(Hey all, here's a little Justine prequel that I wrote a while back. My publisher is closing up shop and I'm not fully certain how it will effect my work here and elsewhere, but I'll try to keep you all posted as I learn more. As always, your questions and comments are welcome via the e-mail in my contact page. Enjoy!))
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You can see sin in the hips, there is no doubt about it. This is why the early mission founders were so quick to make our famous checkered skirts a standard part of the uniform, it makes the hips easy to spot. In all of St. Jude's class of students, there was no set of hips more prominent, easy-swinging, or completely sinful than the pair that belonged to Justine Thorensdottir. She walked with an easy, sensuous glide that made any viewer feel like she was always on to the next bedroom.
The school had been founded to contain and control such lusts, accepting only students of 18 years or older, those in that most tumultuous and tempestuous time between high school and college who were either born such that they were the elders among their peers or had been held back a year.
If her hips were prominent, her breasts were downright obscene! The humongous twin udders on her chest swung around with all the lewdness of Babylon, even when contained in a bra physics could do nothing to stop their natural sway and bounce, only emphasized by the counter-point of that too-round posterior. I'd watch her enter the school each and every day, that long walk to her locker and then onto her homeroom class, taking note of how others looked at her, documenting their shame for my own purposes later.
How hungrily their eyes would devour her, how carelessly their heads would turn, their lips would part, their bosoms would heave. Obsession with Justine was a problem for virtually all of the student body, most if not all of the teachers, and even Headmaster McMinamin didn't seem immune to her charms. At times I could see his Judas of an erection poking through his robe when in her presence. It as though she was so shameless should could strip away all the shame of those around her, leaving only rutting beasts in heat for her to taunt and torment. I only shudder to think how much worse things would be if there were young men in this school.
She'd come to us as a late start; there was some very tight-lipped murkiness from the top about exactly what had necessitated her transfer to St. Jude's or why we'd opted to accept her, but I didn't doubt for a moment that it had something to do with the vast aura of sex that surrounded the 18-year-old girl.
Whatever it was that had happened, it clearly didn't shatter her emotionally or anything; she smiled without care most of the time, made friends easily (at least among those who were not too intimidated by her for such a connection) and even seemed to keep up quite well in all her classes.
But I knew the truth; knew what a demon the girl was, and just how hard I'd have to work to keep her from hellfire one day. A few weeks after she'd arrived I chose to confront her, stopping her between that walk from her locker to classroom. I was in a hall that she was passing, arms folded as I looked her up and down, and finally spoke my mind.
"I'm watching you, Justine," I growled. I expected her to increase her footsteps, or to drop her books in startled shock, or perhaps to pretend she hadn't heard me in fear.
What she did instead was far worse; she put one hand to the side of her head coquettishly and cocked her hips, looking back over her shoulder like a Betty
Grable pin-up and actually batted her eyes at me!
"I don't blame you, Sister Valencia, everyone else seems to be!" She shook her butt a little, taunting me before she giggled and walked on. I was left slack-jawed and gaping after her, watching that pendulum of an ass sway back and forth before she disappeared into the classroom door. I was overcome with an decidedly un-Christian anger and stomped my way to Father McMinamin's office, throwing the door wide as I burst in, finding the good headmaster bent over his desk, a few translations of scripture opened to the same verses on his desk.
Without looking up he murmured, "Good Morning Sister Valencia."
"I'm not going to apologize for not knocking!" I said.
"You never do either of those things," he said distractedly, putting his finger to one word as he looked for the same in another version. His calm was more infuriating than Thorensdotir's wickedness!
"Well this time it's because I'm TOO angry!"
Finally he gave up, sighing and leaning back to regard me with his always sad-eyed gaze.
"What is courting your wrath this morning, good Sister?"
"It's that new transfer student, Justine. I can sense an arrogance in her, and lust in her demeanor!"
"Well, that's quite serious. What would you like me to do exactly, hm?"
I thought a long moment, not letting myself talk for fear of stammering. A prickling sensation traveled up the back of my neck and I felt warm beneath my wimple; as obvious as her wickedness was to me, it had not yet translated into a punishable action, nothing the headmaster could say, bring as a reason for expulsion to Justine's parents.
I clenched a fist at my hip as I spoke, "Just... just keep an EYE on her! I promise you, she'll act on her nature in time, and you do not want to miss it, lest we risk her corrupting the other students."
Father McMinamin tried to hide his smug little smile underneath a frown and steepled his hands, "Very well, Sister Valencia, I promise I shall be vigilant in the utmost!"
"That is all I ask," I said, my rage abated for the moment. I turned on my heels and left much calmer than I'd arrived.
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Weeks passed and I found myself quite irate that the headmaster made good on his promise. He was definitely watching Justine, yet I couldn't help but feel that his eyes were wandering far more to the problem areas themselves rather than trying to somehow catch her in the midst of bad behavior. Still, she was keeping her nose surprisingly clean, not deliberately taunting me that I could see, and if she was flaunting her body, it wasn't in ways I could document or point to.
All that changed however, when we decided to put on that stupid pageant.
As a Catholic all-girls school, of course, we did not hold dances, nor allow for our students to perform in athletic events associated with the stronger sex, yet from time-to-time, largely for fundraising purposes, we would allow our students to turn to the dramatic arts, putting on various re-enactments of biblical scenes or even staged interpretations of C.S. Lewis from time-to-time. I never much cared for his brand of secularized faith, but I know money moves the world and dropped all complaint when I saw just how much a successful production can bring in.
Thus, I largely ignored our occasional drama program, but when I found out that Justine had turned out to perform, I could be found in the back of the auditorium every day, watching just what was going on in this season's production of "The Screwtape Letters."
For a time, it was dreadfully boring. Untalented young women acting badly, saying the same lines over and over again. After a few days I was quite sure that there would ultimately be nothing to see here, but I hadn't actually seen Justine on the stage yet. When we got to the small part she'd been given I took serious interest; among the various temptations the main character known only as The
Patient goes through as the forces of Hell try to sway him into their camp, there is a moment where a licentious woman attempts to seduce him.
Guess who was to play the temptress? Of course it was her! I would have to speak to the drama teacher at some point to figure out whether the little skank had volunteered for this role, or if rather, instead, seeing her lush curves and confident swagger she'd been cast simply because she fit the part. I clenched my fists as she spoke through her lines.
If I'm being perfectly honest, she was actually one of the better actors; I shouldn't have been surprised, the dramatic arts are deceitful by nature, and here was a deceiver in the ample flesh before us all! She was definitely leaning into her roll, tilting her pelvis to show off the curve of her hips at the young woman chosen to play Henry, even moving so that her heavy bust would give a jiggle or bounce from time-to-time (was she even wearing a bra? She was so firm! It was hard to tell!)