Introducing Karen - she was medium height and medium weight, but that weight was stacked in all the right places. Eighteen and in what she considered her last year of school, as she had no interest on going on and getting a college degree. Blonde and vivacious, Karen had every intention of being married by the time she was twenty. The way the young men of her acquaintance trailed after her she had no doubt that it was just a matter of picking the right one.
Popular with both sexes, Karen found that some of the teachers weren't quite so enamoured with her. They seemed to think that she could do a lot better at school than she actually did, and Karen was honest enough to admit that they were right. She was intelligent enough, but lacked the drive to really pursue academic excellence.
Another thing that some of the teachers frowned upon was her propensity for practical jokes. They were never mean or cruel, and even the victim usually finished up laughing, but Karen found that teachers didn't really have a sense of humour about things that disrupted the smooth flow of school.
She'd often been warned about her jokes, and had even received a couple of detentions, both from Mr. Marshall, the physical education master and her severest critic. Even now she was sitting in his office, still in her P.E. clothes, waiting for the axe to come down.
It hadn't been her fault. Not really. The joke had been relatively simple and quite safe. Well, at least it should have been safe. Accidents happen. How could she know that Michelle would be stupid enough to scream, which caused Andrew to spin around to see what the hell was going on. Even that wouldn't have mattered if the clumsy ox hadn't tripped over his own big feet and cannoned into Bryan who promptly got tangled in the rope.
It had been just luck, good and bad, that Mr. Marshall had walked in right at that moment. Good luck, as he was able to catch hold of Bryan and get the stupid rope of his neck before he strangled himself, but bad luck, as he'd looked directly at her and snapped, "My office. Now!"
The fact that he'd immediately blamed her was totally unfair. He hadn't even asked any questions. It was simply a case of something has gone wrong, Karen is here, it must be her fault.
"Totally unfair," thought Karen rebelliously.
She sighed. By now he'd have the whole story and would know for a fact that she'd been the one pulling the prank, and she'd be facing another detention. Karen sighed again, feeling hard done by. And where was he, anyway, she wondered. She'd been sitting here for half an hour now.
The door opened and Mr. Marshall stalked into the room, closing the door behind him. Karen was suddenly thinking of wolves tearing apart a little rabbit, and she knew damn well who the rabbit was going to be. She sprang to her feet.
This was a mistake, it seemed. Mr. Marshall promptly sat on her abandoned chair, pulled her over his knee and delivered a hard spank to her bottom. Her shorts were pulled tight across them, meaning that there was no cushioning effect, and she felt every bit of that spank.
Before she could open her mouth to protest, another spank landed. Before Karen had a chance to do more that squeal in shock and pain she'd received six of the best and was back on her feet, staring at Mr. Marshall in horror.
"You're not allowed to do that," she stammered, appalled at what had happened. "You can't just grab me and spank me."
"That wasn't your spanking," a smiling Mr. Marshall informed her. "That is still to come. That was just a friendly warm-up to get your attention before I deliver the real spanking.
And before you point out that I can't do that, I should tell you that I've informed the Principal that I'm going to and I've also received permission from your father.
Did you want to say something? No? I thought you were about to. Now shall we discuss your idiotic behaviour in the gym? You do realise that if I hadn't walked in when I did, Bryan could quite easily have been choked? Even though you haven't asked I feel I should tell you that the school nurse says he'll be alright. I got the rope off him in a timely fashion.
You'll be given a chance to apologise to him later.
Now, as well as your performance in the gym, I've been asked to raise the matter of your attitude to your schoolwork in general. It seems that you tend to cry a lot when other teachers try to criticise you, but as I'm going to really give you something to cry over, we thought the chance too good to miss."
From that point, an interview that had, in Karen's opinion, started badly went steadily downhill. It seemed to her that every aspect of her behaviour was dissected and criticised. Homework, classwork, practical jokes, attitude, short attention span, nothing seemed to be missed. Even her choice of clothes was criticised.
The last comment caused Karen to protest. Her clothes? There was nothing wrong with her clothes as far as she could tell, and she promptly told Mr. Marshall that.
"Really? You think it's the correct thing to do to wear clothes that let men know that you shave? If those shorts were any tighter they'd split and prove what you're demonstrating. And as we've reached the subject of your shorts, your spanking is about to start, so I suggest you remove them. The 'negative reinforcement', as we like to call it, will work a lot better on a bare bottom, and yours is going to be bare. Strip them off and bend over my knee please."
Karen shook her head. "No way. Not going to happen," she protested.
"Yes way," retorted Mr. Marshall. "It is going to happen and right now. If you choose not to drop your shorts I don't mind. I'm quite capable of pulling them down myself. Your choice, but choose now because I have other work to do after this and I don't want to waste my time."
He was serious, Karen realised, shocked. She'd though that earlier spank was all that was going to happen, not just be a warning. The threat of a proper spanking was supposed to be just a scare tactic, not a foreboding of things to come.
Karen hesitated, then jumped back with a squeak when Mr. Marshall gave an irritated sigh and reached for her.
"All right,' she said, "I'll do it. You don't need to."
Hurriedly Karen peeled off her shorts. As she struggled to pull them down it occurred to her that Mr. Marshall had a point, they were too tight. She'd been meaning to get a larger size but had kept putting it off, and she hadn't realised just how much too small they now were.
Blushing, Karen went to bend over Mr. Marshall's knee, only to be brought up short.
"What part of bare bottom don't you understand?" he asked in a silky voice.
"But they're thongs," Karen protested, plucking at her panties. "My bottom is effectively bare."