A rather lovely, very vivid dream on Friday evening featured Haron and Emma Jane as members of the house I ran at a rather grand boarding school, standing before me in the deepest of trouble. A rather concerning incident had just been reported to me. EJ had been caught appropriating another girl’s rugby shirt; Haron – as a house prefect – had been made aware of the matter; EJ had bribed her not to report the incident to me. Only, the other girl had just been given a detention for not wearing the correct rugby kit, and had complained.
I’d taken out the punishment book, and was explaining what was to happen to each of them as I wrote down the necessary details. Emma Jane had protested her innocence at first, but the evidence against her was overwhelming – the fact she couldn’t tell me where her own rugby shirt was (“I think I might have mislaid it, sir”) giving reason for the crime, the bribery seeming to confirm her guilty conscience. She’d eventually confessed (“although I would have given it back, sir”). Six strokes of the cane would be fair and fitting for the offence in question; I’d double it because of her attempts to evade justice.
And Haron? She was, frankly, fortunate that I wasn’t stripping her of her prefectorial status. But I’d be lenient and view this as an isolated lapse of judgement. She too, therefore, would receive a dozen strokes. I sent her outside to wait, and told EJ to remove her knickers and blazer, and bend over my desk. She was a Lower Sixth former, so I took out the senior cane, instructing her to lift her skirt and bare her bottom. And then I punished her. Hard. Very hard, before sending her to stand facing the wall, her striped bottom on display, as I called in Haron.
She too went over my desk. She too struggled bravely though her correction. And then I told them to sort out their uniforms and return to their classrooms; they apologised profusely (and tearfully), and went on their way…
Ah, this is how you know it was a dream, as those two would never misbehave. Pictures of innocence, both of them.
@eliane – “Pictures of innocence”
Oh yeah – on what planet? Planet Zog?
And as for a prefect failing in her duty – oh, tut tut.
@abel – nice dream. Thanks for sharing.
@Eliane – it is a funny thing about dreams: obviously in real life, both of the girls are scrupulously honest, so it’s a bit weird to have a dream in which this isn’t the case….
@Abel. You missed out the well-behaved. I have never seen either girl, in real life, exhibit anything that I would consider to be bad behaviour.
@Eliane – I have!
@Abel – I suspect that you have unreasonably high standards of behaviour. This may explain the difference in opinion.
I’m with Eliane here, I too have never seen either girl, in real life, exhibit anything that I would consider to be bad behaviour….
but then I am long overdue an eye test! 😉
I suspect I am the only one taking part in this conversation who can truthfully say that I have never seen EJ or Haron behave badly in any way.
I’m sure I’ll still be able to say that after I meet them in person. Really, I am!
Hmmm of course no-one’s ever seen me misbehave – I’m oh-so-good all the time 😉
And delighted to be backed up by such reliable character witnesses as Eliane, Indy and Sarah…
@simon “Pictures of innocence” on the planet Zog, just like Zig and Zag (or Rodge and Podge?). [An “in” joke, if you don’t get it, don’t waste time trying]
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