by Susan Thomas
"Mum's out, she does that charity thing today."
"Good, we'll go to my house but before you come in you'd better get the strap."
"The strap! Oh please, does it have to be that? Even Erin is scared stiff of that."
"Yes it does. I have read the manual carefully, not because I expected to use it but out of interest, and it is quite clear that it is only for the most serious issues such as drunken or immoral behaviour or drug taking. It recommends applying the same number of strokes as the age of the girl or boy, although not more."
"But Erin needed her auntie to hold her in place when she got it and even then she jumped up a couple of times. It is horrible. Dad gave me just six and that was bad enough."
"Yes, he has mentioned how fearsome it is and I had already suggested to him that if ever he had to give you the full eighteen (or nineteen or whatever age you were) he simply breaks it down into batches of six with some corner time in between. That should make it easier without reducing the sentence. We'll do that. Now I hate to sound severe but the sooner we start the sooner done."
Jessica felt scared and defeated. As they waked back towards their homes, she was upset with herself because she felt that every time she had been corrected it was just stupid - not the correction itself but what had led to it. She had never really intended to do anything wrong, it just sort of happened and she could have avoided it quite easily.
As Uncle Alan went into his house, she went into hers and, retrieving the strap from where it hung in the utility room, she went out the back door and through the gate to where Uncle Alan had left his back door open for her.
Jess locked the back door without even asking because she didn't want to risk her mum coming in early and walking in during her punishment. She would tell her later on what had happened and get her to promise not to worry Dad until he got back.
Uncle Alan held out his hand, looking surprisingly determined; he wasn't the softie that she and her dad had both supposed. True, he would do anything for her, but now he was faced with dealing with a problem and he wasn't backing out. She handed him the strap, feeling sick and apprehensive.
"Uncle Alan, do you know what I wish?"
"No."
"I wish I had told Pete and all that lot to get lost."
He nodded and simply told her they would go to the living room and not use the breakfast room. When they got in the room, Uncle Alan looked uncomfortable and he hesitated when he spoke.
"Look Jess... you know what you have to do now... but you know I am not doing this..."
He stopped and she realised what was bothering him. When she took her knickers down he didn't want her thinking he was getting a thrill out of it. She'd known him all her life and knew that wasn't true.
"You mean you're not a perv! Yeah I do know that. Where do I put my stuff?"
He pointed and then walked to the window and looked out so she could get ready without him looking. She took off her shoes and then pulled her trousers down and off, her hands shaking so much made every fastening a difficulty. She checked he was staring out of the window and shakily pulled her knickers down and put them with her other things. It was with a very little quivery voice that she announced she was ready.
Uncle Alan did not look happy with what he had set himself to do, but he did look determined and Jess could tell she was really in for a 'good hiding' as her granddad had called it, and felt her eyes well up with tears. She was told to go to the end of the sofa and bend over it with her head and upper body on the sofa. Jess grabbed a cushion to hold onto and into which she could bury her face.
"I'm going to give you six, Jess, and then you can go and stand in the corner. I'll tell you when you may go back for your next six. It will be hands on head as you do for your dad."
Alan had never had to spank, let alone take a strap to, anyone, but when he had read the manual he had tried hitting a cushion with an old belt doubled over, just to see how it was done. Now he was faced with hitting not a cushion but Jessica's bare bottom, and it wasn't a pleasant thought that he would inflict pain.
The arm of the sofa pushed her bottom up nice and high where her soft curves painted a lovely picture, her two shapely legs stretched down to her bare feet which rested on his soft carpet. Because her head and trunk were down on the seat of the sofa, her top had ridden up and her back was exposed right up to the strap of her bra. He felt very odd to be seeing her in this position and felt slightly guilty, but what was he to do? It was better and kinder than Jess having to wait until her dad got back.
He powered the strap down towards the soft skin of her bottom and flinched at the huge sound its impact created. It seemed to him that the blow exploded on her bottom, creating a wave as he pulled it back. Jess cried out and it hurt him to hear her distress. She sort of moved up over the arm into a position that was more awkward for him to hit so he had to ask her to move back.
As he powered the second stroke downwards he noticed the violent red mark of the first blow that was already appearing. This time, her cry of pain was muffled by the cushion as she had buried her face right in it, but her feet beat a small tattoo. He felt sick at what he was doing and he wished that if she was to have corporal punishment he could just spank her with his hand, but the agreement was none of his making.
Jess clearly found each blow with the strap very hard to bear, judging by her constant cries and beating feet. She found holding position hard and he had to keep asking her to move back down, but finally there were six vicious red marks across her bottom, several with nasty raised edges. He told her to get up and go to the corner. She stopped to see to her face with the tissues he had given her and then went to the corner and placed her hands on her head.
Jess was very sore but scared at what was to come; she had managed to take the six without too many problems but she was sure Uncle Alan was hitting her much harder than her dad had. Her bottom already burnt and throbbed and she had twelve more to come. He told her to go back to the sofa and she found herself crying even as she walked into position. She no longer even thought about being half-naked in front of him as the strapping occupied her whole mind.
When the seventh stroke landed Jess knew how awful it was going to be. The previous six hadn't left many places unpunished so it landed across several of the marks left by the first batch. She screeched out loud as the pain hit her brain and lifted herself right up and half onto the sofa such that her feet were clear of the floor.
Her uncle was patient with her and waited until she got back into position, but the eighth stroke made her do it again and he told her off. "Jessica, just stay in place and it will be over quicker, the manual does allow for extra strokes to be given if there is a lack of cooperation, even if they wait until your dad comes home."
She felt scared of the extras so made a huge effort and managed to stay in place for the ninth and tenth strokes, but on the eleventh she first went partly up over the arm and then rolled off onto the floor with a thump that hurt.
"I'm sorry, Jess, but I am making that one extra which means you have two more in this batch. Please get back into position quickly."
Somehow she stayed in place for the twelfth and then the extra stroke and hobbled to the corner, her bottom one huge fiery throb. She thought about how to stay in position and when Alan told her she could resume her position, she asked him if she could lie along the sofa and get her bottom beaten in that position. It was a different action for him, but he could see that with the back of the sofa to help prevent her going one way, and the seat of the sofa to support her, it might be better - so he agreed.
The last six went somewhat better. Although she screeched at each one and her feet beat up and down on the sofa, she was able to clutch the cushion and stay in place. Alan was horrified at the terrible marks on her bottom; it didn't take a doctor to see she would not be sitting easily for a day or two at least. When the very last stroke had been applied, he allowed her a few minutes on the sofa with tissues before going to the corner.
Jess continued sipping her hot, sweet tea and began looking somewhat better. Alan Foster thought how quickly the young recover from things.
"Do you have a penny, Jess?"
Jess looked puzzled but rooted in her college bag for her purse and found a penny and gave it to him. "What's that for?"
"The advice I am going to give you. Free advice is mostly ignored but if you pay for something you value it more and now I am a penny richer."
Jess laughed in spite her soreness. "What's the advice? Don't smoke pot?"
"No, tomorrow find Pete at college as I believe he sort of goes there..."
"He's not on my course but yeah he is at college and I do see him around."
"Well tell him nicely but firmly you are making a fresh start and you don't want to be involved in the things you used to do. Tell him it's not personal but you just don't want to be in any trouble now."
It was a daunting prospect to add to the even worse thought of telling her mum and dad, though she managed all of it and to her surprise her parents were very good about it. Uncle Alan got a nice bottle of malt whisky from her dad in thanks. Pete was cold when he heard her news but didn't get angry, and the links with her old friends died away.
It would be tempting to imagine that on the private website any girl getting a spanking as some called it, or correction as others did, would get the sympathy of the others, but that was not so. It could be an uncomfortable ride for a girl as she was told the blunt truth about her behaviour by the others. It is always easier to see the faults of others than our own.
This was most true of Mel, who tended to paint her father in a terrible light, and make out she was rather an innocent, but the other girls stripped away that pretence for her. They all realised that the biggest problem for her was the unpredictability of what might upset her father or what level of punishment she got. This was true of Susan too but Mel was the most likely to protest so the other girls came up with a plan. The upshot was that Mel presented her father with a copied CD Rom of the punishment manual and asked him his opinion of this American church's work. He got the point as soon as he read it through and she and Susan eventually worked out an agreement with him, though he substituted a leather slipper for the paddle and his own belt for the strap. He also increased both their clothing allowances.
At the end of the year, Jessica did well at the college, where staff were delighted with her as well as Mel and Kat. She reviewed her year and it had been good. She was doing well mainly by hard work and not brilliance but what did that matter. She had made good solid friends, unlike her old ones who still lurched from one piece of trouble to another. Her family and all their friends had a really positive view of her as did the folk at the church, and she felt the website for girls like her was doing really well now with twenty girls in the UK, Ireland and the US sharing their punishments and lives.
She wasn't sure whether it was all due to the Behaviour Pack or not but she was grateful for it, even if she had had some very sore bottoms. One thing she was sure of was that she was no longer Erin's shadow but a person in her own right and whatever her abilities and talents she would make something of her life.
Also by Susan Thomas...
Scenes of Domestic Discipline: Book 1
This first volume of stories by Susan Thomas, based around the common theme of domestic discipline, features the following stories:
Crossing the Line: A shy but attractive lady embarks on a Norwegian cruise featuring the entertainment theme of 'Crossing The Line' of the Arctic Circle, but with an exciting and unexpected twist. At thirty two years of age there were many lines in her life still needing to be crossed, but none more important than getting her first sound and thorough old-fashioned spanking. Unbeknownst to her, however, a handsome traveller from America, with a firm understanding of old-fashioned discipline, also happens to be on board.
Looking Forward to the Morning: Tired and stressed out at work, Sally McNeill decides to take a break and catches the ferry over to France to spend some time in a gite she has rented. Following a rude outburst on the ferry, an unknown gentleman threatens her with a spanking. And when, by coincidence, she later runs into the very same man on her bicycle, it looks like the threat may become a reality.
Conversation: Out for a walk on the moors, Jacob asks Sarah to marry him. Sarah hesitates at first, and when questioned, confesses that she is scared of being spanked by him, having seen how severe Jacob's father is with his family. Jacob assures her he is not like his father, and when Sarah confesses to having broken curfew some years ago, she agrees to let him spank her.
A Day at the Beach: A young teacher tells of her first adult spanking when, during a day out at the beach with her bossy, opinionated boyfriend, she throws a bucket of water over him!
Good Girls: Although never having experienced corporal punishment while growing up, three eighteen-year-old 'good girls' decide to take a holiday in Greece, followed by a year during voluntary work for the church in Africa, before going on to University. In Greece, when a party gets out of hand, disturbing the local farmer and his wife, all three girls end up getting punished with a switch. The narrator later describes the caning and strapping that she receives at the hands of the headmaster and a senior female teacher at the African orphanage where she is volunteering. Later, now enrolled at university, she finds herself participating in the Castigat Project, a self-improvement plan involving corporal punishment, and it doesn't take long before she finds herself subject to a bare bottom spanking, administered by her tutor and his wife.
Scenes of Domestic Discipline: Book 2
This second volume of stories by Susan Thomas, based around the common theme of domestic discipline, features the following stories:
Discipline for Alison: Arriving home from school, Alison realises that her policeman father will not be happy at her rudeness to the headmistress who, in her view, had bullied younger girls. He overrides her objections and delivers a severe strapping, followed later that evening with a traditional reinforcement spanking, after which she is forced to spend time in the corner like a child. Some days later, her mother seems intent on disrupting family relations by detailing events to her grandparents. Roused to respond in a temper, the 23-year-old once more brings down her father's wrath and suffers the consequences.
Honeymoon: Spanked by her father as a child, Kathy knows she wants to marry a man who will be the head of the household, and spank her when necessary. She meets the ideal man and they marry. On honeymoon, in a hotel where domestic discipline is practised, she receives her first spanking from her new husband, followed a few days later by a true disciplinary spanking with public corner time. She knows, though, that she made the right choice of husband.
Always Friends: Kate, who is visiting her friend, Amy, overhears her being spanked and caned by her husband, Peter, and then making love soon afterwards. But as children, Kate and Amy shared everything, and Kate feels that she too should be disciplined by Peter, but it appears that's not all she will share...
When in Rome: When Joy's dad marries a much younger American woman, her family emigrate to the USA. Although over 18, Joy still attends school, and willingly agrees to be paddled if she breaches the rules. What she doesn't realise, however, is that the local customs dictate 'paddled at school, paddled at home'. Her dad doesn't agree to this, but when Joy gets an unanticipated paddling at school, neighbour Mr Groves is only too happy to assist.
Thank You: As a means of
improving her time management, Sue agrees that she will be spanked by Ken if she fails to meet 95% of her appointments and deadlines on time. When she later comes up short of the mark, she finds herself bare-bottomed over Ken's lap and being disciplined by hand, hairbrush and his leather belt.
A Return to High School
Having lost both her parents when she was just sixteen, a sizeable inheritance paves the way for 23-year-old Karen to hire 'parents' and to attend a strict high school in the guise of a 16-year-old. Her new 'parents' prove to be strict, just as she had wished, but as her fantasy of being spanked becomes reality, she finds it far from enjoyable.
In addition to the spankings and occasional mouth-soaping received at 'home', Karen also finds herself on the receiving end of the high school Principal's paddle. Despite the strict regime, Karen and her surrogate parents form a strong, loving bond and all seems to be going well until Dave, a neighbour from her past, recognises her. It turns out, however, that he may be the ideal person to provide the strong disciplinary figure Karen needs in her life. Their relationship develops and Dave proposes, but Karen's answer hinges on three conditions...
Spanking Tales of the Unexpected
This collection of spanking tales, which feature elements of the unexpected in either plot or setting, contains the following stories:
Grandmother's Bed: Sally inherits a house from her Grandmother, but it comes with a strict warning to never sleep in the bed in one of the rooms. Sally ignores the warning and is shocked at events that occur during the night! She sleeps there twice more before realising that she may have discovered a potentially lucrative business opportunity.