Chapter 2 #2
She ended up nearly finishing her dinner.
They decided to take a walk at a little outdoor mall not far from their house.
Evan had an arm around her shoulders and she rested her arm lightly around his waist as they walked.
The mall was decorated with twinkling lights across the buildings and the trees.
She sighed, just content to walk with him with their arms around each other.
Evan dropped a kiss on her temple. “What are you thinking about?” he asked.
Zoey frowned a little bit. “Just that I wish we could do this every day, but school is probably going to get too busy,” she said in a quiet voice.
Her lower lip poked out in a bitter pout.
“We probably won’t get to spend much time together until December, when I’m on Christmas break. That feels like so far away.”
“Zoey,” Evan chuckled her name, making her look up at him in surprise.
“What’s so funny?” she asked, a little hurt. She couldn’t see how he could find any part of this humorous.
Evan pulled her over to a bench so they could sit down. He surprised her by pulling her so that she was sitting on his knee. She pressed her face into his shirt in embarrassment. She was so much littler than him that she probably looked like a child sitting on his lap.
“Being in school doesn’t mean you can’t have any fun,” he told her.
Zoey’s eyebrows scrunched together. “It was always like that for me,” she said. “When I was taking classes at the junior college, I didn’t have any time to do fun things. ”
Evan pushed some hair away from her forehead tenderly. “That’s because when you were at the junior college, you were also working full time, remember?”
“True,” Zoey allowed, but she shrugged. “But I was in school part time back then. I was only taking two classes a semester. I’m taking four now!”
“But this time, you won’t have work to worry about,” Evan pointed out.
He patted her on the hip, a little too close to Zoey’s bottom for her liking.
“You think I’m going to let you overwork yourself just because you’re in school full time?
If so, you are sorely mistaken.” His lips found her neck, making her shift and a giggle escape her.
“Evan,” she whined halfheartedly. Zoey was a shy girl by nature. The PDA stuff still made her blush a brilliant red.
“Understand me?” he demanded playfully. He nipped her earlobe lightly when she waited too long to answer for his liking.
“But you can’t decide that,” she squealed, trying to keep her voice low.
She hid her face in his chest again, mumbling into his shirt.
“You can’t control how much work I have to do.
It’s going to be hard. I’ll have a lot of studying and worksheets and projects…
” She could feel her stress begin to rise as she thought about how busy she would be.
Evan felt it as well. Zoey had exposed her bottom slightly when she turned her face into his chest. He glanced around to make sure no one was looking their way before bringing his palm down on her skirt-covered bottom.
The spank barely even made a sound because it was so light, but Zoey felt it and lifted her face to look at him in shock, her face flaming .
“No more of that,” he said sternly. He then wrapped his arms around her, drawing her close.
“I know you’re anxious about going back to school.
You haven’t been back in a few years and this is your first time at a university.
That’s why I’m going to make sure you make good choices so that you’ll have time to relax and rest. I’ll also be tutoring you whenever you need it. ”
Zoey couldn’t help but wonder what he meant by making sure she made ‘good choices,’ but she kind of didn’t want to know at the moment for fear he would start talking about punishing her again. She simply nodded her understanding.
Evan smiled at her before pressing his lips to hers.
He stood up, carrying her with him before setting her lightly on her feet.
She looked up at him, marveling at how strong he was.
He took her hand, before leading her down the line of shops.
“Alright, let’s get you some hot chocolate before heading home, okay? ”
Zoey nodded vigorously, a smile lighting up her face. She fell into step beside him and couldn’t help but skip a bit.
Zoey sighed happily as she stepped out of the steaming shower. She took her time drying off and picking out her softest nightgown to wear.
When she and Evan got back from their outing, she was still a little stressed after her first day of classes. She didn’t have a lot of homework yet, but her professors warned that work would pick up before too long.
Evan had suggested she take a nice hot shower to calm down. It had always worked wonders for her and tonight was no exception. She slipped into the thin baby pink gown before shaking out her long damp hair.
She felt so much better, all fresh and clean.
She wandered out of the bedroom to find Evan.
She was surprised to find him reading a book on the couch, already dressed in his sleep attire of black boxers and a plain white t-shirt.
It was only nine p.m. and he normally didn’t get ready for bed until nearly eleven.
“You know casual Mondays aren’t really a thing, right?” she teased, coming up and crawling onto the couch beside him. She immediately put her cheek on his shoulder, inhaling his scent.
Evan set his book on the coffee table before pulling her onto his lap.
“What movie should we watch tonight?” she asked, her eyes falling shut as she stifled a yawn.
“We’re not watching a movie tonight,” he said.
Zoey’s eyes popped open. She had a bad feeling, but decided to play dumb. “Oh, should we do something else then? We could play a board game or something.”
Evan put a finger under her chin, bringing her face up so she was looking at him. “We’re going to bed now, pretty girl.”
Zoey sucked in a breath through her teeth. Her voice came out as a tiny whimper. “But it’s only nine…”
Evan’s stern expression was unwavering. “I know,” he said. “I’ve decided that we will be sleeping earlier starting tonight. It is part of the good choices I was talking about before. You were up late last night worrying about today. You need to catch up on sleep. ”
Zoey knew it was against her better judgement to argue.
She’d had a pretty stressful and tiring day.
She was exhausted. She had to admit that curling up with Evan on their bed didn’t sound like the worst thing in the world.
Still, she didn’t want Evan to think she was going to be sleeping early every night.
“Just for tonight,” she said in what she hoped was a firm voice. She stood up from the couch. “We can go to bed now, but I’m not sleeping at nine every night.”
Evan didn’t move. He looked up at her with a raised eyebrow. “I don’t recall offering you the chance to bargain.”
“I’m tired tonight,” she told him, not sure where the boldness was coming from. “But what if I’m not tired tomorrow night? Are you going to force me to go to bed anyway?”
The corner of Evan’s mouth twitched slightly, but his voice was firm. “Yes.”
Zoey felt her temper flare, but she forced it back down. She was not in the mood to get spanked. She decided to try a different tactic. She poked her lower lip out and stared at her boyfriend.
“Please, Evan?” she begged in a tiny voice. “Don’t do this to me. I love watching movies and playing games with you at night.”
It seemed to work, for a moment. Evan’s stern expression faltered slightly, but it was back after just a couple of short seconds. Without warning, he reached out and grabbed Zoey’s wrist, pulling her toward him so that they were nearly nose to nose.
“Do not try to manipulate me like that,” he said sternly .
Zoey looked away, trying to pull away. “I wasn’t,” she muttered.
Evan tsked, shaking his head. “And lying on top of it?” he asked in disappointment. He pulled her so that she fell across his lap, immediately using one of his legs to pin both of hers.
“Evan, no!” Zoey whined, kicking futilely. What a mess. She’d told herself she wouldn’t end up in this position.
Evan brought his hand down on the seat of her thin nightgown sharply, about half a dozen times. “If I have to spank you every night for you to mind me, then I will,” he informed her. “I had to warm your bottom just last night. Looks like this is going to be a nightly event.”
Zoey whined and whimpered as Evan peppered her bottom with mild swats. This wasn’t good, he was warming her up. “I’m sorry!” she said, hoping to placate him before he really lit into her.
Evan ignored her apology, bringing the moderate swats a bit lower, just above the hem of her short frilly nightgown.
“I’m very serious about this, Zoey,” he told her.
“I don’t understand why it’s been difficult to prove that to you, but I promise that your bottom will feel just how serious I am very soon. ”
With that, he ramped up the spanking, bringing his hand down harder on her upturned rear. He tipped her forward slightly so that her bottom was even higher. Her head hung just a few inches away from the floor.
Zoey gasped and wiggled with every swat. Her bottom was warming up quickly, the sting becoming painful. She cried out when she felt Evan’s hand at the hem of her nightgown .
Evan threw the thin fabric over Zoey’s back. Without hesitating, he pulled down her powder blue bikini panties as well, baring her light pink cheeks. He wasted no time in bringing his tingling palm down hard, alternating spanks between each full mound.
“The arguments end now,” he informed her, not pausing in his onslaught. “From now on, when I make a decision regarding school, you are to obey without question. Understand?”
“Yes, sir!” Zoey cried. Tears had begun to leak from her eyes.
Evan watched Zoey’s bright pink bottom bounce under his stern hand.
She was going straight to bed after this, so Evan decided to focus the spanks on the summits of her cheeks instead of her sit spots.
He quickened his pace, wanting this to be a swift, but severe spanking.
He was going to make sure she slept on her tummy tonight.
He paused, pressing his palm down hard on Zoey’s quivering cheeks. He waited for her breathing to even out a bit before he spoke. “Okay, young lady. You are getting a dozen more and you are going to count them out for me. Then you are going straight to bed. Understand?”
Zoey gritted her teeth but nodded and muttered a “Yes, sir.” She hated counting her spanks; it was humiliating and seemed to make the spanking last even longer.
Evan didn’t make her wait long and gave her the first swat, much harder than he had been spanking.
Zoey’s voice was barely above a whisper as she counted. “One.”
“One, sir,” Evan corrected, squeezing one bottom cheek roughly to emphasize his point .
Zoey whined indignantly, but she repeated him.
Zoey counted out the rest of the swats as quickly as possible, but he knew what she was doing.
She wanted the spanking to end quickly, so Evan took his time between swats, scolding her and squeezing her butt before delivering the next harsh spank.
He did this for all twelve. He grinned when he felt his tiny girlfriend relax over his lap just before the last spank.
“Okay, pretty girl, stand in front of me,” Evan said in a gentle voice when it was all over.
He helped her up off of his lap, smiling at the cute little hiccupping sounds she was making.
When she was standing in between his knees, her nightgown fell back over her bottom but Evan grabbed it and pulled it back up so that her burning bottom was on display to the cool room.
“You’re going to have a great college life,” Evan promised her. He pulled her to him by her nightgown and pressed his lips to her tearstained cheeks before cupping her warm bottom in his hands. He looked deep into her eyes. “I’m going to make sure of it.”
Zoey blushed, very much aware of her warm bottom with Evan’s strong hands around it. She shifted from foot to foot, trying to look anywhere else but into his eyes, but his gaze held hers like a vise.
“I’m sorry if it feels like I’m being really hard on you,” he said in a softer voice. “It’s just that I can tell that you aren’t confident in yourself where school is concerned. I know you can do this and I’ll be here to help you. But from now on, you need to let me do that.”
Zoey tightened her lips as she stared at him.
“I don’t think you’re being too hard on me,” she admitted with difficulty.
She struggled to find the right words to convey her feelings.
“ I’m sorry. I’m just having a hard time adjusting to going back to school.
I feel so unprepared after going to my classes today. ”
Evan laughed before removing his hands from her bottom so he could wrap them around her, pulling her against his chest. “You’re a silly girl,” he told her in a fond tone.
He pulled away a little so he could kiss her forehead.
“Your nerves are completely normal, pretty girl. The first day is pretty stressful because it’s the day they go through all the projects and tests you’ll have that semester. It’s pretty overwhelming.”
Zoey nodded with a grimace as she recalled all the presentations and exams waiting for her in the coming weeks.
Evan bent his head to kiss her clenched fists, smoothing out the knuckles with his lips. “It won’t be as bad as you think,” he promised her. “You’ll take it one day at a time. You just have to trust me to decide what’s best, alright?”
Zoey nodded again, this time smiling shyly at him.
For the second night in a row, Zoey went to bed with a warm bottom and a content smile on her face.