[This is part of a series, and you likely will enjoy it more if you have read the earlier installments, but it is not critical to read them. There is some limited reference to bodily functions so those offended by such mention should read no further. All characters are over 18.]
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Deirdre Carmody was enjoying her visit to her niece Laura Franklin's weekend school. The school was designed to permit adult men and women who likely had attended school in the days when teachers and principals had free reign with the cane to experience again as adults the complex feelings that strict school discipline inspired in their youth.
She had just returned to her commodious room after she had disciplined Laura, her niece and the Headmistress, in front of her faculty colleagues: Melody Haynes, an older woman who had actually been Laura's own teacher; Anne Smithers, a former classmate of Laura's and all of 25; and Diana Prentice, a striking blonde of 20 who was serving as a prefect and had already shown herself to be a superb disciplinarian.
Laura had herself played the role of prefect to Anne's teacher, only to disclose at the final assembly, where she took charge of the disciplinary proceedings, that she was indeed the Headmistress who ran the school.
Diana was perceptive beyond her years and decided to pay Deirdre a visit after the initial gathering where Deirdre had punished and shamed Laura after Laura had done similarly to her aunt, but in private. She knocked on the door to Deirdre's guest suite.
Deirdre, who was a warm, open lady who had indeed raised Laura with a firm hand but with the best of intentions, welcomed her guest. "Please come in, dear," she said soothingly. "How can I be of help?"
"I just wanted to get acquainted," Diana said coolly. "I wanted to tell you how effectively I thought you disciplined Miss Franklin, and how much I learned from your demonstration."
"Why thank you," Deirdre responded. "I'm not used to receiving compliments from such accomplished young women of your age, so I am most appreciative."
"Laura does discipline us in private," Diana related to Deirdre, "but that was the first time we ever saw her take it, and certainly in front of any of us. I'm really hoping to learn from you while you are visiting. Did you punish Laura quite frequently when she was growing up?
"Well, dear," Deirdre began, "physical discipline was so much more common and more accepted—more normal—in those days, of course."
"But, no, Laura could be mischievous as any daughter," she continued. "I merely made her understand that there would be consequences to naughty behavior. May I ask if you were disciplined at home, dear?"
The normally imperturbable Diana blushed for an instant and responded, "Yes, Miss Carmody, my mother did take me in hand when she felt I needed it."
"Please, call me Deirdre, or if you like, Aunt Dee, the way Laura does," Deirdre said warmly. "I do already feel that we should be friends."
"I do like the idea of calling you Aunt Dee," Diana said very plainly, "because I can see myself benefitting from being punished by you in a way that I don't find as productive from the others."
"I'm quite pleased that you feel that way," Deirdre answered calmly. "May I ask if there is anything in particular that you feel you would deserve to receive positive discipline now to improve your conduct?"
Diana again showed a flash of embarrassment. "I hope I'm not seen as being weak, Aunt Dee," she said, "but when a woman in my class the other day talked back to me in a slightly disrespectful way, I lowered the boom on her. I put down a red F for her in Conduct in front of the class, disciplined her on the spot, and then punished her quite severely in front of the school at the assembly. I'm starting to feel I was a bit too quick to act and may have punished out of proportion to her offense."
"People do come to this school for disciplining among other renewal of friendships and memories from their school days," Deirdre replied. "I'm sure the woman expected that the teachers would not take kindly to sarcasm of any kind. In point of fact, I would suggest that your colleagues probably hold you in high regard for maintaining standards despite your own recent initiation as a mistress in school. But perhaps you would feel better if we I imposed a bit of discipline now to remind you of the need to retain your presence and to reserve major impositions even when so challenged?"
"Yes, I would, Aunt Dee," Diana heard herself say. She had no idea of what she might be letting herself in for.
"Well, then, there's no time like the present," Deirdre stated in her most teacherly manner. "Miss Prentice, I understand you are in need of some reminding to observe the manner of your classroom behavior and not to overreact to every stimulus that pupils may present. Now, kindly stand before me and take what's coming to you."
Diana felt herself revert to her former self and stood ashamedly in front of the middle-aged Deirdre.
"Lift your skirt well above your waist, Diana," Deirdre said briskly.
When Diana complied by holding her stylish short skirt up, disclosing her even more daring maroon thong, Deirdre stood behind her, put her thumbs in the waistband of the tiny garment, and pulled it down to Diana's ankles.
"Hmm," Deirdre said with some condescension, "you young women do wear such inappropriate underwear these days." She reached into a drawer and extracted a pair of classic girl's school knickers, plain white and definitely snug-fitting and even scratchy.
"You will put these on, Miss Prentice," she intoned, "once you have been disciplined for your behavior."
Deirdre was actually very impressed with Diana's austere presence, despite her being 20, and the dignity she still exuded even in the embarrassing posture of having her skirt lifted above her waist and her knickers taken down to her ankles.
"As you can see, Diana," Deirdre continued, "while you have dressed as a schoolmistress who appears clothed with supreme authority, now you are merely a naughty girl meriting appropriate discipline."
Diana almost shivered as she realized that Deirdre was able to see her most private, intimate places, which reminded her of when her own mother would put her through her paces when Diana had misbehaved at home. She well remembered how her mother, whom she loved deeply but still feared mightily, would place her in this very same ignominious position and remark, almost offhandedly, "You know, Diana, that I can see your naughty little bottom-hole and your lady bits down there and that you will never be too old for me to take down those knickers and let anyone who happens to be here when you have misbehaved see them, too, if you insist on defying me," were her mother's oft-repeated words on such occasions.
As Diana prepared to lay across Deirdre's lap, she recalled with shame how her mother would then dip a thermometer in Vaseline and insert it in Diana's anus, taking her temperature rectally, purely, Diana thought, to embarrass her. Diana found that this all returned to hound her whenever she touched her anal opening, even to wipe herself after a call of nature.
Her mom then sometimes would administer an enema with a plain white bulb syringe, the mere sight of which would scare Diana enough to force her to use her developing pelvic muscles to retain her pee.