It had surprised me at first. But then I thought maybe I shouldn't be that surprised after all. And nowadays nothing surprises me. Funny how we evolve. Or maybe
de
-volve to the people we
really
are.
That said, it all started with an email notification that I had received a message from a spanking forum that I belonged to. I had logged on and read the message which simply stated:
Hi, I have read your story and believe you to be Mr Hartly. I am Lynn Green, and we need to meet up -- I won't be taking 'no' for an answer. 😊
She had also included her mobile number.
Fucking hell,
I thought,
Chickens coming home to roost and all that.
However, before I go any further with the tale, I first need to share with you the original account that I posted on the spanking forum:
Lynn Green gets the Cane
She holds herself erect, perhaps defiant. I have summoned her.
Her curly chestnut hair tumbles onto her shoulders and frames a round face. Her eyes are large and blue, her nose small and turned up, her nostrils perhaps a little too flared. Her mouth appears tight, compressed, when closed and thin pink lips trace round it.
She is no taller than five four and of slim frame. I know she is eighteen.
She is wearing a sleeveless starched white shirt, and her top two buttons are undone. I glimpse and savour the white flesh of her neck, the V of her upper chest. She is bra-less and her prominent nipples strain against the fabric.
It is Monday, June 20th, 1983, and the weather, hot.
Her regulation navy blue skirt is just above the knees - and tight. Her pale legs are bare, and she is wearing black sandals.
She is facing me over my desk with her uncovered arms hanging limp at her sides. I am the headmaster.
"You know why you are here, Miss Green, don't you?"
"Was it to do with the smoking?" She tries to sound composed but a slight tremor in her Yorkshire accent hints at anxiety.
"As you are aware,
well
aware, we do not allow any of our pupils to smoke on the school premises..."
"But I'm over eighteen and allowed to smoke legally," she protests weakly.
"Yes, but you are a bad influence on others more impressionable. Have you any idea how detrimental smoking is to your health and what a disgusting habit it is?!" I counter.
I can see that she realises that she isn't going to win. She will take what comes to her.
"This isn't the first time you've been cautioned. Mrs Clark warned you just a month ago. Or have you forgotten so soon?"
"No, Sir, I'm
very
sorry. It won't happen again."
"I very much doubt that it will." I have the upper hand -- literally.
"I'm afraid Miss Green I have little alternative but to administer you two strokes of the cane."
I watch her blanch as fear flashes across her attractive features.
"Please walk over to the chair in the corner. I want you to bend over and place your palms on the seat."
She complies and ambles over slowly. Like the proverbial condemned man.
The chair's back is against the white wall of my office. I open the cupboard behind me and bring out the standard school cane: about two foot long with a curved handle. I reflect, briefly, on all the agony that this simple implement has induced in the past.
I stride over and line myself parallel to the left of her.
"I am going to give you two hard strokes. You are not to move till after the second one. If you do, then you will receive an extra one. Do you understand?"
She mutters something and then nods.
I pause and study her. Her skirt is pulled tight, the material shiny over her bum.
Her white arms are taut, and I notice liberally speckled with small moles. Her blonde arm hairs are visibly raised, perhaps out of fear, and her thick lustrous hair hangs down round her face.
I draw back my right arm then swing the cane down with a swish across her buttocks that impacts with a loud crack.
She utters a low groan and lifts her left leg, bent at the knees. I cannot help but notice that her calf is pale and strong.
She returns her leg back into position.
Again, I swing the cane, with full force, onto her buttocks.
"Oh, my God!" she screams, and brings her hands round to grasp her backside.
"That's all, Green. You may return to class."
She straightens up, all the time massaging her behind, and turns to face me, her eyes red rimmed and watering, her face flushed. I have hurt her.
She makes for the door without uttering a word, opens it and disappears into the corridor.
I walk over to the door and close it, close it behind her.
I imagine her at home later, perhaps in her bedroom naked, in front of a mirror, twisting round and probing the parallel ridged purple stripes that now adorn her lily-white buttocks...
*
We had met up the following Wednesday at midday for a coffee and had sat outside the outlet on a table as far away as possible from the other patrons so we could have as frank a conversation as possible. I recall it being a sunny and hot day. This was May 1995.
I had got there early and had ordered myself a
Latte
in the meantime whilst people-watching -- it was a busy part of town with shops bordering the square. I liked the activity of it, the buzz, but it was rare for me to get close to others -- I was quite selective who I would let into my life and felt it was better to lose out on a potential friend rather than risk creating a future enemy. 'Safety First' was my motto -- normally. But this wasn't normal. Far from it. And I wondered, a little anxiously, how it would all pan out.
I had spotted her first and had raised my arm in her direction. She had seen me and smiled before heading my way.
When she had got close to my table I had stood up and stuck out my hand. She had shaken it and had said: "Nice to meet you, Mister Hartly, after all those years... and in such different circumstances..."
"Lovely to meet you too, Lynn... and a little bit bizarre too considering the last time... and you can call me, Jon... I'm actually Jonathan... I have to say it all feels a little bit like a criminal meeting one of his victims or a gaoler a former prisoner of his..."
She laughed and said: "Yes, but which one of us is what... criminal or victim?"
I noticed that her Yorkshire accent wasn't as strong as I remembered it. But then it was twelve years ago.
I also saw that she seemed poised and confident, confident in her slightly fuller body and settled looks. She was also showing a lot of her lightly tanned flesh: black sleeveless top, no bra, full breasts, nipples visible through the fabric, short denim skirt -- quite pretty in a serious way, if that makes sense. And maybe a little bit slutty. Knowingly so. Provocatively so.
I changed tack.
"So, Lynn, what are you doing with yourself nowadays, I mean workwise?"
She smiled again whilst running her hand through her thick, long, and curly blonde highlighted chestnut mane - she knew I was skirting round the main issue, the elephant in the room -- and said: "Well, that July I left school... I didn't really know what I wanted to do... I worked in a holiday camp cleaning chalets for a summer season, then I got a job in an office but that was tedious... and finally I ended up working in an estate agents, which I love... closing a deal, pocketing the commission... there's a bit of a slump at the moment but it will change, there'll be an upturn, and the internet will transform selling... so what about you? You're not in education anymore, I hear."
"I left shortly after..."
"Shortly after you caned me
really
hard, let's not beat around the bush," she interjected.
I momentarily felt awkward and said: "Lynn, I haven't ordered you a drink, how remiss of me, what would you like?"
"I'll have a large coke with ice and lemon, it's a scorcher of a day, thanks."
I called the waitress over who took my order.
"Well, that summer, after I... um, punished you, I realised that education wasn't for me even though I'd done exceedingly well by becoming headmaster at a young age -- I was just thirty -- so, because Physics was my top subject at university, I joined a defence company and specialised in guided missile systems. It pays very well, I get to travel all over the world at times, and it's challenging and fascinating."
The waitress placed Lynn's drink down at this point on the table.
"Thanks," we both responded in unison.
"Lynn, I think we can dispense with the small talk now... I need to know what all this is about, please."
She took a long sip of her drink and then put her glass down gently on the surface.
"Okay," she said. "I'm going to be honest, there's never been a day I haven't thought about the time you caned me. It was agonising and humiliating..."
"I'm sorry, maybe it was the wrong thing to do, but times and attitudes were different then..."
"No need to be sorry... you see I have to tell you this... because I can't tell anyone else, I've never shared it...
any
of it... and where your story ends, the one you posted, mine starts..."
"Go on, " I said, intrigued.