This is a sweet setup you're a part of and you're not about to ruin it by taking chances the first DAY here. You hustle, hiding your note in a textbook and have your room clean just as Miss Stoller herself strides into the room, some girls peeking past her.
"Well, it looks as if you're the first one to pass the first inspection. One of the other boys was even caught holding hands with one of the girls and will have to be punished after dinner. It's a bit unexpected, it's VERY unexpected in fact , we'll have to make some adjustments to the rules later about it, but for now, we must have discipline."
You really have no idea what the HELL she's blathering on about, but you follow the crowd to dinner, carefully memorizing the way back so you don't get lost.
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Dinner is INCREDIBLE! Your only gripe is that is forced to sit at another table since you obviously already know each other and Stoller wants people to make "new friends" here. Like the other boys, you're the only guy at your table. The girls ask you questions about the other guys, but you don't know them yet yourself. Conversations are carefully sanitized, but questioning them you learn the overall layout of the maze they call a boarding school. Apparently, there are rooms here that have never been used and some are said to be haunted.
For some reason a lot of the girls are looking at one of the new boys and giggling.
After eating, everyone looks to a stage in the dining hall expectantly. One of the schoolteachers takes the stage nervously. A brunette with short hair, she looks young and inexperienced as she walks up to the mic.
"Jake Walker, would you come up to the stage, please."
Some of the girls catcall as he walks up cautiously, something the instructors don't seem to mind.
The teacher stands in apparent shock, until Stoller walks up and shoos her off stage.
"Mr. Walker, you were caught behaving inappropriately with one of the ladies at this establishment. In doing so, you have offended the purity of every lady here. There is only one way to make things right at this establishment."
Jake wisely keeps his mouth shut. You glance over at who returns your look and points back at the stage, giggling.
"Mr. Walker, face the left of the stage and drop your trousers and undergarments. You are to receive ten lashes before you will be allowed to rejoin your fellow students."
"Huh!?" he responds, backing away. "I... wait a minute... you're serious!" I didn't agree to this!"
"Yes, you did," Stoller responds, as she holds up a copy of one of the dozens of forms you were required to fill out but didn't have time to read over.
Jake still refuses and in the end it takes four girls to hold him still as he receives a total of 40 canes to his bare bottom. The entire room is allowed to yell at him and mock him for his refusal to "take it like a girl."
As his punishment finishes, he pulls up his pants and starts to run off, but some of the girls catch him by the arm and start cheering him up.
Stoller looks very displeased with the whole incident, not a good sign, and gives you and the other guys stern looks before taking the microphone again. |