This is a sequel to the earlier piece titled 'Jenny's Dilemma'. I know it would try your patience but I feel that it should also be read to bring about continuity to enjoy the story more. None of the characters in the story is underage.
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I went back to the desk to complete the task. Whatever Mr. Smith might have thought, the fact is I could not complete the task because time was insufficient for such a long narrative. The pain on my butt was yet to subside due to the violent caning and sitting on the chair was not really comfortable. Nonetheless, I had a task to complete and I proceed to take it up seriously. It took a while but this time I ensured that it covered the entire event and then, as wanted, I read it out to Mr. Smith.
REPORT ON MONDAY'S EVENTS (Continued)
As I came and stood on the stage, the lights were switched off with just a spotlight that followed me wherever I went. This was quickly followed up by plunging the rest of the hall into darkness. Earlier, I could see the individual faces among the guests. Now, I could see none, excepting faintly making out their presence from the darkened shadows. I didn't know what would be my next task, for neither Mr. Howard's note nor the receptionist had really spelt out anything. It was eerie ... knowing that people were around you, almost ghost like in darkness, yet feeling alone. Suddenly, from the shadows someone spoke.
"You're late! We punish late comers." I assumed this was my principal client, the one who had engaged my services - Mr. Chris Slater.
"But...I am just...," I was certain that I had scurried into the Hotel lobby and receptionist sharp at 6.30.
"Insolence also meets with the same result ... Punishment," someone else barked out from the darkness. He had an almost imposing and frightening voice.
"Why do you think you are holding a riding crop in your hand?" a female voice and that too, shaking and broken with age, spoke up now.
I really didn't have an answer and I feared that even if I did answer, the end result would be the same - punishment.
"Keeping quiet won't help you, girlie," the same woman, I could make out.
"I think ... I think ... may be, ...for punishment?" I uttered, trying to save myself from facing the consequences of the question remaining unanswered.
"You think? You don't know? What have you been doing in school all this time? Playing the fool?" Mr. Slater's voice, I was sure.
"There's no point asking her, Mr. Slater," a new voice spoke up this time, a bit husky it seemed to me.
Mister husky continued, "Mr. Slater, you shouldn't be showing any leniency. We have strict rules in school and no violation goes unpunished. As the Principal, you know that very well. Late coming, insolence, unprepared lessons ...my god, where will her list end?"
Oh! Oh! So Mr. Slater was supposed to be the principal? And what exactly was going on here? I had been with Mr. Howard for over two months but, till now, I had never faced clients so very weird and unreal.
"Mr. Walters, I take the decisions. You'll refrain from advising me on this score, please," Mr. Slater imposed himself on husky voice, Mr. Walters. I was most happy, hoping that the principal was inclined to go soft. That hope was short lived.
"I really want to know how bad and naughty she has been before imposing the punishment," the principal spoke and, drawing the attention of others in the room, he said, "Where's her class teacher? She may like to ask some questions, I believe."
"I am ... here, Mr. Slater," a wheezy voice spoke out. She must have been the second woman whom I had seen when the lights were on.
"Jenny. Remember the day ... Ahhh ...you came unprepared in class and ...and...couldn't answer the the... questions that you were asked?" Miss wheezy was having difficulty in breathing.
"Cut out the past, Mrs. Reed ... Questions, ask her questions," the principal was impatient.
I was completely in daze and shock, worried that I still had about two hours to spend with these crazy people. Where would it end? I was jolted by the voice of Mrs. Reed.
"You have been taught about menstruation, Jenny?"
I hesitated but, in the end, knowing it would be futile to keep quiet, said "Yes."
Mrs. Reed now asked me a question that I couldn't imagine could ever be asked openly in school.
"Then tell all of us here what's the difference between menstruation and masturbation."
There was absolute silence. I blushed profusely, virtually at the point of tears. I could never answer this one. Someone help me please, take me out of here - I was silently crying within.
Almost sobbing I said, "I don't know."
"Whatttttt?" a chorus of voices expressed astonishment, as if this was completely unexpected.
"Mrs. Reed, haven't you taught your class the simple difference between these two natural behaviors?" the principal asked.
"I have Sir, but I believe she has been most inattentive in class," Mrs. Reed explained, "or, she might be simply refusing to answer."
Mr. Slater, the principal, intervened again, "It's ridiculous to have the Inspector of Schools among us here and a girl from our school does not know what masturbation is. I am awfully sorry Mr. Finn that this had to happen in our school."
A stentorian voice, which I assumed must have been Mr. Finn's, spoke out loudly from the darkness.
"Let me handle this Chris," he began saying and then, obviously addressing me, he continued," Look Jenny, I know you are an intelligent girl and you surely know the answer to the question that has been asked. Speak up girl, don't feel afraid. No one's going to hurt you."
I was really crying now and my sobbing could be heard clearly in the silence that had engulfed the hall. Mr. Finn's words failed to elicit a reply from me.
"Okay, I'll make it easier for you, girl. You needn't describe what the term 'masturbation' means. We will accept your answer as correct if you show us how it is done right there on the stage. And in any way that you find easy to demonstrate," Mr. Finn said in that loud and powerful voice of his.
I was horrified and shaking in disbelief. Mr. Howard was cunning, really cunning. 'No physical harm' he had said, 'no one's going to touch you' he had assured. Well, no one's touching me here but I was being mauled and, if I carried on with what they wanted, I would be mauled by myself.
I shook my head and almost howling when I cried out, "I can't, I can't ... please sir, Mr. Finn, Sir, no I can't."
"Very well then, we will assume that you are ignorant and have to be updated with visual inputs. Lessons have to be learnt Jenny, I am afraid." This was Mr. Finn.
Before I could regain some sort of composure, Mr. Slater was barking an order to someone who could be anywhere.
"Johann, could you turn off the lights please ...all of them. Provide a chair to Miss Jenny on the stage would you? And start running the educational 'movie' for her," he passed on specific instructions to someone called Johann, who could be an attendant.
Before I could utter another word, the lights were off and a chair pushed into my legs so that I fell right on to the seat of the chair. Along with the guests in the hall, I was facing the back of the stage where a screen loomed out of nowhere and a movie rolled on.
It began with the titles, short as they were, with the name of the film coming right at the end and I gasped as I saw what appeared in italics "THE MASTURBATING GIRL". If the purpose of showing the film was the result of what they termed was my 'ignorance' then the title was appropriate. The title receded in the back and reopened with a scene showing the interiors of a large mansion, obviously belonging to a rich family by the look of it. As some soft music played in the background, the camera moved along a long corridor and passed by a few locked doors till it was inside a furnished bedroom. Moving on, it showed a young girl around my age, dressed exactly like I was, sitting on a couch and watching a porn movie on the TV screen ... sort of movie within a movie. She had a toy in her hand, which was really a dildo, shaped like a rather thick, long skin color penis, which she just went on running over her cheeks and lips.
It would be an understatement if I said that the contents of the movie that the girl was seeing as hardcore. It was more than that as it turned out to be some sort of orgy between a young woman and four of five middle aged men and women, and I felt like turning my face away. Yet, for some reason, I kept watching.