Amy and Toots/Page12

The Adults Who Care
“Toots.” she heard her name called from the depths of her troubled dream. All night long she had drifted in and out of sleep. Her punished bottom, still in receipt of stinging attention from the pain-ties was the first thing she was aware of as she opened her eyes, and then she saw her Daddy through the first glimmer of the dawn light.

“Alright baby.” he was speaking gently. “Let’s just untie your hands.” She realized that her legs were already free, and it felt so good to be able to move unhindered. As she turned over onto her back a fierce series on bites stung her, and she began to sob again.

“We’ll get those pain-ties off now.” Daddy was saying softly. “The rules are they stay on until daylight, and that’s what it is now.” She still cried, but mostly with relief as they were removed. Then she became aware that a cooling lotion was being carefully applied to her bruised nates.

It felt so good, and then there was a tingly, fizzing feeling. Daddy had used nano lotion. At that moment she felt an overwhelming love for him. She knew that he certainly enjoyed spanking her, indeed that was a prerequisite for a penitatas parent, but he had always been caring and loving towards her too.

And now he must have got up especially early so he could tend her at the earliest permitted moment. She wound her young arms around his neck and planted a childish kiss upon his unshaved cheek.

“I love you Daddy.” she said sleepily. “I love you too sweetheart.” he said softly. “Now get some sleep. You’ve got a few hours before school.” She drifted back into sleep.

Later as she sat beside Amy in class she found it hard to believe that her bottom felt completely back to normal. She knew it was usually up to parents to decide whether their child deserved nano lotion following a special punishment day, and from the way Brenda Gillis was wriggling, it seemed she certainly hadn’t been as fortunate as Toots.

She wondered if Mr Jones might give Brenda’s bottom further attention because wriggling from a penitatas was not a wise move, but it seemed he was prepared to be a little tolerant, at least for now.

He had set the class a task of learning some history, while he went through the homework set the week before. What he read from Amy and Toots quite pleased him, although of course their abilities in writing, expressing themselves and spelling had reverted to not much better than it had been when they had first been ten years old.

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Amy Landis.

What I hope to achieve from my rejuve.

I was obviously very upset to be rejuved to ten again. But I relize the alternatave would have been worse and we shold be glad that the tehcnology is there to help us at such times. If not I would be without an arm now.

There are some things I dont like at all. My brothers are now my legel gardians, and although they were always older than me and enclined to be bossy, they are now realy in charge of me, and worse they have decided that this time I shold be brought up realy strictly.

Of course I resent this at times, but in a way I also agree because I think I was a bit spoilt as a kindern and that maybe my caracter would have been better develeped if I had been punished more.

At first my main upset was that my best freind since I was at nursery, Toots would forever be older than me, (until we got rejuved for old age that is), but then she got rejuved too but as a penitatas.

I was realy pleased at first, but now realise that this was realy selfish of me, because althouh, I love being with her again, and as we’re both back the same age we like the same things again, I hate it that she’s a penitatas.

I know it is a very good sistem, and that it is much better than any other method, but I still hate it that she has to have such hard spankings.

I realy dont think she should have been guilty. My brothers were talking with one of the men in the other car that we had been smiling at when the crash happen and I heard him say that its only Toots insistance that she guilty that she got sentence. There was no other evidence.

I find lots of things quite hard to ajust to. Like bedtime and not going where I want and doing what I want. Mike and Arik used to interfere quite a lot when I was an adult, now they interfere and I have no choice but to eccept it.

One things that I am very cross about is that I had just spent four years training at Nursery Nursing, and I loved it when I qualifed. I will have to go all through that again.

One good thing, some new naybours have made freinds with us, and they have a realy little penitatas girl called Nadia, and I am allowd to play with her.

This time around I am going to be a nursery nurse again for sure. And I am going too not be so spoilt, but more thoughtful and I will learn to ecept the displine from my brothers because I know they know best.

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Toots Booth.

What I hope to achieve from my rejuve.

Of course it would be insane to be pleased to be rejuved as a penitatas, but part of me actully is. If I had been concentrating proply when in charge of a hovercar, then the acident that badly hurt my best friend would never have happen.

I felt as if I could die when I learnt that Amy was so hurt, and that the only way of saving her was a rejuve. Being a rejuve myself means we can grow up together again and this time, I am going to be a really good citisen.

Being a penitatas will really help in this. I hate the punishments, but it does make me feel a bit better each time I’m punished. Each time I feel just a bit less guilty, and at the end I know I’ll feel completly better so I can face the world, and most importantly Amy again.

I have been so lucky in my penitatas parents. They are both wonderful, and really look after me. Although they spank me hard, and of course I absolutely hate that, they always make me feel safe and cared for.

before this happened I think I was in love with a man, that I still see quite often. My feelings have kind of changed, but I still think its love only now like young love.

I never really did much with my life before. I think I was a bit of a waster. Others are teachers and doctors and musicians. Amy worked really hard to be a nursry nurse. But I just did whatever came up and kept changing. This time, I am going to work hard, and be a good citizen.

I am going to be as good as I can. I know I will make mistaks. I know I will sometimes do things wrong when its not a mistak. This time I will not just pretend that it dosent matter.

I am dreding seeing my birth parents again. They are of planet at the moment, but they coming to visit soon, and I know I have really let them down.

I hope that when i am grown up again, I will be a much better person than I was before my rejuve.

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Dave Jones corrected the spelling and grammar and put the work to one side. He rather thought that Amy and Toots might take the best there was from their new situation.

It was a good exercise to discover some of their inner thoughts. It was standard that such discoveries were shared with parents and guardians. He had some concern with Amy’s views concerning Toots’ sentence.

He glanced up at Toots now, and noted she was sitting quietly working. Obviously she had earned the treat of an application of nano lotion. The same couldn’t be said for Brenda Gillis. She could hardly sit still this morning, but he had decided to let it pass. He knew from experience, that her bottom would be one of the most severely punished at the fair yesterday. Her mulish personality meant that she always got the maximum strokes, and no let up from her parents who frequently lost patience with her.

At school she seemed to have no friends. She was as uncooperative as she thought she could get away with, and in the four years that Dave had known her, he had yet to see her smile. And that was not right in a child. Even a penitatas should be happy most of the time.

Colin Harris was another enigma. Although some of the penitatas that passed through his hands declared they were theoretically innocent, most of them admitted that they were in some way to blame for their situation. Not Colin. Everyday he insisted that he was innocent, and no amount of punishment would get him to state otherwise.

Outside of debate concerning his innocence however, he was a likeable and co-operative lad. Mostly cheerful and helpful. Dave liked him, and although he dutifully did punish him when it was required, he had lately decided that he would not punish him unless it was definitely obligatory.

This was certainly a bonus for Colin. Although Dave was not an unjust man, he believed in the system of punishing penitatas soundly and often. Toots for example would have to take a trip over his knee if (after he had corrected her once) she repeated her spelling mistakes too often in future work.

He regarded his charges quietly working. Amy and Toots had their heads close together. Erica was busy decorating her margin with flowers. Dave had often given her a few swats for such diversions from her task, but he rather suspected that this was not entirely a punishment to Erica. She was such an overtly feminine little girl, she would no doubt make some overtly masculine man very happy one day.

The bell rang for the lunch break and Dave made his way to the staff room.

He glanced up to see Mew Hutton as he helped himself to coffee from the vendor. “Have you seen Bell?” she asked

Bell Ferrier was the head teacher at the school. Dave shook his head. “Not since this morning. Why?” “You heard about my little new pupil Nadia Caulsdon?” “Yep. There are signs everywhere stating no penny formulas.” “Well she is meant to be going for therapy this afternoon, and I just wanted to make sure the therapist got the report I drafted earlier. I know Bell has been really busy spanking all morning because every child in infants needed a tanning, and that’s over a forty to get through.”

Dave smiled and took a sip of his coffee. “So why did every child in infants need a spanking?” “Oh something to do with not listening during swimming.” “Wow I bet the penny’s regretted that happening just after May Day.” he remarked. “Here’s Bell now.”

“Oh Bell did you pass that report to Doctor Isher?” “Yes I did. I gave it to Deedeeo whose taking Nadia straight to the clinic now.” “Aching arm Bell?” Dave asked wryly. “I could have done with your help.” she replied rubbing her bicep ruefully. “I left the pennys ‘till last as I had run out of a bit of steam by then, and I think that most of them had had quite a bad enough time yesterday.”

“When you’ve got a moment I would like you to see the essays that I have from Amy and Toots.” he said turning back to the vendor and wondering what to select for lunch.

“They are both absolutely bonded, and I can see why corrections made sure that Toots resumed her relationship without delay with Amy. It gives quite an insight to their characters. Helps me remember too that sometimes the nicest people end up as penitatas.”

“That is certainly true.” Bell said with a sigh. “And with that in mind how is young Colin after May Day?” “I imagine he’s had nano lotion. He’s not wriggling about.” “How has Nadia been today?” Bell asked turning to Mew.

“Well, she plays and listens, and she does well in ethical and moral work, but she does seem a sad little thing. I will be glad when Dr. Isher reports so we know what to do for the best for her.” “That’s all we can do.” Bell said with a sigh. “Our best for them.”

When Amy entered her home that evening Mike looked up from the keyboard where he was composing. “Hello.” he greeted her “Good day at school?” “I have a headache.” she told him without preamble. “And Sir says I have to correct all my bad spellings in my rejuve essay.” “Well if you have a headache I am sure he will understand.” he said arising and resting his hand against her brow.

“And what about Toots?” she asked belligerently. “If she feels unwell, will Sir understand?” “Of course. I think you think life is a lot worse for Toots than what it actually is.” he said soothingly.

“Well she wouldn’t tell me about what happened yesterday at the penitatas May Fair, but I found out from Brenda Gillis. She got so many spankings yesterday, with hands and switches and whippy May Poles and canes and it just went on and on, and it happened to Toots too.”

He regarded her worriedly. Her anger at what was happening to Toots was building up into something she was having difficulty dealing with. “Amy you must stop this attitude.” he warned her soberly. “What is happening to Toots is the best thing for her. Think of the alternatives that were around before rejuvenation? Would you prefer that for her?”

“Toots didn’t do anything wrong!” Amy was almost yelling. Mike took her firmly and sat her upon his knee. Holding her close he said. “I’m not going to spank you at the moment because you have a headache. But we’ll get some formula into you, and then at bed time, you can wait, and I will come in and you will have a taste of the cane. I will not have you speaking to me like that.”

She said nothing. She turned her face to his chest and cried a bit. Did he understand how she felt about Toots? At one point she had hoped that he might marry her, and then Toots would be her sister-in-law. She had been sure that he had returned the attraction that Toots had confided that she felt for him.

He held her for a while, and then went to fetch her medicine. It seemed the virus she had was taking a while to clear. As she swallowed the pleasant tasting liquid she said “Mike, when Toots was grown up, did you think she was pretty?” “I think she’s pretty now.” he replied. “Yes, but.. you know pretty and someone you could fall in love with?”

He smiled and said “Well maybe, but remember Amy, she won’t stay ten forever. And then who knows what will happen. Now you have a little rest until tea time.” “You really are going to give me the cane at bed time aren’t you?” she asked mournfully. “Yes, I certainly am.” he replied. “You’ve been told before baby. You are much too precious to us, for us to allow you to misbehave.”

So at bedtime, Amy found herself laying upon her bed, with her nightie up. She recalled the one and only stroke she had ever had with a ‘cane’, or as it actually was a peach switch. It had really stung, and now how many strokes would Mike give her?

SWISH! She had thought she would lay still and take it. Partly because she knew that was what Toots tried to do, but this first stroke changed her mind.

SWISH! She threw back her head and screamed loudly, but undeterred her brother continued with the punishment

SWISH! Her bottom was painted with scarlet lines of fire. She sobbed loudly, and tried to roll over, but a firm hand in her back prevented her.

SWISH! “Now young lady, I hope this has taught you to think before you speak”

SWISH! “You can have your opinion, but you will learn to express it politely, if your permitted to express it at all.”

SWISH! “This is what happens...”

SWISH! “If you dare yell at your brothers.”

SWISH!

Amy lay on her front and sobbed and sobbed. Her bottom was ablaze with stinging stripes. He had really punished her quite severely for her slip.

She felt her nightie replaced and the covers pulled over her. “There now.” he said. “You have a badly stinging bottom to go to sleep with. Remember it can sting a great deal more. And it will if you’re not a good girl for us.” “I will be good.” she sobbed.

He smoothed her hair and stayed with her until she fell asleep.