Then when the door finally opened and you were invited in and told to stand in front of the head’s large oak desk on which your eyes immediately fixed upon the cane lying there just waiting to be used almost still warm from being used on the previous boy/boys bottoms. It was just such an amazing, scary, stomach-churning experience as you felt your knees knocking almost a relief when the head picked up the cane and instructed you to bend right over the desk after removing one blazer, griping as hard as you could, eyes tight, cheeks clenched,
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