"Next!" calls a voice, an upper-class, middle aged woman by the sound of it.
A hand in the small of my back pushes me firmly forward into the gloom.
I advance, the click of my high heels echoing through the large space.
As my eyes grow accustomed to the semi-darkness, I see a simple wooden chair, and stop by it, my hand resting lightly on the back.
There is a distant "clunk" sound, and I'm suddenly blinded by a spotlight. I instinctively raise my hand to shield my eyes, but then remember that I am a professional, and force myself to lower it again, and smile towards my unseen audience, who I can hear murmuring out in the darkness of the theatre.
"Let down your hair," orders the disembodied voice. I quickly untie the ribbon holding my ponytail, and toss it aside as I shake my head, letting my dark hair tumble past my shoulders.
"Turn."
I slowly turn around to give them a good look at me.
The second time I have my back to the audience, the voice orders me to stop.
"Raise your skirt."
This is always the first thrill for me. 'Always'? Yes, I've done this before.
I slowly pull my knee-length grey wool skirt up, exposing first the tops of my lace stockings around my shapely thighs, and then my pert bottom. One side of my white cotton knickers rides up, exposing my cheek, and I give a slight shiver as the cool air hits it. My sense of symmetry and what's left of my modesty wants to pull it back down, but I know what my public wants, and I remain standing, exposed to them.
"The first bid is for a spanking, over the knickers, twelve strokes."
A different voice, a man this time, begins to run the auction, and my bottom is soon sold.
A balding, middle aged man in a tweed suit climbs up onto the stage from my right and sits down on the chair. I hike my skirt all the way up around my waist, straighten my knickers, and lay myself across his lap, legs clamped tightly together. He lays one hand across my back, and I can feel he's already hard as he strokes my bottom with the other, then I tense up as he lifts that one. He brings it down firmly, first on my left cheek, then the right.
"Is that ok?" he whispers.
"You've paid good money," I reply quietly, "you can go as hard as you like."
He lays down four more strokes, much harder this time, and I grab the chair legs to stop myself clutching my stinging bottom.
He pauses and strokes my sore cheeks for a few seconds, and I reflect, not for the first time, about what I am doing here, selling myself for the use of the highest bidder. The auction house takes fifteen percent, the venue another fifteen, but the rest is mine to fund college. I also get a cut of the entrance fee, although that's much smaller, since it's split among all the girls for sale tonight. Much better than waitressing!
He's done fondling, and his erect cock is now trying to burrow its way into my belly through his trousers.
He lays down five more spanks, and I know he wants to savour the last one. As a treat, I part my legs, and feel him take a sharp intake of breath. He strokes me again, letting his hand slide between my legs and brushing my pussy lips through the flimsy cloth, then 'whack!', he hits me for the last time, hard enough to make me yelp out loud.
He helps me to my feet, thanks me politely, and tries to hide his erection as he walks back off the stage, to the amusement of the other guests.
"Remove your skirt," comes the hard female voice.
I unclasp it, slip it down and step out of it, and hand it to a young woman who has emerged from the shadows. For the first time, the audience sees the front of my knickers, and it thrills me to know there's just the thinnest piece of fabric preventing them from seeing my shaved snatch.
"Now your blouse."
I slowly unbutton the crisp white blouse and slip it off my shoulders. Once again, the young woman relieves me of it.
I'm standing there in front of over a hundred people in just my underwear and heels. I pull my belly in and push my tits out to let the lacy bra do its thing. I chose one that's slightly too small so that my ample boobs look ready to spill out of the cups. I know what sells!
"The next item for sale is to remove the bra and clamp the nipples."
I shiver with excitement as the auctioneer begins.
"Are they real?" calls out a man's voice.