Monday 31 October 2011

Tom's School Days 7

You may find the pace in this story too slow, but this is the way I have written it, so you just have to wait. Maybe I should interrupt the story with something else? We'll see.


'Maybe I shall get ready,' Stephanie said in a way that Tom understood to be meant as demurely.

He wasn't sure it was, but it had a strange effect on him, anyway.

'Yes, please, do that.'


The crowd fell silent, and Tom had to turn and look to be sure they hadn't gone away. When he turned back to Stephanie he was overcome by a sudden redness of his cheeks, and a dryness in his throat.


Stephanie was not leaning over the chair, which he had expected. Instead she was folding her skirt and putting it to the side.

'I thought it better this way, it will only fall down. Do you have the cane?'

Ye...yes,' he stammered, and went over to his desk and picked up a sturdy cane he had got from the porters lodge.

'Good,' Stephanie said, seemingly still in command of proceedings.


Stephanie turned towards Tom, and waited. Tom said nothing, his gaze was fixed on Stephanie's bare legs.

'Oh, maybe I have to do something about the shirt,' she said, 'it's hanging too low.'

She pulled it up a bit and knotted it in front. Now Tom was not just staring at her legs, but also her very red knickers. The crowd was silent.


Stephanie stood and waited. Tom knew he was supposed to do something.

'This is the moment when you ask if I am ready, and then tell me to prepare myself,' she said and smiled.

'Oh,' he said, hesitated, 'oh, I see. Are you ready?'

'Yes.'

'Please, prepare yourself.'


Without much hesitation, Stephanie took hold of her very red knickers and pulled them down to her knees. There was heard a collective gasp at her action.


She then turned to the chair, leaned over it, grabbed the armrests with her hands, much like Amanda had done, the evening before, but with the difference that Stephanie was not wearing a skirt.


It was time for Tom. He held out the cane, as he moved closer to her. The crowd was still dead silent. Stephanie stood in a way that her bottom was on full display for the eager onlookers. Tom placed the cane against her bottom, pulled it back and let it fly.


There was a sigh from the crowd as the sound of cane against soft skin rang out.

'I think,' Stephanie said, 'that you will have to do better. Mr Allen will inspect me, you know.'


Tom gave her another lash.

'Oh,' she gasped, 'much better, but that one will count as a half in Mr Allen's book.'


Tom was embarrassed and angered by her reproaching him. The next lash was hard and firm, and he heard a gasp, not from Stephanie, but from the audience. The stripe across her buttocks was sharp and red. Stephanie drew herself up, looked to the ceiling, lifted one leg and let out the air in her lungs.

'One,' she said.


Tom continued. He knew now how hard he had to hit for it to be appropriate. He had to brace himself for it and took his time to focus.


The crowd was with him. They gasped, sighed, and cheered when a particularly good one hit home. Stephanie moved her feet, wriggled her body, shook her bottom, threw her hair, and wailed. She counted the strokes out loud.


When they had come to fifteen, Tom was exhausted. He stopped for a while, looked at Stephanie's bottom, which had turned a bright and angry red, then at the audience, noticing that one of the girls in the crowd was the girl called Tamara, whose knickers had caused so much hilarity in the Club common room.


He knew he had to get on with the job. And when he reached twenty, he was again taken by that unusual elation that had swept through him when punishing Amanda Tilly. He got careless and a stroke hit Stephanie's thighs, and the crowd cheered.




9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Janice, my dear,

How gratifying to see that you have been busy while I was away... almost as busy as Young Tom.

I agree with the comment that 60 with the cane seems rather harsh -- too apt to draw blood or cause permanent marks; perhaps 20 would have been sufficient, IF preceded by a good paddling to prepare the ground, so to speak. Just a thought; you are the author, which makes this world (and all the characters in it) yours to reward and punish to your wicked heart's delight.

Regards,

Wystan

Janice said...

How careless of me, posted a comment from somebody else's account (removed now), how sloppy. But here it is, how it should be:

Dear Wystan, perhaps the girls in this school have developed very thick skin, or something, or maybe the cane is of such perfect quality to allow the delivery of sixty strokes without breaking the skin...or maybe they are not human, but a strange kind of aliens who have a very different kind of doing things...

J

Anonymous said...

Aliens? Now THAT would be different. Speaking purely for myself, I prefer for the young ladies to be supremely sensitive to touch, both in pleasure and in pain. I would like their mental states -- of joy, of humiliation, of desire -- to be amplified commensurately. But that is just me...

Regards,

W

Janice said...

Dear Wystan, I understand what you mean. Sensitive but with endurable skin, perhaps? Well, who cares? It is fiction, and in fiction things may be exactly how you imagine them, just the right amount of excruciating pain, but without any serious harm done, and that kind of thing.

J

Paul said...

Janice, oh, you artful wench.
You stopped just when it was getting interesting.
The girls in this school are, to say the least, unusual.
I love the way that Stephanie talks Tom through a difficult situation.
As far as I'm concerned your story is good enough to stand on it's own merits.
You write at the speed that you are comfortable with, that is all that matters.
Love and warm hugs,
Paul.

Sir Andrew said...

The slow pace attentuates the apprehension and excitement, so I consider it appropriate.

Here is what I imagine next, as contrasted with what the author next intends to do. The former is, perhaps, a pleasant possible digression, while the latter is the reality of the fiction as determined by the author:

The reaction of the crowd to what Tom considered to be an errant stroke, in conjunction with the feelings of elation which swept through him, led him to experiment with a new idea.

He positioned the cane high across the backs of Stephanie's thighs and let it rest there for a moment. Stephanie trembled visibly while the crowd gasped in anticipation.

He drew back the cane with frightening force and left a vibrant red stroke across the tops of her tender thighs. Stephanie's howl of excruciating pain and labored effort to muster the strength to intone "Twenty-one," left victim and audience with no doubts regarding who was currently in charge.

The next thirty-nine strokes promised to take Stephanie, Tom, and the audience on a thrilling journey.

Good writing inspires all sorts of interesting diversions.

Carry on, Janice.

Anonymous said...

Janice, you are fantastic......

I love your story.

Tamara

Janice said...

Dear Paul, 'artful wench', never been called that before...should I take it as a compliment? And, yes, Stephanie is in control, isn't she?

Dear Sir Andrew, I hope I didn't disappoint you with the continuation. I like your suggestion, thanks...smiles.

Dear Tamara, *bows and blushes. Thank you.

Hugs

Janice

Sir Andrew said...

Dear Janice,

I am gratified that you enjoyed my suggestion and you are most welcome.

I was in no way disappointed by your continuation. It is for the author to determine the pitch, intensity, and direction of the story.

I enjoy imagining all sorts of directions and tangents when I read good writing. I have mentally and emotionally summoned alternative outcomes even for Gatsby.

I would not have myself influence Fitzgerald, nor do I presume to tamper with your direction.

Well done, Janice