My first week as a full fledge AOK and last week of the semester was for the most part uneventful. I remained under house arrest and only got to leave the frat house three times. Twice for exams and once to organize the packing of my things at the apartment. The pledges were assigned the task of packing and moving my stuff to my new room. Since I was going to be on the council the following year I was going to be living in the AOK house. Ending my shared living arrangement with Kyle was sad but probably a good thing. Though we were not the couple we had envisioned and had acknowledged that fact, we could not truly move on while roommates. Kyle had already found another AOK to be his roommate for the fall. I never asked if he would be sharing Kyle's bed.
I packed my own suitcase with those personal items I could not live without over the summer. I had been informed that appropriate clothes would be waiting at the apartment Brock and I would be sharing in Brussels. I was told little else about my summer except that we would be visiting several cities and I had to be there ten days after school ended. My mother was unhappy to learn that I would be home for just over a week out of the whole summer.
In a way my last week on campus was like an extended goodbye. Most of the seniors would be gone when I returned to campus in the fall. A few like Brock would be staying for graduate school and living in town. But most would be off to start careers or graduate study at other universities. Troy was going to an Ivy League law school. Dom was starting as a management trainee at a company owned by an AOK alum. Dante was headed to the NFL and stardom. Scot, Gary, Ray, Randy, Calvin and Caleb were off to various parts of the country. I knew I would see them at brotherhood functions in the years to come. But our relationship would never be the same.
The week was filled with a lot of goodbye sex. Troy and Dom each spent a night with me. Kyle and Dante came by together for an afternoon romp. There were others that came by for quickies and a whole group was there one day for a wild orgy. Since I was confined to the house and the no female rule was in full effect I didn't get to see any of my female fuck buddies before leaving campus. Interestingly the most memorable liaison of the week wasn't with an old friend. It was with my new friend and pledge, Zack.
I was very attracted to him and glad that I would have the opportunity to get to know him better in the coming semester. My position on the council would provide many opportunities to bed the sexy wrestler. Two days before I was scheduled to depart I was surprised to run into him at the house. He was in the second floor corridor of the house looking lost when I came out of the shower room around midday. I managed to take full advantage of the happenstance of the meeting.
"Greetings pledge, why are you still on campus?" I asked as I offered my hand.
"Oh sorry, greetings brother, I am..er..I am leaving tonight and I left some of the books I was given here I think."
He was obviously disoriented. Which I assumed was due to some all night hazing ritual he had to endure before leaving for the summer. However, I could not let slip his failure to take my hand or use my name while greeting me.
"I am sure we can help you with that. However, first I must deal with your failure to execute a proper greeting, pledge!" I said sharply.
"Oh god, I am sorry, brother, sir, damn please don't fail me," He said in a sincerely contrite tone.
"Calm down. It is not serious enough to warrant denying you a chance to prove yourself. Come to my room and I will have Colin locate your books while we take care of correcting your errant ways."
As we walked down the hall together, I felt a great deal of pride in my transformation. I was a brother and almost instinctively conducted myself in the proper manner. I guided him into my room and took note of his trembling as I closed the door. I let him stew in his unwarranted fear as I called Colin. Though I wasn't going to be president as an incoming council member he would still jump at my word.
"One of our pledges Zack Nealon seems to have mislaid some of his study materials. I was hoping you might be able to locate them. I will be dealing with a training and discipline issue with Zack. Please just leave the books in the parlor once they are found," I said into the phone in a formal tone.
Colin acknowledged my request and assured me that the books would be ready by the time I finished with Zack. I knew that the bright sexy council gofer completely understood what I would be doing with the pledge and that we would have total privacy.
"You really should not be so fearful, Zack," I said calmly as I turned toward him and let my towel fall to the floor. "The brotherhood is about helping each other to be the best."
"But, Sir, I know that punishment is swift and severe for pledges that err."
"It is swift and fair, I would say," I retorted as I walked over to him. "Punishment is nothing more than a lesson. Pain triggers memory response and helps us not to repeat the failure."
I was quoting exactly from a ritual text. I could see in his eyes that he had no idea that the words were not mine.
"Zack you have much work to do it seems. There is a proscribed reply to those words that you should know; just as you should know by now the proper greeting of a brother. There is much ahead of you. The brotherhood offers rewards you can not yet imagine. With that comes the requirement of discipline and commitment. Are you sure that the pledge you made the other night is truly what is in your heart?"
"Yes, brother, I am committed to proving my worth and becoming a brother of the AOK. I am sorry that I have not yet been diligent enough in my studies to know the response you sought. The failure to greet you was inexcusable I know, but it was due only to my concern about the missing books and not a disrespect of you or the ways of the brotherhood."
"It is good that you know that there is no excuse for failure. The earnest words you spoke were in fact close in meaning to the ritual words. Those words are: I welcome punishment so that I may learn. I acknowledge my failure and submit myself freely to your judgment and discipline. You have said your apology and recognized your failure. Do you also accept and welcome the punishment?"
"Yes, sir. As I pledged the fair judgment of the brotherhood is all I seek."
"Bare yourself."
Zack quickly stripped off his clothes and stood naked before me. We were both erect and my true wish was to take him into my arms and embrace him tightly as we kissed. But there was a time for that and the matter at hand required a punishment. Sex would come later. I told him to bend over my bed and prostrate himself. He assumed the position perfectly. I smiled as a picture of him being trained to expose his ass for punishment came into my head. It was a bare hand spanking which was not nearly as rough as I imagined he expected. However, it did leave his ass red and warm and my palm stinging. He quickly complied when I told him to stand up and turn around. I was glad to see his cock was still rock hard.
"When next a brother offers his hand the memory of the sting will hopefully remind you to return the gesture properly."
"I promise I will not forget the generous lesson you taught me. Thank you for being so caring as to take the time to offer me discipline."