Well, Kelley had been living with the Hammersmiths for about four years and had pretty much blended into the family. She knew the rules and followed them (well, for the most part, anyway!) and received the same consequences any other child in the Hammersmith family was subject to. She had made many friends in the small river town of New Bedford, and knew the neighbors and the community had grown to accept her as another one of the Hammersmith children.

It was a lovely spring in that year of 1993. Kelley's junior year at St. Mary's. And we all know what usually occurs in the spring of the junior year in high school...the Prom! Yes, like any other junior in St. Mary's at that time, all Kelley could think of was the prom that was to occur in just a week! Ellen had enthusiastically helped her buy a dress and make all the necessary preparations. She took as much delight in it as she would have if Kelley had been her biological daughter. And every night at the dinner table for the last month or so, the subject would always come to either the prom, or Jeff Zimmerman, Kelley's date for the prom...

"I don't see what's so great about this prom thing. I mean, having a boy touch you and dance with you is really gross! I would never let one touch me!" eleven-year-old Sarah wrinkled her nose to emphasize her point. Sarah was quite the tomboy, and Kelley wasn't sure if she could even picture Sarah in a dress, much less a prom gown with a guy next to her.

"You mean like this?!" Michael reached out and touched her arm and Sarah pushed his hand away.

"Get your hands off of me, you little freak!" she exclaimed and started to reach out to hit his arm when Adrian stopped her by just saying her name in that tone that the Hammersmith children were all too familiar with... "Sar-ah..."

"Well, tell him to stop touching me, Dad."

"Sarah, he was just kidding, and all he did was touch your arm. Now stop being petty and eat your dinner."

Jen rolled her eyes, "Oh, Sarah, you're such a child. The prom is something to be excited about. I can't wait for mine!" Jen envied Kelley her age, and sometimes resented losing her position as the oldest four years ago, when Kelley came to live with them. But all in all, Jen liked having an older sister as a role model, and was constantly trying to act older than her thirteen years.

"Shut up, Jen. You're not even in high school yet." Sarah snapped.

"Yeah? I will be next year. And Kelley and I will go to school together, and you'll have to go to school with just Michael."

"I don't care. I don't want to go to St. Mary's. They don't even have a half-way decent basketball team."

Jen rolled her eyes again, with dramatic flair, "Really! Basketball, she says!" Jen looked to Kelley for approval, but Kelley was lost in thought.

"Ummmmm....Adrian? What time do I have to be home on prom night?"

Adrian looked thoughtful. "Well, it's a Friday night, so your curfew is midnight on weekends, right?" he asked, with a slightly amused grin on his face.

"Adrian! The prom *ends* at mid-night!"

"Oh, okay, quarter after then..."

"Adrian!"

Adrian smiled. "I'm just teasing, sweetheart. I know you want to go out with your friends afterwards, so two sounds fair, what do you think, hon?" Adrian looked over at Ellen.

"That sounds reasonable."

"*Two*? But Adrian, we were going to rent a hotel room and have a party and..."

"Whoa, hold on here. Hotel room? I don't think so."

"Well, not as in for me and Jeff, but as in Michelle's dad is going to reserve a hotel room and she's having a party after the prom! And it will probably last all night!"

"That may be, Kelley Lynn, but you will have to be leaving it early to get here for two a.m., which I think is reasonable."

"It's not fair! No one has a curfew on prom night!"

"Well, then, you'll be an original. Now that's all I want to hear about it, young lady. This discussion is over."

Kelley continued to sulk through dinner, despite a couple warning glances from Adrian. As they were cleaning up the kitchen, Adrian walked over to her and took her chin in his hand and said...

"If I don't see an immediate improvement in your attitude, young lady, you will not only win a trip to my study tonight, but will not be attending the prom at all. Am I understood?"

Kelley looked to the ground. "Yes, sir..." she sighed. "I'm sorry."

"All right then." And Adrian kissed her on the cheek, then gave a slap to her bottom and told her to go upstairs and finish her homework.

Kelley worried all week about what it was going to look like to Jeff and everyone if she had a curfew on prom night. Michelle's parents understood what prom night was, why couldn't Adrian and Ellen?

Soon the day of the much-anticipated event arrived! Ellen helped Kelley get ready and Jeff came and there many pictures taken and it was all so exciting as Jeff and Kelley were about to go into the waiting limousine with all their friends, Adrian called out, "2 o'clock, Kelley!"

Kelley could have died. Michelle gave her a bemused look. "Cinderella has a curfew? What's gonna happen, Kelley, you gonna turn into a pumpkin on us if you're not back by 2?"

As the limousine drove off, Kelley answered, "Well, they Adrian thinks I'll be back by 2..." She gave an evil smile and Michelle and her friends laughed and they all stared to talk excitedly about the night ahead.

And the prom was a blast. And so was Michelle's party. As two o'clock passed, Michelle called out, "Kelley, honey, don't you have to be somewhere by now?" And Kelley responded, "Nowhere that i know of..." And the party went on...

At around three Jeff leaned over to Kelley, "Kel, are you sure you should be doing this. I mean, your guardians are going to worry and everything."

"Well, then, they shouldn't have placed ridiculous restrictions on me in the first place!" Kelley snapped. She was feeling invincible that night, and for some reason, really wansn't considering the consequences this was going to create for her.

Meanwhile at the Hammersmith residence, Adrian was pacing back and forth. "I said, two o'clock! I reminded her of it! I should have known she would pull something like this. Should have known. I'm calling the police..."

"What for, Adrian? Obviously, she's just doing what she wants to do despite our wishes. What she needs is a good strapping when she dares to come home. And I'm even willing to give it to her myself!" Ellen declared.

"Well, we both can, because I don't intend on stopping at one strapping. It's going to be a long, painful weekend for a certain ward of ours. And I'm calling the police anyway."

Adrian picked up the phone and dialed. Officer Wilson answered.

"Hi, Bill, this is Adrian Hammersmith. I'm just worried about Kelley, as she was supposed to be home an hour ago...yes, I know it's prom night, that's why she had the two o'clock curfew to begin with, you think I let my kids run wild at all hours of the night?!...Yes, I know she has to be gone for twenty-four hours to be declared a missing person, I doubt she's missing anyway, just being a brat is more like it, I just wanted to call and ask if that any of you guys happen to see her, could you sort of hurry her along?...thanks...yes, Ellen is fine, so are the kids. Kelley won't be once she gets home, but you can understand that. Sure, Bill, stop over sometime, you're always welcome. It's been awhile. How's Linda? Great. Well, thanks a lot. Bye."

Adrian turned to Ellen. "Well, I doubt they'll be much help, but at least I tried. Bill says hello."

And they waited. And waited.

The party was starting to wind down around 5. Everyone wanted to get out and and they were going to drive up to Great Adventure after each went home and changed. "Home...." Kelley thought. "Oh, God, that's the last place I want to go now..."

"Oh, Kelley, we're not leaving til noon or so. We want to get some sleep before we get on the road anyway. That will give you plenty of time to patch things up with your parents or guardians, or whatever..." Michelle said while yawning.

Jeff came to Kelley's rescue. "Let's go get some coffee at the diner first!"

Everyone seemed to think coffee was a great idea, and Kelley was grateful not to have to face Adrian just yet, so they packed off for the diner.

Once there, they grabbed a few booths and still were chatting animately about the night before.

Officer Wilson was just getting off duty by then, and decided to stop for some breakfast at the diner before he went home himself. He walked in, said hi to Joe, the cook, and was about to sit at the counter, when he noticed the group of prom-goers all gathered, and there amongst them was none other than Kelley Hammersmith.

He started to walk over to the group. Kelley called out, "Hi, Officer Bill, how are you this morning?"

"Fine, Kelley, but you should be home by now. Your father called the police station last night looking for you, and is really worried. Now, I know it's prom night, and you wanted to have a good time and all, but what you did was really irresponsible and inconsiderate."

"Oh, but Adrian was being so unreasonable! Tell me, Officer Bill, would you tell your daughter she had to be home by two am on prom night?"

"I don't know Kelley. I don't have a daughter. But I know one young lady whose coming with me now so I can take her where she belongs."

"Oh, Officer Bill, I won't tell Adrian I saw you here. Please let me stay...."

Bill reached out for Kelley's arm. "C'mon, honey, stop being childish now. You're only making things worse for yourself. If you don't come, I'll call Adrian and tell him where you were and that you refused to come home, even when I told you how worried they were. And sweetie, I know that Adrian knows how to discipline his kids. And I can just imagine what you're in for already. So if you want to be able to sit for the next month..."

"Okay, okay..." Kelley hurredly cut him off. She didn't want Officer Wilsonro reveal anything more about the Hammersmith household. Of course she knew that many were aware of how Adrian and Ellen disciplined their children and that many of her friend's parents did the same, well, except for Michelle, she guessed, but no one ever talked about it out loud, and Kelley would never have been able to show her face at St. Mary's again if Officer Wilson kept talking.

"That's better. Now, come along." And Kelley walked resignedly to Officer Wilson's car with him while Michelle sneered as the car drove off.

"Can you imagine? I'd be mortified if my parents sent some police officer out after *me*?" Michelle smirked and went back to her coffee. "And what about this 'not being able to sit down for a month' thing. You can't tell me she still gets spanked, or somthing!"

A few other party-goers looked extremely uncomfortable at that comment. Suddenly they were looking at their watches and remarking at the time, and starting to file out.

"What's the hurry? Jeez, you people are so uptight!" Michelle called after the group who left.

Meanwhile, Officer Wilson's car was heading to the Hammersmith household.

"how could you do that to me?! How could Adrian do this to me??!!! How could any of you! Jesus Christ, you people know how to fucking ruin someone's good time! I've never been so humiliated! I hate you all!"

Officer Wilson just sighed and turned into the driveway. Ellen and Adrian immediately came to the door. Kelley suddenly became very afraid.

Adrian walked outside and greeted Officer Wilson and thanked him. Then he walked over to Kelley's side of the car, where she had just gotten out and grabbed her ear.

"Adrian! Please! I'm sorry! Ouch! You're hurting me!"

"You think I'm hurting you now?! Sweetie, I'm afraid you haven't seen anything yet. How could you do this? We're very, very disappointed and angry right now!"

And Adrian lead her in the house.

"Come in, Bill, have some coffee, did you have breakfast yet?" Ellen asked.

"Well, ma'am, I was about to, but I found Kelley at the diner."

"Come in and have some then, visit for a while. You've done us a tremendous favor. I was going to make pancakes for the family."

"Well, come on in then. And knowing Kelley, I'm sure she did't come along peacefully, and you deserve to at least see some of ther comeuppance."

Bill walked in and Ellen showed him to a comfortable chair in the living room. Adrian was already placing a kitchen chair in the living room and Kelley was already in the corner.

"No! You can't let him watch! He's not a part of this family!"

Adrian grabbed Kelley's arm and dragged her over to the chair. "That will be enough out of you, young lady." He held her chin and forced her to look in his eyes. "The next words I want to hear out of that saucy little mouth of yours is an apology to Officer Wilson, Ellen and me. do you understand?"

Kelley looked down at her feet. "Yes, sir. I'm sorry Officer Wilson for giving you any trouble. I'm sorry Ellen and Adrian, for making you worry."

"Was she much trouble, Bill?"

"Well, honestly, sir, she didn't come along willingly until I started talking about how you might punish her. And then she was using quite graphic language all the way home, enough to make a truck driver blush, in my opinion..."

"Really, now? Well, Kelley Lynn, it seems as though you're in for a long painful week. Possibly longer, if you keep up that attitude of yours. I've got a special treat for you that I've been working on while you were out with your friends. Hope the party was worth it, sweetheart, but somehow I don't think you'll think so after I'm through with you."

Kelley looked curious, as did Bill. Adrian walked over to the coffee table and retrieved these small thin wooden objects with string attached to them. They smelled like....ginger?

"Ever heard of these, Bill? I was reading an interesting column in...well...it's not important where, but it was called "Dear Verdant" and the writer was explaining how to make a ginger suppository."

"Ginger suppository, you say? Well, Adrian, I don't mean to be dense, but what effect do they have?"

"Well, you can watch Kelley's reaction, and see for yourself." And with that, Adrian bent Kelley over the chair and pulled her dress up and her panties and nylons down. Kelley was so humiliated at being so dressed up and then being treated like this! Adrian opened a jar of vaseline and started to lubricate Kelley's anus.

"Ouch! What are you doing?!" Kelley protested.

"I said that was enough out of you, young lady. You'll see very shortly what I'm doing." Adrian replied.

Adrian worked the suppository in as far as he could. It took a few seconds then Kelley started jumping and squirming frantically.

"Oh, please, get it out, get it out! Owwwwww...it burns!"

Adrian glanced at Bill. He was impressed. Bill had enormous respect for the way Adrian disciplined his children. He knew that Adrian wasn't a cruel person, and that it was indeed one of the most loving families he knew. He also knew that Kelley had been loved, but spoiled horribly by her biological parents the thirteen years she was with them, and Adrian usually had his hands full with her, especially.

"Please, please Adrian! Take it out! C'mon, I'm sorry, really I am, and I know I deserve to be punished, but it burns!

"You certainly don't sound sorry to me, young lady. You're feeling sorry for yourself right now, but that's about it. Now what did i tell you about begging and pleading? I think I told you that that was enough out of you, didn't i?

Kelley sniffled. "Yes, sir."

"All right, then." And with that, Adrian picked up the strap.

"Kelley Lynn, you have acted very irresponsibly. We were worried about you. I hope impressing your friends was worth it tonight. Maybe they'll be equally impressed when they watch one very sorry young lady squirm in her seat for the next two weeks. And not only did you keep Ellen and I up all night, you inconvenienced Officer Wilson. What do you have to say for yourself?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, a thousand times, I'm sorry....."

"I think you can do better than that, but we'll check again later." And with that, Adrian cracked the strap across Kelley's bottom.

"Yeeeeeeeoooooowwww!" Kelley squirmed. She clenched her buttocks, but quickly unclenched them as the ginger burned in her bottom.

Adrian continued the strapping. He worked from the center of her bottom, down her thighs, and up again. Bill was impressed at the expert manner in which he administered the strapping. Adrian even had Kelley spread her legs wider so he could get at the insides of her thighs. Kelley was jumping and kicking when this happened and Adrian had to warn her to stay still, or he would replace the ginger root that was in her bottom with a fresh one, which would burn more intensely, as the present one had been in for about fifteen minutes at that time. Kelley certainly didn't want that, so she tried her best to stay still.

It was a severe strapping. Adrian did not hold back in the slightest and kelley cried out of pain, regret, and fear, as she rarely had seen Adrian this upset with her. Why did she do such a stupid thing as stay out all night?

The party wasn't *that* great. She felt horrible for all the trouble she caused him and Ellen. She regretted being such a brat to Officer Bill, when he was only trying to help her. Adrian was working his way down from the centr of her bottom again to her thighs. He worked his way up once more, then put down the strap. Kelley's bottom was covered in welts. She stayed bent over the chair crying. She felt Adrian tug at the little string sticking out of her bottom and the ginger root came with it. He went to dispose of it and Kelley stayed over the chair, as she hadn't been given permission to get up. She forgot about the embarrassment of having Officer bill see everything. She forgot about having her gown, the gown that made her feel so grown up last evening, pulled up like this and having her nylons and panties dragged down. She felt like a little girl that messed up her nice easter dress playing or something. this wasn't how her prom was supposed to end, but she made that decision. She couldn't say she didn't expect to be severely punished for her actions. She just tried not to think about it.

Adrian returned, and she felt his hand on her arm and he was gently pulling her up. Once she was standing, Adrian held her against her chest and she apologized for doing what she did. He held her there and told her she was forgiven, but her punishment was far from over. There would be more later this afternoon, after they all got some sleep, and she could expect a bedtime spanking every night this week, and maybe longer, as Adrian hadn't discussed it fully with Ellen yet. Kelley started to cry harder at this and Adrian told her to keep her gown up and hobble over to the corner. As Kelley's nylons were inhibiting her as well as her panties this time, that was no easy task. But Adrian was permitted the amusement of his very contrite, red bottomed ward waddling across the living room.

"Well, Adrian, I do have to hand it to you. I wouldn't have been able to allow my niece to spend another summer with me if you hadn't given me all those discipline suggestions. Kelley's an angel compared to Audrey."

"Thanks, Bill, you're one of the few people who still appreciate the practicality and effectiveness of old-fashioned discipline. We're in the vast minority on this one, you know."

"Oh, you'd be suprised how many parents are still spanking their teenagers around here..."

Ellen came out and invited Bill and Adrian into the kitchen to have some pancakes. Adrian sent Kelley up to bed, and she pulled of her nylons and panties before she ran up the stairs. The three of them had a nice breakfast and conversation, and bill left about an hour later. Adrian and Ellen went up to bed. Before he got under the covers, Adrian walked across the hall to check on his ward. Kelley was curled up under the covers, her face flushed from crying. She was sound asleep already. Adrian bent down and kissed her cheek, and then headed back to his room to finally go to bed.