Caught cheating

Jackie is a final year student at a very strict girls’ school that still uses corporal punishment regularly to keep the girl’s in line. These punishments are generally over the knickers for normal offences in class and involve the use of a heavy tawse but more serious, or repeated, offences are dealt with in a special assembly on Friday afternoons in front of the whole school. Any punishment at this assembly is given on the bare bottom with the tawse or the cane and the minimum punishment that is given is twelve strokes. By no means could Jackie be called a bad girl but such are the rigours of the disciplinary regime I regularly see her in the evenings struggling to sit down comfortably as we are working together. My own school is pretty strict itself so I am regularly able to empathise with Jackie as I’m in the same boat although most of our punishments are given on the hands and not the bottom, that right is reserved for the Headmistress alone. Jackie had shown me a copy of her school rule book and it was very proscriptive but what made it even tougher was the fact that academic performance was also part of the rules.

As a final year student Jackie had very tough performance targets to reach and she found it very difficult to meet them so as her boyfriend I helped her out with her homework each evening, sometimes going as far as to do it for her. I also helped her when it came to the time to revise for her mock exams. If Jackie was caught for either offence then she would be in deep trouble because getting any outside assistance with homework was considered cheating and having a boyfriend was another serious breach of the school rules. Things were going well until Jackie got the results of her mock exams back and they were much lower than her coursework marks which aroused suspicions within the school.

‘I’ve been summoned to see the Headmistress tomorrow morning’ Jackie said tearfully the evening after she’d gotten her marks. The tears were because Jackie was absolutely terrified of her Headmistress.

‘Well the only thing you can say is that you find exams much harder than coursework’ is all I can say because even if Jackie blames me then the offence of having a boyfriend is equally as bad.

‘I’m going to try that but I just know that the Headmistress will question me about it and I won’t be able to lie to her so I’ll have to admit that you have been helping me with my coursework and I just know that I’ll be put down for punishment tomorrow afternoon’ Jackie replies with even more tears streaming down her cheeks. I spent the morning nervously wondering how Jackie was getting on and then at lunchtime I was called to see my own Headmistress. When I turned up at the office I saw two other ladies with the Headmistress and I didn’t recognise them from the school so I was confused and a little scared.

‘I have been informed that you have been involved with a major breach of the rules by a girl at The Academy and these two ladies have requested my permission to ask you to accompany them to The Academy so that you can answer for that breach. I do not have the full details but they assure me that you will know what this is in connection with’ my Headmistress says and I know then that Jackie has been found out.

‘Yes Headmistress I know what this is in connection with’ I answer.

‘Well tell me boy so that I can decide whether to allow this request or not’ my Headmistress says sharply.

‘I have been going out with a girl from The Academy for the past year and I have been helping her with her coursework and also helping to prepare for the mock exams’ I say hopefully not contradicting anything that Jackie has said and dropping her even further into the mire because the two staff from The Academy will have noted my every word.

‘Well in that case I will accept this request since as a former pupil of The Academy I know that relationships of this nature are strictly forbidden. Therefore are you prepared to accompany these two ladies to The Academy?’ my Headmistress asks.

‘Yes I am prepared to accompany these two ladies to The Academy’ I answer knowing that I couldn’t leave Jackie to face this situation alone. I am led away by the two women to a car that drives the short distance to The Academy. It is a journey that is taken in total silence and I am led along a long, forbidding corridor to the Headmistress’ office. Jackie is standing outside of this office with her hands on her head and tears occasionally running down her cheeks. As she sees me another set of tears stream down her cheeks but she doesn’t say anything to me as we are left alone in the corridor. Even though I knew it could get us both into more trouble I used my fingers to stroke away the tears from Jackie’s cheeks and she tried to give me a smile at this. A few minutes later the door to the office opened again and the two women who had brought me to The Academy led me into the office and I found myself facing Jackie’s Headmistress.

‘Miss Davies has already admitted to me that she has been in a relationship with you for the past year and that you have been providing her with a lot of help in her coursework assignments no doubt in return for sexual favours’ Jackie’s Headmistress says with a steely voice and a stern look on her face.

‘Yes it is true that I have been in a relationship with Miss Davies and that I have been helping her with her coursework assignments but it is simply not true that this has been in return for sexual favours Ma’am’ I say seeing no point in denying the allegations but I certainly would deny that I was motivated by getting sexual favours from Jackie as it was simply not true. In any case Jackie’s Headmistress would have heard that I’d admitted the offences to my own Headmistress.

‘Regardless of your motivations Miss Davies has told me that you are well aware that both of these things are against the rules of The Academy so you have been deliberately exposing Miss Davies to the risk of being caught. Now as you will be aware I have no authority over you but since you have come here voluntarily then you appear to be willing to take your share of the responsibility and accept the resulting punishment. For the avoidance of any doubt the punishment will be corporal in nature and it will be administered in front of the rest of the school this afternoon’ Jackie’s Headmistress says.

‘Yes I accept my share of the responsibility for these offences and despite what Miss Davies may have said earlier mine is the larger share as it was me that asked her to go out with me and it was me who saw how much she was struggling to meet the academic targets that she had been set so I voluntarily offered my assistance. I will accept my punishment for these offences and Miss Davies has told me how such punishments are carried out’ I answer calmly although my nerves were in tatters at this moment. Jackie is brought back into the room and brought to a stand next to me in front of the desk.

‘In view of the seriousness of these offences you shall both be punished this afternoon in the punishment assembly in front of the entire school. Miss Davies you will receive twelve strokes of the tawse for the offence of cheating and twelve strokes of the cane for having a boyfriend. Mr Smith you will receive twenty four strokes of the tawse and twenty four strokes of the cane for initiating both of these offences’ Jackie’s Headmistress announces. Jackie looks across at me as she hears my sentence and the reasons for it. While she couldn’t say anything at the moment she didn’t forget and thanked me later in the day. We were both led out of the office and taken to the Matron who had responsibility for overseeing the preparations for the punishment. We were both stripped completely naked after entering the medical room and after a short medical we were given punishment gowns to wear. These gowns were white cotton affairs that tied at four points down the back to preserve the modesty of the person wearing the gown while allowing the bottom to be fully bared for its punishment. Jackie’s gown went down to her knees but because of my height mine barely reached my mid thigh.

At 3pm we were led into the Assembly Hall and already there is a buzz of excitement, which Jackie told me was normal later in the evening, and as soon as the first row of girls saw that I was a boy this grew to a clamour because they realised that Jackie must have been involved with me in a relationship. We are led up onto the stage and have to face the audience which is really embarrassing for both of us and I know that my cheeks are blushing bright red. This embarrassment was about to become utter humiliation.

‘Miss Davies has been having a sexual relationship with this boy in direct contravention of the school rules and she has also been getting him to help her with her coursework. For his part the boy has admitted that he initiated both of the offences and at least he has had the common decency to admit this and accept his punishment’ Jackie’s Headmistress announces to the audience and there is another buzz as they realise exactly what was said but the cold stare from the Headmistress quickly brings a hush to the audience, ‘Miss Davies will receive a total of twenty four strokes while the boy will receive a total of forty eight strokes. I suggest that each and every one of you pays very close attention to the consequences of such flagrant disregard for the rules of the school because if any of you is foolish enough to do anything similar then their punishment will be much worse’ she concludes to utter silence because I have no doubt that there are others in relationships who have been fortunate enough not to get caught.

Jackie is bent over the block first and two teachers step forward to take hold of her hands and a leather strap is fastened over her the back of her calves to keep them in place. It is Jackie’s bottom that is facing the audience and the ties on her gown are undone to reveal its perfect whiteness to everyone including me. I can see the occasional trembles that are running through the bottom and then I see her Headmistress taking up the tawse from the lectern at the front of the stage. It looks to be a copy of my own Headmistress’ worst tawse and as she was carrying it across to Jackie it barely bent in her hands indicating just how stiff it was. With a full swing of her arm the Headmistress brings the tawse down onto Jackie’s bottom and it is followed by a sharp cry from Jackie. Ten seconds later the second stroke is upon her and there is another cry. Both strokes have left broad red bands on the white skin and very quickly there are no patches of white left as the redness spreads and the strokes cover each part of the bottom with unerring accuracy. Within a couple of minutes the whole tawsing has been completed and Jackie is helped to her feet and put into my position with her bottom facing the audience. I look across at her before I am led over to the block and can see the tears coursing down her cheeks.

I feel the warmth from Jackie’s body as I am placed over the block and am similarly held down by two teachers and the leather strap. As my bottom is bared there is a murmur from the audience as it is may be the first time many of them have seen a boy’s bare bottom and because of the amount of rugby I play it is very tight and toned. This hardness makes the first stroke of the tawse almost bounce off of it but Jackie’s Headmistress knows what she is doing and makes sure the second stroke is even harder and when it makes contact she keeps her arm going forward so that it does push into the target. I have been surprised by how hard the punishment is and am soon responding to each stroke with a grunt and can imagine that my bottom is now as red as Jackie’s was. At the end of the tawsing there are a few tears at the corners of my eyes but I’m not released as Jackie was because my caning is going to take place first.

I can hear the Headmistress walking across the stage and then hear her walking back to me. I look across at her and see the cane in her hands and it is frightening so I look away quickly. I hear the cane being swished through the air and it heralds the first stroke which lands into my bottom with a sharp crack. The sting was phenomenal and I let out a sharp yelp as it seemed to get worse as the seconds passed. About ten seconds later the second one arrived and again I yelped as it bit deep into my bottom. It felt like a red hot poker had been drawn across my bottom and this feeling only grew as the strokes continued to rain down on me. I quickly lost track of how many strokes I’d received because all I could think of was the pain that was flowing through my bottom so it was almost a surprise when I felt the teachers letting go of my hands and the Headmistress unbuckled the leather strap over my legs.

I was helped to my feet and this was very painful as each movement of the muscles seemed to reignite the sting in my bottom which felt like it was two or three times its normal size. I was put back into position with my bottom facing the audience which in a way I was glad of because it meant they couldn’t see the tears which were slowly rolling down my cheeks. Jackie is taken back to the block and I felt really sorry for her because I imagined that the break between the punishments will make the first stroke of the cane even worse. Her cry as it landed certainly seemed to support this theory as it was really sharp and I’d also seen her tossing her head back. Whereas I’d watched the tawsing I couldn’t bring myself to watch Jackie’s caning as her cries were painful enough to hear so I didn’t want to see the damage that was being done to her bottom.

At last there were no more cracks of the cane and I cast a glance over at Jackie’s bottom wishing that I hadn’t because there are twelve darker red lines painted across the sea of red from the tawse. It looked very painful and I could see that Jackie was just as unsteady on her feet as I had been when she was released from the block. We were walked down off of the stage and brought to a halt in front of it with our bottoms still on display.

‘As I said previously I would advise each and every one of you to take a close look at the consequences of breaking the rules in such a blatant fashion’ Jackie’s Headmistress says as the rest of the school is filing out of the Assembly Hall past us. There are some mumbled comments as people pass us but we can’t hear them properly so whether the teachers heard them and ignored them or didn’t hear them at all I don’t know but they certainly didn’t take any action. Once everyone has filed past us we are led away by the Matron who takes us back to the medical room where she rubs some antiseptic solution over our bottoms and then instructs us to get dressed. Jackie is held back by the Matron while I am led back to her Headmistress’ office.

‘Thank you for coming to the school and taking your punishment with me and thank you for taking most of the responsibility’ Jackie says as we are walking home.

‘As soon as I was called to my own Headmistress and was told why there was no way that I was going to abandon you to your fate and I hoped that taking the main responsibility it would give you a lesser punishment although I’m not sure whether it worked or not. You mean the world to me and your Headmistress told me not to abandon you completely and I have no intention of doing so. She told me that so long as nothing brings the relationship to her attention then she will turn a blind eye to it so we just have to be careful for the next few months if you are still prepared to take the risk with me’ I say to Jackie.

‘I’m definitely still prepared to take the risk with you and funnily enough the Matron said basically the same thing to me although she also said that you are a good catch and I should keep hold of you which is definitely what I’m going to do’ Jackie says taking hold of my hand and walking like that all the way home.