All characters are over 18
Prologue
Forget all the stories of blackmail and compromising photos and videos, forget the strangely cruel and vindictive students, forget the spending spree in the local sex shop and the commanding messages sent to the teacher's phone every day -- if you want to know how a teacher really ended up as a sex slave (and very happy to be one), read on.
All stories have a start, but this one also has a prologue. It was one day when I was marking essays -- you know: on paper, written in ink (remember those days?). The essays were on Shakespeare's use of imagery in Hamlet and I was reading a very good essay by a quiet, soft-spoken and intelligent student called Beth when I put down one sheet of her essay and turned to the next and blinked and stared at the words that came out at me:
I'm a bad girl. A very bad girl. And I know what happens to bad girls. They get spanked. They need to be spanked. They must be spanked. And they must be spanked on their bare bottoms. I need you to spank me on my bare bottom. I need you to discipline me. I will come to you and I will be wearing my old schoolgirl uniform with my blazer and my school tie and my white shirt and my short pleated skirt, and I will bend over and take my knickers down for you and pull my skirt up and show you my bare bum for you to SPANK me -- hard!! Because I'm such a dirty girl, such a bad, dirty girl, and bad dirty girls should be PUNISHED and punished SEVERELY!! Spank me! Spank me! Spank me! SPANK ME!! I NEED it!! Please PLEASE SPANK ME!!!!!
Well, that didn't sound much like Shakespeare's use of imagery in Hamlet. But what was it? And what was it doing in her essay? I guessed it had got in there by mistake and my instinct was to leave it alone, as if I had never seen it, but I was still curious -- partly because it was obviously written by Beth (Beth wrote that??) and partly because I wasn't sure what it was. A private fantasy? A letter? If so, to whom? To me? That was alarming. Schoolgirl crushes sound very exciting in erotica, but they can be serious trouble in reality. I skimmed through the rest of it for a clue. There didn't seem to be any -- it was all "I'll loosen my schoolgirl tie for you and undo my top button and bend over your knees and you can SPANK your naughty NAUGHTY schoolgirl" -- until right at the bottom of the second side I found a reference to something she and her anonymous spanker had obviously done one Saturday night (it sounded as if he had pulled her knickers down and fingered her arsehole behind a bus shelter and she had loved it). Phew. She was obviously writing it to her boyfriend, not to me.
But it still raised the question of what I should do with it. Had she missed it? Was she frantically looking for it? (imagine if her parents had found it!) I did briefly wonder about burning it, but it was her property, not mine. However, when I gave it to her, she would die of embarrassment, that was obvious. What to do?
So, in the end, I marked her essay (it was very good) and put the spanking scene in a plain envelope and gave them both back to her perfectly normally in class, taking care to give her a broad smile as I did so. She looked rather puzzled by the envelope and peeped inside. Then her face went white and her jaw literally dropped -- I'd never seen that actually happen to anyone before. She looked absolutely mortified, poor thing. At the end of the lesson she seemed in a hurry to go, but I asked her, very nicely, to stay a moment. She came over to my desk looking very nervous. I decided to put her at her ease.
"Very good essay, Beth," I said.
"Thank you, Miss Brewer."
We both knew we were avoided the real point. I looked her in the eyes and smiled.