A Year in the Life of... Chapter 6

The walls were painted a light blue colour and there were a couple of wall charts which seemed to show information regarding sales or some such data. She led him to the chair on the far side of the desk and, aware that his skirt was almost too short to smooth under him, he sat.

"Right then Miss, perhaps you should start by telling me your name." Mistress Danni began as she walked around the desk and took the other seat. She placed her cap on the desk and picked up a pen.

He looked at her hesitantly, eyes shifting from her face to the desk and then back again.

"I said, what's your name?"

"Erm...Michelle," He began. "Michelle Foster." It was the name of a girl who had been in his English Literature class at school and who he'd quite fancied for a while.

"Michelle Foster." Mistress Danni wrote on a clean piece of paper. "I see by the insignia on your blazer that you attend St Cecilia's school for special girls. A very prestigious school that...I bet it costs your folks a pretty penny to send you there."

He swallowed, unsure of what to say next. It seemed Mistress Danni was much more experienced at this roleplaying than he would have imagined. She was half lounging in the chair and her voice, though not as harsh as a man's, had a definite bloke-ish twang to it and she'd acquired a South London accent. He looked up to see Mistress Danni looking at him with her eyebrows raised, her right arm trailing down the back of the chair.

Mistress Danni continued. "Oh yes, very expensive place that. And the nuns...I bet they're sticklers ain't they? I bet they give you a good wallopin' should you step out of line. Imagine how mad they're gonna be when they find out you've been thievin' eh? Imagine what your folks will say when they hear about this."

"I didn't steal anything." He managed to say, his voice coming out barely more than a squeak.

"Oh but you have little Miss." Mistress Danni said, rising from the chair as she did so. "I've got you on video...oh yes. I saw you taking that item from the shelf and secreting about your person...I saw it all. And once the law gets involved you are going to be in a whole new world of hurt, oh yes, no doubt about it."