma and Deborah's classmates looked thoughtful.
"Well you would be worried Debs," she smiled.
"It's not as if it's going to affect most of us, is it?"
"You
don't mean you're going to vote for this thing do you?" "Some of us
get pretty pissed off at you and your cronies when lessons get obliterated,
actually," another girl, Melanie, interjected. "I'm going to vote for it!"
The
group separated quickly as the hall cleared.
"God, Emma," Deborah said anxiously as she and her friend left
the hall arm in arm. "We have
GOT to stop this thing!"
Deborah
guessed that it was the parents' ballot which would carry the most weight with
the head and she made her plans accordingly.
The following week, at the special assembly called to announce the head's
decision, she was quietly confident. Being
picked as a volunteer ballot scrutineer had been a wise move, she congratulated
herself.
"Good
morning," the headmaster began. "I
do not plan to drag this assembly out. We
all have lessons to get to. The
ballot results were as follows:
Teachers:
95% in favour of change, 3% against, 2% don't know." There were muted
cheers distinctly audible from the gallery where most of the teachers sat.
"Pupils...."
the head paused for a moment. "Pupils: 54% in favour of change, 42%
against, 4% don't know."
This
time the noise came from the pupils as much as the teachers.
Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas, Deborah thought to herself.
Oh well, there was still the parents' ballot result.
"And
finally," the head intoned, "parents: 86% in favour of change, 7%
against and 7% don't know."
"No!"
Deborah spluttered, pleased to find her tactless outburst covered by the noise
which greeted the announcement.
"I
therefore..." the head continued, motioning for silence.
"I therefore have decided that the rules shall be changed as moved
in the ballot with immediate effect. That
is all."
He
began to march down the steps and then suddenly stopped.
"Ah yes," he said, the hint of a gleam in his eye.
"I should like to see all parental ballot scrutineers in my office
at 6pm sharp. Good morning."
With that he was gone and Deborah felt a growing sickness in the pit of her
stomach. As the sensation grew, she
bolted for the door and just made it to the bushes outside before emptying her
breakfast over the greenery. "What went wrong?" she asked herself.
She had used her position in the scrutineers' team to get to the ballot
papers before they were counted. Painstakingly
she had substituted most of the "yes" votes with "no" votes
using the spare pupils' ballot forms which looked identical.
She couldn't understand the result - unless the head had just made it up?
She'd have to wait until six.
All
through the day, Deborah could sense a feeling of intense satisfaction among the
teachers whose lessons she most often disrupted.
She knew that many of them would use the new rule against her given any
opportunity (there were only, perhaps, two of her regular teachers who had not,
as the new rule required, given her three paddlings during the year) and she
carefully ensured that she gave them no excuse, even swatting up during
lunchtime for her maths test.
Only
one girl in any of Deborah's classes fell foul of the new regulations, a quiet
girl called Sue. Mme Jospin, who
had always (as Deborah knew well) felt the school over-lenient in the area of
classroom punishments, had decided in advance that any pupil who failed to
recite the poem they had been set to learn would pay the new higher penalty and
she told the class so at the outset of the lesson.
She
was rather sad that it was Sue who made the only major hash of her recitation
rather than, for example, Deborah, but Sue had chalked up the necessary three
paddlings (she was, although a pleasant child, very poor at organising her
homework) and Mme Jospin could therefore hardly make an exception.
"Leave
your skirt on your desk and come here, girl!" the teacher demanded.
Tears already beginning to flow, the fifteen-year old did as she was
told, walking up to the front of the class in only her blouse and knickers,
aware of the eyes (four of them male) following her progress with a mixture of
sympathy and relief that it was her and not them facing a humiliating spanking.
"This
is what you should expect in my class in future if your work is
unsatisfactory," the teacher explained, removing a heavy leather tawse from
her desk and cracking it against her hand, sending a shudder through the
watching children and causing an increase in Sue's weeping.
"Stop snivelling, girl," Mme Jospin demanded with irritation.
"There will be plenty to cry about shortly.
Lie over this stool, legs straight out behind you and your hands holding
the rung there." Slowly, the girl took up the precarious position required
by the teacher and lay there helpless as the woman's hands took hold of her navy
blue knickers and slipped them in a businesslike way down to her thighs.
Then she took up the tawse in her right hand, bent Sue's right arm behind
her back with her left and told the class that six hard strokes would be the
normal punishment for shoddy work.
"You
will count them, please Sue."
WHACKKK!
"One!" the girl screeched, a bright red stripe immediately
appearing where the leather had struck.
Deborah
could think of only three girls, besides her and Emma, who had been subjected to
house publics. One or two pupils,
she knew, had been beaten by their house captains or by housemasters or
housemistresses in a semi-public way - bullies, for example, were usually caned
before their victims. Yet here was
a generally well-behaved girl being subjected to a humiliating and extremely
painful bare-bottom strapping in front of a whole class for poor homework!
There would certainly soon be a great increase in the number of pupils
whose bare bottoms had been displayed to her (or his) fellow students.
Displayed and well-reddened!"
Sue
was not made to keep her bare bottom on display after her beating which meant
that her ordeal was less awful than it might have been.
She could not, however, stem the flow of her tears - of embarrassment
rather than simply pain - before the end of the lesson as she sat at her desk
next to Deborah.
At
six o'clock, Deborah, along with her fellow scrutineers, were summoned into the
headmaster's office. He looked
extremely stern and all five girls, and the one boy, were understandably
nervous. "I imagine you were
all rather surprised at the result of this ballot, were you?" he asked.
The
youngsters nodded in unison.
"Why?"
"Well,"
Nigel explained in a trembling voice, "the results we got were...
different."
"Yes,"
the head agreed. "Fortunately,
I discovered by chance that the papers had been tampered with."
He stopped. "You look
surprised, Deborah?"
"Of
course." She felt herself
reddening. "Who would do that.
I mean, how?"
"Let's
begin with how, shall we?" the head suggested.
"I was rather shocked by the percentages you gave me, so I had a
look through the papers. I noticed
that some papers were a different size to others and a little investigation
persuaded me that some of the papers purporting to be parents' votes were, in
fact, marked on the ballot papers which the pupils used.
What happened to the real papers, I can only guess at.
I was easily able to remail the ballot explaining that there had been an
administrative hitch. I then took
the precaution of counting the votes myself.
"As to who? Well, I am
certain of one thing only. One or
more of you six must have been responsible as you were the only people who had
access to the papers. I assume that
you agree with that conclusion?" The six looked at each other in alarm, but
none could refute the head's reasoning.
"In
that case," the tall man facing them explained, "I would like the
person or persons concerned to own up now.
You have one minute." With that the headmaster left his study and
heard with satisfaction the row which broke out behind him.
"What
if it's not one of us?" Deborah asked.
"What if someone else got into the room?"
Nigel
eyed her suspiciously. "You
know it was one of us. Mr Critchley
knows it. All we need is for
whoever it was to own up cos I'm not taking the rap for them."
A
minute later, when Mr Critchley returned, the argument was still raging. "Enough!" he boomed.
"You will return at the same time tomorrow.
We will discuss the matter no further tonight.
Each of you strip, please." "But... everything?" Juliette
stammered.
"Everything."
"Sir,"
Nigel began. "I have an
idea..."
"Not
now," the head shot back. Tomorrow
you can all discuss it. For now, I
want your clothes off."
The
six knew better than to argue with the headmaster.
As Deborah watched, Louise slipped her hands beneath her skirt and slid
her knickers right down to her ankles, stepping out of them and then unbuttoning
her blouse. As she herself began to
undress, Deborah wondered whether it was worse for Nigel or for the girls.
As he flushed red and pulled off his boxer shorts, however, she
found her answer. Surrounded
by five nubile, naked girls, physiology had got the better of him and the boy
stood trying hard to hide his erection with his hands.
"Hands
on your heads," Mr Critchley ordered, each of the six abandoning their
attempted modesty.
"I
am going to give each of you a simple spanking this evening," he explained.
"Tomorrow's punishment will be more severe and we will continue on a
daily basis until I get a confession. Louise,
bend down and touch your toes!"
As
Deborah looked on, her neighbour bent right down, her pussy (Louise knew)
perfectly displayed for Nigel, and her bottom awaiting the headteacher's hand.
Thirty
times he smacked her, the girl's cries a mixture of embarrassment and sharp
pain, before sending her to stand in one corner of the room.
"Now you, Deborah."
Deborah
adopted the familiar position, grasping her ankles and trying to relax her
bottom.
SMACKK!
The headteacher's practised aim was perfect and his power formidable.
He often handspanked pupils rather than taking up his cane and girls and
boys who had been spanked by him knew they had been spanked. As the blows landed, Deborah gave in to the growing heat and
began to shriek at each smack until the final blow was landed.
"Right, in that corner," Mr Critchley told her, pointing to
another corner of the room.
"Nigel.
On my desk please on all fours."
Deborah
guessed that the head had chosen this position on purpose to ensure his
embarrassment matched that of the girls, his hard cock protruding from his
well-developed body. Deborah risked
turning her head to watch as the head (who had his back to her) raised his hand
to punish the boy with the same thirty spanks.
She rarely got to see boys having their bottoms smacked (apart from her
brother) and didn't want to miss this opportunity.
Nigel made delightful squeals of pain as his bare bottom was soundly
spanked and Deborah noticed that his erection was, if anything, still growing.
She turned back to the wall as the head reached twenty-five and only
heard the boy being ordered to stand against the wall near her.
As Mr Critchley focused on his next assignment, Deborah and Nigel
exchanged glances, Deborah smiling at the boy's cock standing up against the
cold wall. To the sound of Jill getting her bottom smacked, she closed
her eyes and slipped a hand between her thighs, pushing her tits into the wall
and making it clear to Nigel what she was doing.
Despite their predicament, and her sore bottom, the whole scene was
sexually charged for her and she knew that Nigel would be ready for a good fuck
afterwards. She maintained her show
during Christina's spanking and came quietly as the thirtieth smack approached,
opening her eyes to find an extremely appreciative Nigel looking on and stroking
his hardness. "Juliette, I'll
have you over my knee, I think," Mr Critchley said next.
"Surprise, surprise," Deborah thought.
Juliette was undoubtedly one of the most beautiful girls in the school
and Deborah figured she'd make the same decision in the head's position.
He sat with his back to her once again so Deborah was able to watch the
naked girl approach him and allow him to guide her over his lap, her perfectly
proportioned behind seeming to Deborah to find its most divine position as
Juliette consented to be punished for a crime she knew she did not commit.
In fact, Juliette had never received a bare bottom spanking for anything
she had done in the school. She was
an extremely well mannered girl whose beauty was, in this respect, her downfall. She had the kind of body people, male and female, wanted to
undress and the kind of bottom people wanted desperately to spank.
And many people, despite the girl's good behavior, nevertheless found
reasons to undress and spank her. On
this occasion, Juliette at least recognized that she was being spanked as fairly
as most of her fellow scrutineers, although she couldn't help reflect, as the
headteacher's hard hand began to fall heavily on her firm buttocks, that this
chastisement had resulted from her genuine desire to help the school by
volunteering for the duty which one of those present had clearly abused.
"Ohhh!
Nooohh! Pleasssse!" she
cried as her bottom seared with the spanking's heat, wondering if she should
admit to the fraud just to avoid the promised series of punishments.
Once
he had finished spanking Juliette (and, if the truth be told, looking forward to
the chance of spanking her again in twenty-four hours) the head called the other
five around, leaving the weeping girl over his knee.
During her punishment she had kicked her slim legs around and they now
lay deliciously parted, pink pussy lips pouting at Nigel and Deborah, both of
whose greedy eyes hungrily devoured the sight.
"Tomorrow,
six pm," Mr Critchley said simply. "Let's
hope we have a solution by then. You may get changed."
"Admit
it - I'm not going through that again!" Nigel panted breathlessly into
Deborah's ear thirty minutes later as he drove his aching cock deep into her
behind the school chapel, leaning up against the wall with her legs wrapped
tightly around him.
"And
get a birching?" she answered, her climax nearing. "Look, we all know it was you - you told us!" he
spat, pushing himself in as far as possible in the final thrusts as their
breathing quickened. "And that
makes you as guilty as me, doesn't it?" Deborah moaned, sure she could
sense the warm splashing of cum inside the condom as they clung onto each other
in this moment of intense pleasure.
"Why
don't you let Mr Critchley decide that," he asked her.
"Think about owning up. It's
not fair on the rest of us," he continued as they pulled their clothing
back into place."
"You
knew what I was doing and you did nothing about it," Deborah replied,
squeezing the boy's cock affectionately through his trousers.
"We're in it together!"
She
kissed his mouth once more and then was gone, Nigel following after a discrete
couple of minutes.
The
next evening, the six again made their separate ways to the headmaster's house
and rang the bell, each of them understandably nervous about the fate that
awaited them. Instead of ushering
them into his study this time, Mr Critchley took them into the sitting room and
explained that he would see them individually this time... unless any of them
had anything to tell him?
"Sir,"
Juliette said, her voice shaking and her eyes full of tears. "It wasn't me, sir.
Really."
"Well,
I'm afraid that if that is true then because of someone else's failure to tell
the truth, you are going to finish the day with a very sore backside.
Why don't you come in first."
With
that, he took Juliette's hand and led her into his study, closing the door
behind him.
"Come
on, Deborah," Christina began as soon as the latch had clicked into place.
"Own up or we all get it!"
"Why
me?" Deborah demanded hotly.
"Because
you're the one who did it!" Louise snapped.
"Yes, I know we were there and didn't say anything.
And I'm prepared to admit that and take what's coming to me.
But you can't expect us to go through this every day."
The
conversation was stopped by the sound of a spanking next door - or to be more
accurate, by the sound of a bare bottom being repeatedly whacked with a solid
object and a pitiful voice begging for mercy in between cries of anguish.
As
soon as Mr Critchley had closed the door, Juliette had started begging him not
to make her take all her clothes off. He
had not, in fact, planned to strip the six, but her pleas had the opposite
effect to that intended. "Very
well," he said, "just strip to your underwear for now.
You may keep your shoes on."
Juliette's
face registered the despair in her heart at the words and she began to argue.
"No
arguments. Now do as you're told
girl before I increase your punishment!"
Obediently,
the youngster removed her blouse and skirt, neatly laying them out on the desk
as Mr Critchley indicated while he walked out into the middle of the room,
pulled up a chair and sat down. "You
have rather a lot to learn about discipline, young lady," he began, leaning
back in his chair thoughtfully and looking over the lovely sight of the fourteen
year-old in knickers and a vest, her young breasts not yet large enough to
require a bra (although she usually wore one, of course!) "Are you spanked
at home?" the head asked.
"No.
Well, just once."
"I
see. Well you are going to be
spanked very soundly now." He reached out next and took hold of Juliette's
knickers, pulling the waistband away from her tummy and tugging them down.
Juliette was mortified at having her knickers removed in this way by the
headmaster, flushing as he exposed her young pussy and finally dropped the now
useless garment to the floor.
"Fetch
me the table tennis bat from the desk please." Stepping out of her
knickers, Juliette walked over to the table to retrieve the bat, trying to take
small steps to avoid an even more explicit display.
When she returned, Mr Critchley took the bat from her and stood the half
naked girl in front of him, enjoying the deep red flush in her cheeks.
Then, without warning, he wrapped his arms around her knees and lifted
her into the air, resting her knees on his own lap so that her chest lay on his
shoulder.
In
this awkward, but intimate, position, he began to paddle the girl with the table
tennis bat, whacking her naked rump over and over again and delighting in the
sound of her cries as she squirmed exquisitely in his lap.
The more Juliette squealed and wriggled, of course, the harder the
headmaster spanked her - this time not ceasing until he had delivered fifty
strokes with the bat.
When
he had finished, Mr Critchley stood the still sobbing young girl in front of him
once again.
"Next
time I call you for punishment, I don't want to hear pleas to not do this or
that - is that understood?"
"Yes,
Sir," the girl snivelled.
"Good.
Dress quickly and send in Deborah for me please." Outside, the
others had counted the fifty smacks with falling hearts, and of course Deborah
didn't even have an opportunity to ask about the implement used.
Not that it would have been valuable information, as it turned out.
"Good
evening, Deborah."
"Good
evening, sir."
"I
think we'll have everything off from the waist down please."
"Yes,
sir."
Deborah
made short work of undressing, wanting to get things over with, but Mr Critchley
was in no hurry. He stood her
before him in the centre of the room, aware of her embarrassment at standing
naked before him and quite happy to enhance it.
Finally,
the headmaster dragged a dining chair into the middle of the room and picked up
a leather-bottomed slipper from the mantelpiece.
"I'm going to give you a taste of my slipper today, Deborah,"
he told her.
"I'd
like you to come and lay over this chair, sideways... that's right.
Yes.
Good girl. You're going to
get fifty strokes. Are you
ready?"
"I
guess so," Deborah replied and was rewarded at once by the first blow.
The only slipperings Deborah had had in the past had been from dormitory
monitors and had never been particularly painful.
This was different though.
Mr
Critchley's slipper was heavy and hard. It
fell upon Deborah's bare cheeks with as much of a thud as a crack and, before
long, her bottom was bright red and the others could hear her screams from the
next room. "Serves her
right!" Christina said.
"Yeah,"
Juliette agreed. "I'm not
going through that again tomorrow night, I tell you.
If she doesn't own up, I'll tell Mr Critchley" Another twenty four
hours passed, yet for all six the time between seemed to contract into nothing
and they found themselves back once more facing their headmaster across his
study desk. None of them failed to
notice the long, thick cane lying on his desk in front of him.
"Does anyone have anything to say before I begin?" he asked.
Mr Critchley already had a good idea as to the main culprit and this was
confirmed by the sly but noticeable glances shot at Deborah by the others.
Still, they remained silent.
"Very
well. I am going to cane each of
you. You will receive six strokes
today, seven tomorrow and so on until I find out who is responsible for the
crime. Christina, you can go first
today. The rest of you stand where
you are and watch."
Christina
gave Deborah a last evil stare and then stepped forwards.
She reached down to her skirt on Mr Critchley's instruction and unzipped,
letting the garment fall to the floor. She then allowed the headmaster to walk her over to the
wicker chair in the corner of the room by the packed bookshelves and bend her
over it.
Finally,
the man took hold of the girl's cotton knickers and drew them down to her
thighs, placing one hand on her back and raising the cane high in the air.
"No!
Stop!"
Mr
Critchley froze, his arm still poised to strike.
It was Deborah.
"Yes?"
The
girl was weeping profusely but managed to collect herself.
"It
was me... I did it."
"I
see. Alone?"
"Yes."
"And
the rest of you knew nothing about this."
There
was an awkward silence for a moment. The
headmaster stood Christina up and told her to face Deborah, the girl flushed
with the conflicting emotions of the moment, and with her pussy on display.
"Did you know about what Deborah was doing, Christina?"
"Yes,
sir."
"And
why did you not report it?"
"I
didn't... I mean, you just don't tell on people."
"Did
you think what she was doing was wrong?"
"Well,
like I knew it was wrong - but I kind of wanted her to do it."
"Does
that describe the situation for the rest of you?" he demanded.
Louise,
Nigel and Jill nodded.
"Juliette?"
"I
didn't want her to," she whispered.
"But
you didn't tell?"
Juliette
shook her head.
"I
see. Does anyone think that they
have been unfairly punished so far?"
No
one spoke.
"Does
anyone think they've been sufficiently punished?"
"That's
not... it's not over?" Juliette stuttered.
"Juliette, you knew what was happening and did nothing to stop it.
That makes you an accessory. Deborah
herself is going to receive an extremely severe punishment.
The rest of you are still going to get a very good taste of my cane.
Is there anyone who thinks I'm being too harsh?" This time Juliette
kept quiet. Deborah's eyes had
filled with tears at the first mention of what was going to happen to her.
He hadn't said so yet, but she felt sure she was headed for the birching
tower. "Good.
The five of you who were not directly involved need not return tomorrow.
However, you will each receive a full ten strokes on the bare bottom this
evening. Christina, get back in
position please." Deborah watched as Christina presented her upturned
behind once more and as this time, the headmaster's raised arm completed the
first stroke, the cane whistling through the air and cracking loudly against her
cheeks. The waiting pupils had to
stand still and listen to her screams of anguish, knowing they would soon take
her place, their bottoms to be crudely striped in the same way that Christina's
was becoming now. Again, Mr
Critchley left Juliette till last, Deborah not being punished with the others
this time.
"I
think, Juliette," the teacher began, "it is necessary to pursue you
punishment in a slightly different way, isn't it?" "Yes, sir,"
the girl answered tearfully but determined to do the right thing.
I'm sorry about not taking my punishment properly before and..."
"Yes?"
"And
I think I should receive my caning in the nude." "Good girl," Mr
Critchley agreed, watching then with the same fascination as her fellow pupils
as the delightful teenager slowly disrobed.
Soon her perfectly proportioned breasts were freed and then she was
slipping her tiny knickers down to leave herself completely naked.
"Stand there for a moment now while I talk to Deborah about her
punishment."
Juliette's
familiar blush returned instantly as she realised that the headteacher intended
to leave her standing in the nude in front of the others and not to cane her
immediately. She tried to
concentrate on what the man was saying.
"Deborah,
I'm not going to expel you or suspend you for a number of reasons: principally
because I'm not convinced that there would be any useful purpose served by doing
so, and also because I think that such things are better dealt with through
corporal punishment. Do you know
what punishment you are to receive?"
Tears
flooding down her cheeks now, Deborah nodded.
"Well?"
"You're...
you're going to birch me," she said in a hoarse voice. "That's correct. You
will receive the same ten strokes as your colleagues, but with the birch.
You may nominate a friend to be with you.
Do you know who that will be?"
"Emma
Denning," Deborah replied.
"Very
well, I will send for her. You will
sleep in the tower tonight and receive your punishment at 9am tomorrow.
Do you have any questions?" "No," Deborah answered.
At least she would have Emma there to comfort her, if comfort in such
circumstances was possible. She
closed her eyes. People talked
about birching as if it was the death penalty.
At that moment, it felt like it.
"Now
Juliette, I'd like you to bend over this sofa arm for your beating please.
That's right, just here."
Mr
Critchley manoeuvred the girl gently into exactly the posture in which he wanted
her, and then lined up the cane across her raised flanks.
"One," he said, and brought the cane through the air with a
swish to explode in a line of excruciating pain across the girl's right cheek.
"Ouuuuuwww!" she screamed, thinking she would die before ten of
those had been delivered.
"Two!"
Again
the cane flashed through the air and again a thin red line rose up on her naked
flesh, this time both buttocks sharing the rod's wrath.
"Three!"
"Nooooooooo!!"
Juliette cried. This was the most awful thing that had ever happened to her.
How could a school still use this kind of torture?
"Four!"
CRACKK!
"Please
stop!!" she yelled. "Please,
I can't take any more!" "Very well," Mr Critchley said gently.
"I will stop there and you may return at the same time tomorrow to
receive the final six." "Oh, no!
Please, I can't take more tomorrow, I....OW!!" The last sound
resulted from a sharp slap of the headteacher's hand across the naked girl's
tender rump.
"Do
not argue with me girl. You will be
back here at six tomorrow and you can expect an additional measure for your
rudeness. Understood?"
"Yes, sir," Juliette answered, rubbing her throbbing bottom and
feeling very silly for having got herself into even more trouble.
"Right, get up and dress. Deborah,
you may make a list of what you need for an overnight stay, then you will
accompany me to the tower."