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Caitlin Austin sat sprawled in the lawn chair she had pulled to the very
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edge of the pool. It was an Adirondack chair...you know, one of those
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wooden ones that dot the lawns of proper eastern families during the hot,
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sticky summers. She was, with the fatalistic air only a seventeen year
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old girl can affect, bored.
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"Aunt Meg!!" she bellowed toward the open french doors at the back of the
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house. "Come on, Aunt Meg!!! Where _are_ you?? I need something!! It's
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too _hot_ out here!" she whined, looking irritably at the empty doorway.
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Her aunt appeared, none too pleased by the summons. Her niece,
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headstrong, beautiful, and far too full of herself, was hers for the
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summer.
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She had made the offer last winter, when her brother John seemed
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overwhelmed by the task of caring for Cait alone after her mother's
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unseemly departure. No one in the family would talk about Catherine and
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her Costa Rican pool-man lover, and, hemmed in by the shameful silence,
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Cait had been acting out. That's what the social workers and the
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psychologists called it anyway..."acting out." Her grades had slipped,
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she had been caught smoking twice, and she had, against her father's
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express orders, been seeing the Allen boy who lived on Woodward near the
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old Benson place. He was nice enough, in a lanky, prickly sort of way,
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but John had never trusted him, and his family was, of course, strictly
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below the salt. Meg's place for the summer, an hour removed from the
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temptations of the city, and with a private tutor to catch her up on her
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classes, seemed the perfect answer for the pouty Cait. John had gratefully
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air-kissed his sister's proffered cheek, and accepted with a sigh. Now
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Meg wasn't certain that she hadn't bitten off more than she could chew.
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She picked up Cait's overstuffed bag from the corner into which her niece
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had tossed it, and stode out toward the pool. She wasn't tall, only 5'4",
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and certainly wasn't the rail-thin fashion of the day, but she was
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enormously appealing to all in her circle. A pragmatic, funny,
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unpretentious woman, she was everything the rest of her overstuffed family
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was not. Cait liked her enormously...a fact that did not prevent her from
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treating her Aunt as rudely as she treated everyone else.
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"Is this what you are looking for, Caity?" said Meg, coming up on the back
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of the chair. Cait wheeled around in the chair, facing her aunt with the
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corners of her mouth turned down. "Well, yes, but you might have been
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quicker about it...it's broiling out here and I am roasting to death! I've
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been calling you for _hours_!!" she huffed, snatching the bag from Meg's
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outstretched hand. "You're welcome!" said Meg, turning on her heel. "No,
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please, Aunt Meg...I...I'm sorry...please sit with me for a bit?" Meg
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turned around again, her frown easing. Her niece looked radiant and
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apologetic at the same time. She took after her profligate mother, who
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was, if nothing more substantial, beautiful. Cait was close to 5'8", with
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long, supple, tanned legs that eventually disappeared, today, into a tiny
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pair of cotton red-and-white checked shorts. She wore a matching top that
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was tied under her firm, rose-tipped breasts, leaving her taut, tanned
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stomach bare.
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Her face looked as if it had been painted by a pre-Raphaelite...a baby
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face, smooth and full, but with an excellent jaw and high cheekbones.
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Her eyes were a coppery brown, and her hair...well. Her hair was her
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chief vanity...lush and chestnut brown, thick and naturally wavy, it swung
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heavily to the apex of the high, round cheeks of her bottom.
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Cait fished around in the bag as she spoke, finally producing a length of
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red scarf which she twisted around and around, finally gathering her heavy
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hair into a tail at the nape of her neck, and securing it with the twisted
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scarf. "Ooohhh, that's better!" she exclaimed, feeling a cool breeze on
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her neck.
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"Caity," her aunt began, "You know your tutor is due here today, and..."
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"Oh, yes, Aunt Meg, I know...I am really looking forward to it. I do need
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to catch up on my studies!" she said, a shade too brightly, Meg thought.
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Her brow knitted quizzically. "Really, Cait? Well. That's good to hear.
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Hmmm. I thought I would leave you two the front parlour in which to
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study, instead of the library. There's a breeze through there that should
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make things easier. All right?" "Oh, yes! That sounds perfect! And if
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it's ok, I'd like to ask Martine to make up a pitcher of her lemonade.
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And you...you're still going out this afternoon, aren't you, Aunt Meg?"
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Cait looked at her, her copper eyes wide and innocent. "Yes, that's fine"
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Meg said faintly, trying to determine if there was something wrong here,
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"and yes, I am going out. I imagine you and your tutor will be busy for a
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couple of hours at least. I told the placement office to expect three
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hours' work three days a week, and they recommended a woman with excellent
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credentials. You should be in good academic shape in no time!" Cait
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beamed happily at her aunt, who rose to go back to the house, still
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puzzling over this change in her prickly niece.
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Cait put her hand over her mouth and snickered at her aunt's retreating
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back. They were all _so_ stupid, she thought. It hadn't taken much to
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call the placement office herself and cancel the tutor...she sounded
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enough like her aunt to pull it off, the dummy hadn't even questioned her.
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Then the call to Eddy...from the pay phone in town, of course, so there'd
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be no bill...and she was guaranteed at least three hours of bliss, today
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anyway. She'd have to see how often her aunt could be persuaded to go out
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on a "tutor" day, and she'd have to study herself a little, she supposed,
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to make it look good...
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Scarcely 90 minutes later, the front door slammed open, and Meg thundered
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into the entryway, nearly running down a startled Martine in the process.
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"CAIT!!" she hollered, then grabbed Martine's arm and spoke quietly,
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through clenched teeth. "Where is my niece, Martine?"
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"Upstairs, Madame," replied the quaking woman. Meg released her, and, too
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impatient to wait for the elevator, ran up the stairs to the third floor.
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She needed only to see the look on Martine's face to know that Cait was
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not in the second floor library. Her niece had been too preoccupied to
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hear her shout. When Meg burst into the large, airy bedroom, Cait sat
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up...or tried to...entangled as she was in the spindly arms and legs of
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what had to be the Allen boy. "Ohmigod" he kept repeating, fumbling for
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his glasses on the bedside table, clutching the sheets to his ribs. Cait
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slid out from beneath him and stood, half terrified, half defiant, and
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stark naked, facing her aunt. "You were supposed to be OUT!" she said
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plaintively. "I WAS out, Caitlin. I stopped at the placement office on
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my way to my appointment, in order to pay the balance of your tuition
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charges. I was told that they had been preparing my refund check for the
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deposit, since I had cancelled so promptly. CANCELLED, Caitlin??"
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She backed away from her advancing aunt. Meg had grabbed the wide-backed
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antique hairbrush from the dresser as she came toward her niece, and was
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tapping it against her thigh. As she drew abreast of the bed, she noticed
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the still quaking Eddy Allen half standing, half kneeling, wrapped in the
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wrinkled sheet. She grabbed his skinny arm and pulled him off the bed,
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whacking his small round behind with the hairbrush as she gave him orders.
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"You <smack> get out of here <spank spank> and don't let me <spank smack>
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hear about you <spank> coming anywhere near my niece <spank smack whap>
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ever again, DO YOU HEAR ME???? <spank smack whack splatt> He jumped and
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twisted frantically, trying to get away, his bottom crimson with spanks.
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"Yes, yes, ma'am, no ma'am, owwww owwwww please, I won't ma'am, please let
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me gooooooo..." She released him and he fled, grabbing his clothes as he
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ran.
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She turned her attention to her niece, who was cowering in the corner of
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the bedroom. "I...I'm sorry, Aunt Meg, really, but Daddy won't let me..I
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mean..I love Eddy, I do, and I know that..." You don't know anything,
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young lady. You are a silly, spoiled child, and I am about to see that
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you learn a lesson you won't forget. You are going to get the spanking of
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your life, Caitlin Braybrooke Austin. And when I have finished paddling
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your fanny, you are going to get a haircut, a nice swim, and a change of
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wardrobe that will help you remember that you are still a child!!" "A
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HAIRcut?" Cait screeched, putting her hands to her head. "What are you
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TALKING about, Aunt Meg...you can't cut my hair, please, you CAN'T!!" "Oh
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yes, I can, young lady," she said, grabbing Cait with her iron grip. "You
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think you are so irresistable in your tiny shorts and your flowing
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tresses...well, we are not about to let you end up like Catherine did, and
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I am going to see to it right now!!"
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Grimly, Meg led the wiggling, crying, protesting girl down the stairs,
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still holding the hairbrush. They stopped once, on the ground floor, to
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take Martine's big sewing shears from her basket, and for Meg to give the
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woman some hurried instructions. Cait howled even louder when she saw the
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shears, fighting frantically, begging and screaming to be let off. Meg
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shook her like a rag doll and continued dragging her naked niece right out
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the french doors and onto the lawn.
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Meg took one of the stools from the front of the cabana and sat down,
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pulling Cait right over her knees. Cait was nearly insensible with
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crying, terrified of her furious aunt and not knowing exactly what was
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coming. She'd never been spanked in her life, and the one Meg had given
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Eddy was the first one she'd ever seen. But her hair? Her HAIR? She was
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sick to her stomach with dread. "No, Aunty Meg, please...please...oh god
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I am so sorry, I'll study hard, I will...I won't see Eddy for a while,
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I'll be a good girl, only pleeeeease don't do this, please!!!!" Meg
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smiled grimly at being called "Aunty"...something Cait hadn't done since
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she was in sixth grade. Well, when she got through with her, Cait would
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feel like a sixth grader again!
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Meg arranged the squalling girl so that her bottom was high and upthrust,
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bending her over her left thigh and clamping her right leg across both of
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her niece's. Cait had to grab the crossbar of the stool to balance. Meg
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wrapped her arm around Cait's waist and nodded to Martine, who had come
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from the house carrying a small pile of clothes of her own. Martine was
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close to Cait's size, though considerably more conservative. She put the
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clothes and a large towel on the poolside table, moving the shears to the
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top of the pile.
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"All right, young lady, let's begin the first part of today's lesson!!"
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Meg lifted her arm and brought the hairbrush cracking down on the crest of
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Cait's left bottom cheek. The firm flesh whitened, then reddened, and the
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girl screeched at the firey sting. "NOOOOOOOOOOO, oh god it stings
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owwwwww owwwwww oooohhhhh nooooo, please no more, please no more Aunty
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Meg, nooooooo!!!!" she wailed and twisted her hips, trying to evade the
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rain of spanks her aunt was laying on her lush bottom. With her legs
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pinned, she couldn't kick, couldn't get much leverage to avoid the painful
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spanks. "I'm going <spank spank spank> to teach you a lesson you're
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<spank spank spank> NEVER going to forget <spank spank spank spank> young
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lady!!!!" The hairbrush came down again and again, Cait screaming she
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would be good and had learned her lesson, her face red and streaked with
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tears, her nose running, her hair plastered to her cheeks. When it was
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finally over, Cait lay limp and sobbing over her aunt's knee. "I'm sorry,
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Aunty Meg, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." was all she could say. "Shhh, I know
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you are, Caity, and I am sorry I had to spank you so hard. But you are
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going to have to learn your place, young lady, and this is where you are
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going to learn. Now you stay in position, or I will start spanking again,
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do you understand?"
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"Yes, ma'am," Caity sniffed, puzzled. She was still bent over, her hair
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spilling down over her head into a chestnut pool on the concrete. "Now,
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Martine!" commanded Meg. The woman picked up the shears and the towel and
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stood at Cait's head. She took the hairbrush from Meg's hand and brushed
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Cait's hair in long, smooth strokes, until it fell, shining and even, all
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around. In an instant, Cait realized what was about to happen and shook
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her head violently, renewing her stuggle to escape her aunt's hold. "No,
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Aunty Meg, no, oh god please no, please, anything but this, please...."
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Meg took the hairbrush from Martine and spanked her niece another dozen
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times, eliciting more wails and pleas for mercy. When she handed the brush
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back to Martine, Cait lay sobbing quietly, resigned to her punishment.
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Martine stooped to the level of Cait's head, lifted her heavy hair and
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spread the towel on the concrete beneath it, then gathered the silky
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curtain into her hand. Cait tensed, and Meg slapped her bottom with her
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open palm. "Martine is an excellent seamstress, Cait, I am certain she
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will do a better job than I might have done. You may thank her. NOW,
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Caitlin!" "Thank you, Martine," the miserable girl whispered. Martine
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smiled and said "You are welcome, missy," softly.
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The shears sliced through Cait's hair with a hiss like a sword bade
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through air, and a large swatch fell to the towel. Cait groaned and
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cried, but the threat of her aunt's hand on her blazing bottom kept her
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still. Martine worked carefully, slicing and laying down the thick tails
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of hair, slicing again, pausing now and again to brush. She had to move
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her hand quickly more than once to avoid the streams of tears and the
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runny nose, but at last she was finished. Cait's head felt so light she
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was dizzy. Her ears were roaring with the rush of blood, and her aunt
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steadied her as she stood up. Martine fussed over her, brushing and
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fluffing with her fingers. Because of Cait's position for the cut, the
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front and sides were very short, the hair tapering to cover just the nape
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of her neck in back. Meg's eyes widened in surprise as she looked at her
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niece. With the tresses gone, her hair a soft, short, shining cap of
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chestnut, the girl looked many years younger. "Time to cool off that
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bottom, young lady!"
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Meg moved her niece backward toward the pool. Cait shrieked as she lost
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her footing and fell in with a huge splash. In a moment, she was grateful
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for the cool water on her blistered behind. She was sorry when Meg
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motioned her out after a minute or two, but she dared not disobey. She
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kept feeling her head, fresh tears starting each time she felt the stubby
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ends of her beautiful hair. How the kids would laugh when they saw this!
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Miserable, she climbed out of the pool, and stood submissively as her aunt
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and Martine toweled her off and began to dress her. She shuddered as Meg
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held out a plain, full-cut pair of white cotton briefs, but one look at
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her aunt's face convinced her to step in and pull them up. Next, the bra,
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plain white cotton again, full-cut, three hooks in back. A slip...a
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SLIP?? She sighed and put it on, followed by a pale blue cotton dress of
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Martine's that had a little round collar and buttons down the front, had
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little puff sleeves, and came to her knees. A sensible pair of
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espadrilles, her own watch...and...what was this? She picked it up from
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the table and looked at her aunt inquiringly. "It's a barrette," Meg
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said, taking the piece of blue plastic shaped like a bow. "In fact, it's
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one of yours. You left it here once years ago when you were in sixth
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grade and spent a week with me, do you remember?" Cait didn't, really,
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but she said nothing. She sat obediently in the Adirondack chair while
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her aunt brushed and brushed the shining cap of hair until it dried in the
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sun, chattering all the while about good behaviour and lessons learned.
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When her hair was dry, Meg pulled the top hair over to the side and
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fastened it with the barrette. She took the girl's chin in her hand and
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kissed her quickly. "Let's go in, Cait. I want to introduce you to your
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tutor. She should be here by now. We're going to start the summer all
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over again, Caity, right now! Understand?" "Yes, ma'am," replied the
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chastened Cait, still walking a bit stiffly.
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In the entry way stood Mrs. Cullen. Cait winced when she saw her aunt
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shake the woman's hand...and pass her the hairbrush.
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