[
The previous role-plays with Charlotte (the "bar pick-ups") are
here
and
here
. A story with another character mentioned in this story, Michelle, is
here
.
Part 1 of this story contains the domination/sexual aspects of the game. Part 2 is a conversation between the two characters - a sort of emotional aftermath.]
Prologue
For a period during my sophomore and junior years at the City College of New York I had several girlfriends going at once. Nowadays that is called "spinning plates" but back then it was a happy set of coincidences caused by the fecklessness of everybody involved. For a while I had a good time with open-relationship fun and games; everybody knew what the others were doing. I did suspect that the situation wouldn't last forever but I was too young to worry about it or even fully understand what was going on.
One of these women, Charlotte De Havilland, was a perennial student at the age of twenty-six when I met her; I was still nineteen then. She was scheduled to graduate in June, 1976, a year before I was, but I rarely thought about what would happen after that.
She was tall and dark-haired and since she had grown up in an affluent Connecticut town she seemed very classy to an outer-borough New Yorker like me. When I wanted to flatter her I compared her to Cyd Charisse or Ava Gardner; when I wanted to tease her or simply bug her, I referred to Joan Crawford.
Under her polite and calm demeanor she had a pronounced kinky streak. She knew about the role-playing games that the other women had invented and she went on to create her own. It turned out that she had the knack needed to plan and act in a complex game.
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We enacted our third role play game in October, 1975. At that time
National Lampoon's
September Back to College issue was out, and my girlfriends had seen it and commented on - favorably, to my surprise.
The most notable thing about this issue was the cover drawing of a professor using a slide rule to spank one of his female students. Her skirt was up, her panties down around her knees, and she held a term paper with a big red F on it.
I was hanging around with Charlotte one day in her apartment in Chelsea, looking at a copy of the magazine.
I said, "I saw this on a newsstand at Penn Station, but I didn't have the nerve to buy it."
She found that amusing, "Really? I just up and got it in some store."
"What did the guy there think?"
"I don't know and I really didn't care." When I first met her I noticed that she was on the quiet side and I assumed she was a bit shy, but she often proved me wrong.
She then said, "So what do you think of it?" She knew I had had a few kinky experiences of my own in the last year or so.
I shrugged, "That girl on the cover, except for her hair color, reminds me a bit of Michelle." That was one of the other girlfriends, and Charlotte had met her more than once.
"Oh yeah, how so?"
"Maybe, I guess, the same type of ass. Kind of tight and athletic."
She laughed at that. "I get it. I know you've put a few whacks on her butt and she's put a few on you. Now, I've got few scenarios for the two of us. I'm sure you want to hear about them." I nodded as she leaned forward. "They're based on this picture. For the first time out we'll switch it, I want to be the professor and you'll be the student. How does that sound?"
I didn't need much for a sale but I pretended to think about it for a moment. "Okay, that sounds promising."
"Now you may get a somewhat sore behind but there'll be a payoff in the end."
I knew enough not to ask her what that was. The creator of a role-play had the right to spring some surprises. I said, "Sure Charlotte, I'll put myself in your capable hands."
"Pun intended?"
"Of course, what did you think?"
She asked me, "So when was the first time in your life when you realized you had a kinky streak?"
I said, "I do remember that. I was pretty young, maybe ten or so."
"That young? Spanked by a tutor or a governess? You know, like in
The Confessions
of Rousseau."
"We didn't have tutors or governesses in the Bronx. We did have TV, and there was the Million Dollar Movie on Channel 9. One day they had this thing on called
Land of the Pharaohs
."
"I've seen that, I mean the second half. That weird stuff at the end, where they all seal themselves in the tomb."
"That scene gave me the willies," I said. "Especially since they didn't tell Joan Collins, the princess I mean, what was happening. Anyway, the scene I mean was near the beginning. Jack Hawkins is the pharaoh; of course having an Englishman as an ancient Egyptian just seems to work. So somehow this princess gets in trouble with him and he sends her down to the dungeon to be whipped."
"Ah, the mean pharaoh and the naughty princess scene."
"I'm surprised he didn't do it himself, but I guess pharaohs got a little jaded after a while. So they actually show Joan Collins getting punished, she's tied to a column with her arms over her head. She's got this bra or halter top thing on, or whatever they had back then, and this big guy is whipping her bare back."
"So that got to you."
"Oh yeah, the scene was only a few seconds long at yet it set off some circuit in me. I didn't even know what sex was yet."
I hoped that Charlotte would offer her own origin story for her fetishes, but that wasn't forthcoming. So I asked about the game. "Okay, so how old is this professor of yours supposed to be?"
"Early forties I guess. .
I did a quick calculation to get an insight into the character I would meet: born in the 1930s, got her higher education in the 1950s. That was a very different generation from mine.
"She's literally old school, then." I said.
Charlotte grinned at me, "That's right, as you will certainly find out the hard way."
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Part 1
The role-play was to occur in mid-October. She was going to use her own apartment, a third-floor walk-up in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. This would be a stand-in for an office on campus. There was a desk in the far corner of the living room that would be her main prop.
I was going to be a student asking for an incomplete for my final paper. She said to me, "I'm going to be pretty harsh on you. But if you can take it I think the rewards will be worth it."
We had a safe word, or should I say a safe phrase, which was "chicken pot pie." She hadn't used it during her turn the previous spring and I wondered how I would handle things when my time came around.
I arrived at her front door late one afternoon. It was a rather cool day so I had a jacket on. I was carrying a notebook and one other book. The setup was that she was having office hours and I would be arriving unannounced with my request. I knocked on the door instead of ringing the bell; that seemed more likely for a college office.
Professor Charlotte or whatever her name was supposed to be opened the door. She was wearing one of her business outfits: a dark suit, white blouse, heels, her glasses, make-up tastefully done. Looking at Charlotte always gave me a surge, a feeling that I had really lucked out in snagging such a fine-looking woman.
Now, however, she wasn't smiling at me; she gave me a stern look.
"Yes?"
"Excuse me, Professor, I'm Paul from your French history class . . ."
She interrupted me, "I know who you are. I've been meaning to speak to you."
Her demeanor seemed brusque, brittle even. She turned to walk to her desk; I assumed I should follow her. As she sat down at her desk she gestured for me to sit in a chair next to it. She crossed her legs and her skirt rode up well over her knees. I could hear the rub of nylon against nylon and I tried not to get rattled by that - but I did anyway.
"You haven't turned in your final paper yet. Grades are due the day after tomorrow."
"Yes, ma'am, that's why I came here, to talk about that paper." I never called professors sir or ma'am but it seemed like a good improvisation now.
She looked at me over the rims of her glasses, "Any chance you could have it here by tomorrow afternoon?"
"Ah no, I'm only about one-third of the way through."
"One-third? I gave the details for that assignment eight weeks ago."
"Yes, ma'am but I've been doing a lot of things, like with the newspaper."
"One of the things you been doing is taking this course. I'd be well within protocol to fail you in two days."
"I know, I was hoping you'd give me an incomplete; I could have the paper to you by next week, next Monday at the latest I think."
"And why should I do that for you if all the other students have done their work on time?"
"Please don't fail me; I've never failed a course before."
"There's always a first time for everything. I'll have to give this some thought."
Actually she only thought for a couple of seconds and then she said, "Go and lock the door." When I came back she gestured for me to sit down again in the same chair.
"Now Paul, I will consider giving you an incomplete, but first I will punish you quite severely for your - frankly, your inconsiderate attitude, just blowing off the course and expecting me to bail you out. If you can take that to my satisfaction I will grant you more time to finish your paper."
"Thank you, professor . . ."
"Don't thank me until you find out what my conditions are."
She took a wooden ruler out of the desk drawer, "See this, eighteen inches of hardwood?" I noticed that it said New York Board of Education of the obverse side. She began stroking it, one hand sliding up and down the length of it. For the first time she smiled at me.
"I going to give you about ten whacks with this across your bare behind. Have you ever been spanked before, even by hand?"