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 Gwen's Sorority Days (Thrice Burnt Pt 5)

   Joyce knocked on the door of the trim bugalow in the quiet suburb.  Gwen
opened the door with a smile.  Her medium length blonde hair was in a
ponytail and she wore little white shorts and a halter top, a rather
juvenile looking costume for a 25 year old woman.  It made her look like a
teenager.

   "I'm so glad you came over, Joyce.  Come in.  Was I hard to find?"

   "No, you gave good directions."

   "Coffee?  I just made a pot." Joyce couldn't help but notice the ample
yet cute bubble-shaped rear tightly encased in the brief shorts as she led
Joyce toward the kitchen.

   "Yes," said Joyce, "I believe I will."

   "Well, come on in.  You know, I just can't help myself--don't mind the
mess--I have been a naughty girl, not cleaning up," she said with a rueful
grin.  Then she blurted: " Look, after our meeting in the shop, I had to
know how it turned out.  After I made you that strap, I mean.  I hope you
don't think I'm awful for being curious.  But, well....  did you really use
it on your nephew?  I know it works well," she said blushing.  "After all
my little fanny can attest to its effectiveness." She turned around and
patted the cute fanny in question as she said it.  It wasn't so little but
it was round and very shapely.

   Joyce was intrigued by this nice, seemingly uninhibited young woman, and
was even beginning to feel the beginning of some odd emotional stirrings at
the quick turn that the conversation was taking.  "Um, yeah, I did use it
on Jeff....I had to.  It was what his mom made me agree to when they left.
He got in trouble at school and the rule was 'get it at school--get it at
home'.  What had to be done had to be done."

   "Ooh, how did you do it?" Gwen licked her lips and leaned forward as she
spoke.  Her body language betrayed the fact that the subject excited her.
Joyce felt her own excitement as she recalled the incident, but was
determined to keep the conversation dignified.

   "I...ah...simply explained to Jeff the need for his further discipline.
We had a nice dinner and afterwards we went into the living room where I
gave him his strapping." The way she said it, it sounded like she had given
him a cookie.

   Gwen, however, was on the edge of her seat and breathlessly queried:
"Well, did you put him over your knee, or did he bend over?  Did you take
his pants down?  How many licks did you give him?"

   "Whoa....whoa, there!  You sure are curious aren't you?  I mean--- this
punishment was kind of private."

   "Oh, yes, of course---I'm sorry.  I can be such a nosy busybody.  It's
just that I used to get it a lot in college and the whole thing about
paddlings and such just fascinates me.  I don't know why."

   Joyce could see that Gwen was now distressed and embarrased.  "It's ok,"
she said with a laugh." I guess the last week or so has been an eyeopener
for me." Actually Joyce felt herself warming up to this cute girl.  She
seemed so genuine.  A bit naive, perhaps.  Then again, maybe not, not the
way she acted in the store, volunteering to "test" the punishment strap she
had made.  Anyway she felt strangely drawn to her.

   "Is that so?" said Gwen with a lift of her eyebrows.  And Joyce, with a
sigh, proceeded to tell her about her evening with Brad.

   By the end of the story Gwen's eyes were as big as saucers and she was
bolt upright in her chair hanging on every word.  "Wow!  A spanking from a
man...and bare to boot.  Then sex...oh, my!"

   Joyce nodded then continued: "And I'll tell you another thing.  With
Jeff, I bent him over the arm of the couch, took his pants down and gave
him a hard strapping on the bare!"

   "No!" She exclaimed with a giggle covering her mouth.  "You didn't! 
Bare?  Ohh, I'll bet that really stung."

   "He was one sorry boy by the time we were done," Joyce admitted.  "But
you said you got it a lot in college.  What did you mean by that?"

   "Oh.  It was my sorority.  Kappa was a house that believed in the
paddle. That was how they trained pledges and kept order, you know, house
rules and stuff.  I got paddled some.  We all did."

   "I got a few swats myself during hell week," said Joyce.

   "Well, let me tell you, Kappa was a different world."

   And Gwen proceeded to tell Joyce her story:

   " I pledged Kappa because it was supposed to be the coolest sorority and
also 'cause I was a legacy--my mom was a Kappa at State.  Anyway I was
thrilled because the big sisters were all so cool and beautiful...and
smart. It was exclusive.  There were only 12 pledges per year and we all
had to live in the house.  Rush Week was a lot of fun.  The actives were
real nice to all of us and we were thrilled to receive bids to join.

   We all took the oath and were assigned a big sister who was supposed to
be an advisor and tutor and friend.  Mine was Donna Chandler.  She was a
tall brunette, about 5'8" and very physically fit.  She looked like
dynamite in an evening gown or baggy sweats and I absolutely adored her. 
She was so worldly, so sophisticated, I felt like a 7th grader around her.
She was very good for me though, and taught me a lot.  She was a true big
sister and sometimes like a mom, even, when it came to dispensing
discipline.

   Anyway, we all moved into the house that fall.  Pledges had rooms next
to their big sisters'.  We were given a list of chores by our big sisters.
We had to keep their rooms clean and take care of clothes, you know put
things out, put them away, clean shoes and stuff.  In return they helped us
with classes and teachers and assignments.  They gave us advice about boys,
too.  And we had a pledgemistress.  Mary Ann Jeffries, I'll never forget
her.  She was beautiful girl with long legs and sort of broad shoulders. 
She had close cropped blonde hair and worked out a lot.  She was sort of
our "drill sergeant", and was our designated disciplinarian.  My tummy
would get butterflies every time I saw her coming.

   We were given a pledge book with all the history of the sorority, the
meaning of things on the insignia, and the rules for pledges and a lot of
other stuff we were supposed to memorize.  They said we'd be tested on it.
I'll never forget that first pledge meeting.

   We had pledge meetings every week, on Sunday nite.  At these meetings we
were tested on the pledge book.  Every week we would be required to
memorize parts of it, like, the 7 tenents of sisterhood for Kappa Kappa
Gamma.  Also we had to learn the pledge rules fast.  There were things like
no drinking, no smoking, the proper way to address an active sister, no
swearing.  We weren't supposed to date for the first semester, so being out
with a boy was a no-no.

   The actives took notes on us and these were brought before what they
called Rat Court on meeting nights.  Three members formed the Rat Court to
hear complaints of infractions by pledges and recommend punishments.  Well,
you can imagine that these meetings were not fun.  Now I knew going in that
Kappa was a paddling house.  I had heard stories.  But just how much they
believed in paddling as a proper punishment for all the girls I had no
idea. Later I came to understand it was a pride thing, endure it for the
sisterhood and all that.  Also it was a belief that the sharp sting of a
paddling was preferable to heated words or grudges.  For the pledges it
reduced us to the status of little girls trying to be good, staying on our
toes to try and escape some really juvenile correction that we thought we
had left behind at age 12.  Not so.

   That first pledge meeting was an sharp shock.  We were given our test on
the first part of our pledge booklets and nearly everybody got at least one
wrong answer.  I had 3 wrong out of 10 questions.  I remember Amy Leadon, a
cute petite redhead had the most wrong, 6.  After the results were
announced we were all sent back to our rooms to change into PJ's.  The PJ's
had to be a two piece shorty nightgown type.  Mary Ann admonished us not to
cheat--it was two pieces only and the bottoms had to be short and no
flannel.  She gave us 5 minutes, and boy did we scramble.  Some girls had
camisoles and tap pants, others had baby doll outfits, but it was all
rather skimpy.

   When we came back into the room in the basement there was Mary Ann
holding a wooden paddle.  It was about a foot long and sort of rectangular
with rounded edges and was 1/2" thick.  I mean, I froze and thought uh
oh... somebody's gonna get it!

   We all looked nervously at each other as we stood in a line and Mary Ann
just tapped that paddle against her palm.  Mary Ann told us that we all had
some wrong answers on the test and since it was her job to instruct us that
she would help us learn.  She dropped the bomb that we would each get one
swat of the paddle for each wrong answer.  I think my knees buckled when I
realized we were really going to get an honest-to-God paddling with a real
wooden sorority paddle.  We all shifted around and looked at each other. 
Some of the girls looked like they were about to cry.

   She pulled a chair out to the middle of the room and one at a time we
came up and bent over, hands on our knees.  She put the test on the seat in
front of us and we had to read each question and the correct answer.  After
each question was read she would give us one swat on the seat of our
panties.  It was question...answer...then, Crack!  I'll never forget how
bad that paddle stung.  None of us had on more than thin panties and we all
cried and blubbered our way through the questions and answers as each time
that awful paddle cracked and splatted against our seats.  We were all
crying and rubbing when it was over.

   I got three swats and each one burned like fire.  Mary Ann really knew
how to paddle a girl's seat.  She knew just how hard to paddle to make it
really sting without bruising or injury.  She would carefully line up each
lick then pull her arm back and let fly.  She flicked her wrist at the end
so that the board hit square across both cheeks-- right at the plumpest
part of a girl's sit-spot.  It felt like a branding iron.  Nobody could
take more than 5 without crying.  Poor little Amy, she got 6.  Boy, was her
hiney red.  You could see how red it was through her white panties.  Mary
Ann didn't cut her any slack, either.  She delivered each solid smack with
the same amount of force, and each time little Amy squealed and drummed her
feet and bent her knees.

   We had a test like that every week and some of us would get swats.  And
then there was Rat Court.  Some girls couldn't help it.  They would be
caught smoking or drinking or going out with boys on the sly.  The active
sister who caught us would present the evidence to the court and they would
decide on guilt or innocence.  Each offense had a set penalty.  Swearing
was 3 swats, smoking was 6.  Drinking was 10.  The worst part was, these
swats could be on the bare bottom.  That's right.  If you were convicted it
was panties down and bend over time while Mary Ann cracked that hard paddle
on your bare behind.  I was fascinated the way a girl's behind would jiggle
when that paddle smacked it.  And let me tell you, it hurt a lot more on
the bare!

   Each pledge meeting we had to wear a different "uniform".  That first
one was skimpy PJ's, but later it got more bizarre as more actives got
involved with out training.  One week they decided it would be old
fashioned foundation underthings like corsets and girdles.  Wow, talk about
something that holds in the heat of a paddling.  Mary Ann's paddle sounded
like a firecracker on our fannies in those tight girdles.  I remember that
night I got 4 wrong on my test so I had to take 4 hard licks on the seat of
my full cut panty girdle then wait for Rat Court with a hot rear end.  I
got caught swearing and so I had to yank down my tight girdle and bend over
for another 3, bare.  I never felt so exposed, bending over, my hands on my
knees with that girdle tight around my knees, sticking my bottom out.  Mary
Ann gave me 3 slow hard licks.  Crack!  Crack!  Crack!  I blubbered like a
baby.  Then I had to pull the girdle back up over my swollen seat.  My
fanny was on fire all night.

   Pledge meetings wern't the only time we got punished either.  Like I
said Donna was a great big sister, but she was strict.  The first time I
slacked off on cleaning her room she came up to me while I was watching TV.
I had meant to do it while she was at the library but I got so involved in
the TV show I just forgot.  She must have come back and gone upstairs,
'cause the next thing I know she's tapping me on the shoulder and telling
me to come upstairs with her for a "discussion".  I noticed several of the
girls winked and smirked and one just grinned and made a motion like she
was rubbing her seat.

   They figured they knew what was coming.  Two nights before, Megan,
another pledge, had come down into the day room in her underwear and had to
ask Joanie, an active, if she could borrow her paddle for her big sister,
Sheila.  She was nervous and stammered her request, much to the amusement
of everyone there.  Joanie said she'd be glad to loan Sheila her paddle. 
She made Megan wait there while she went to get it.  She came back holding
a thin hardwood paddle.  Megan was about to take it from her when Joanie
announced that first she had to pay "rent" of two swats.  Megan gulped and
Joanie told her to assume the position.  In front of everybody poor Megan
bent over took two solid swats on her panties from Joanie with that little
paddle.  It must have stung 'cause she hissed, drawing in her breath at
each one.  Then she had to thank Joanie and take it to Sheila.  We all got
quiet then and from upstairs we could hear the muffled crack of that paddle
landing on Megan's seat.  We counted 6 swats.

   So anyway I was scared.  I knew I was in trouble.  I followed Donna up
the stairs to her room and she sat at her vanity and made me stand in front
of her while she lectured me about my responsibilties to her as my big
sister.  I was really sorry and said I'd get right on it.  She said that
that was admirable and she accepted my apology but that she had to do
something first so I would be more diligent in the future.  She said she
had rules and she meant for them to be obeyed to the letter.  Then she told
me to take my skirt off so I wouldn't wrinkle it.  I stood there in
shock--she meant to paddle me!  She saw my expression I guess, then
patiently explained that she was a no nonsense big sister and she felt a
punishment was in order.  She said she did not use a paddle, but had a
special little "spanker" she called "sis's helper".  She then reached into
her vanity and pulled out this oval leather "smacker" which was a double
layer of leather stitched together and connected to a wooden handle.  She
said her big sister had used it on her and had passed it on to her at
graduation.  She said that a good spanking with this was called for and
that I could expect the same whenever I shirked my duties to her as big
sister.

   She sat there tapping that leather spanker against her palm as I fumbled
with my skirt.  I undid it and pulled it down and she told me to fold it
and put it on the bed.  Now I was in a tank top and panties and my knee
socks.  She patted her lap and told me to lie across her knees.  She said
that this was the proper position for a big sisterly spanking since it
emphasized her role as an upperclasswoman and caretaker of her younger
charge.  As for me, I was so embarassed to be over her knee like a 10 year
old, but in an odd way it was comforting.  It was very intimate, being over
her knee like that.  I mean, it seemed like she cared about me, and I
really did feel bad about displeasing her.  She laid the smacker on my back
and I felt her fingers on my hips, sliding into the waistband of my
panties. I must have tensed because she stopped and explained to me that
this spanking and all others like it was going to be on the bare bottom. 
So she had me lift up a little and I felt my panties descend to my knees. I
felt very vulnerable like that, my bare hiney stuck up in the air, waiting.

   Then Donna took up the spanker and announced that I was getting no set
number.  She was just going to spank until she thought I had learned my
lesson.  In retrospect I think she wanted to guage my responses, learn what
I could tolerate.  Then she started spanking me with brisk sharp smacks
with a few seconds between each one.  It really stung, but did not burn
like the paddle.  The first few were not all that unpleasant even, but then
it started to sting more and more.  Still she kept up a steady
crack!...crack!...crack!  wwhile I wriggled around on her lap.  I couldn't
help it.  My fanny started getting hot and after awhile it stung like
blazes.  I was going ouch!  ouch!  ouch!  at every spank and Donna was
interspersing the smacks with a lecture about the importance of obeying her
instructions.  I broke down sobbing, more from an emotional release than
real pain, though it did hurt all right.  It seemed like a hundred but was
probably more like 30 spanks that she gave me.  Donna let me up and watched
with an amused expression while I did a little spanking dance, hopping from
foot to foot and rubbing my buns.  Then Donna told me it was all over and
gave me a big hug till I stopped crying.  Then she put "sis's helper" away
and left me to clean up like I was supposed to do in the first place.

   I was pretty diligent after that about cleaning and my other little
sister duties.  Meanwhile the sisters decided that we should all get these
pinafores and bloomers for pledge meetings.  It made us feel like 19th
century schoolgirls as we sat down in our chairs in the basement to take
our tests.  When the results were tallied Mary Ann would invariably
announce that some of us had missed a few questions and she picked up her
paddle to emphasize her point.  And we had a new twist.  Some one had made
this thing called a T-bar.  It was simply a short wooden platform with a
piece of pipe sticking up that ended in a "T".  Mary Ann dragged it out and
told those who had missed questions to take off their pinafores, in other
words, strip down to our bloomers and camisoles.  I think that first time
Kim, Brittney, and Judy missed test questions.

   Brittney was a cute blonde and with her curls cascading down to her
shoulders looked every inch the schoolgirl from "Little House on the
Prairie".  Mary Ann gave her the order to stand on the platform, bend over
and grab the bar.  Her round little butt filled those bloomers to
perfection as she bent over.  Mary Ann told us all that if we let go of the
handles that swat would not count.  Then splat!  She cracked the paddle
across Brittney's butt and Brittney let out a yell.  Though we had all felt
the paddle by now, no one ever got used to it and we hollered and cried
every time.  On the third swat Brittney yelped and let go, shooting
straight up and clutching her bottom.  She blubbered about how much it hurt
but Mary Ann just told her she would have to take it over.  She bent back
over and somehow held on as Mary Ann delivered this smack!  right to the
plumpest part of her behind.  I swear I could see it wobble through the
thin tightly stretched cotton.  One thing about that T-bar was that the
paddle came sort of up so it caught us right in the lower part of our
fannies, right where we sat.  It sure reminded us to study hard the next
time.

   The T-bar seemed to put you at just the right angle for a good smacking
with the paddle and with Mary Ann around it didn't gather any dust. 
Complaints from the members were dealt with by Mary Ann and we were all
subject to a trip to the basement anytime we were rude to a member.  Or, if
it was a more serious infraction it was dealt with at Rat Court.  But a lot
of times Mary Ann would just crook her finger at you and off you would go
to the basement where Mary Ann taught you proper behavior with you holding
on to the T-bar with your skirts up or pants down and that wicked paddle
cracking against your fanny.  To this day I think if I saw Mary Ann walking
my way I'd get weak in the knees and my hands would be covering my butt.

   We were permitted one layer of clothing, usually panties, when we were
paddled.  The exception was Rat Court which was not always, but could be, a
bare bottom affair.  It was also the exception to the rule that no one was
permitted to paddle us except Mary Ann and our individual big sisters.  If
a sister had a grudge it was settled here.  Now the interesting thing was,
the "court" was impartial.  If a charge turned out to be unjustified, a
pledge could be acquitted--and, if it turned out that in the opinion of the
court a complaint was trumped up out of jealousy or spite or something they
could actually order that the active be punished!  So members were
generally careful in bringing something to Rat Court.  But they did--let me
tell you.

   One of the big no-nos in the sorority, and especially for pledges, was
flirting with a sister's boyfriend.  We all knew this instinctively, but I
guess with some girls it's just in their blood to be flirts.  A prime
example was Fran.  Fran was a cute girl with a sort of baby- innocent face
that went with a figure that was not so innocent.  You know, high set pert
tits, a narrow waistline and a bubble-shaped tush.  And she was a tease. 
She always wore stuff that was short or tight or both.  She cultivated this
little miss innocent look while displaying her killer body in miniskirts or
tight jeans or spandex dresses.  She had cute freckles and a mischievous
look on her face.  The effect on men was usually devastating.

   There was this sister named Janice Young who had a boyfriend, Steve. 
One night Steve was at the house waiting for Janice so they could go on a
date.  Steve came in and was invited to wait in the day room where the tv
was.  Fran was in there, too.  She started chatting Steve up, batting her
eyes, flirting.  She made like she had to straighten things up and this
gave her an opportunity to bend over like she was picking things up or
fluffing pillows.  Naturally her little skirt rode up halfway up her ass.
She just kept it up, preening and showing her body off in the miniskirt she
was wearing.  Meanwhile Janice came down and stood in the doorway.  Neither
Steve nor Fran saw her at first.  Finally she stomped into the room and
yanked Steve out of there.  The story should have ended there but it
didn't. Two weeks later someone saw Steve and Fran at a frat party and told
Janice.  Talk about fuming mad!

   Well it was no surprise when Janice showed up the Sunday nite after that
with a few of the sisters who had seen Fran's shameless display.  Fran was
a quaking mess as Janice stated her case.  She tried her miss innocent act
but it was no go.  She could fool men easily enough but not us.  I guess
she had gotten away with it so much in high school that she figured it
would work here.  So after listening to the evidence the Rat Court
pronounced sentence.  It was humiliating but fair.  For the unauthorized
date, 5 swats, bare.  This was bad enough but then the clincher--for the
theft of a boyfriend, three minutes with Janice, starkers.

   Now what "starkers" meant was that Fran would have to to strip to her
birthday suit and endure a punishment from Janice, in the form of a
spanking, by hand only, as hard as she liked, for three minutes.  This kind
of penalty was rare but it was sometimes used when it was felt that a
sister had a legitimate personal gripe about a pledge.

   Mary Ann approached with the paddle and told Fran to grab the bar and
present her bottom.  She slipped down the bloomers and gave Fran 5 slow
swats that had her yelping.  Then it was Janice's turn.  She brought out a
chair and sat down.  In front of everyone, a tearful Fran stripped off her
bloomers and camisole to stand naked in front of Janice.  Janice regarded
her cooly for a minute.  Fran was just shaking and crying and her behind
was red from the paddle.  She had been told not to rub and you could tell
it was all she could do not to do it.

   Janice smoothed her skirt then told Fran sharply to get herself across
her knee for a good lesson in manners and being true to her sisters.  Fran
sobbed and begged for forgiveness.  Janice just pointed at her lap.  Fran
clambered over Janice knees and put her hands on the floor.  Janice
adjusted her until her butt was arched up right over Janice's right knee.
Janice rested her hand right on Fran's bottom and asked her if she was
ready to atone for her foolish behaviour.  Fran glubbed out a tearful
"yes". Mary Ann brought out a kitchen timer and set it to three minutes and
put it on a table where everyone could see it.  She hit the start button
and Janice started to spank.

   It was the hardest most intense spanking I ever saw anybody get.  Janice
was a tall lithe girl who played handball and squash.  She spanked poor
Fran with smart crisp smacks that landed at least one per second.  Her arm
was like a machine--crack!  crack!  crack!  crack!  with almost no pause in
between.  As she peppered Fran's behind Fran wailed and pleaded for mercy.
She wriggled and bobbed and her bottom bounced all over Janice's lap, but
Janice held her in a vice grip.  About halfway through she pulled Fran
further over to her left knee and clamped her right leg over the backs of
Fran's thighs.  Then she really let her have it.  Fran was crying and
squirming around and her behind was a cherry red with two dark red spots
right in the middle of her hind cheeks.  And she was really squealing--Ow!
ow!  ow!  at the top of her lungs at every smack.  Her nude fanny really
got a tanning.  Worst one I ever saw.

   When the timer went off, Janice stopped and let Fran up.  Fran was a
mess.  Tears were running down her face, snot was dripping from her nose,
and she was hiccuping as she tried to choke out this tearful apology while
she stood there rubbing her inflamed cheeks.  What a sight!  She was one
punished girl.  I know they always talk about giving you a "sound" spanking
and I never really understood what that meant before then.  She had been
thoroughly chastised and if you could call any spanking "sound", I guess
that was it.

   As for me, my relationship with Donna deepened.  I was pretty good about
doing chores, but studies gave me trouble.  Donna monitored my grades.  I
was accountable to her for all my grades on tests.  She set aside Wednesday
nite as review night.  She would call me in and I would bring her all my
papers.  Kappa was in the running for the Pan-Hellenic trophy each year and
everybody's grades, even freshman pledges', counted.  A's and B's earned me
praise and C's got me punished.  D's and F's were unthinkable.

   Donna sat me down one night and explained her expectations.  Get A's and
B's or it's spanking time with "sis's helper".  I gulped and nodded OK. 
The trouble was, there were some times I just goofed off and didn't study.
So on Wednesday night I would hand Donna my work.  If there were C's it
meant a spanking.  Donna sat on the bed while I would take off my jeans or
skirt then climb over her lap.  She would slip my panties down and I got a
dozen licks with that little smacker for every C I brought home.  If I had
more than 24 coming, she made me give her my right wrist 'cause she knew
I'd try to cover up.  She'd lock my hand down and spank away, lecturing me
all the way through it.  After we were done she'd let me up give me a hug
and a kiss and tell me to do better.  There would usually be some tears but
I felt good about it 'cause I felt like I'd paid for slacking off.

   "Whew...." said Joyce, "That was some story...is it hot in here or is it
just me?"

   "I'll open a window if you'd like," said Gwen, concerned.

   "What about boys, Gwen?  Didn't boys figure into the picture?"

   "Wow, yeah.  That's another story.  The most amazing thing that ever
happened at Kappa with boys was my sophomore year.  The panty raid.  Want
to hear about it?"

   "Sure," said Joyce.  God, all this talk about sorority paddling and
naked spankings was making Joyce squirm.  She was flushed and couldn't
control the fact that things were getting moist in her panties.  But she
wanted to hear more.

   NEXT.....Gwen continues her story.