Of all the days to oversleep, this was not the one. He had been summonsed to Miss Svenson’s study 9 a.m. Sharp that very thursday
morning. He raced out of the house and just managed to catch the bus as it pulled away. 8.50 traffic. Milk float. Dust cart. Lollipop lady. Had no one ant idea how dim a view Miss Svenson took when pupils she had demanded report to her arrived late?
8.57 he jumped off the bus and raced up the hill, his mouth dry, a knot deep in the pit of his stomach and a sense of nausea and panic, for he knew he would now be late.
Miss Svenson ran the school fairly but firmly. She had certain standards which she expected all students to adhere to and if they didn’t they could expect to be dealt with in a thoroughly traditional, firm manner. Miss Svenson was a fair minded lady who understood that school was a learning experience for students who were encouraged to learn from their mistakes. That said, rudeness, shoddy work ethic and poor time keeping had no place in her school, indeed in her world.
And so it was on this crisp bright autumn morn that Mike was expected to arrive on time and explain a complete lack of Maths homework which included a project he should have completed over the holidays. And now his befuddled, mumbled, pathetic excuses would be given to Miss Svenson late. She was sure to take out her annoyance on his bare bottom.
9.03, He reached the school gate and beyond it the solid oak double door which creaked open. Silence. A hawkish woman of slight, spindly build wearing a light grey lambs wool jumper, a black pencil skirt and black cardigan appeared in the office door way. “Young man.” She stated.
“I, I, I have a 9 o’clock appoint.……” He stammered.
“I know” she retorted. “You are late.† A whole four minutes late.† Miss Svenson will take a very dim view.” There was no emotion in her voice, but rather a resigned air of “you will bring these things upon your self.”
“Very well, up you go.” She continued.
He walked the length of the entrance hall, each step echoing off the bare stone wall. Library quiet prevailed. An air of calm, controlled learning. He approached the stairs. He swallowed. His mouth bone dry. His stomach one big knot. Desperate for the toilet but no time. Perhaps Miss Svenson would understand. He doubted it. He began to climb the stairs. The echo of each step louder than its predecessor. His heartbeat pounding, drowning out all other sound. His heart now in his dry mouth. †At the top of the stairs he turned to his left and walked as if on auto pilot to the door of Miss Svenson’s study. He knocked 3 timid knocks and almost immediately the door swung open and there to the right, holding the door wide open, stood Miss Svenson.
“Michael.…” she said and motioned him to enter the room.† She closed the door and gestured to him to take a seat in the only leather armchair in the room.† An uneasy silence descended in the room. Miss Svenson slowly but purposefully walked over to a single, upright wooden chair, hitched her skirt up very slightly, very elegantly and sat down, quite upright knees tight together. She drew a deep breath and surveyed the pupil before her as if to see if there were any signs of regret, remorse or a plea for forgiveness.
With a resigned air that said we all know why we are here, she said “Michael, I have received a note from your maths teacher. Very disappointing. No effort on your part. And you show me no respect either; you are late. How do you think that makes me feel? Do you really have so little regard for your teachers, for the school, for your own self esteem??? I intend to teach you a lesson for once and for all. I was tempted to make an example of you in front of the whole school. What do you think?”. She spoke slowly, in a considered manner with the very slightest trace of a Scandinavian accent. Without waiting for his reply she continued “such is the disrespect and disregard that you have shown I have invited Miss Jones to join us, so she may bare witness to your punishment. So she may at least benefit from hearing your sobs and screams. So that you may both know what lies in store if you ever disrespect miss Jones or any other member of staff ever again.
“Yes Miss Svenson,” came the all too sheepish reply.
At that very moment the door knob turned and Miss Jones entered the room and closed the door behind her in what appeared to be one uninterrupted movement.
“Good morning, Miss Svenson” she said airily before turning to the student with a stern look of contempt on her face. “Thank you for your note, Miss Jones,” Miss Svenson said “and thank you for making time to join us. Stand up, young man” she said raising her voice in Michaels direction only very slightly. He stood up and the uneasy silence again returned to the room. Miss Svenson also stood, and the two women slowly, menacingly approached him. Silence broken only by the tap of their heels on the wood block floor: they circled him, slowly in opposite directions rather like lionesses circling their prey. He felt sick and desperately needed to spend a penny.
“Please Miss Svenson,” he blurted out, “but I do need to spen.….”
“Be quiet.” Miss Svenson snapped. “Only speak when you are spoken to.” She returned to her wooden chair in the middle of the room and resumed her position there on. She again looked at Michael almost with an air of pity. “You know only too well what you can expect, don’t you?” She said in conciliatory tone.
He snivelled “yes Miss Svenson.”
“Then take down your trousers.…” He began to fumble nervously with the fastening. “Oh for God’s sake” hissed Miss Jones and with the speed of light ripped apart the fastening so in an instant his trousers fell to the floor, gathered in a crumpled mess around his ankles.† “That’s more like it” said Miss Svenson, a tone of satisfaction in her voice. She took a freshly laundered hand towel, unfolded it †and spread it squarely over her lap which she then patted with the flat of her right hand. “Come” she commanded and in what seemed like a single sweep which was clearly very well practised she took his right wrist and laid him flat across her lap and without a moments hesitation “thwack, thwack, thwack” rang out, his pants providing scant protection from Miss Svenson’s no nonsense delivery. Now he felt the index fingers of both her hands locate within the waistband of his pants and slide down his thighs and ultimately his legs, in one action as if gliding along rails. The pants were now on the floor and his bare bottom a sight for both ladies to behold, laid out on Miss Svenson’s lap. Thwack, thwack, thwack.…. A further three powerful swats rained down on his bare bottom, each leaving the relevant buttock trembling. He sensed Miss Svenson had gritted her teeth in her determination to meter out an appropriate level of punishment. He glanced across the room to see Miss Jones standing, arms folded, watching the spectacle unfold before her. Thwack, thwack, thwack, a further three blows. Miss Jones looked on with satisfaction flickering across her face, jaw set with grim determination that this boy would learn his lesson no matter what.….
Thwack thwack thwack three more slaps harder and in much quicker succession than previously and then again †thwack thwack thwack. He had a good view of Miss Svenson’s shapely legs as he peered between the chair legs. They were clad in classic, seemed silk stockings and his eyes followed the seems down their entire, wonderful length to the black patent high heel shoes. As with everything about Miss Svenson, there was an elegant beauty, an efficiency which said “perfection” to all the world for that was the standard, her standard and she expected nothing less from anyone.
Thwack thwack thwack yet another three slaps rained down. He knew by now his bottom was emitting a steamy hot, red glow. He noted how, with every slap she delivered, Miss Svenson raised his bottom to meet her falling hand by riding her feet up on the ball of each foot. It occurred to him that she put every ounce of effort into the expert delivery of every swat making each one count. Now he sensed blades of delicious, hot burning pain across each buttock where each of Miss Svenson’s fingers left their blazing red hot tell tale where they landed. He felt tears prickle the back of his eyeballs. He bit his lip. Was that it? How much more did she intend to dish out??
The swats continued to rain down on his bare bottom: his legs were stretched out straight so Miss Svenson was spanking the full round of his bare bottom. “Stand up now” she said as she gently massaged each buttock. He stood as he had been told to. Miss Svenson calmly walked over to a blanket box to her right and picked up a leather paddle. “Face the wall” she instructed calmly, then guided him so his arms were raised above his head, braced against the wall. His feet were about 50cm away from the wall. Miss Svenson rucked up his shirt tail revealing to her pleasure the full roundedness of his pert bottom, which by now was not just bright red but radiated a glorious warmth. Thwaaaack, as the paddle hit the target with an almighty crash, he caught his breath and rose up on the ball of both feet. Pause. Thwaaaack, another strike to the opposite buttock. Again he caught his breath. He could begin to feel the imprint of the implement searing the sides of his bottom. Another Thwaaaack, followed by another, then another, then another. And with each he caught his breath and rose still higher on his toes. His bottom was on fire. Miss Jones was grinning with delight, Miss Svenson’s jaw was set in grim determination. On and on the paddle delivered each swat with increased intensity. He was now fighting to control his bladder. He knew he had to.….….
Pause.
Miss Svenson cupped and gently massaged each buttock in turn and whilst doing so leant forward so her lips aligned with his left ear. “Sore?” She enquired. “Yes” came the snivelling reply.
“Oh really,” she taunted, “well we shall have to see.…”. She patted his bottom almost, it seemed, with a slight hint of affection.
“My poor little boy, such a sore botty,” she whispered in his ear. And as she did so, she curled her toe so as to hook out from under a nearby arm chair an embroidered kneeler. In one smooth movement she placed her left foot on the kneeler and firmly pulled him over the flat of her thigh. Miss Jones now benefited from the full on view of his glowing red bare bottom. Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack, this time with the back of an oval hairbrush which delivered a deep penetrating sting matched only by the deep gloss of the dark wood handle.
Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack, yet a further three blows, the second of which caught the top of the back of his legs and just touched the rear of his scrotum. An electric shock shot to the pit of his stomach, knotted it for a moment and then the third swat brought the focus of his attention back to his arse: it now felt so red, so hot, so prickly hot that it was his bottom no more! It was his arse.
Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack.† Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack, Thwaaaack. “There,” announced miss Svenson with more than just a hint of satisfaction in her tone of voice. “That was twelve good ones with the brush and my goodness what a red bottom you’ve got..†† Stand up now and rest a while”. †It was as though she was a little surprised that he could take such a sound hiding without more complaint. Was she impressed? Unlikely he thought. As he stood up his eyes met miss Svensons momentarily. Then both their eyes fell to the floor. In an instant and to his absolute horror and embarrassment they notice, simultaneously a small dark patch on the very bottom right hand corner of his shirt!! Oh dear, for a split second the control of hIs bladder had failed him! Tut, tut, tut was miss Svensons muffled response. It seemed she understood. She fixed him with her stare, but he felt certain he saw a flicker of gentle kindness dancing in her eyes.
“Now,” she said slowly, thoughtfully. “Under the circumstances I think it only right that we offer Miss Jones an opportunity to vent her anger on you aswell.…† †In a moment I want you to bend over and touch your toes. I will then invite Miss Jones to step over here and join us. Do you understand?”. Slowly, thoughtfully, sheepishly he confirmed his affirmation. When would this end? He asked himself. His bottom was now so red, so on fire that he had lost any sense of pain; instead it was pure red hot heat.….
“Good,” Miss Svenson continued, “now Miss Jones, if you’d just like to .……” She didn’t need to finish the sentence, Miss Jones was already there.
Picture the scene: Michael bent over touching his toes, bare bright red bottom exposed to all the world. To his left Miss Svenson and to his right Miss Jones. Both admiring their intended target with eager anticipation.
Silence. Wait. Breath. His heart beat pounded in his ear, in his head. His very vision seemed to throb. His mouth was still dry. Both ladies were drawing in breath with just a fraction of excitement. Still they waited, it was as though they enjoyed the spectacle of his bare bottom and wanted to savour it!
Then, without a word each lady took up her position, each at either side of him. Each lady gently braced herself with one hand on the small of his back. He sensed a smile flash across the corners of each of their mouths, much as to ask of the other “shall we?”. And so they did, each lady focussed on the red cheek nearest her; smmmaaaack, smmmaaaack, smmmaaaack. Some strokes landed in tandem with the other and some did not!† It mattered not. Both ladies gritted their teeth and rattled out swats as though each might be the last and therefore really had to count. On and on and on they went with almost mechanical efficiency, some swats landed mid cheek, some to one side, some to the other. Occasionally one of the ladies would catch the top of the back of his leg: those swats seemed to deliver a special, intense sting which didn’t quite ease off before the next slap landed squarely on the appropriate buttock.
And so they continued until each lady had delivered 125 sound whacks and now a tear or two ran down his cheek. “There,” announced Miss Svenson with an air of contentment. He stood up. He felt giddy. “Get dressed,” said Miss Svenson “and we shall have a little chat”.† He gathered his pants and trousers and put them on. The cool cotton of his pants cradled his sore bottom.
He took a seat in the corner of the leather sofa, taking care to lower himself gently. Miss Svenson sat at the opposite end of the sofa and Miss Jones in the leather armchair.
“Now,” Miss Svenson began, “I think we can all agree that was a very worthwhile way to learn your lesson.† Rest assured next time I will invite a selected audience so more of your cohort will understand how I deal with people who behave in the manner you have. And you may take note, I am sure there will be a next time as experience has taught me that boys such as you usually need to be seen several times before they truly understand the error of their ways”. He swallowed. The thought, the indignity of boys and girls who he considered to be his friends watching him being spanked by Miss Svenson filled him with horror. Or did it? He was unsure. Miss Svenson, however, had little doubt that she would be seeing him again soon in the not so distant future.…
“Now off you go to class. Which subject have you this morning?” Asked Miss Svenson with a note of conciliation in her voice.
“Maths with Miss Jones,” he replied still fighting back the tears.
“Then I suggest you go with her now,” Miss Svenson continued “thank you both: a good mornings work, I’m sure you’ll agree.….”
Miss Jones thanked Miss Svenson and they parted company with contented smiles.
Miss Jones walked down the corridor, down the stairs and across the playground with him. Although they didn’t speak it was an easy, comfortable silence. They entered the Maths block and approached the class room door. Before opening it, Miss Jones took hold of his upper left arm “well done” she said, “now we shall start over”. Their eyes met and she noted a smile which said “no hard feelings” play across his face.
She released his arm and dug all four fingers and the thumb of her right hand deep into his right buttock. At the same time she threw open the classroom door and the students within fell silent. He followed her in. Tears rolled down his cheeks.
“Logarithms.….” Began Miss Jones.….….…..