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Saturday is Contributors day! …A Game of Bowls ~ The next story from Robbie
He is currently writing story number 3
Story Three…
Anna and I – Part One
I have already introduced you to my friend Anna. She told you her story, and now it is time to tell you mine. Anna and I had both been pupils of the formidable Miss Kenworthy, a beautiful and caring teacher who loves her pupils but is extremely strict if she is displeased and is a firm advocate of corporal punishment, which she (still) administers with great finesse. Anna had been punished this way several times, but I managed to escape its more severe forms despite a few close shaves. More recently, Anna was caught entering Miss Kenworthy’s study and was threatened with the birch by Miss Kenworthy’s beady-eyed secretary, who had caught her red-handed. Anna failed to report for her punishment, but during a conversation I had with her I persuaded her to return to the school, even though it was several years later, and take her punishment. After all this time it would be unlikely to be a physical punishment.
But I was wrong. For Miss Kenworthy the ‘unfinished business’ was extremely – in fact obsessively – troubling, and Anna was birched again. I think Anna actually wanted this outcome, and agreed to be disciplined. Miss Kenworthy took her into the school garden, where she had been punishedbefore as determined by a “game of bowls”, Anna picking slips at random from glass bowls. Now the willows were flourishing. She cut two switches to form a birch and gave Anna fifty strokes across her bare bottom. Through her tears, Anna thanked Miss Kenworthy and admitted that she haddeserved the punishment.
After the birching and hands-on-head corner time Miss Kenworthy relaxed a little and asked Anna about me. She said that I was one of her ‘escapees’, pupils who had escaped the cane during their time at the school. Then she surprised Anna – and in due course me – by saying that I was the only escapee left who had not been ‘remedied’ (i.e. punished retrospectively) and she would like to “see me about it”(another euphemism). What it amounted to was that Miss Kenworthy wanted me – as Anna had done — to report to her now for the supposedly missed canings. I respected Miss Kenworthy deeply, and had profited from her teaching, and now I felt strangely willing to comply, even though I suspected that she might be reinventing the past.
I contacted Miss Kenworthy and arranged to call on her at the school the following week. When I arrived I was taken up to her study and told to wait outside. After a while, just as had happened to Anna on her visit, Miss Kenworthy arrived down the passage and greeted me.
“Hello Florence, come in.” She used to call me Flo, but I always preferred the full form. My parents loved the Renaissance city, and were delighted to have a daughter to name after it. To me it has always felt like a responsibility.
Her manner was disconcertingly engaging – Miss Kenworthy always concealed her strictness behind an outwardlyenchanting composure. She opened the door and ushered me in. There was no sign of the glass bowls, but reminders of her “methods” (as she called them) lay about the room – as if theywere in constant use (which they probably were, even now).
Miss Kenworthy looked up at me; she did not ask me to sit and it felt more natural to me to stay standing. I was spontaneously playing the submissive role.
“I am glad to see you again Florence. Has Anna spoken to you about this? When I birched her recently it was a deeply satisfying experience for both of us. You know she was one of my escapees, and now you are the last. I would like to put that right, but to do so requires me to enrol you temporarily as a pupil and to treat you as such. Would you agree to that Florence?”
I asked her what that would involve and by way of answer she took a book out of her desk drawer, which I recognised as her punishment book, the book in which she recorded girls’ misdemeanours and the punishments they received. If I now agreed to pupil status it would mean a sore bottom by the end of the day.
“There are several entries in the book which called for punishment you never received Florence. Homework not done, missed detentions, and one especially egregious case of discourtesy to a tutor. If you are willing, we can put this right but it will require more than a single punishment. This would of course involve you staying here at the school — the dormitories and punishment rooms are quiet at this time.”
She paused and looked harder at me. “But for the birch – yes Florence, the birch – it would be necessary to use the detention room, where there is more space, and I would also want there to be witnesses. I must advise you too that it is still school policy to administer all corporal punishment – not just the birch – naked from the waist down, and I intend to follow this policy in your case.”
“Naked”, so much more sensual than “bare”, gave me a tingle of anticipation.
By this time Miss Kenworthy’s language and manner clearly conveyed a presumption that the punishment would go ahead; it was a case of “will” and “must” and not “would” and “might”. What she envisaged was an extension to my school life enabling the resolution of incomplete entries in the punishment book.
I asked Miss Kenworthy if I might see the book. Sure enough there were entries for offences for which corporal punishment was obligatory, but for which none had been entered. (The punishment was entered at the time it was administered.) They looked genuine, and there was no way they could have been added spuriously at some later date.
“I remember some of those, Miss Kenworthy.”
“So do I, Florence. And now comes the reckoning. I expect Anna told you about our game of bowls, did she? When she came back to see me recently she shocked me by suggesting that I had fixed the lottery to ensure the strictest punishment that time.”
“And did you Miss Kenworthy? Did you fix it?”
“Just a little, perhaps. But Anna got the punishment she deserved, and another punishment for her accusation about me. And now I think you are making the same accusation, Florence.”
It was true of course, and it left me feeling awkward.
“But things are different now and you are different. You and Charlotte were – are – my favourite pupils and like all favourites you are most in need of strictness. Now I want thisopportunity. I think we both want this opportunity.”
She gave me a look of such intense longing that I knew I must comply. We had reached that point in the reprimand when mywhole body — not just the part most directly affected — reacted with a shiver of anticipation. The extreme tensionbetween us could only be resolved by complete submission to her in a punishment room.
“I am going to leave you for a few moments to think this over, Florence. When I return I hope we can finalise the arrangements and draw up a programme for you.”
Miss Kenworthy hurried out of the room, leaving me in a daze of excitement. By the time she returned I knew that I wanted this programme to go ahead as much as she did.
My look as much as my words conveyed this to her.
“Thank you, Florence. Now I will take you to matron to be checked over. Then I am going to administer twelve strokes of the cane. Not too severe – but enough to leave light stripes.” (Miss Kenworthy’s light stripes were always quite beautiful, and always produced tears.)
There followed a long pause, as Miss Kenworthy’s smile broadened.
“Then tomorrow, I will birch you. Severely.”
“Just like Anna?”
“Harder than Anna. … But you know that.”
The shock of the last words – spoken almost as an afterthought – left me feeling dizzy. I did know it. But I managed to retain some dignity. We completed the formalities of my pupil status and subjection to school rules and discipline. Miss Kenworthy presented me with a short form of agreement admitting liability for the punishments and consenting to punishment “as the headmistress sees fit”.
Miss Kenworthy gathered up the papers and as she did so her face manifested that wistful look of hers that I had only ever seen when she was contemplating a punishment.
“Anna called this bullshit, Flo. She regretted it when she felt the birch.”
Anna had not told me that, and I wondered which of them to believe. Anna was quite capable of such a remark, and so was Miss Kenworthy of imagining it in the present circumstances. Actually Anna was right, the paperwork meant nothing, but it added a frisson to the proceedings and I kept my counsel this time.
“Your punishments will be severe but reasonable, I will not abuse the trust you are putting in me, but you will appreciate that an act of complete submission on your part is essential.”
A nod from me sealed the arrangement. I was deeply moved, and was fighting back tears, which did not escape Miss Kenworthy’s notice.
But there was something missing.
“Will I get a spanking?” I could not disguise the sense of hope in my eyes or my voice.
“You know who to go to for that. But the cane will be first.”
(Oh my, a cold caning then! Painful but delicious. Strictly for the connoisseur.)
She took me to a small dormitory, which adjoined matron’s room and had a connecting door with it. As well as the bedsand cupboards there was a low bench which I recognised as designed for receiving punishment. In one corner were the mirrors that had featured in Anna’s narration (so she was telling the truth) and on a hook on the back of the door hungthe cane intended for me – a single cane, long and thin, so much more potent a symbol than the array of implements often depicted in scenes of discipline.
Miss Kenworthy caught me glancing up at it.
“It is a new one, Florence. Bought specially for you. I remember your comely little rump and it will be just right for you. Yours will be the only bottom it touches.”
With that she left the room, glancing again at the cane and then at me.
There were no other occupants in the room, although several beds looked to be made up. Might I be disciplined in front of others? I had brought some overnight essentials in the expectation of an overnight stay. As I was settling in to my temporary accommodation, there was a sharp knock on the connecting door and matron stepped in – the very same matron I remember from my days at the school. She remembered me.
“Hello, Flo — this is an unexpected reunion. First Anna, now you.”
“You know what it is about matron?”
“Oh, yes, dear. I do indeed. Now I just have to check you over to be sure you are ready to receive.” (“Ready to receive” was another familiar euphemism.)
Matron was speaking to me just as if there had been no gap of several years since our last meeting.
“Now, dear, just slip off your skirt for me please.”
I did so, folding it neatly on the bed as was the rule.
“And your panties as far as your knees. I just need to ….” We both knew what she needed to do. She rubbed her hands over my naked bottom and gave it a friendly slap.
“Lovely. Ready for the cane, certainly. How many strokes are you expecting?”
“Lots, Matron.” I felt myself blush a little. “Bare bottom.”
“Of course. Things haven’t changed that much. And then there is ….” Here she paused, and left the prospect of something more hanging in the air.
“And Miss Kenworthy?”
“Just the same. Strict. Extremely strict. You’ll see.”
“Tears, do you think?”
“For sure, before she even starts. I’ll be bound. Will the punishment be in the dorm?”
“Yes, matron. It’s set for six o’clock.”
“Ha, on the stroke of six for six strokes. I remember that line.”
“In that case it ought to be at midnight, matron.”
Matron look puzzled for a moment, then the meaning dawned.
“Ah, on the stroke of twelve ….”
“…. for twelve strokes. Yes matron.”
“Well, you have an hour or so to wait. I will be staying here, so I will know when the punishment starts. Good luck, dear. And remember, this is for her.”
“Miss Kenworthy?”
“Yes, dear. I know it must seem as bit obsessive, but it means a lot to her to get things cleared up. Be sure to let the tears flow.”
“I probably won’t be able to stop them, matron. You know me.”
“Will you be confined to room afterwards?”
“I don’t know matron, she didn’t say so. It’s usually best.”
“It is Florence, I’ll find you some cream for your bottom. You’ll be needing it, I expect.”
“I’m sure I will.”
Matron went back into her room and I could hear her shuffling about as I waited for Miss Kenworthy to return.
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