Susan Mitchell pulled on her cheerleader skirt and crop top and checked her makeup in her dorm room mirror. It was the first day of her final year at West Valley Academy, the prestigious private school she had attended for the past several years. By tradition, the cheerleaders would greet the incoming buses of first year students arriving on campus for the first time.
The 22 year old cheerleader met up with her nine fellow cheerleaders at the front of the Senior Hall and the group made its way to the main driveway. At West Valley, parents were not permitted to bring students to campus. Upperclassmen came in a week earlier on buses to get set up in their dorm rooms and then the first years would arrive a day before classes started.
The cheerleaders took their place along the main walkway with their pom-poms as the buses pulled up. As the buses reached the school entrance, the 10 girls turned in unison and with the backs to the buses, they lifted their skirts, exposing their bare bottoms to the incoming students to the hooting and hollering of the first years and their classmates.
From the school entrance strode a thin, slightly balding man Susan had never seen before. He walked up to the girls and asked "Who is the leader of this group?" Susan timidly raised her hand. The man then told the other girls to "find their underwear" and go back to their dorms while he asked Susan to follow him.
When they reached the main office, the man introduced himself as Stephen Krutz, the new headmaster of West Valley. Susan had dealt with the former headmaster, a weak and timid man named Johnathan Graves many times but was unsure of what to expect from this new headmaster. She wasn't too worried, as the cheerleaders ran the school, thanks to their close relationship with senior members of the Board of Governors.
"Miss Mitchell, am I correct," Krutz asked.
"Yes," came the reply. Susan was trying to stand as straight as she could and project as much of an air of defiance as possible.
"Miss Mitchell, could you please explain what you and your friends were doing out there today?" Krutz asked.
"It's what we do every year," Mitchell replied with a bored tone. "It's tradition. No one ever cared."
"Well, I care," Krutz said. "Whatever may have happened here before isn't going to happen this year. And before you think about talking to your friends on the Board, there is a reason Graves no longer works here, and I do."
Susan started to speak but thought better of it.
"Come over hear, place your hands on the desk and spread your legs," Krutz said.
Susan refused his request.