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.
"Miss Mitchell, you have two choices. Do what I say or pack your bags."
Susan came from a middle class family in a small town a few miles from West Valley. West Valley was the home for rich students who were looking for careers in politics and government, Thanks to a college fund from her late stepfather and the extra hours Susan's mom put in at work to scrape together the money, Susan was able to attend West Valley. Getting expelled was not an option, so the young woman walked over to the desk, placed her palms down on it and spread her legs several inches apart.
Krutz came over and kicked at her left ankle, spreading it a good foot-and-a-half from the other. Susan looked back surprised, but held her tongue. She was thinking how much fun she was going to have when she went to her friends on the Board and reported what Krutz was doing.
Susan felt Krutz lift up her skirt and she put her head down. Krutz grabbed a large paddle from the wall and brought it over. He lifted it and gave it a good swing against the girl's bare butt. Susan gasped and yelped as the paddle hit her. Krutz gave her four more swats, each one seemingly more powerful than the rest. Then he set the paddle down and walked around to the front of his desk.
"Miss Mitchell, please stand up and take off the rest of your clothes."
Susan said, "I don't think so. The Board of Governors will hear about this."
Krutz replied, "The Board has enough issues with everything they have allowed over the years. The private parties with the cheerleaders, for example? They will not want any of that going public. So I am not going to repeat myself again. Do what I tell you to do."