Making Excuses

Last night we played a quick scene, both in our pyjamas – I was a schoolgirl caught wandering the corridors at night, Abel was the housemaster who caught her.

He demanded to be told what I was doing out of bed so late. I was tempted to see if he could keep a straight face:

“I wanted to see the lunar eclipse, sir.”

Not a giggle from him: “Given the last one was in May 2006, you may have had to wait for a long time. Now, the truth.”

Obviously, I got it worse for lying. First came four crisp, firm whacks over the pyjamas for wandering about, then four more on my bare bottom – pyjamas pulled down but not right down, just to bare enough flesh to stripe.

Then we admired my stripes together, and cuddled.

“Did you like my excuse?” I asked.

“Did you like my response?” he asked back.

“Yeah, but actually,” I said, “there was a full lunar eclipse in March this year; I just thought I wouldn’t bring it up.”
“Really?” he said. “Well, you would have still got the cane.”

Funny how that happens… eclipse or no eclipse. :)

5 thoughts on “Making Excuses

  • 19 July, 2007 at 9:34 pm
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    Sounds more like a full moon than an eclipse to me 😉

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  • 19 July, 2007 at 10:06 pm
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    I must admit, Haron, that you are way better at making up excuses than I am. And that Abel is way better at keeping a straight face than I am. I was going to give Abel extra credit for knowing when the last eclipse took place, but seeing as how he got it wrong…

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  • 19 July, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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    Minxette – thanks for making this joke, I was biting my nails trying to keep myself from doing that :)

    Kate – nah, I’m the astronomy nerd. He’s very good at straight faces, though. I keep trying to make him lose it, but he just doesn’t.

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  • 19 July, 2007 at 10:36 pm
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    Well, really, the typical thing for me to do would be to point out that his information is incorrect the moment he said it, with the most innocent of smiles on my face… “Sir, aren’t you always telling me that saying something that isn’t true is a sign of bad behaviour?”

    Not sure that would’ve worked out well for you in this case though :)

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  • 20 July, 2007 at 12:00 am
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    He did crack up once. Remember that time some girl itching for a caning licked his arm in a garden (he’d told you not to put one drop of water on him) and was straightfaced long enough to tell her she was for it when you got home – and then he burst out laughing. Loved that story. :-)

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