Since we are starting a new day, we have to set some groundwork first. If you're wanting something immediately titillating then you're probably not on part 4 of this series, but you can skip to the next break (* * * * *) to get into the action. But the exposition is critical for me to write the characters and world genuinely.
Includes a true punishment, reasonable pain, and semi-public humiliation.
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Evelyn made sure not to have any contact with Ori for the next few days. He was in her health class, but she made every effort not to acknowledge him. Ms Lin was also mute for her part, moving on like nothing happened, and for Evelyn that was the best outcome. Of course, when she got home after the event she almost immediately masturbated into one of her hardest orgasms, but that was more about physical stimulation and so would any girl in her place; now she was past it.
She was still curious what else the school might come up with under these 'new regulations', so she did a quick google search about it. One of the pages she sleuthed out was from a feminist group fighting the guidelines. Seeing that they sent out a newsletter, Evelyn decided to give it a shot and entered her email. She would probably just unsubscribe in a couple months, but she figured it was better to stay informed about what the administrators had up their sleeves. She would be damned before they put her in another punishment like the last one, and she was sympathetic to other girls' causes.
Surprisingly, she got an email the very next day. The address was a local news station, KBBL, who was apparently looking to run a story about her school's new policies. They apologized for the lack of privacy, but said they found her email by IP tracing her visit to the civil rights website. It was a particularly urgent time with the administrators 'just about to roll out the new policy' (if only they knew...) and they had no local supporters they could interview.
KBBL was legitimate, and she pained to think of another girl getting sucked into Mr Robin's sex cult. It could just as easily be one of her friends. A couple days later she decided to at least send them some thoughts, but she would only do so on the condition of absolute anonymity.
News of her punishment apparently hadn't gotten out since she hadn't heard anything about it from her classmates. She was sure Ori was going to brag about it at the top of his lungs, but that didn't seem to have happened. Maybe he
was
trying to make things right between them. She still hated his fucking guts, but she was glad he was trying not to make her life any more difficult at this point. The two student volunteers, for their part, were goody-two-shoes who wouldn't do anything to spite the administration, and she was sure Mr Robin made them swear silence before letting them in the room, so she might just be free and clear.
Her contact at the station, Robby, said she could give a textual account of her experience, but there was no guarantee that the story would air without someone giving at least an in-person, verbal interview. 'It pulled at viewer's heartstrings', or some bullshit like that. No, doing such an interview was beyond her capabilities, but she felt it was her duty at this point to get everything on paper. It was going to be so goddamn humiliating to share, but maybe some good would come of it.
So, she wrote the whole session down with clinical detail, four pages in all. Starting was hard, but once she got into it she fell into an activist's mindset and wrote from the position of justice. She even appended a scathing description of the primary offenders: Mr Robin, Mr Simmons, and Ori. This would never make it into the publication, but maybe it would help the station explain to the viewers the kind of people she was dealing with and do some of that 'heartstring pulling'.
Robby received it with empathy, but it was quickly apparent that the story wouldn't go anywhere without the viewers being able to verify her identity. Robby apologized and said that this was how most exposés ended up, but Evelyn was aggravated. After everything she went through and did, her story still wasn't going to do any good.
But Robby was still determined to get leverage on this story. He knew from Evelyn's writing that this 'Ms Lin' would cave if he got to her, and that meant a possible audio recording. His plan was to threaten the school administration with release of Evelyn's account of the story if he didn't get an honest interview with Ms Lin. It was win-win: either they accepted and he got an interview with Ms Lin or they looked suspicious and he could convince his boss to put more resources on the story. People like school admins never refuse an interview unless there's a story to be uncovered; in a way it would be a litmus test for Evelyn's story (which to his eye seemed rock-solid, if extraordinary in content).
Since Evelyn had no knowledge of Robby's plans, she was surprised to find Mr Robin in the doorway of one of her classes the next day, calling her to his office. Frankly, he looked pissed.
"Young lady, you're going to tell me why I have a reporter knocking on
my
door talking about how
my
school has been caught red-handed in 'civil rights violations'. And why he comes in here flaunting this --" he picked up a stapled packet "-- piece of, of... character assassination and slander, threatening to get
my
teachers fired and
my own
career reduced to garbage. Because I know it isn't because some teenage girl cried wolf from her own punishment."
Oh, fuckfuckfuckfuck. How could Robby do this to her? Did she not make it clear what kind of person Mr Robin was? That motherfucker just handed her ass to her on a silver platter!
He flipped the packet to the last page. "Let me try to jog your memory. Did you by chance write, 'Richard Simmons: a dick in a human-shaped shell, this pervert would be all but swooning over the chance to enact a twisted, misogynistic environment--"
Evelyn cringed. That did sound bad. But it was the truth, and she didn't know of any rules she explicitly broke. "Please, I can explain. That was never supposed to make it to publication. Heck, the story wasn't even going to be run. I just wanted to get an objective telling of the story down. It's not fair--"
"Not
fair?
Don't even talk to me about not fair! 'Dave Robin: the political mastermind, this narcissistic pervert would strip every girl in school if it meant he would get a slightly bigger desk...' Is that really how you see what I do here? You signed the release Evelyn; you knew what the punishment could be. You're 18. What more did you want me to do for you?"
Evelyn wanted this talk to be over as soon as possible. Let him yell and then forget all about it. She sighed. "Okay, I apologize for what I wrote. I got carried away. It's not like I did anything
illegal
, but I'll call up the news station and they'll drop it, okay?"
"I could almost let it go if it wasn't for the last characterization you threw in here. 'Ori Alston: the kind of manipulative heathen who, instead of helping his fellow classmates, decides to smash them back into the ground for his own perverted profit...' "Manipulative heathen" -- can you imagine the phone calls I would have gotten if this had been published? Ori, unlike you, was here on his own time to take initiative in his own education and he didn't even complain when that time was cut short to help his teachers out. Evelyn, this is libel of the most serious degree and I won't stand for it."
