All people in this story are over eighteen years of age.
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Jeremy did not know what to expect from this meeting. He responded to an advertisement for a home tutor during the summer holidays. This was usually a period of little study and even less demand for teachers and it were only the very good and the well-connected teachers that would be in demand during this time. At the age of 23 Jeremy only started teaching a year ago and was expecting this to be the usual failing student where the family had some spare cash or wanted to prepare the student for the final year marathon, hoping to make up for five years of slacking off in one summer. He was surprised to receive a letter from the First Evangelical Church near the centre of town in an extremely well to do neighbourhood, inviting him for an interview.
The invitation to an interview only had the address of the church, so that is where Jeremy decided to travel to. Being conservative and a little shy he made sure he arrived in plenty of time for his interview. The invitation was for Sunday at 11.30 in the morning, but arriving at ten minute to eleven, Jeremy walked into a packed church and watched the last several minutes of the service. It took further twenty minutes for the people to trickle out of the church with many members of the congregation stopping to thank the minister for the service, sharing a story or two before moving on. Jeremy waited for the church to empty out and then he returned back to the church and sat down on the edge of the pew all the way at the back of the church. The church was silent and he used the time to reflect and to calm the nervousness that was now building up within him as the time of his interview was approaching.
Soon the noises from the outside subsided and Jeremy managed to calm down as well. Starting to look around he noticed that his shoelace was untied. He crouched down in the pew to properly re-tie his shoe. Being a perfectionist, Jeremy also re-tied the other one as well, knowing full well that if one worked itself loose, so could the other. He was surprised to find that when he straightened out at his pew, there were people sitting at the front of the church in the first pew. A man, dressed in a dark suit with greying and bolding head of hair. A woman dressed in a white summer dress. The third was another woman, more likely a daughter of the older couple, also in white cotton dress with a light pattern on it. They were all sitting in silence with their head bowed, and he wondered who they were, far too shy to investgate or to disturb them.
Jeremy sat in silence, stealing the occasional look towards the family at the head of the church in the front pew and then at his wrist watch as the time of his interview came and went. He was glad he dressed in his Sunday best.
He just checked his watch. It was two minutes before quarter to twelve, when the man in the front pew stood up. He spoke something to the woman, but at this distance, Jeremy could not understand what was said. Turning around, the man suddenly spotted Jeremy at the back of the church and his face lit up. Jeremy suddenly felt like he was spying on them, and wanted to quickly stand up and walk away, but the man's booming voice stopped him.
"Are you Jeremy?" the voice echoed around the church and Jeremy realised that the voice sounded familiar.
"Yes," Jeremy stood up and nodded as the man was already taking giant strides own the centre passage of the church towards Jeremy.
"Mother, the young man has been waiting for the interview all along, we just did not see him," he called out as the two women stood up and filed out of the pew. They however waited at the head of the church.
"I am so glad you came, we were not sure if you could make it on such short notice and on a Sunday, but I was keen to start this as soon as possible." He reached Jeremy and shook his hand. It was then, that Jeremy recognised the voice and the person; it was the Minister that just delivered the service. He was glad he did not know the letter came from a minister. He would never have been able to build up the courage to attend the meeting. But soon, the friendly and easy going nature of the minister helped to relaxed Jeremy as well. They walked back up the central passage and he introduced them to his wife Helen and their daughter Claire.
"Claire her just finished high school," the Reverend launched directly into the subject at hand, "but she failed to get good grades. Good enough to get to a decent university around the country. I even threatened to cancel her eighteenth birthday party, but nothing worked. So in the end, she had her eighteenth birthday and her party and she still failed her classes. Helen my wife is also a teacher, but it is not easy to be a mother and a teacher in the one house. She agreed for you to come in, but she want to interview you herself as well, to make sure you are the right person to tutor Claire."
"You see," the Reverend looked a little embarrassed as he admitted to Jeremy," a Dean of the university here in town is a personal friend and he agreed to give her a make-up test at the end of summer. But she must get a passing mark. Now I could not ask any of our friends to help out, because well, it is a little embarrassing that our daughter needs a tutor." The reverend and the mother exchanged embarrassed looks, and then the mother gave the daughter a very stern look. The daughter looked down, too embarrassed to even look up or participate in the conversation.
"Girls, why don't you go back to the house," the Reverend continued, "I'll have a quick chat with Jeremy here and then I'll bring him home."
"I'll see you inside in a few minutes," his wife Helen smiled, "lovely to meet you," she shook Jeremy's hand and started walking. Her daughter mumbled something under her breath and not looking up turned away and followed her mother out of the church side door. Both men followed the girls with their eyes as they were walking out the church. Jeremy noticed that they both had a nice body shape.
"Nice girls," the minister commented.
"You have a beautiful family," Jeremy quickly recovered but did not look up directly at the minister. He was afraid that the man could read the lust in his eyes.
"I don't know about that. Claire is sometime a little embarrassing. She seemed so shy that it is almost rude. That is why I think she has done so badly at school. She is smart enough, but when you get her embarrassed or ask her to talk in front of a group of people, she freezes up. If you can help her with her confidence that is the main thing that I think she needs. You know, help her to break out of her shell. If you can help her pass the exam at the end of summer that would be a great bonus. Now if mother will be happy with you, we will get you to come here first and I will pay you, and then you can come home and give the lesson. I have told the congregation that Helen is tutoring you, so that is another condition of your job. I don't really want to know what goes on, so that I do not have to lie. You now go to my home. Helen will do her bit and then you can talk with Claire. I am tied up all day with the congregation, so I will not be home until tonight." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a large wad of bills. He counted off ten twenties and passed them over to Jeremy. They shook hands and the man led Jeremy to the door on the side of the church and pointed out the large house next to the church where the minister and his family lived.
The minister returned back to the church, as Jeremy, feeling relieved that the interview was so quick and that he seemed to have easily sailed through it, made his way up to the door. Standing in front of the door however, he realised that there was a rhythmic thuds and crying coming out from inside the house. Uncertain of what to do, his hand reached up and banged on the old fashioned knocker. The thuds and the crying stoped, but there was now only silence. He banged on the door again. Silence. He waited and then finally heard some approaching steps.
"Oh hello Jeremy," Helen opened the door, smiling pleasantly, "you are just in time, come on in." She closed the door and led him down the corridor towards a door directly opposite the entrance.
"Here come inside," she beckoned, as she opened the door, walking in first herself.
Jeremy reeled back. The room behind the door was large. Inside was a small dining room table on the right, but dominating the room was a giant wooden structure. Jeremy did not at first understand the purpose of the structure, but all he noticed was Clair getting up from it, her naked bottom glowing red from a recent spanking she just received. As she straightened up, her skirt that was lifted over he back exposing her naked backside fell back into place, covering her nudity. It was obvious that she was the source of the crying. Her face was red and still streaked in tears, though she seemed to have regained her composure and was again only looking at the floor. Her white pantyhose as well as her plain white undies were rolled down to her angles.
"As you can see Jeremy, in this house, we punish bad behaviour." Helen started as a way of explanation of the situation, "I told her to speak clearly, and to say hello and good-bye and shake people's hands with people, but she will not listen the easy way, so we do it the hard way." Turning towards Claire her voice turned harsh as she reminded her of what proper behaviour was towards people and that she should now practice it again on Jeremy.
"Hello," Clair offered her hand that felt hot and wet in Jeremy's hand as she briefly looked up into his eyes before looking down again. Jeremy stopped frozen on the spot, but now stepped back into the hall to let Claire pass. His eyes followed her slow progress down the corridor and into the last door on the right. Her gait restricted by the white pantyhose and white undies around her ankles.
"Come in," Helen repeated again, inviting him into the room again. It was only then that Jeremy realised that Helen carried a wooden paddle in her hand. It had holes drilled through the flat part of it, to help decrease the air resistance and to improve the speed of impact.