A few days later ______ went with some of new colleagues to the head of department’s house for dinner.

“Another cognac _______?” Professor Kim asked.

“Well perhaps not Professor, I have a lot on tomorrow and besides it is a bit of challenge getting into Chain Reaction House after ten.” ______ smiled as she placed her hand over the brim of the cognac glass.

“Chain Reaction House? But that is for… oh yes, I remember now. Are you still living there?”

“Yes I haven’t had much luck finding digs in town.”

“Oh we will have to see what we can do. But what’s this about 10 o’clock? Surely, Mrs Jessica has provided you with a key. I did ask.”

“As a point of fact Professor, you didn’t. If you recall you forgot to…”

“Oh…” the professor frowned. “Did I? Quite possibly I did. I don’t remember… ha ha.”

Everyone laughed, although ______ rather hollowly as she remembered the consequences of his oversight. Not that she would ever tell them.

_______ left the party and made her way home. She was cutting it fine, but she was confident that Mrs Jessica understood the situation now, wasn’t she?

She arrived at the front door a little after the hour and annoyingly it was locked. She felt a few butterflies as she rang the doorbell.

The door opened after a few minutes and a ghostly arm waved her in.

“If I get caught because of you… oh your not Yerin?”

“No. But thanks.”

“.” Sowon hastened away.

_______ laughed. She could well imagine what would happen if Yerin and her friend were caught.

_______ headed straight for the back stairs to come at her room from the other direction. Why not? She thought, I can go any way I like. Somewhere a door opened and closed. Mrs Jessica coming to see who is at the door no doubt, ________ suppressed the silly nervous thoughts at the edge of her mind. And walked briskly up the stairs to her room.

She felt a strange relief as the door to her room closed behind her. Then she shook her head. I must get somewhere to live, she thought.

The knock at the door startled her. She thought about removing her coat before opening it, but why should she?

Mrs Jessica was standing outside glaring icily at her.

“_______.”

“Mrs Jessica?”

“Would you be so good as to come with me?”

“Come with you? Why?” _______ asked nervously.

“I saw your door close as I turned the corner. You have just come in have you not?”

“Yes I was at Professor Kim’ house, we…”

“_______. I don’t care where you have been. You were late. Now we are going to have a little chat.”

“I don’t understand,” _______ lied, her stomach becoming a tight knot.

“You know the rules. I wish you to come with me to my room right now. When we get there I am going to bare your bottom and I am going to put you across my knee for a sound spanking. If I get any resistance or back-chat from you, then you will be sorry.”

_______’s  mouth went dry and her tongue refused to do her bidding. This could not be happening.

“Mrs Jessica. I am a member of the teaching staff at this college. I am here temporarily and you really can’t just…”

The housemother sighed. Reaching out she took _______ by the ear and started off down the corridor with a tottering 25-year-old in tow.

“Mrs Jessica what are you doing? You can’t do this. I refuse to cooperate. I’m a lecturer here… please stop.”

Once in the housemother’s room Mrs Jessica grabbed the Shaker style chair and picked up the brush and patted the palm of her hand with it.

“You have just one minute to remove your coat, skirt and ,” she snapped.

_______ backed away waving an impotent finger at the housemother.

“Wait just one minute, if you think for one moment that you are going to… to… Mrs Jessica you can’t do this.”

Mrs Jessica sighed again and in one smooth movement divested _______ of her coat and flipped her across her knee. Then as the younger woman struggled and began a string of expletives, first her skirt and then her were removed.

“Mrs Jessica, please. You can’t do this,” _______ wailed.

The spanking began in earnest from the start and Mrs Jessica spanked hard. _______ screwed up her face and tried to reach around to defend her exposed bottom, but the housemother seized her wrists and spanked all the harder.

After three or four minutes, ______’s resolve cracked and her intermittent spluttering turned to stuttering sobs.

“Feeling it now are we?” Mrs Jessica said almost kindly. “Listen my girl, you come from a big city or some such and you are not used to our ways. But for the last time while you are living under this roof you will obey the rules. I don’t care who you are or who you think you are. Are we clear about that?”

“Ow, please Mrs Jessica stop,” _______ sobbed.

“Are we clear about that?” Mrs Jessica repeated. Spanking out hard at each word.

“Oooh god, yeow, please.” _______ growled angrily.

“Are we clear?” Mrs Jessica barked putting an extra snap in the spank.

“Yes,” _______ sobbed.

“Finally,” Mrs Jessica said expansively as she continued to spank her errant tenant. “I am going to spank you until I am convinced that you get the message, until you tell me in a nice clear voice that you understand that you will be spanked every time you break the rules.”

“Ooh, huh-huh,” _______ choked, knowing at that moment she would do anything she was told.

After a while the spanking was paused and Mrs Jessica allowed _________ some time to cry. Then she asked: “Have you something to tell me?”

_________ continued to cry, but said nothing.

The spanking was resumed and _______ began to beg and mumble something incoherent.

“What was that?” Mrs Jessica paused the spanking again.

“I understand. You are going to spank me if I break the rules,” _______ said angrily.

“Hardly clear, what with all that crying. I do hope you have better diction when you teach.”

“Please Mrs Jessica, I understand,” _______ sobbed.

Mrs Jessica looked down at _______’s striking red bottom and wondered if the lesson was learned.

“I really need to be convinced of that,” Mrs Jessica said seriously.

“Please I’ll be good.” _______ was hiccoughing a little as she wept.

“Alright. I know it’s late, but I want you to go stand in the corner until I tell you to come out. Then you will apologise and ask me nicely to give the final part of your spanking.”

“Oh please Mrs Jessica,” _______ sobbed feeling thoroughly defeated.

“You want another spanking first? Is that it?” Mrs Jessica asked. “I can make this take all night.”

_______ nodded. She had never felt so humiliated.

“You knew this would happen if I caught you didn’t you?” There was gentleness  to Mrs Jessica’s question.

_______ nodded. She knew now that she did.

Mrs Jessica let _______ stand up and go to the corner to start what was for her an embarrassing and nervous half hour.

A while later when it had gone eleven, the housemother was ready for bed, so she brought the proceedings to what she hoped would be a close.

“Turn around,” she ordered. “Have you something to say?”

_________ looked at the hairbrush in Mrs Jessica’s hands and quailed.

“Please Mrs Jessica, I am sorry. P-please… sp… punish me a bit more.”

“You’ll do better next time if I ask it, but that will do for now,” Mrs Jessica said wearily. Now go to bed.

Relieved and decidedly humbled, _______ gathered up her things and walked still bare-bottomed to her room. She had a lot of thinking to do.

*

The next day, having no actual classes, _______ called in sick. So it was not until the day after that she made it back in to the faculty office. Although her bottom was still tender and she tended to wince at each step. As before she wondered if everyone knew she had been spanked by Mrs Jessica, but the was no real evidence of it.

“Ah Dr Park,” the office secretary said as she entered, “glad to see you are better. You look positively glowing today.”

“Yes thank you,” _______ returned a tight nervous smiled.

“We may have found you some accommodation,” the secretary said absently.

_______ thought about the entertaining line of spanked freshman and the warm cosy feeling where she could feel butterflies flying around her stomach that  she had felt from the flawless and strict Mrs Jessica. So it was with mixed feelings that she said: “Oh good, when can I go and see them.”

In the end, it had not turned out to be suitable and as there was another cottage available at the start of the next semester, she decided to hold out for it. After all Chain Reaction House wasn’t so bad. At least it gave her the opportunity to see another side to college life. She wondered what the Park _______ of a month ago would have said about that as she all but skipped home from a late faculty meeting.

Somewhere the clock chimed 9.45 and she looked around at the quaint brick college buildings that were fast becoming her home.

“Excuse me Dr Park,” a student gushed as she rushed past.

Late home no doubt, _______ chuckled, she probably has a housemother like Mrs Jessica. Omigod Mrs Jessica . ______ looked up at the clock, it was almost 10 minutes to the hour.

“Oh shoot,” she wailed and broke into a run. It was a good 20 minutes walk to the other side of campus she thought, as she frantically cut across some forbidden grass. At least I can’t be spanked for that.