Once again…

“Hello corner my old friend…” she thought, trying her best to keep her hands where she had been told to put them, over her head. She wanted nothing more than to rub away the burning pain in her bottom, but she knew that in the end, she would only make matters worse for herself. Not that rubbing her red, throbbing bottom would hurt, but the second spanking she would earn by disobeying certainly would.

Of course, he had been right, she had been speeding, and she had flipped the bird at that stupid bi— at that elderly lady in the other car. Yes, the language had been a bit much… And she had told him to shut up too… In fairness, she probably would have deserved for him to tell her to pull over immediately for a spanking in the car, right there, right then. Sometimes, he really didn’t care if people could see… Just to think of it, she was wet again. She certainly didn’t care. Well, she did it was the most humiliating thing she could imagine. But she liked it. And hated it. It was complicated, okay? And anyway, it hadn’t happened. This time.

After the incident. He had been very quiet all the way home. No scolding, no angry voice. She had kept quiet also, trying to concentrate on her driving and not on the thoughts that were racing through her head. Thoughts of her bottom being thoroughly roasted, mostly. Not stopping and being punished right away meant that he wanted to take his time… And teach her a lesson she wouldn’t soon forget…

Of course, that had been exactly what had happened. Once home, he had told her to go wait for him in the bedroom. She knew what it meant and knew better than to argue. Once there, she had stripped down to her t-shirt and panties, as she always did before he punished her. She was used to it, she had to shamefully admit. She rarely went more than a few days without needing what he called “little adjustments”. The punishments, she felt, weren’t little at all. But the punishments, she knew, were deserved, and needed.

He had made her wait what had felt like a lifetime, her bottom seemingly burning in anticipation. Finally, he had come in. She had been waiting, her hands crossed over her belly, head down. She didn’t dare look up until she was told to do so. And when he did, she mustered the little rebellion she still had in her and blew a strand of hair off her face before asking “What took you so long?” in what she hoped was a too-cool-to-care voice. He had not liked it. Not one bit. In fact, he had turned her around, still standing, and landed twenty hard slaps on her barely covered bottom. She had yelped and moaned immediately, a prelude to the concerto of her cries to come.

And crying she did, big, shameful tears between promises of good behaviour and begging for him to stop, begging for the panties not to come down, begging for the ginger not to be used. The wooden bath brush he had brought with him had not gone to waste either, and she could still feel its heavy head falling on her poor little bottom. In reality, the spanking hadn’t lasted that long. Five minutes? Maybe ten? But he had spent at least as much time scolding her in between burst of spanking. And the shame of it had been worse than the pain. But then, he had told her that he loved her, and he had finally given her the kiss and cuddle that she had been craving all day. Had she done it all just because she had felt that he hadn’t paid enough attention to her? Surely, she wasn’t that childish… Surely…

Still, her heart had been as light as her bottom was hot as she had trotted to the corner. She knew that while she was standing there, he was on the bed, reading, and keeping an eye on her while she cooled off. Then, in a while… Well, they were in the bedroom, and she was already half naked so… She was pretty sure of what would happen next. After all, she was used to it.

Le pire

« Alors, tu m’ignores ?

—Quoi ? Non, pourquoi ?

—Bah je sais pas, tu dis rien…

—Je suis juste fatigué.

—Oui, oui…

—Oh non…

—Quoi ?

—Julie…

—Quoi ?!

—Je le connais, ce regard.

—Quel regard ?

—Le regard coupable…

—N’importe quoi…

—Je te connais, tu sais…

—Bah pas vraiment, apparemment…

—Quand tu veux de l’attention, tu fais des bêtises…

—Tu crois ?

—Je sais…

—Donc si j’avais de l’attention, je ne ferais pas de bêtises, oui ?

—Bah c’est logique.

—Donc si j’en fais, des bêtises, c’est de ta faute…

—Hein ?

—C’est la faute à ton manque d’attention. CQFD…

—CQ rougi, surtout…

—Ah bah non. Si c’est pas de ma faute, c’est pas moi qui me ferais punir, hein.

—Et qui l’a faite, la bêtise ?

—Bah quelle bêtise, d’abord ? J’ai pas vu de bêtise, moi…

—Julie…

—Oui mon choupinet ?

—Qu’est ce que t’as fait ?

—Rien qui vaille la peine d’en parler, vraiment…

—Ah si, si…

—Ah non, non…

—Julie, plus tu attends, pire ce sera.

—Tu sonnes comme Yoda.

—Ne change pas de sujet…

—De sujet, ne change pas, mmmmmmh?»

Sans un mot, il la prend par le poignet et la bascule sur ses genoux. Pas trop tôt… Il se ramollit avec l’âge, clairement. Ou peut-être qu’il aime ça, la faire attendre… Ah le petit saligaud… Est-ce qu’il sait ? Non, s’il savait il ne l’aurait pas ignorée si longt— « AIIIIE ! »

La claque est dure. Sa robe est légère. Pas vraiment de saison. La culotte, pas rembourrée non plus, c’est comme s’il n’y en avait pas. Les gifles s’abattent l’une après l’autre. Droite, gauche, droite, gauche, les fesses, les cuisses…

« Mais c’est pas juuuuuste !

—Quoi ? Qu’est ce qui n’est pas juste ?

—Tu ne sais même pas pourquoi tu me punis !

—Je sais qu’il y a quelque chose, et le plus tôt tu l’admets, le moins pire pour tes fesses…

—C’est pas du bon français ça, “moins p—” AIIIIE!

—J’attends ? »

Elle sent sa main qui se glisse sous sa robe, la soulève et la retrousse. Il tire sa culotte vers le haut, révélant un peu plus de ses fesses déjà meurtries. Elle ne dit rien. Si elle l’admet, ce sera pire. Il va se lasser… A fesses vaillantes, rien d’impossi—« AIIIIE ! Pas si fort…

—J’attends, Julie…

—Bah attends, attends… Il va arriver, Godot, t’en fais p—AIIIIIIIE ! »

Bon, il est fâché… C’est pas une brute, d’habitude, mais sa main se fait lourde. Claque après claque après claque, ses fesses sont de plus en plus brûlantes, et sa volonté de moins en moins forte. Elle sent les larmes qui lui coulent le long des joues. Il fait une pause, prend la culotte par l’élastique et la baisse d’un geste vif. Elle serre les dents. Il attend un moment. Pour lui donner une chance, peut-être ? Ou peut-être pour admire son ouvrage. Les hommes et leur fierté, pfff…

La fessée est soudaine, et le répit vite oublié. Il accélère, lui laisse à peine le temps de reprendre son souffle entre les gifles, les larmes et les gémissements.

« Dernière chance, Julie, après c’est la brosse…

—Mais…

—Pas de mais ; qu’est-ce que tu as fait ? » Il ponctue chaque mot d’une nouvelle claque.

« Je… »

Il pause, la main levée.

« Oui ?

—Tu sais avec la Covid et tout…

—Oui ?

—Ça fait longtemps qu’on a pas eu d’invités…

—Oui, et ?

—Bah…

—Non…

—Si…

—Non, Julie, non ! Non, non, non, non, non !

—Euh…

—Combien de temps ?

—Une… une semaine ? Peut-être un peu plus… ?

—Une semaine ??

—Mais je l’aime bien, moi ta mère… »

A Tropical Vacation

“NeuNunDNeUnZig LuFtBaLlons!…”

The shrill voice of an intoxicated Belinda Krüger blared through the bar’s speakers. After the pandemic had ended, the young German blonde had decided that she needed a vacation, and what better vacation than a paradise island, white sandy beaches and happy hour cocktail nights?

She’d packed her bag, mostly bikinis and beach towels, all in the colours of the German flag. She found that it was always a great conversation starter when she was abroad, and she liked meeting new people… even though it often ended up with her bottom a burning, bright red. She didn’t really know why, but it was the way these things went. Thinking about it, she had also packed a few bottles of lotion, just in case…

That night, much to her delight, was Karaoke night at the bar she had found herself frequenting. The place was nice, the drinks cheap and well mixed. There was a stage where concerts, lectures, improv had happened before, and where the singers were that night. Well, singer, singular. With most patrons busy drinking and socialising, she was already on her third song. More than a few drinks in, she had started badly, and it wasn’t getting any better.

“Auf iHrEm WeG zUm HoRiZOnt!…”

She continued belting out the words, out of tune and slightly behind on the music. In her drunk ears, it sounded perfect, and she bellowed the lyrics in what she thought was a sultry singer’s voice. More and more patrons were looking at her, frowning. Some were shaking their heads, some wincing and covering their ears. Even the barmen and barmaids were rising an eyebrow. With drunk tourists coming around every Karaoke night, they should have been used to it, but she was particularly bad. Belinda turned around and started wiggling her bikini-clad round buttocks while the song played on, oblivious to the increasingly disapproving crowd.

As she was about to start butchering the third verse, a man got up to her. An athletic, mid-thirties guy, he was only wearing knee-long shorts and sandals, with a lei, a flower garland, covering his muscular chest. Not bad looking, Belinda thought, looking over her shoulder as he came closer. Eastern European, maybe? Maybe Russian? In a heavily accented English, he said:

“I think it’s time you stop!”

Definitely Russian. She ignored him and carried on singing and waggling her derrière enticingly. What was he going to do, huh? She laughed and jumbled the next words in the song.

“Hey! Devochka! I’m talking to you!” the man said, and she made a show of ignoring him. The man banged his glass down on a nearby table and leapt on stage, going for her microphone. She splashed the drink she was holding in his face, and it went all over the flower garland. If she was hoping it would stop him, she was very wrong. With a grunt, he grabbed the microphone in one hand and her arm in the other.

“Oh you like singing, da? I have a song for you!”

Frowning, he dragged a stool over with his foot and sat down, still on stage, bringing her down over his knees in one swift movement. The music was still playing.

“Was?” Belinda cried, “What are you doing?! Hör auf! Stop!”

“Nyet!” was the only response as his hand came slamming down on her ass, over the German-coloured bikini bottoms. She yelled, in anger, surprise, and in pain. How dare he! He was ruining the song! In her drunken state, she hadn’t registered yet that everybody in the bar had stopped their conversation and were staring at them.

Slap! Slap! Slap!, the man started smacking her bottom to the rhythm of the song. She could see the metronome on screen counting 193 bpm. A few seconds in and her bottom was already burning. AUTSCH! she yelled, “Stop! Mein Popo!”

“Sing, then, little njémka! What are the lyrics again?”, the Russian man laughed, and he mockingly started singing “Ninety nine red bottoms… Spanked in the summer bar!”

The slap continued, and so did the song, “Ninety-nine slaps of the hand… For a very drunk German!”

Somehow, the bad rhyme worked in his accent. Slap! Slap! Slap!, he didn’t miss a beat. She bit her lip not to cry out in pain. Someone from the public yelled:

“Ninety-nine well spanked buttocks… I like my whisky on the rocks!”

The whole bar erupted in laughter, and tears of pain streamed down Belinda’s cheeks. Her drunken haze was clearing out fast, and her bottom burned with pain. Another patron came to the stage and grabbed the microphone:

“Ninety-nine bad girls in town… Let’s pull her bikini down!” he sang with a grin.

More laughter, and the microphone got passed around as the Russian man grabbed her bikini bottoms and pulled them down to her thighs. “Nein! Nein! Das kannst du nicht machen! You can’t!” Belinda yelled, and tried to get them back up, or at least cover herself, but there was nothing she could do and the slaps fell harder on her naked cheeks. Crimson as they were, they were only getting redder by the minute. More people joined in the song:

“Ninety-nine smacks, that’s quite rough… But I don’t think she’s had enough!”

Laughs and appreciative whistling, more hard slaps on her bottom. People were holding their phone up, filming the whole thing. Someone pushed a button on the Karaoke machine and the song started playing again from the start. “Ach du großer Gott!”, Belinda moaned.

“Ninety-nine hard slaps and more… I think she needs an encore!” sang a woman. Slaps hit Belinda’s thighs and made her cry out. She kicked her legs, but it only made her round cheeks wiggle more, much to the delight of the audience. There were cheers and laughs as they bounced and wobbled with each slap, the noise blending with the music.

“Ninety-nine slaps on her butt… That’ll teach that German slut!” sang a young local that she had been flirting with earlier. Again and again, the Russian man’s big hands fell down on her ass. It would be bruised for days, she thought! And she only had bikinis to wear… Even if she went to a different part of the island, there would be no way to hide her shame… And with the videos being filmed, or even livestreamed, even people at home might see… “Ach, scheiße…”, she murmured…

“Ninety-nine smacks on her ass… Serves her well, that cheeky lass!” said an Irishman next, and on and on it went, people having the time of their life while her bottom was thoroughly punished, and her dignity reduced to nothing.

After the song was played a third time, she was sobbing and begging, and the Russian man took pity on her at last. But her ordeal was far from over. Lifting her up, he made her stand on stage, her hands over her head while people came up to take pictures and selfies next to her glowing red bottom. When the bar finally closed , she pulled her bikini bottoms up and ran into the night and to her hotel. Once in her room, she was glad to have packed lotion. Once more, she would have to sleep on her belly. And in her head, she could still hear the song…

“Denkst du vielleicht grad an mich?
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
…”

La confiance règne

«Dis, tu me fais confiance?

—Euh… En général oui, pourquoi ?

—En général ?

—Bah quand tu me poses ce genre de question, je me demande un peu…

—Non non, c’est juste une question…

—Ah oui ? Juste une question ?

—Oui oui… Juste une—

—Juliiie ?

—Oui mon chérie d’amour ?

—Qu’est ce que t’as fait ?

—Mais, euh, rien !

—Qu’est ce que t’as pas fait, alors ?

—Je… Ne t’ai pas donné assez de bisous aujourd’hui, mon nounours adoré ?

—Mouais, tu vois Julie, j’ai de moins en moins confiance, là…

—Mais, mon roudoudou d’amour…

—Mmh, la confiance négative, ça s’appelle comment ?

—…

—Julie ? Il y a quelque chose que tu veux me dire ?

—Rien que je veuille dire, non…

—Et quelque chose que tu devrais me dire, alors ?

—Oui, je devrais p’têt…

—Parce que je serai encore plus fâché si je le découvre plus tard ?

—Tu n’es pas obligé d’être fâché, hein…

—Dis donc, ça doit être un sacré pot…

—Hein ?

—Ah bah oui, il doit être immense, le pot, vu le temps que tu mets à tourner autour…

—Dis, elle est un peu torturée, ta métaphore… Sadique va…

—Bon, comme les enfants, je vais compter jusqu’à trois…

—Rhoo, mais non…

—Un…

—Arrête, c’est la honte…

—Deux…

—S’il te plait…

—Tr-

—D’accooord! D’accord, stop!

—Alors ?

—J’ai p’têt oublié de payer la facture…

—Quelle facture ?

—Internet…

—Celle avec la relance ?

—Celle-là…

—Celle que tu m’as promis de faire le weekend dernier ?

—Oui…

—Celle qui dit que sinon on n’a plus internet ?

—Bah c’est la facture internet alors bon…

—Et ma réunion zoom demain ?

—Ben…

—Julie ?

—…

—Tu te fiches de moi ?»

Sans un mot, elle défait son pantalon et le baisse aux genoux, la culotte avec. Elle connait la chanson. Il lève les yeux au ciel. Il la prend sur ses genoux, la tient en place fermement.

«Franchement, t’es pas croyable…»

Il lève la main, profitant de la vue un instant. La première claque s’abat, brève et sèche. Elle gémit et serre les fesses.

«Ah ! Je le savais !» dit-elle, triomphante.

«Quoi ?

—Que tu me faisais pas confiance !

—Hein ?

—Rhoo, je l’ai payée, la facture…

—Quoi ?

—C’était pour voir si tu me faisais conf… Aïe ! Mais ! Aïïïe ! Arrête !»

Une centaine de claques et beaucoup de larmes plus tard, elle se love dans ses bras, la moue aux lèvres.

«C’est pas juste…

—Julie…

—C’était pas vrai…

—Exactement, c’était pas vrai, et les mensonges, Julie, c’est non !»

Adven 21 – A Perfect Evening

When he came home, I thought we would have the most perfect evening. We had said we were going to put the tree up that night, something I’d been looking forward to for weeks in this bleakest of years. I had put mulled wine to warm up on the stove, Christmas music was playing…

But the minute he passed the door, everything seemed to go wrong. Well, I say passed the door… I had left my keys in it, locked, and he had to bang on the door for five minutes before I heard him, busy as I was bellowing Christmas songs from the kitchen. Mortified, blushing and looking down, I let him take his coat and shoes off before starting to apologise as best I could. He didn’t let me finish, dismissing me with a wave, and my heart sank.

Sheepishly, I followed him to the living-room where I’d laid out the tree and the many boxes of decorations that we have accumulated over the years. I was ready to put a silly Christmas film on and forget the door incident. But he sighed.

‘Are we doing this tonight?’ he asked, clearly not up for it.

I looked down. ‘Well, we’d said we…’

‘I know, I know, fine…’ he said. My eyes were down, but I could feel his eyes rolling.

‘Did you have a bad day?’ I asked, gently.

‘No, I’m fine, just tired’ was all he said.

Suddenly, I remembered the wine on the stove. ‘Shit!’ I said and ran over there. As I’d feared, it had started to boil. Not a tragedy, in the grand scheme of things, but still… One more thing that wasn’t going right.

‘Can you grab me a beer while you’re in there?’ he called from the living-room. With a sigh, I served a single mugful of mulled wine and got him a beer.

When I came back to the living-room, the tree was up, bare as it was. He was rummaging around in one of the boxes, looking for something. I set the drinks on the table. Well, I tried to. I tripped on a bunch of lights and everything went crashing to the floor, lights, drinks and all. He jumped and took my hand, genuinely worried.

‘Are you okay?’

I sighed.

‘It’s not the evening I wanted…’

‘It’s all right,’ he said, ‘just pick a movie, I’ll get a mop, yeah? Then we can decorate, wrap presents, and it’ll all be okay.’

I wiped tears from my eyes and nodded. He went to get a mop, and I started browsing. Maybe things would be fine after all.

‘Honey?’ he called from the kitchen, ‘What’s in the oven?’

The oven? I thought. The oven. Fuck! The oatmeal cookies I had made were probably completely burnt… I rushed to the oven and, sure enough, smoke billowed out when I opened the door. I bit my lip, and felt tears running down my cheeks.

‘Honey?’ he asked. ‘Are you sure everything’s all right?’

‘No…’ I managed in a tearful little voice, ‘It’s really not…’

‘They’re just cookies, my love, it doesn’t matter…’

‘It’s…’ I started, hesitating, then everything came out at once, ‘It’s everything, it’s covid, it’s not seeing family this year, then the door, and you’re mad about the tree and I burnt the cookies and spilled the wine and…

He shushed me gently and took me in his big, bear arms. I cried my eyes out in his chest. His hand came up to stroke my hair and slowly, I calmed down.

‘Tell me what you need…’ he said.

‘I… I feel so bad, about everything…’

‘Honey… It’s okay…’

‘No… Will you… Will you spank me? And then we can start over…’

‘A nice, cathartic spanking?’

‘Yes… I want to be over your knees… I want to let go… Please?’

Gently, carefully, he took my hand and led me to a chair in the kitchen, where he sat down. I took my jeans down. He was smiling up at me. I blushed. Lovingly, he put me down over his knees, and I abandoned myself to his embrace, to his loving discipline. Despite the pain, I smiled as the guilt left me with each slap of his hand.

Once it was all over, and my tears were exhausted, we decorated the tree, drinking freshly made mugs of mulled wine; we watched a silly Christmas film just like I wanted, and nibbled on burnt cookies while laughing at each other’s awful Christmas pun. All the while, my bottom was burning, and I loved him all the more for it.

Sources

«Dis?

—Oui, ma belle?

—Tu me fais un câlin ?

—Je sais pas… Tu mérites ?

—Bah oui, hein. Toujours !

—C’est pas ce qu’on m’a dit…

—Ah oui, et c’est qui ‘on’ ?

—Oh bah tu sais, j’ai mes sources…

—Mouais, des sources…

—Très haut placées…

—Ah oui? Je voyais ça plus bas…

—Plus bas ?

—Ouais, genre dans ton…

—Pfff, c’est fin ça, Julie…»

Elle lui tire la langue.

«C’est toi qui m’accuses !

—J’ai tort ?

—Voui, je suis un ange ces jours-ci…

—Carrément ?

—Bah ouais. J’ai payé la facture de gaz en temps et en heure, la cuisine est nickel, pas un mél en retard au boulot. Un ange, je te dis.

—Donc on va ignorer le caprice d’hier soir, les gros mots ce matin…

—C’est le foutu réveil !

—Les gros mots d’aujourd’hui, donc…

—Pfff…

—Ton linge par terre de ton côté du lit, ta tasse de thé qui moisit sur la table basse…

—C’est rien ça…

—Le dossier que t’as pas encore fini qui devait être sur le bureau de ta cheffe la semaine dernière dernier délai…

—Oui euh…

—L’assurance de la voiture…

—Euh…

—Ta plante verte qui se meurt…

—T’abuses…

—T’as pas fini tes mots croisés…

—Non mais…

—Tu ne t’es pas assez hydratée aujourd’hui…

—Oui, bon, j’ai pas fait la paix dans le monde non plus, hein..

—Je sais ! Mes sources…

—Ah oui, tes sources… ‘Savent tout… C’est comme Google…

—Ce qu’elles savent, c’est qu’avant ton câlin, tu vas venir sur mes genoux…

—Ah oui ?

—C’est ce qu’elles me disent…

—Elle prédisent l’avenir en plus ?

—C’est comme la météo, vague de chaleur sur les fesses de Julie.

—Je sors le bikini, alors ?

—On va faire ‘plage nudiste’, plutôt.

—Ça me va, mais après j’ai un câlin, oui ?

—Après, t’en auras plein.»