All characters in the story are eighteen or older.
Sorry I've been gone for a month now, but I have been slowly writing the last chapter of Gracie's story. However, this is the start of a new arc with both old and new characters (although it totally works standalone). This story is less hardcore than my recent ones if that is more to your taste. It was definitely a palate cleanser for me.
Thanks to everybody who has been commenting, favoriting, and following. I hope you enjoy.
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Jordan wished she could fast forward to tomorrow morning as she worked the shaving foam into the hair between her legs. It had only been the first week of school when she had gotten caught by the campus police for trespassing on a construction site. From what she had been told by some "friends" it was tradition to climb the crane at night and that the view was stunning. They had told her that the worst thing that could happen was that they get chased off the site, but the guards wouldn't chase them very far.
They were partially correct; the view was incredible. Jordan and the other climbers had watched the cityscape ten stories in the air, watching tiny cars buzz around underneath them. When they climbed down, the worst had happened, a flashlight had been shined in their eyes and Jordan froze. A couple of the others tried to make a run for it but there were a few campus cops and they had been tracked down as they tried to make it to the hole in the chain-link fence. They had all been written tickets and sent back home with warnings about how the ticket was better than falling off the crane.
Jordan hadn't seen any of the other students that had been written tickets since that night. No more than glimpsing them across a lecture hall, at least. She decided to avoid them, and they obviously weren't interested in staying in touch since they didn't reach out either. Jordan was angry with them and happy for all of them to get through their ordeals away from each other.
As the officer wrote the ticket, she suspected what might be in store for her. A little more than a year ago there had been a reform in the criminal justice systems. Misdemeanors and some non-violent felonies started to be punished with embarrassing and sometimes painful punishments. It had been big news when the first public punishments were being carried out in the public parks, but now they that they were being carried out a couple times a month in many cities it wasn't remarkable anymore.
Politicians and civic leaders lauded the new laws as cost cutting measures and more humane than jail and gigantic fines which took people away from their families and pushed them into poverty. "Instead of sending the breadwinner to jail," the talking heads would say, "they spend one day at the Punishment Center and then they're back with their family."
Jordan had been convinced by the rhetoric. She had even argued for them in a debate during her senior year of high school, parroting the talking points she'd heard on television and from her father. She didn't think she would ever have to worry about the new laws. She didn't plan on breaking the law after all and the cost-cutting and social justice arguments made sense to her, plus maybe some people just needed a good spanking. She was more conflicted now as her razor approached her lady parts.
Her parents had always been very protective and traditional. Her dad worked all day, her mom stayed at home, and Jordan was expected to be a "good girl." Happily, she had always lived up to their expectations. She was a cheerleader with nearly perfect grades and had never gotten into trouble. She'd never tried to get a boyfriend. Her dad had never prohibited her from having one, but she suspected that he wouldn't be very supportive. She thought she would probably follow the same path as her mom and meet her future husband in college and probably never even use her degree.
The few times she had thought about sex or her body, it hadn't seemed very important. She imagined that her first, and hopefully only, partner would help her through it on their wedding night, or at least after they had already proven to be committed to each other.
Jordan grimaced as her thick brown curly hair started to fall to her feet in the stall of the dorm shower. She certainly didn't imagine that she wouldn't have any hair down there the first time that anybody saw her naked, but that was going to happen in the next hour when four of her classmates would come to her room and watch her strip and spread her legs.
A couple weeks after receiving the ticket, a thick packet of papers had been delivered to her box in the mail room. Cases like hers weren't heard in courtrooms, instead the accused was given a sentence and they could appeal afterward. She later learned that she received one of the lowest level punishments though it seemed harsh enough for her. She'd read the Penal Summons:
Jordan Green
, you have been adjudged guilty of
trespassing
. You have been sentenced to
self-administered, short-term punishment
. Please refer to the punishment codes located in the Judicial Punishment Codebook that is included in your document packet. The code(s) that refer to you is/are