Thank you for your interest in this story. This is set in my usual world where corporal punishment is a legal sentence used by the justice system regularly. This story focusses on two students who get themselves arrested for a crime which doesn't really deserve the punishment, but they both accept the offer of corporal punishment instead of going to court and risking prosecution. This picks up directly from the end of Chapter One, so PLEASE read that first for a better grip of what is going on.
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Thanks for your interest. Hope you like it
JDB.
Lisa's hands were in handcuffs and stretched above her head. The chain was linked through the ring in the wall and she was strapped down to the bed at the waist and her legs were spread painfully wide. She was naked, breathing hard and her skin was coated with sweat. Amanda was in the room too, she was also naked and tied up against the wall. The police officer who arrested Lisa was standing in the middle of the cell and was brandishing a long, dark leather whip. Amanda's back was a bloody mess and she was screaming like a banshee. There were bright red marks across her shoulders in sharp contrast to her pale skin. Her butt had been whipped harshly too, with lots of red stripes across the top of her buttocks. The cell door opened and another officer came in.
"Good morning, I've brought you breakfast," he said, brightly.
It took a moment for all the images in her mind to clear and Lisa realised she had been dreaming, or more of a nightmare. She looked around to find she still had her orange scrubs on, in her sleep she had thrown her blanket on the floor. Her mind was foggy from lack of sleep and she was struggling to focus a bit.
The guy in uniform took a step into the cell and placed a tray on the floor. It was like she used to get in school for lunch, a preformed plastic tray with separated compartments on it. One was filled with what might be porridge, there was a slice of limp, pale looking toast and a paper cup that was half full of coffee.
"It's six AM, I will be back at six thirty to collect you to get you ready. A friendly piece of advice from me -- make sure you use the toilet -- you don't want any accidents later," he said as he stepped back out of the cell and shut the door without further comment.
Lisa swung her legs around onto the floor and stood up. She paced up and down the cell a couple times -- it didn't take long. The reality of her situation was dawning on her as she came fully back to consciousness. She had barely slept as it had felt that every time she closed her eyes images of punishment and torture invaded her thoughts even though, logically the reality would be nowhere near as bad as her nightmares.
She eyed the CCTV camera up in the top corner of the cell and decided she was going to have to use the toilet, even with them looking at her. She lowered the pants of the scrubs outfit as little as possible for her to get away with having a wee. She couldn't stop looking at the camera and because she felt like she had an audience, she struggled to get started, but she got there in the end.
She looked at the breakfast tray and reluctantly picked up the cold, soggy slice of toast. It was limp and sad looking, but as she held it, she realised how hungry she was and so ate it, washing it down with luke warm coffee that was weak and would be a good contender for the worst coffee she had ever had.
Then she had nothing to do. She just had to wait in the cell, alone. It felt like forever and there was a tight knot in the base of her stomach made up of nerves for what was about to happen to her and worry for Amanda, who she had not seen or heard from since last night when they both arrived at the custody suite.
Eventually, there was another loud thunk as the mechanism in the door was operated from outside and another male officer in uniform that she hadn't seen before entered the cell.
"Miss McKenzie, I am Custody Officer Grundon and I am here to escort you over to the punishment suite for your correctional action to be administered. Please stand up and face the back wall of the cell placing both hands in the small of your back to be cuffed," he instructed in a tone suggesting he had done this probably a thousand of times. As he spoke he motioned with his hands with the stand up and turn around instruction. He had the handcuffs in his hand, an ominous silver coloured glint in the otherwise drab space.
"Please," Lisa pleaded, shaking her head, "you don't need to handcuff me, I'll be good," she said, immediately hating how pathetic and whiny her voice sounded to herself. She could feel tears welling up in her eyes. The moment had finally come, after all that waiting and she was not at all pleased about it.
"Its just procedure, there's no inference you're going to kick off" he said, simply. He couldn't be doing with this bullshit -- not this early. He hated earlies and he wasn't that keen on these arrogant, self centred students who always thought they were better than the system -- and him. "Stand up and turn around," he added, making it an instruction this time, rather than a polite request.
She realised the only way she was leaving this cell was wearing his handcuffs and decided it was better to not give him any excuse. She decided he was one of them, like the medic or whatever the hell he was that did the inspection on her. She stood up and stepped towards the wall, stopping about a foot's length away from it and placing her hands together behind her back. In her last moment of freedom for what might be some time, she took a very deep breath in through her nose and exhaled through her mouth. The tears were filling her eyes now, but so far weren't spilling over.
"Not like that," he said." Don't hold your hands together."