I'd just turned 18, and was heading into the final few months of my high school years. Then something happened that year that would change the rest of my life forever.
School started like any other Friday: I caught up with the other guys, giving each other a hard time with whatever banter we could come up with, then trying to predict the weekend football results and arguing over who the best players were. Not being one of the real jocks, nor in the typical cool crowd, I just knew who and what I liked, and luckily managed to make a few friends that way. It worked well enough, and I'd got through those high school years mostly unscathed.
As far as it went with the girls, that was a bit of a different story. I was friendly enough with some of them, but was basically locked down in the friend zone, still very much a virgin, and well behind on any 'bases' you were supposed to have covered by 18. In my first two years of high school, I'd managed to develop something of a 'creep' reputation with some of the girls. I don't completely know why, but it was probably because I'd get caught staring at breasts or short skirts once too often, or maybe just my lack of confidence talking to any of them.
Whatever it was, that reputation was about to take a whole new turn.
Every second school Friday started with an assembly of all the students in the hall. Announcements, awards, meetings, notices, and other matters were all done then. Most of us normally just switched off and waited for things to close. We sat around in the back messing around, trying not to get caught.
But something was different that day. In between all of our shenanigans, I somehow caught the one announcement that wasn't just a boring drone. Carrying clearly across the assembly hall, Ms. Berkowitz's voice called out:
"Would all senior girls please stay behind in the hall, for our regular meeting."
That seriously piqued my interest. I'd heard via the grapevine, only recently, that those 'meetings' were a subtle announcement for something else. They weren't even that 'regular'. They were always announced the same or similar way, with no further detail ever being given, and it seemed to happen in no particular pattern or order. My curiosity was starting to grow, so I tried to think about what it could be.
The problem was that I only had some theories for what it might be, but I'd never find our or know for sure. Thinking about the upcoming end of year, I didn't know when I'd next have a chance to find out. The idea of that mystery not being solved got the better of me. I gave in to my curiosity knowing somewhere in the back of my mind that it was a risky decision, but too excited to give it much attention.
The general crowd filed out of the hall, slowly exiting through the various doors. I was lucky to be the only one of my friends who had a free period straight after assembly, so I said goodbye to my friends, and headed in the opposite direction, saying I was going to go do some work in the library. Instead, I took a back route that led to a little known door around one of the alleys.
That door led backstage of the hall's main stage area, and I only knew where it was from working on a few school plays. I was hoping to find a space backstage where I could see back through the side of the curtain to the main hall area. I crept up behind some of the stage equipment, very slowly to the end of the curtain at the side of the stage, and...jackpot!
All the senior girls were there with Ms. Berkowitz, and my position was just behind her. I couldn't believe my luck when I realized that they'd only just settled down for her to start this supposed 'meeting'.
"Alright girls, quiet down. Let's get this started as quickly as possible so that you're not too late for your classes."
She always had a way of standing and speaking that immediately told you who was in control: her. Ms. Berkowitz was in her mid-thirties, about 5'9", with dark auburn hair that was kind of short, but without being masculine in any way. Her figure wasn't skinny, but slim, with curves in all the right places, including her seemingly perfect 36C tits. She was always dressed in tightfitting, neat clothes, and seemed to me like the woman who wears lacy black underwear underneath it all (or maybe that was just me fantasising). I managed to bring myself out of my daydreaming about her in a state of undress, just in time to catch up on what she was saying.
"Have we got all the doors and curtains closed? Yes? Good. Now, as you all know" she began, "all of us teachers keep a keen eye on adherence to the school dress code, and it must be said that those of us who are more...observant...have seen a number of you not keeping to the simple school rules on underwear."
I could see many of the girls getting nervous, and one or two were shifting uncomfortably in their seats. In the meantime, I was completely transfixed, hypnotized and excited. Could what I thought was going on really be happening?
"As per our previous 'meetings'," she mimicked quotation marks here and added extra irony to her emphasis, "we will be inspecting each of your states of dress, after which you can all return to class, immediately! I'll be sitting over here," she indicated a chair a few feet behind her (and about ten feet in front of me!) "and I want each of you to come forward, lift you skirt first at the front, then the back, so that I can check that you're complying completely with school rules".
This was too good to be true! Here I was, with a perfect view of a panty inspection! Truth be told, I had a bit of a thing for lingerie, and panties especially.
They were just so intriguing to me; so many different kinds, colours, and fabrics, coyly hidden like a naughty secret, yet often seen by accident if you just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
For me, this was definitely the right place at the perfect time.
"Allow me to remind you that, any of you found not to be wearing the regulation white or black panties with lace trim, will have your current underwear confiscated and replaced appropriately".
I could see a few faces of displeasure at this. It seems some girls had had it happen to them before and, judging from the conversation and the gestures, the replacement panties were pretty small and tight.
Ms. Berkowitz looked down a list and said "Tracy Ascott, let's start with you."
I could barely contain my breathing. Tracy got up on her long, slender legs and walked nervously over to the teacher. She was quite pretty, though a bit thin and not really my type. She stopped, stood in front of Ms. Berkowitz, and lifted her skirt just a little, barely showing anything and let it back down again.
"Come on now Tracey, you don't have to show the whole group but I need you to lift that skirt right up, until I tell you to drop it and turn around for the other side. That goes for all of you by the way!" she said, addressing the other girls.
Tracy looked down, crestfallen, and lifted her skirt high and held it there. She revealed a pair of very skimpy light blue panties, with a thicker than normal lace waistband, and only a small triangle of nylon covering her vagina.
"Well now, not off to a good start are we? Turn around and show me the back"
The back turned out to be a thin thong, and showed off a nice, tight ass. Even though I did feel somewhat guilty for spying, I could barely concentrate on anything but the scene before me, and of course: my growing erection.