"Jenny would you go out and get the mail?" Ellen asked, as she was in the middle of cooking.

"Aw, mom, it's 5 below out there!"

Just then Adrian walked into the room. "Didn't I hear your mother ask you to do something, Jennifer?"

"Oh, all right."

"Hey, I'll go, no problem" said Kelley, but Adrian stopped her. With a look, she understood his meaning, and said "OK, Jen, I guess it's you."

Jennifer threw on her coat and slammed the door behind her. Adrian made a note to talk to her about that when she came in.

A minute later, Jen returned from the roadside mailbox. "Hey, look! Grades came!" And she brandished two official looking envelopes from the university.

Kelly groaned. At least if she'd gotten there first, she'd know how she did and would be better prepared. Now Adrian would ask to see her grades first. But he didn't -- Jen's little temper tantrum had distracted him, at least for the moment.

"That's nice, Jen" he said. "I'll take those" and he took the two envelopes from her hand. Jen was busily looking through the rest of the mail for something addressed to her, but Adrian put his hand on her shoulder.

"Get your coat off and get into the study, young lady. You and I are going to have a little talk about tempers and door slamming."

Jen stopped cold. "Oh, Dad, come on. Everyone is on my case around here!"

Adrian just looked at her, with 'that look'. Jen quickly mumbled "Yes, sir" tossed her coat over a chair and walked quickly into the study. Adrian sighed, and followed her. But on the way he said to Kelley, "Go ahead and open them, Kelley; better tell Jeannine hers are here too. When I'm done with Jen I'd like to see them."

Adrian walked into the study. Kelley yelled up the stairs to Jeannine that their grades had come, and then sat down and nervously opened hers. Before she could get the envelope opened, she could hear familiar sounds from the study. Adrian was giving Jen a quick spanking, sounded like over her jeans, though Kelley, he hadn't had time to take them down. But it was a pretty loud sound; Kelley knew that one well, it was the ping pong paddle. She saw Ellen over in the kitchen listening, then turn and she and Kelley shared a knowing little smile. In less than a minute, the sounds stopped, and Adrian came out of the study. Apparently, Jen had her nose in a corner in there.

"Well?" he asked Kelley. Jeannine chose that moment to clambor down the stairs and pick up her own envelope. "Um, just about to open it, Adrian" said Kelley.

"Not in any hurry, hmm?" he said, with a slightly bemused look. Kelley and Jeannine opened their envelopes.

Kelley's heart sank. She got the one A-, in Spanish, that one she already knew about. But a B- in Chemistry. She must have just missed an A on the final. How she regretted now not studying for the midterm, and not being ready for that in- class report when she was called on unexpectedly! An A in Badminton, but Adrian would not give her so much credit for that one probably, and then the real killer: another B- in her Roman History class! How could that have happened? She had a solid B going into the final, and really studied hard for it!

Adrian knew by the look on her face that it was not entirely good news she held in her hand. But he decided to ask Jeannine first, as she looked a little more pleased.

"Oh. Well. I aced three of the courses, but, um, I got a B in French, and another B in Genetics 103."

"I see" said Adrian. "Certainly very high grades for most people. Still, you and I are going to have a talk this evening, after I get back from the store with Michael. Kelley? What about you?"

Miserably, Kelley silently handed him the form. But he refused it. "Kelley, I want you to tell me."

"OK, well I got an A- in Spanish, an A in Badminton, and a B- in Roman History and a B- in Chemistry." She looked at Adrian now as if her life depended on his reaction.

Adrian betrayed very little of his true reaction. "Well, A's and B's for both of you" he said in a voice loud enough for Jen and Michael and Sarah to hear from the living room. "I think those are very commendable grades for a first semester in college. Congratulations, you two." And he reached around both of them simultaneously and gave them a brief hug. Then he turned and walked toward the door.

"Michael, let's go, pardner! Jen, you can go to your room now until dinner time." Jen ran by Kelley and Jeannine and up the stairs, her face a bright, embarassed red, and Adrian and Michael left to go to the mall, to get Michael some new gloves for the winter, as he'd lost one on the way home from school today.

Kelley and Jeannine looked at each other, quizzically. "What was that all about, Kelley?" Jeannine asked.

"I think that was for public consumption, Jeannine. I think he wants the other kids to hear we got As and Bs and that those are good grades. But I have a feeling we are going to have a private talk with him later, wanna bet?"

Jeannine shivered. "I guessed as much. He knows I was high school valedictorian and never got a B in my life before this. And he knows you could have gotten an A in Chem if you hadn't goofed off those times."

Kelley said "Worse than that, Jeannine. Adrian's rule for report cards was always that A's and B's are fine. But he always spanked for less than a B. And B-, my friend, is less than a B in his book. I'm in big trouble. Especially because of the reason I got them, and because he warned me what would happen if I did."

Jeannine touched Kelley on the shoulder and gave her a commiserating look.

She remembered Adrian's warning too. Her hands went instinctively to her bottom, without realizing it. Kelley saw that, and looked at Jeannine, who realized what she was doing, and they both gave a rueful little laugh.

[to be continued: like it so far?] Jeannine and Kelley and Sarah were in the living room, one eye on the evening news which was pretty boring and most of their attention on Sarah's questions about college and living away from home, which she found very exciting. She had all kinds of strange ideas about what that would be like for some reason. Sarah was at that stage where she thought about boys constantly and couldn't believe that Jeannine and Kelley weren't spending all their time with them now that they weren't at home.

Kelley gave Jeannine a knowing look at one point. Going out with boys too much early in the year and then that Thursday evening party in November was what she *had* been doing too much of, and then Jeannine started doing the same, and they both were too well aware that they'd be talking to Adrian about all that shortly. Sarah didn't notice how subdued they were, she thought it was all part of being cool about the whole topic, to act like it was no big deal, so she decided that's how she'd act about it too. Thus the conversation had quieted down considerably when Adrian and Michael got back from the mall.

Michael came in to show them his new gloves and talk excitedly about a new computer game Adrian had bought him. He is so spoiled, Kelley thought with a smile. But she loved Michael a lot. Even if he had teased her mercilessly about her public spankings with Jen a few weeks ago, right there in that living room.

A few minutes later, Adrian called in to ask Jeannine and Kelley to join him in the study. Sarah and Michael looked up at the two of them in surprise; they hadn't been aware that the two girls were in any trouble. "Routine, guys" Kelley told us. "Our grades came today, remember?" Understanding quickly flashed across Sarah's and Michael's faces; their father always sat down and talked with them on report card night, no matter how good (or bad) their grades were.

"Close the door, Kelley" Adrian said when the two of them had entered the study. He was sitting in the overstuffed chair in one corner of the room. Jeannine and Kelley sat down on the couch facing him. Kelley noticed there was no hairbrush or cane or anything at all, actually, on the coffee table in front of the couch, and she breathed a sigh of relief. All that was there were the two grade reports.

"Look, you two, let's get right down to it. I want to say quite honestly that I expected worse after your behavior this past semester." Kelley couldn't help a little grin and an elbow nudge into Jeannine's ribs. "I did not say I was pleased, Kelley" he admonished her. "Just that these grades are better than I'd expected. Still, they are lower than I'd hoped.

"It is clear to me that after my last visit to your dorm room that things really picked up. Kelley, you had to have done very well on your Chem final to get a grade like this after that disastrous first few months. And Jeannine, you had a C in French going into the final because of skipping so many classes. I promised both of you very unpleasant consequences if you didn't get these grades up by the end of the semester.

"But you did get them up, and I am very happy that you learned something from Thanksgiving and from my trip to your dorm in December."

Adrian was smiling now, but it was sort of a sad smile. Neither Kelley nor Jeannine dared to breathe for fear of doing any thing that might change his mind; things seemed to be going so well right now.

"Now, I do not want to give either of you false hopes." He saw both of them slump slightly as he said this. "Kelley knows, first of all, that a B- is an unacceptable grade in any case. And she knows that grade in History could have been higher and it probably wasn't because she was spending too much time catching up in Chemistry to study enough for the History final." Kelley's eyes went wide -- how did he know? But that was exactly what had happened.

"Jeannine, you know that you slacked off entirely in November and though I know you tried hard after that, around here there are consequences for grades that are less than your best. I have a rule in this house that I never spank for a B, because I am not one of those fathers who demands straight A's all the time. I think it scares kids out of taking classes that are a challenge or are out of the areas in which they do best. But in your case, Jeannine, these B's were in courses that you had already taken in high school and did well in, were they not?"

"Yes, sir, they were. I know I should have gotten A's in them, sir."

"I hate to say it, but I would be sending the wrong message to both of you if I did not punish you for these grades. You might think that you can blow off the first half of a semester just as long as you scramble and catch up at the end. That is exactly the wrong way to go about it. In real life if you leave something to the last minute assuming you'll have time to do it then something comes up unexpectedly

"Yes, sir" they said in unison.

Adrian stood up and paced across the room. "This is what I am going to do, young ladies. I am going to spank you both, as a lesson and reminder to not let this happen next semester or ever again." Kelley groaned, a little too loud. "Have something to say, Kelley? If I were you I'd wait and let me finish."

"Sorry, Adrian."

"I had promised you a spanking every night of the break if you didn't get those grades up, Kelley, and you didn't quite pull it off, you know. But I know you tried, and so I am not going to do that. In fact, each of you will get just a single spanking, and then this entire matter will be over and done with, as far as I am concerned."

The sense of relief in the room was palpable. Both Jeannine and Kelley thanked him, and smiled at each other.

"Also", he continued, "I dont' think it appropriate to have anyone else in the house know you are being spanked, because they don't know you did anything, and we'd have to explain it, and, honestly, I want them all to be proud of you two. I would be ecstatic if Michael or Jen or Sarah did this well their first semester away at college. And you know," and Kelley was amazed to see his eyes misting up a little bit, "I am actually quite proud of you both."

And he stopped talking and just stood there. Kelley was so emotional over what he'd just said, and how he looked right now, she couldn't help but get up and run over to him, and hug him. Jeannine smiled at the scene and felt a tear in her eye too.

Kelley turned to look over at her. "Jeannine, get your ass over here too, you idiot!" she laughed, and Jeannine ran over and Adrian held them both, and all three felt very happy, and very close.

Adrian sniffled but then coughed to cover it (he thought) and finally released them, and stood back a pace. "I hope you still feel this way *after* I spank you!" he said, which was met with rueful smile fromthe two girls. "Look, Ellen is going to the mall tomorrow, as the kids don't have school, but the three of us will stay here and get this over with. It will be a real punishment, don't have any illusions. But when it is over, it's over." Both of them nodded at this, already dreading Saturday afternoon. Adrian's next remark made them even more apprehensive. "I know you probably know this from past experience, but if you have plans for tomorrow night, it'd be prudent to cancel them." Kelley and Jeannine exchanged a wide-eyed glance at this. Jeannine reached out to give Kelley's hand a supportive squeeze.

Ellen called them all to dinner. Everyone else was sitting down at the table, except Adrian who had gone up to Jen's room to see if she was contrite enough to come down to eat. But he came down alone and sat down with a sigh. "You'd think after all those spankings over the driving thing she'd have learned something, wouldn't you?" he said as he shook his head in wonderment.

"Oh, I don't know, Adrian" said Ellen with a smile. She looked over at Kelley "I sort of think Jen takes after her older sister." They all laughed at this, especially Kelley, who felt very happy inside that Ellen had called her Jen's "older sister."

They all had a wonderful time at dinner that night. Kelley and Jeannine were in a good mood, all things considered, after their meeting with Adrian just before dinner. Michael loved his new gloves and couldn't wait to play the new Doom game Adrian had bought for him. The youngest always get spoiled, and Michael was no exception. Except, thought Kelley, with a father like Adrian no kid could get *that* spoiled!

Everyone had a good time except Jen, that is. Being 15, she was at that pinnacle of rebelliousness that we all go through. Adrian was quieter than the rest at dinner thinking about her and how she had acted up in her room just before dinner. He still enjoyed the banter and jokes and laughed like everyone else when Jeannine did her imitation of Newt Gingrich, but inside his thoughts were upstairs. He'd been there too. When he was 15 he drove his own parents crazy, arguing and rebelling against everything they stood for. Of course, it was the 60s, but he realized now how he must have seemed to them, and how personally they must have taken it. On the other hand, maybe this meant he didn't have to take it so personally. Maybe he was being too hard on Jen, it was a very hard time for her, trying to stake out her own identity, trying to be an adult when still a child in so many ways.

They watched one of the incessant bowl games after dinner, and it was so boring even Adrian agreed they could watch a movie, but no one could find one in the video rack they all wanted. Finally, Adrian gave Michael a wink, and he ran to the closet and pulled out "Speed", which they had picked up at the mall. He and Mike had worked this out beforehand. "I *knew* this game would be a blow-out", he explained.

But he didn't watch the movie with everyone else (he'd already seen it on an airplane for one thing), instead he decided to go upstairs and talk to Jen.

"Hey there, young lady. You're missing a good movie. They're about to start it."

"Fine. I'm sure they couldn't care less if I was there or not."

"Jennifer, listen to me. I don't know where this chip on your shoulder came from, but I can't think of any reason around here. I really did want to try and get you to come downstairs and join us. You know, I think for what you did this evening, that short paddling and having to miss dinner is punishment enough. I really don't want to have to spank you again at bedtime, dear. But that is where you are heading. Wouldn't it feel better to talk about this instead?"

"There's nothing to talk about, Dad, really. I just want to be alone, that's all."

"OK, fine, then you can at least explain your slamming the door this evening, which you still haven't explained to my satisfaction."

"I was just mad that Mom always makes me run the errands around here, always having to help with dinner, or go to the store with her, and even to get the mail, when Sarah or Michael could have done it. It's like I have to do everything around here."

"Hmmmm. Well, at least I know what's bothering you. Honey, I noticed you didn't say Kelley or Jeannine could have helped, just that Sarah or Michael could have."

"Well, they're older and have other things, like their jobs or college stuff."

"Jen, I think I get the picture, and I think you have a point here. I think that ever since Kelley left for college we've sort of depended on you to do both her chores and your own, but I think Sarah certainly can take up more of the slack and Michael too. You know how it is, it is still pretty sexist, I know, but mothers tend to rely on their daughters more for help than their sons. And Michael has a lot of chores outside, you know, like mowing the lawn and shoveling the snow, and for a 10 year old that's a lot of work when he has to do it."

"I know, Dad. But I'm in high school now, and I'm not a little kid anymore. "

"Oh, I'm well aware of how you're growing up, Jen. I could tell how hard it was for you to be spanked in front of everyone a few weeks ago."

"Oh, Daddy..." Jen groaned, blushing furiously.

"Sorry to bring that up, but I have a reason. I remember when you were really naughty when you were 12 and even 13 when you got spanked in the living room; remember when you set Michael's hair on fire?"

"Daddy... please!"

"Jen, you were scared then about being spanked but you were not all that bothered about being spanked in front of the family. This time was a lot harder, I know. You are growing up. You are becoming a very attractive young lady. But your week of spankings recently should have taught you that that does not mean you are exempt from the rules of the house, any more than Kelley is or Jeannine is. And if memory serves, Kelley was right there with you a few weeks ago in the living room with her pants down. So you can expect that yourself when you are 19 if you deserve it. You think of her being an adult, but look at how she still gets punished if her behavior merits it."

"I know, Dad. Look, I'm really sorry about the door slamming, that was pretty childish of me."

"Thank you, Jen. That's what I was trying to get at but you put your finger right on it. The way to get us to treat you less like a child is to behave less like one. That was a childish thing to do. The adult thing would be to come to me and your mother and talk about your chores and whatever you think is unfair. You have to trust us, Jen, that we will listen to you and consider your side of things, OK?"

"OK, Daddy."

And Adrian went over and gave her a hug. "Now I'd like it if you went down and watched the movie with everyone, Jen. You are a big part of the family and it just doesn't feel right to everyone not to have you there too."

"I'd rather not, Dad."

Adrian stood up and looked at Jennifer. She gulped. "Let me rephrase that, young lady. I am giving you the benefit of a lot of doubts tonight, and there are two things you need to do to make everything right again *without* my taking your pyjama bottoms down this evening. One is to rejoin the family and not separate yourself from us like this. The second will be to apologize to your mother for the door slamming before you go to bed tonight. Is that clear?"

"Yes, sir. Sorry, Dad."

"That's better, sweetheart. We'll hold the movie til you get down there. I think Sarah and Ellen are making some popcorn."

And that is how the evening proceeded, and Adrian had saved his well-worn right arm from having to give yet another spanking. As he lay in bed that night, trying to sleep with visions of evil Dennis Hopper dancing in his head, he thought about how he was going to deal with Kelley and Jeannine tomorrow.

It was one of the best evenings they'd all had during break. The movie was wonderful, even though Mike had gotten really scared by Dennis Hopper, and had kept going "yeachhh" during all the kissing scenes. The best part was that Jen came down and after first being a little cool, had really gotten into the movie, she and Sarah drooling over Keanu Reeves and whispering and giggling with each other on the couch.

About midnight Kelley and Jeannine were up in their room getting ready for bed. "That was really fun, Kelley. But what happened with Jen? I was sure Adrian was going up there to spank her, then she comes down and everything is OK again. You don't think Adrian's going soft, do you?" she said with a grin.

"Hmmm. I doubt it. We'll have a better idea tomorrow evening, won't we? But probably Jen told him she was sorry and he decided she'd been punished enough already, and besides, she was a lot of fun to be with tonight, so overall it sure was the right thing to do."

"Yeah. God, I'm really getting nervous about tomorrow. What do you think will happen?"

"Well, we'll get spanked, that's all. It won't be pleasant. When he tells you you'd better cancel your plans, you know you're in for it. But we'll survive somehow. Y'know, it's easier for me going through it with you than by myself somehow. By the way, I hope you have some of that lotion left -- we're going to need it!"

It snowed that night and the sound of Michael out shoveling woke them up. "It's so beautiful!" said Jeannine, looking out the window in her short nightgown. Kelley looked at her groggily, then admiringly. The snow outside, but the white reflected light on Jeannine's face and bare legs as she looked wonderingly out the window -- that's right, she's from the west, probably not seen much snow before -- made her friend look almost angelic.

Just then there was a knock at the door. Adrian poked his head in after a second. Jeannine modestly grabbed her robe and slipped it on quickly, her 'baby-doll' nightgown didn't cover all that much. Not that he hasn't seen it all anyway, she thought to herself.

"Hey you sleepyheads, it's almost 11 and Ellen's about to go to the mall. I want you to stay here in your room and don't get dressed; use the bathroom if you need to. I will be up when they've left." And he closed the door.

"God, it starts already!" said Kelley breathlessly. "I've gotta use the bathroom, be right back" said Jeannine and left the room.

About 10 minutes later they were both back, in their robes sitting on their beds, nervously, and heard everyone go out to the car, the doors slam, and Ellen drive off. "I can't stand this waiting, Kelley, I hate it more than anything!" "Yeah me too. I always think that until he actually gets here, then I realize that's worse!" They laughed nervously.

A few minutes later came the dreaded sound of Adrian heading up the stairs. "OK, you two. You are going to be punished as you both very much deserve for your conduct at school this semester. I know that you both understand why I have to do this. Your real punishment will come later on down in the study, but you are both going to have your bare bottoms spanked very soundly right here and now, because I want you to be very sore and contrite even before you get down there. Do I make myself clear?"

He stood there between their beds, looking very stern, and very serious. Kelley could see Jeannine was very upset. Both girls were breathing very heavily. Kelley felt scared and had that familiar feeling in the pit of her stomach. "Yes, Adrian, we understand" she said, when it was clear Jeannine was too scared to manage to say anything.

"Good. All right, you first, Kelley. Stand up." Adrian sat down on the bed, facing Jeannine's bed. Jeannine watched, hugging her knees to her chest, as Kelley stood up to Adrian's right side. "Robe off, Kelley," and she obeyed. She had on just an oversized t-shirt and white cotton panties; neither of them had expected to be spanked right when they got up in the morning.

But Adrian did not have her go right over his lap. "Kelley, you especially, I have to impress on you how seriously I take how well you do in college, when you are away from home and my supervision. You let me down this semester and caused me a lot of trouble, making me come up there to spank you like a little girl. You, a freshman in college, having your entire dorm floor hear you getting spanked like a schoolgirl. Well, since you acted just like you did when you were a schoolgirl, then I am going to treat you just like one now. Maybe that will impress on you how juvenile your behavior was this semester, and how far you were from acting like a responsible young adult."

Kelley was blushing furiously at this scolding, especially as it was in front of her friend. But she knew what he said was true.

"Do you remember, Kelley, what I had you do when you were at St. Mary's Academy, when I was first punishing you?"

"Oh, Adrian, please not that, just spank me. I know I deserve it, please."

"Oh, I'll spank you Kelley. But I insist. If you want to behave like a schoolgirl who cannot supervise herself instead of like a college student, then you are going to be treated just like one. And maybe in the future you will behave more like a college student, and I won't have to punish you like this. But you didn't, and so now, I'm waiting, young lady."

"Adrian, noooo, please. I'll do much better next semester, and..."

"All right Kelley, I'm adding another 5 minutes to your spanking right now for disobedience. Want to go for 10?"

"Ohhhhh. All right." Jeannine was transfixed; why was Kelley so upset, why was she already in tears and near to crying?

Kelley slowly knelt on the floor in front of Adrian. "I'm still waiting, Kelley" he said.

"Ohh. Please, Adrian, I deserve to be spanked very hard, would you please spank me now?"

"Not good enough, Kelley. I see you need a reminder that I do not like young ladies playing games with me when they are being punished. Go get your hairbrush from the dresser and bend over the end of the bed, this instant!"

"oohh, noo, pleeease, Adrian, I'll do it right this time!"

"You better believe you will, Kelley. Now march!"

With a groan, Kelley went to the dresser, picked up the hairbrush and went to the end of the bed, and bent well over it. She glanced over at Jeannine who was watching wide-eyed and turned her head away from her.

"No, you don't. Look right at Jeannine's face and keep your eyes open, Kelley. Remember, it was your misbehavior that got her into trouble in the first place this semester! Now, hand me the hairbrush."

"No,, please, owwww!!! Not there, oWWW!!! Oh, no more OWWWW!!!!!"

Adrian held her down over the bedframe and was smacking the brush up and down the backs of Kelley's bare thighs. She kicked and squealed as he gave 5 to each thigh.

"Now, are you ready to behave Kelley?"

"yes yes yes Adrian, please, I will please no more there"

"Since I know how much you hate it there, Kelley, you can be assured you will be well punished on your thighs later today." She groaned out loud at this news. "Now, let us see if that has helped your memory of what I expect you to do."

He went back to sit on the bed. Kelley, tearstreaked, followed him, rubbing her thighs furiously for relief. She stood in front of Adrian, her back to Jeannine. Jeannine stared at the angry red circular marks left by the brush, up and down Kelley's thighs, and gulped. She knew how that awful brush felt!

"All right, Kelley."

"ohhhh... Um, Adrian, please give me a long hard spanking..."

"Yes, Kelley?"

"on.. on my bot- bottom..."

"Would you like more with the brush, Kelley?"

"No! no, all right, on my b-bare bottom..."

"Don't try my patience, Kelley. From the beginning, and this is your last chance."

"Please, Adrian, please spank me on my bare bottom, long and hard because I -- I -- ohhh -- because I have been a very naughty girl and deserve it" Oh, this was so humiliating in front of Jeannine, to show her how she used to be spanked all the time!

"Yes, Kelley, you do deserve a very long and hard spanking on your very bare bottom for being so naughty. Now prepare yourself."

"Oh, Adrian, not that, pleeease!"

"That's enough, Kelley!" And he grabbed her by the ear and tossed her over his knee. Picking up the hairbrush he smacked her upturned bottom over her panties, and her thighs again, over and over with the brush while she howled. Finally, he released his ward and she hopped up again, rubbing herself frantically and sobbing out loud.

"Kelley, if you haven't caught on by now, you are just making it worse on yourself. I haven't even started to spank you yet and you have already had a good dose with the hairbrush. You have one final chance, and if you don't show me complete obedience this time, I know a certain 19 year old who will be over the ottoman in the living room tonight with her pants down getting a paddling. Understand?!"

"yes sir, yes Adrian, I'm sorry, I'll be obedient now, I promise."

He didn't say anything, just waited. "Um, Please, Adrian, give me a long and hard spanking on my b-bare bottom because I have been a very naughty girl and deserve it, and I'm really sorry, sir."

He nodded slightly and still waited. Kelley groaned. She had to prepare herself now. She turned her back on Adrian, causing her to face Jeannine. She couldn't look at her friend now so she scrunched her eyes closed. "Eyes wide open and look right at Jeannine, Kelley!" barked Adrian.

"Ohhhh... please...." but Kelley did what she had to, what she had had to do for so many years in this very room. She bent well over and grasped her knees, then holding that position, reached back and grasped the waistband of her panties. She felt so ashamed, but she knew she had to do it, and slowly pulled them down to her knees. Adrian had always made her take her own panties down for a spanking. She felt so humiliated, having to look at Jeannine who was biting her lip and looking sympathetically to her friend.

Adrian made her hold this ignomious position for awhile as he scolded her some more, looking right at Kelley's bare bottom, splotched already from the brush. "Remember how this feels, Kelley, the next time you want to act as though you were a 14 year old who doesn't know any better and doesn't have any self-control. This is how you will be treated if you don't shape up next semester and show some self-discipline! Now, get over here and get over my knees, young lady."

Kelley did so, almost eagerly. Her upper body was on the bed and she took a pillow and buried her face in it. Adrian arranged her so her bare white bottom was right over his right thigh, aimed right at Jeannine, gripped his ward tightly around her waist, and proceeded to spank her hard with his hand for 5 minutes.

Kelley was squirming and twisting frantically by this time. But Adrian said "Now that was all I was going to give you before your disobedience, but now we have to take care of the extra 5 minutes you earned for that." Fresh howls of protest from Kelley as Adrian resumed her spanking.

Soon no area of her bottom was left white anymore, it was all a very hot pink, and Kelley was crying hard. "This SMACK is what SMACK happens SMACK to naughty SMACK SMACK SMACK girls, Kelley who SMACK SMACK SMACK don't accept their punishment obediently SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK, as if you didn't know SMACK already! SMACK SMACK SMACK You should be ashamed of yourself SMACK SMACK SMACK getting your bare bottom spanked at your age! SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK...

It was finally over, and Kelley was sent to the corner in disgrace, under strict instructions not to rub herself. "You're next, Jeannine" he said to the very nervous 19 year old sitting on the next bed, "but first I have a phone call I have to make. And I want Kelley to watch your spanking as you watched hers" -- Jeannine's heart sank at this, she hated to have an audience, it was so embarassing! -- "but first she is going to stand in that corner for awhile and think about what a naughy and disobedient girl she is!"

And with that, he left the room.

Adrian left the room to make his call, and also to give Kelley some time in the corner before Jeannine's spanking. Jeannine tried to console Kelley who was still crying in the corner. "Kelley, how are you?" Jeannine whispered, because she knew they weren't supposed to talk when someone was doing corner time. "I -- I'm OK, Jeannine. I'll be all right. It was my own idiotic fault to make it worse for myself. Ohhh I hated to have to do that in front of you <sniff>. That's how h-he used to make me prepare for spankings when I was in high school.. It is so hu-humiliating!"

"Don't worry about me, Kelley, I was just sympathizing with you the whole time. Anyway, now it's my turn. Hey, thanks for getting him so angry and upset, kid!" she said with a laugh.

"Ha, <sniff> don't worry Jeannine, I think he took it all out on my bottom already."

They heard Adrian's footsteps and quickly stopped whispering.

He came in the room, looked at Jeannine, and moved the desk chair over to where it faced her bed. "Kelley, come over here and sit down. No, leave those panties at your knees, young lady."

Kelley shuffled over to the hardwood chair. "Um, I'd rather stand, if you don't mind, Adrian."

"I *do* mind and that is why I want you to sit down. This second, Kelley."

With a groan Kelley sat down very gingerly on the unforgivingly hardness of the chair seat. Ohhh, how it hurt to have to sit like that, on her bared bottom, so sore from her spanking. She winced and squirmed in the chair.

"Now, Jeannine, I hope you will be more obedient than Kelley was, especially now that you see the consequences. Stand up."

Jeannine did so, her legs weak with dread. Adrian sat down on her bed, and taking her by an arm, led her around to his right side. She felt so vulnerable and defenseless standing there in that short little nightgown, which was only gauze and almost sheer. And it barely covered her in front. If she had only known he was going to spank them right out of bed she would have worn pyjamas or something! She clasped her hands in front of her and stared at the floor while he scolded her.

Adrian looked at Jeannine. She was very pretty standing there. Her legs were muscular and smooth, and the nightgown bared her shoulders and upper chest, showing even more tawny, dark skin. Her dark black hair hung down past her shoulders, in her contrite posture.

"Jeannine, you too acted like a schoolgirl this semester, not very responsibly at all. I know you want to go to grad school and you know how competitive it is these days, and how even B's can make the difference between getting in or not. So when you act childishly you may very well be hurting your chances for the life you want as an adult. Meaning, young lady, you have to start acting more like one than you did last semester."

"I know, Mr. Hammersmith, you're right. I am very ashamed of myself. I know I deserve to be punished."

"Then let's get this over with. Lift your nightgown above your waist."

With a groan, eyes shut tightly in her embarassment, Jeannine plucked up the hem of her gown and lifted it up, past her belly button in front. She had on only a pair of low cut bikini panties underneath.

"Pull those panties down to your knees, young lady."

Jeannine had dreaded this moment, but expected it after what Kelley had been made to do. Blushing furiously, she shuddered and hooked her thumbs in the sides of her panties and, bending slightly, pushed them down so they bound her around her knees. Her nightgown had fallen down to cover her from him in front, but he told her to lift it back up again. Jeannine could have died of shame right there, but did so, and started to cry a little bit.

She was bare to his gaze, from her waist to her knees. Adrian noticed the paleness of her skin where her bathing suit covered her. From the chair behind her, Kelley looked at the pale cheeks of Jeannine's full bottom and thought of how that whiteness was not going to last that much longer!

Adrian scolded Jeannine for another few minutes while Jeannine blushed hotly and stammered her promises to do better in the future. Finally it was over and she almost eagerly placed herself across his lap. He started to smack her upturned bottom almost immediately, lifting his palm high in the air each time, and making Jeannine's bottom wobble with each solid spank. Kelley watched as Adrian covered Jeannine's bottom and upper thighs with stinging slaps, and watched her roommate go from stoic acceptance to gasps and cries, then to vain attempts to twist her bottom out of the way, and kicks of first one foot then the other to try to mitigate the searing pain. Finally, she just lay there and sobbed as Adrian kept up the relentless spanking, and Jeannine's bottom was a deep fiery splotchy red everywhere. It had been a very thorough spanking.

Adrian told her to stand up again and briefly held the sobbing girl in his arms. Then he had Jeannine stand in the corner and told Kelley to remain in the chair. And, he added as he left the room, no more whispering if they knew what was good for them!

After 15 minutes, he came back to their room and told them both they could get out of their uncomfortable positions. In an hour he wanted them to report to the study, in their robes. When he left this time, the two friends consoled each other and rubbed their bottoms to try to relieve the soreness and burning, and inspected themselves in the mirror, then lay down on their stomachs on the beds and tried to figure out what was going to happen next.

Kelley and Jeannine lay on their stomachs on their beds, with just their robes on. Their bottoms still smarted terribly and both wondered out loud how they'd be able to take their real punishment downstairs in an hour.

At about 15 minutes to the hour, Adrian knocked on their door. "Hello again. I've brought you each a package. You will know what to do with it once you open it. I'll see you down in the study at 1pm sharp." And he closed the door and headed downstairs.

Jeannine and Kelley were mystified. He had handed them each a brown paper bag. They each opened theirs to see what was inside. "Oh my God" Kelley said loudly, in amazement. She had drawn out a pleated red and white plaid school uniform skirt. *Her* old school uniform skirt. And there was the white starched blouse, and the white knee socks, and the white panties, and the brown loafers with the tassels... "It's my old school uniform, Jeannine! What about your bag?"

Jeannine dumped her bag upside down on her bed. "Kelley, it's the same thing. But I didn't have a school uniform, whose is this?"

"Ha, it's Jen's, from just last year! He must have gotten it out of storage, like he did with mine. You know, it will probably fit you, you and Jen are about the same size. But I don't know if I still fit in mine. It's pretty clear this is what we are supposed to wear downstairs..."

"But why do this, Kelley? What is the point?"

"It's pretty obvious, isn't it? He kept saying how we behaved like schoolgirls. So he is just making us really feel like one. Oh, this skirt is so short, I can't believe I had to wear it all those years!"

The two friends struggled into their respective outfits. Soon it was nearly time to get downstairs.

"Um, how do I look, Kelley?"

"Pretty ridiculous, Jeannine, what did you expect? Like an overage schoolgirl. As I'm sure I do. I've grown a bit since I've worn this blouse for one thing" and it was true, her breasts strained against the front of the blouse.

"We'd better get down there."

Adrian heard the clip clop of their penny loafers on the stairs and was waiting for them. "Well, hello girls, nice of you to come." They didn't answer, their attention was focused on the long heavy ruler that was sitting on the coffee table.

"I would like you both to sit over on the couch for a few minutes, please. I have a few things to say.

"First of all, I will not tolerate the kind of behavior that both of you, and especially you, Kelley, exhibited this past semester, in neglecting your schoolwork, or putting it off until the last minute. Kelley, for you this means I may well pull you right out of college and bring you back home where I can more easily give you the discipline you so apparently need. Remember that when you are back at school."

Kelley was deeply affected by Adrian's renewal of his old promise but realized that he had said this all along, she had to shape up or ship out of college. "Yes, sir, I will" she said quietly.

"Jeannine, I do not have the authority to do the same with you. But I would if I could. And what I can do, with your own consent and participation, if Kelley is no longer there at school with you, is to keep informed of your progress, and if you are slacking off and also need discipline, I will have you here each weekend until I'm confident you are back on track again. And, young lady, I think you know what would be in store for you on those weekends, and it will not just be a lot of time catching up on your studies."

Jeannine had no doubt that she would spend some very uncomfortable time each day of those weekends in this study. "I think I understand, sir. I won't let it happen again like last semester, Mr. Hammersmith, I promise."

"Kelley, you know that bringing you home is only a last resort and it certainly is not what I'd want to have to do. But for both of you, and I do mean this, if you are not doing very well on your midterms and classes by then, you can forget about going somewhere warm for spring break. Instead I will be doing the warming that week. Kelley can tell you, Jeannine, about an uncomfortable spring break she spent here one year. Spring break will be something you both earn, as of right now you are both on probation until you show me that you are serious about being in college."

"Yes sir" they said in unison. Both of them gulped at the thought that they'd be spanked every day of spring break.

"All right. Now, I am sure that the meaning of having to dress like schoolgirls is not lost on you. I wanted you to feel how completely juvenile and silly it is to have to dress that way. Don't you feel like those years were long ago? I have to say, that you both look ridiculous in those outfits. And yet, 6 or so years ago you would not have looked ridiculous in them.

"That is my point. You look and feel silly because you really are not schoolgirls any longer. So it is time to stop acting like one too. And it is time to stop having to rely on me to punish and discipline you so much. I hate to say this because I hope it never happens, but you both may not end up living so close by after college. You might go to grad school or take a job someplace. At some point, you can't rely on old Adrian to keep you in line. You have to do that for yourself.

"But for the next hour, I am going to treat you both like the naughty schoolgirls you have been acting like for the past 5 months. And I hope it will help you choose not to act like that this next semester.

"Jeannine, stand up." And she did, hands clasped in front of her, head down submissively. "Hand me the ruler." She picked it up, it was long, maybe a foot and a half, and of hard wood. Jeannine gulped, and handed it to Adrian. "Thank you. Now go and stand at the end of the couch, facing the arm."

Jeannine went around to the arm of the leather Chesterfield. She faced Kelley who was still seated there. Adrian told Kelley to stand over by the desk and watch what would be happening to her next.

"All right, Jeannine. You have been a lazy and less than dedicated student lately. You have disappointed me and worse, you have let yourself down. I am going to give you the punishment you deserve and paddle you with this ruler until you can't sit down for a week. Now raise your skirt high and go over the arm of the couch."

With a sniffle Jeannine lifted her skirt and bent over the sofa arm. Her head and chest were on the cushioned seat and her feet on the floor, her body was bent in two with her stomach and thighs against the leather arm.

"Now keep your legs completely straight, and pull your skirt high on your back." She did so. He came around to her left side, and tapped her pantied bottom lightly with the ruler. She whimpered and tensed her buttocks.

Adrian could see the mottled red of her bottom through the thin fabric and especially on the bare bottom flesh peeking out of the panties, and her upper thighs. The panties were about a size too small, which was what he had hoped. He took back the ruler and

CRACK!! "Owwwww!!" Jeannine shrieked.

He could see the band of red across the summit of her cheeks. SMACK!!! CRACK!! WHAP!! He laid on three strokes of the ruler one right below the other, covering her lower bottom with lines of fire.

Jeannine was yelling OWWWwwww at the top of her lungs after each one. Adrian concentrated the next five right in the same area, where her bottom met her thighs, a tender area very vulnerable in her stretched position over the sofa arm. Jeannine's howling would have woken the neighborhood if it was nighttime, Kelley thought. She was biting her lip at the suffering she knew her friend was enduring, and that she knew she must face next.

After five minutes of the ruler, Jeannine was arching and twisting her bottom in vain attempts to somehow gain some relief from the punishment. Adrian must have given her 30 or 40 already, Kelley thought, Jeannine was crying steadily in deep, throaty sobs. Then he stopped. They all knew what he was going to say next.

"Pull your panties down, Jeannine, for the rest of your punishment."

No matter how obvious it may have seemed that she was not going to be spanked only on her panties, you can't blame Jeannine for hoping, and especially as the punishment had continued and continued... now the command was doubly devastating. That she would have to take the ruler on her sore blazing bare skin, and that she was after all that, just part way through her ordeal.

Still sobbing, Jeannine reached back and, lifting up her hips from the leather arm of the couch, into which they had been grinding in her agony for the past 5 minutes, she began to tug down the tight undergarment. The band rubbed hard against her so sensitive bottom all the way down because the panties were so tight, yielding gasps and moans from Jeannine, but she finally managed to get them below her bottom.

"To your knees, Jeannine" Adrian reminded her. And she reached back, and had to stick her bottom high in the air to be able to reach her knees. Her face turned as red as her bottom as she knew the display she was giving Adrian by her maneuver.

He once again tapped her crimson bottom, now covered with angry red stripes, and began to swat her with the ruler again. Her howls were quick to reawaken, and by the end of the next 4 minutes, Jeannine was reduced to a blubbering, extremely contrite schoolgirl. Adrian set down the ruler on the table, helped Jeannine up, consoled her briefly, and when she had calmed down enough, sent her to one of the far corners of the room.

"Kelley, assume the position." and he pointed to the same arm of the couch on which Jeannine had just paid her own penance.

Very few times in the past had Kelley had so many butterflies in her stomach. She had had to watch Jeannine's rulering and felt faint knowing she was about to undergo the same long ordeal as her friend. Adrian's commands snapped her out of it. "Skirt up, over the arm, Kelley." In a fog she lifted up the absurdly short uniform skirt, and placed herself jacknifed over the arm of the sofa. It felt warm still from Jeannine's body heat, and wet with her sweat as she had squirmed and twisted over it.

"Good. Now stay in that position while I take care of some things. And no whispering or talking at all you too. You are both in disgrace."

And he left the room. This was horrible, thought Kelley, even more time to wait to think about what was going to happen when he gets back. And Jeannine, still crying over there in the corner, how must she feel, she's bright red from the top of her bottom halfway down her thighs! Kelley knew neither of them would be able to sit comfortably for days after this.

About 10 minutes later, Adrian came back in. "All right, Jeannine, over here on the chair, to watch this other naughty girl get the punishment she deserves." Sniffling, Jeannine came over to the hardwood chair, and slowly, gingerly placed her bottom on it. She winced and squealed when she put her full weight on her bare bottom, and stayed wincing as Adrian went to Kelley's left side.

Kelley felt him tap the ruler across her arched, pantied bottom. "You, especially, should feel ashamed of yourself for your behavior last semester, young lady." And he SMACKed the ruler hard across the fullest point of her behind, causing her to hisss with the sudden intake of her breath at the searing pain. and SMACK SMACK SMACK again, up and down her bottom. "You were the main culprit and you set the bad example that Jeannine followed." CRACK CRACK WHAP WHAP WHAP Kelley was howling now as Jeannine had and bucking all over the sofa arm. Adrian added several to the backs of her thighs when she kicked and moved too much and even had to warn her that he would give her a second spanking if she did not keep still.

He went up and down her bottom and nearly to her knees, laying one stroke of the ruler overlapping the one before it, completely covering her skin with fire. This was worse than the paddle, worse than the hairbrush even, and almost as bad as the cane -- just different, she thought, in her agony. She was crying hard, promising to do better next time.

"pl-Please, A-Adrian OWWww I-I'll try ha- NoooOwww OWWWW Harder I won't g- AhhhhNooo MOre pl- I'll study h-harder and not OoooOWWWWW OWWWWW Pleeeeeaase Ad- OWWWW Adrian no pl- AAOOOOOWWWWW!!!"

It seemed like an eternity. But it had just been the same 5 minutes as Jeannine had endured. She for her part had quieted down, watching in abject misery and sympathy as her roommate got her own bottom blistered. She squirmed on the chair, trying to give at least part of her bottom some relief once in a while at the expense of the other part...

"Get those panties down, young lady. I'm not done with you yet."

"Oh Adrian, please no more, please my bottom is sooo sore, it hurtss soo much, <snif> plleeaasee I'll study so hard next term, you will be <snif> sooo proud I prmose OOWWWWW OK OK I'll get them down OWWW!!"

Kelley tugged down the thin cotton panties, grimacing with the pain as the elastic rubbed against her sore bottom, all the way to her knees. But she was surprised when Adrian proceeded to pull them all the way off entirely.

"Get your knees apart, Kelley." What waas that, she thought? "I said, get your knees apart this minute, Kelley. Don't dare be disobedient right now!" And she did, but not enough apparently. "Wider, young lady. Feet well apart." With a groan, she splayed her legs far apart behind her. Oh, this was horrible, Kelley thought, this is so embarassing, he can see everything. And she knew this was so he could use the ruler on the tender skin he had not spanked yet.

He tapped her bottom to alert her. SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWoOoooooooOWWWWWWWWWWW Oh God! she thought, as he repeatedly smacked the ruler across her bare bottom, stripes of pain, searing right through her. Several in the same place!

Relentlessly he continued her punishment. Yes, once in awhile he did smack the ruler against the inside of her thigh, first one then the other. Kelley kicked up hard and yelled her outrage at the horrible pain. Adrian also used the ruler lengthwise, standing near her head, between the cheeks of her bottom, smacking it in there one, two, three times, til the skin there was as red as the rest of her bottom.

Kelley sobbed and yelled and bucked all over the sofa arm. Finally Adrian announced 10 more hard ones, that she was to count and thank him for. "And if you don't, I'll assume you didn't feel it and just give it again, Kelley."

"Y-yes, sir."

"Ready, Kelley?"

"Ready, A-Adrian... oh please not too ha-- OWWwww ohh One, sir, thank you Adrian."

SMACK! across the midle of her bottom 'TWO! Two, ohh, thank you Adrian..."

CRACK! Across the top of the left thigh "OWWWWW 3! Thank you Adrian"

WHAP! "Noooo Owwww ohh 4, thank you, sir...ohhh" on the inside of her right thigh.

SMACK! "5! Kelley screeched, Thank you, Adrian. hard across the right side of her bottom

CRACK! "Owwww 6! Ohhh thank you, Adrian" Lower bottom right across Kelley's vulnerable asshole...

"SMACK! Ohhh 7! SMACK "EEEEEE 8 Thank -- " CRACK! "Owwwww 9 oh no, please not in the same sp-spot! For all three were right across the tops of her thighs in the same place.

Finally: SMACK! across the middle of her brick red bottom "Owww 10, Thank you Adrian, ohhhhhhnoooooohhhhhhh...."

"There, Kelley, it's all over, come on, get up, sweetheart, it's all over..." And he helped his sobbing ward up, and she collapsed in tears in his arms, and he held her, and the sight of her incardined backside and legs, sobbing so touchingly in Adrian's arms, caused Jeannine to start crying herself again.

He held her like that for several minutes, and when it became clear her legs were too weak from her ordeal to stand much longer, he sat down on the couch with her, and continued to hold her, rocking her like he once did, years ago, the last time he had punished her in that uniform. he whispered to her in her ear that he loved her, and in response she reached out her right arm around him to hug him even closer, and finally turned her tear streaked face to him and managed a smile, and sniffed and said "Oh, that was horrible, Adrian, god how that hurt!" and they both laughed a quiet little laugh, more a release of emotion than a real laugh.

Adrian decided not to put Kelley in the corner again, but told both girls to get their panties back on and get upstairs, and when they were ready to come down for something to eat, since they hadn't eaten all day. They asked him if they could just run upstairs without the panties since their bottoms were too sore to put them on, and he laughed, and then told them to get out of those ridiculous outfits and put some decent clothes on. And the two of them, still sniffling, went upstairs. It took maybe 3 seconds for Kelley to ask Jeannine for the cold cream, but her friend was already heading for it. They rubbed it onto each other's bottom and rested on their stomachs for a half hour before putting on loose dresses and the largest panties they could find (to tell the truth, Kelley snuck into Ellen's dresser for these), and heading downstairs, where Adrian was making his famous chili.

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