Alfie saw his stephmother approach and paled. The expression on her face made him remember a time before his father married her. He had been naughty and thought that if he hid her hairbrush she would just use her hand on him, Boy was he wrong! She hadn't found her hairbrush and used a belt on his bare behind, and later when she DID find her hairbrush he got a dose of that as well.
The look she gave him was almost the same as then and now that he though of it, dipping the tip of the tails of the girl in front of him in a inkwell had been very smart after all, though it seemed funny at the time. The girl had a habit of shaking her head to her tails would be on her back and the while class, minus himself because he ducked where under little ink spots, students and desks.
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