EVERYONE IN THIS STORY IS 18.
16 + 2 = 18!
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Michael slapped another brush full of paint onto the wall, carefully working it in to the lumps and bumps of the textured paper. He was getting tired now and his temper was starting to wear thin with his daughter Susie.
"Susie... you've got paint all down this bit here, I told you not to get it on the wood, that's going to be a right pain in the arse to get off now!"
On the other side of the room, Susie huffed loudly, slapping paint ever more randomly and messily onto her bedroom wall.
"Are you listening to me?"
Susie turned and glared at her father.
"If you don't like it then do it yourself, I didn't want to paint the stupid walls anyway."
"No, cos you've got so much better things to do... like getting into trouble with your friends and hanging around the streets in the freezing cold weather."
"Better than being here," muttered the girl.
"What did you say?" Asked her father, agitated with her tone.
"Nothing..."
Michael sighed, Susie was such a nice girl until she turned 16 a couple of years ago. Since then she seemed to have become a complete nightmare.
"Oh... fuck!"
Michael turned around to see his daughter standing in a pool of paint next to her overturned can.
"Oh for Christ's sake Susie! Go and get a rag... and turn that can the right way up before any more gets on the carpet.
Susie bolted out of the door leaving a trail of red footprints across the bedroom carpet.
"STOP!" Bellowed her father. "Take your damn boots off and come back here."
"Shit..." muttered the girl, as she looked behind her and saw what she'd done.
She unlaced her shoes and walked nervously back into her bedroom. Suddenly her teenage 'attitude' deserted her and she felt like a kid again, she knew she was in trouble and her first instinct was to fall back on playing at being Daddy's girl like she used to when she was naughty, but somehow she knew that probably wasn't going to work now.
Michael watched as she walked bare-footed back into the room, Susie stood no more than 5' 2" and at nigh on 6' he towered over her.
"Why are you giving me so much hassle lately girl?"
"Susie looked up at her Daddy through her blond fringe.
"Dunno..." she mumbled.
"Don't care, more like!" Corrected her father.
"Cos you treat me like a kid..."
"You are a bloody kid."
"No I'm not!"
"Oh really... and, what's that?" Michael said peering at a 'bruise' on her neck.
"What?"
"There, on your neck, that mark?"
"It's..."
"I know perfectly well what it is my girl. And you can consider yourself grounded for a week."
"WHAT!"
"You heard me, I'm sick of your behaviour - you can stay in and do some chores for a change."
Susie turned to leave, tossing a barely audible 'Fuck you' over her shoulder as she did so.
"Come back here!" Bellowed Michael. "Right now!"
Susie stopped in her tracks, she hadn't heard that tone from her father in a very long time and the last time it had been the precursor to a very sore bottom.
"Get here NOW!"
Susie wasn't risking that and stepped out of the door. Within a few seconds she felt her father's hand grab her wrist and pull her back into the bedroom.
"I told you to 'come here'!"
"Owww!" Wailed the girl twisting her arm to try and break her father's grip.
"Oh shut up, I haven't even touched you yet..."
Susie felt herself being pushed down over her father's lap, she tried to struggle but her slight frame was no match for her father's powerful arms.
"Stop struggling, you're only making it worse for yourself."
Susie continued to wriggle for a moment or two and then gave up, it was clearly a lost cause and she slumped, defeated. As she lay there she started to get a little scared, waiting for her punishment to begin.
"You've really tested my patience these last few weeks girl, well, no more..."