I'm a single man and I live alone. It logically follows that I'm not going to need a baby-sitter unless someone is insane enough to leave me with a baby to look after. I can confidently say that none of my friends or relations are that mad.
It turns out that the same reasoning doesn't apply to animals. Let me be clear. I am not saying that an animal had dumped a small child on me for me to look after. What happened was that my sister, bless her, gave me her cat to look after while she went away for a couple of weeks.
Now a cat is no problem. You put some food in a bowl, make sure it can't escape, and generally ignore the beast. Until it got sick. Instant panic on my part. My sister would accuse me of all sorts of foul deeds. A trip to the vet was called for.
Expensive things, vets. Thank god my sister had Vet Insurance. The exorbitant costs were covered. What wasn't covered was an at-home nurse to dote upon the wretched animal. By default, I was the nurse.
Fortunately the cat didn't need much nursing, just someone to check up on it every so often and dish out its medicine. The problem was Friday night. I had a snooker tournament with the boys that had been set up weeks ago. I also needed to be at home to keep one eye on the cat and give it some medicine. So, a baby-sitter seemed like a good idea.
I rang around a few married friends, trying to find who they hired to baby-sit. Striking out grandparents, who apparently love to baby-sit, I finally finished up with some numbers to ring.
The first girl said she would love to sit for me, but she was allergic to cats. If I had a dog she'd have come around, but as it was. . .
The second girl laughed herself sick at the thought of baby-sitting a cat. Well, she laughed. I just hoped that it made her sick as she was obviously a callous unfeeling monster who shouldn't be allowed near babies.
The third girl was the charm. She sounded amused but didn't mind keeping an eye on a cat for a few hours and giving it some medicine. Thankfully the beast seemed to like the medicine. Wipe it on his paw and he would very industriously lick it off. I'd have hated to have to force-feed it medicine. All those sharp pointy things on the ends of its paws.
Brenda fronted up at the nominated time and promptly fell in love with the cat. She settled down to watch TV with the cat draped over her, purring. Me, I got my stuff together and headed elsewhere.
The tournament finished earlier than expected. For me, anyway. I was on top of my game but just happened to run into a better player. It happens. I bummed around and watched a few more games but got bored seeing I wasn't playing. I went home early, about eleven when I reached home.
Brenda was still sitting on the couch, cat on her lap. I told her I'd be with her in a moment and headed towards my bedroom. The door wasn't closed properly. A tricky catch, that I've been meaning to replace, means that the door opens slightly if you don't take care. I'd taken care when I left. That meant that Brenda had been doing some snooping.
I could understand her snooping, alone in a strange place. Only natural that she'd want to explore a bit. Trouble was a drawer that should have been slightly open was now closed. While irritated that she'd snooped in the drawers, that particular drawer also worried me slightly. I kept some cash in that drawer. Not all that much, just some mad money in case I needed it sometime. When I checked it was fifty short.
It wasn't the money that annoyed me. It was the violation of trust. Brenda was in a position of responsibility. People trusted her, and she'd done this. I couldn't really just brush it away. Like it or not, I had to face her with what she'd done.
I wandered back into the front room and muted the TV.
"Brenda, did you know that I was a security expert?" I asked her.
She shook her head.
"I didn't think so," I said. "I actually have several cameras in the house, triggered by movement. One in the study, one in the main bedroom. What am I going to see if I check the take from the main bedroom? Shall we go and have a look?"
Brenda was blushing brightly. I hadn't made a miscount, which had been a niggling worry. She had taken the fifty and knew it would show up on the camera.
"No?" I asked when she made no effort to move. I snapped my fingers and held out my hand.
Still flushing madly she reached over and picked up her purse, opened it and extracted the fifty, silently handing it to me.
"Brenda, you're in a position of trust when you come into someone's home. This sort of thing is just not permissible. A penalty needs to be applied."
"Ah, what are you going to do?"
"Well, we don't want to worry the police about a little theft like this, do we? While they would quite happily charge you it seems a bit of a waste of resources that could be better spent fining motorists. True?"
Yes, Brenda definitely agreed that there was no need to worry the police over this little matter.
"It seems to me that this leaves me three options. One, I can tell your parents and let them deal with you. Two, I can just ring around the various mothers who recommended you and tell them what happened. Three, I can just spank you and keep my mouth shut. Which do you think is the most appropriate?"
Brenda didn't even hesitate.
"I'll take the spanking," she said.
That set me back a bit. I hadn't dreamed that she'd opt for a spanking. I'd sort of assumed that she'd go with the 'tell the parents' bit.
"Ah, are you sure about that," I asked her.
"It's a no brainer," she told me. "If you tell my parents my father will kill me and my mother will remind me of it for the next fifty years. If you tell the mothers I lose my baby-sitting jobs and my reputation is trashed. I'll go with the spanking. It might be painful but once it's done, it's done."
"Yeah, well I only really tossed that in to give you a fright. Paddling a minor could get me into serious trouble. I think I'd be happier with telling your parents."
"I'm not a minor. I'm eighteen. I'm freely entitled to make my own decisions, and I say go with the spanking."
That was a turn-up for the books. She was calling my bluff, if it was a bluff?
"That might be a mistake. Do you know what a spanking entails?" I asked, trying my best to give an evil smile.
"You bend over and get your bottom smacked," she said with a shrug.
"No," I said, shaking my head. "That's what happens to a child. For an adult, such as yourself, it would go something like this. I'd bend you over my knee and give your bottom a couple of spanks to warm it up. After that your panties are removed and a few more spanks are delivered to your bare bottom. If the young woman is considered attractive enough, which you certainly would be, she would then have to finish stripping while the spanking is completed. Hmm?"
"You're joking," she said, swallowing a little nervously.
I slowly shook my head.
"I'll still go with the spanking," she muttered.
Time to up the stakes, I decided.
"The trouble is," I said, "that at the end of the spanking you will be standing there naked. If I find a naked woman standing in front of me, in my own house, I would feel it is quite reasonable to drag her into the bedroom and toss her on the bed. If she wriggles too much I'd probably tie her to the bed so that she's helpless. I may even tie her to the bed if she doesn't struggle.
Once on the bed and helpless I'd start touching her and kissing her, all over her naked body. I'd nibble on her nipples, massage her mons, lick her lips and, eventually, fall upon her and spear her with my cock. You can probably guess what happens after that."
Brenda was looking a little paler now.
"So, shall I ring up your parents now?" I asked.
She shook her head.
"No?" I asked.
"No. I said a spanking and I'll stand by it. I don't believe you'll do any more than that."
"Oh, trust me, Brenda. If you wind up naked in front of me you will also wind up naked on my bed with me taking full advantage of your nudity. Don't try to kid yourself. One thing leads to the other."
I sat down on the couch, looked up at Brenda, and patted my knee. The more I thought of it the more the thought of paddling her bottom appealed to me. Plus what would follow on. She couldn't say she hadn't been warned. That didn't mean I wasn't surprised when Brenda actually stepped forward to be put across my knee.
If that's what she wanted, who was I to turn her down. I flicked her dress up out of the way, finding a nice pair of cotton panties covering a very nice bottom. Almost a shame to smack it, but a bigger shame not to. I gave Brenda a sound spank, hearing her give a yelp. Something funny about that noise. I spanked again, listening hard. That yelp she made didn't sound pained so much as excited. I gave a third spank, just to be sure.