Jerry's new sitter (for Roark)

[JodyJames]

Jeremy Tyler Edwards, known to his friends as JT, grabbed the pack of Oreos and ran back to his room. He didn't like what his mother had told him and wanted to be prepared if he was going to stay in his room all day. This had been the day he was going to do fun stuff with his mother. Unfortunately his grandmother had had a stroke and now his mother had to go to the hospital. She had told him that little kids couldn't go. She had told him that even though his parents had divorced several years ago and he was the 'man of the house'. "I'm six and a half" he told his mother emphasizing those oh so important six extra months.But she had told him the hospital had firm rules.

JT didn't even know the full implications because his grandmother had been watching him after day camp and she would no longer be able to do so at least for a while. And for today, Karen had been in almost a panic trying to locate someone to watch her son. His grandmother was his usual sitter and the others she'd tired were bus. Then she recalled that one of her classmates from college, April Adams, had just moved back to town. Perhaps she could watch Jerry. And so it was arranged. His mother had told Jerry that he knew Mrs. Adams from three years ago when she had lived in town, but of course Jerry didn't remember that. He was a little mad at Mrs. Adams though nothing was her fault.

The doorbell rang and his curiosity got the better of him. He went to the head of the stairs and peeked down to see his Mom let Mrs. Adams and her daughter Summer. Then something strange happened. Mommy began to cry. Mommies never cried and Jerry came halfway down the stairs very worried. "The other woman comforted his mom and told her. "Karen, you're in no shape to drive. I'll take you to the hospital." Mrs. Adams turned to her daughter and said, "Summer, I'm sure you can manage, can't you? Hold down the fort here with Jerry." Summer had little choice but to assure her mother she could.

Karen regained her composure enough to say emergency numbers were on the fridge. She also told her son. "You be a very good boy for Summer, Jerry. I don't want to hear a bad report or you know what will happen."

Jerry did know and his hand flinched back and rubbed his bottom. April Adams caught that and realized that Karen was a spanking mom as she herself was or at least had been. Summer had not been spanked for several years. She looked at her daughter, but wasn't sure if Summer had seen what Jerry did. Well she wsa sure things would be fine for one day.

Then Karen began to cry again and April helped her out to the car. She came back briefly to say "Jerry why don't you show Summer around the house and where everything is." she suggested. He looked at Summer and said, "I like JT." He wasn't inn the habit of criticizing adults, but he felt he could tell Summer who was only a somewhat big person.

So Jerry and the slightly overwhelmed Summer set out on a tour of the house. Jerry showed her the large family kitchen where he and his mother spent most of their time. Toys were strew around and the TV was on with the news. Jerry turned it off. "That's s'posed to be off if you're not watching. I didn't leave it on, honest." He knew Mommy might have swatted him if he had, so he thougth he shoudl explain. They went down a hall and past a closed door. "Mommy works in there and you can't go in and play. Just talk to her." he told Summer. That too was fresh on his mind for his playing in there was what had earned him his most recent spanking the day before yesterday.

They went upstairs and into Jerry's room. "I got bump beds." he said proudly. "I sleep up top." Jerry climbed up using the footboard, ignoring the ladder, which his mother didn't allow, but she wasn't here to stop him and it was much more fun this way. When he reached the top he saw the opened Oreo package there. He looked at it a bit guilty and quickly pushed it under the sheet. He looked at Summer to see if she had noticed, but he couldn't tell. But when he looked at her, his eyes fell on his open closet door. Hanging on a hook was his fanny paddle, one of two actually. Normally that wouldn't have bothered him as it was always there (except when in use of course). But now he was feeling guilty about the cookies and getting on the bed the wrong way so he stared at it.

[Roark]

Sixteen year old, Summer Adams, sat quietly in the car beside her mother. She had just recently turned 16 and gotten her license, but the pretty young teen did not have a car of her own. As a result she was escorting her mother to her babysitting, with the rare treat of being able to take the car out on her own once her mother was settled in. Summer was planning on driving herself to the mall and finding some friends to hang out with until she had to return to pick her mother up and take her back home. Summer was already reveling in the idea of an afternoon of freedom as her mother parked the car and they both got out.

Summer smoothed her short pink sundress down a little before stretching lazily after climbing out of the car. Summer was just a tiny bit short of her age, but she had an attractive curvy figure that was already making her the center of attention with most of the boys in her school. Summer's beautiful blonde hair was tied back in a simple pony tail and she smiled easily as the door opened and she saw her mother's friend standing there. Her smile quickly faded into a look of bewilderment though as the woman suddenly burst into tears. Summer had a very caring personality and immediately wanted to help this woman but she stood their blankly not really knowing what to do in the surprising and awkward situation. Luckily her mother jumped in and saved the day but before Summer realized it she found herself nodding and agreeing to watch the woman's son.

Summer quickly began to smile again, though it wasn't quite as genuine as before, as she inwardly cursed herself as she realized she had just lost her afternoon of freedom and would now be babysitting a little boy! Summer liked kids but she had never really babysat before and she immediately began to feel a little nervous besides being annoyed at losing her afternoon. Summer hadn't even noticed the little boy in question until she heard him being instructed to be a good boy for her. Summer quickly looked the little boy over, thinking he must be about 5 by his size, but also quickly determining that he was a really cute little thing with the cutest blonde hair and smile that were similar to her own. The little boy had bright blue eyes compared to her own striking green, and Summer just barely noticed the little boy's eyes widen as his mother warned him what would happen to him if she received a bad report from Summer. Summer barely resisted the urge to grin and almost missed the little boy flinching and reaching a hand back to rub his bottom. Summer couldn't help but grin at that for a moment as she thought about how cute this little boy really was and realized that he was obviously spanked when he misbehaved.

Summer caught a knowing glance from her mother out of the corner of her eye, and the wiped the grin from her face and brought a trace blush to her own cheeks. Summer hadn't been spanked in several years, but she had received more than her fair share growing up, especially when she was close to the little boy's age before her parents had divorced. Summer quickly regained her own composure and of course resisted the urge to cover her own bottom with a hand, as she instead flashed a warm smile to Jerry as she heard his mother call him. Summer immediately began to wonder what it would be like to be on the other side of a spanking and was even more curious to know what it felt like to have a cute little boy like Jerry over her lap.

Summer's mind quickly snapped back to the situation at hand however when Karen, her mother's friend, began to cry again and her own mother quickly led Karen out to the car as she called back and suggested that Jerry show her around the house. Summer was still in a daze over how quickly the whole situation had developed and she quietly followed Jerry around the house listening to his little tour. Summer's look got even more confused as she follwed Jerry into his room and heard him proudly announce that he had bump beds. She grinned though as she realized he meant bunk beds and thought of how cute his mistake was as she watched him climb boyishly up to the top bunk without using the ladder. Her brow furrowed slightly though as she noticed Jerry quickly tuck something under his covers with a bit of a guilty look on his face. Summer thought about investigating but was probably just going to drop it and do a better job of introducing herself when she caught the little boy's blue eyes.

Summer curiosity piqued immediately and she turned to look in the same direction that she saw Jerry's eyes looking so intently at. Summer immediately saw the object that Jerry was looking at and began to walk straight toward it. Summer's eyes widened a little as she slowly realized what the object was and what it was obviously intended for. Her curiosity about what it would be like to spank a cute little boy returned, and Summer spun back to face the little boy with a bit of an impish grin of her own. The skirt of Summer's dress swirled around her in a little flourish as she spun and her hands fell to rest on her hips in quite a motherly fashion. "I'm sorry I never got the chance to introduce myself. My name is Summer and I would be happy if you called me that...Jerry?," Summer asked introducing herself with a warm smile and checking to make sure she had heard the little boy's name correctly. "Is Jerry short for something?," she added before Jerry could respond. Once Jerry answered Summer nodded and continued. "Well I don't think either of us expected this today but I think we are going to have a lot of fun together today," Summer greeted with more surety and enthusiasm than she felt. Summer was already taking a quick liking to the little boy but she had no experience actually babysitting a little boy and her anxiety was returning just a little as she wondered what she would do with him all afternoon. However, a more pressing question needed to be answered first and Summer didn't hesitate to ask it. "What is this?," Summer questioned the little boy knowingly as she gestured toward the fanny paddle hanging in the closet.

[JodyJames]

“Jerry’s short for Jeremy Tyler Edwards. He said proudly. But I like just JT. You gotta name for what it is now and your mommy has a name for a month. April’s a month. It’s the month after my birthday. I’m six and a half .” he asserted, though he really wasn’t quite that yet. However, his best friend was six and a half so he liked to say he was, too.

When Summer asked him about the paddle, JT’s eyes widened. He was kneeling and his hands clutched his bottom. He sat back down on the upper berth and surreptitiously reached his foot under the sheets pushing the cookies even further down – not that a six-year old can be very surreptitious about anything. Then he quickly got off the bed and hurried to the closet shutting the door. He did it energetically and it closed with a bit of a bang.

It didn't occur to Jerry that Summer hadn't been told she could spank. While he'd never been spanked by a sitter, he actually hadn't had too many, and certainly his grandmother had spanked him while she was watching him. It didn't occur to Jerry that a sitter wouldn't spank. She was obviously in charge and he was sure if his Mom knew about the cookies, he'd have gotten a spanking, maybe not with the paddle, but a hard one nonetheless.

“That’s for when I was little – a long time ago.” He pushed on the door even though it was shut and the latch had caught. It’s true that he hadn’t been spanked with that particular paddle in a month probably which did seem like a long time ago to a little boy. It was not true that he hadn’t been paddled for a long time. It had been just over a week actually. And it certainly wasn’t true he’d not been spanked for a while. The last one had been just a couple of days ago. “I think Mommy’s gonna throw it away ‘Cause know why. ‘Cause I’m six and a half. You could do her a favor and do it for her, Summer. That would be nice. She was sad you know."

He took her hand and said, “’Sides, I gotta show you all the house like your mommy said.” He thought for just a moment. “I didn’t show you the bathroom.” It was the first room he thought of.

[Roark]

Summer listened as Jerry told her both his full name and what he liked to be call, filing both away for future use. She was also surprised to hear that JT was six and a half, well almost anyways, as she expected him to be a little younger. She smiled brighter as he chattered a little about her and her mother's name. "Oh six and a half? You are quite the big boy then huh JT?," Summer ask warmly making sure to acknowledge the little boy's preference for his name and the very specific age he had given her with a smile. Summer's own eyes sparkled with amusement as JT's widened with obvious anxiety after she questioned him about the paddle hanging in the closet. Summer almost laughed with delight as little JT not so covertly clutched his little bottom in front of her. Her eyebrow shot up questioningly as she saw him slide a foot under his sheets and push something down further under the covers.

Summer was a fairly smart girl and usually made at least B's in school if not A's but she didn't need to be all that smart to figure out the little boy was hiding something under his sheets. Summer watched with growing suspicion as JT hurried off his bed and then more than enthusiastically closed his closet door in front of her. "Jerry be more gentle there is no reason to close the door that hard you might break it like that," Summer found herself gently scolding the little boy naturally and to her own surprise. Summer's amusement and suspicion both returned as Jt continued to push on the closet door, really making sure it was shut, and explaining that the paddle was for a long time ago and not what it was for.

Summer almost laughed again as JT invited her to throw the paddle away and even made it seem like he would be doing his sad mother a favor by doing so. The little boy was not only cute but quite impish himself it seemed, which made him even cuter in Summer's eyes. Summer allowed the little boy to take her hand but held her ground as he insisted that he needed to show her the rest of the house and then decided the bathroom should be there next stop. Summer slipped into her best motherly stern tone and looked down at JT seriously with just a small hint of a frown on her face. "I think we have seen enough of your house for now JT, we have some things to discuss first young man."

"Since you are six and a half and such a big boy then I expect that you know how important it is to always tell the truth now don't you JT?," Summer began and paused for the little boy to answer. "And Im SURE you know what happens to little boys who don't tell the truth now don't you JT?," Summer continued and paused again though she didn't expect a full answer from the little boy this time and didnt wait long for him to give one. "Now I want you to tell me if your Mommy would really want me to throw that paddle away?," Summer asked deciding that the question would make a good base line for how JT might answer a question either truthfully or untruthfully since it was fairly obvious that his mother would not want a paddle thrown away that was very obviously hanging in that closet for a reason. Once Summer listened to the little boy's answer she pointed up to the top bunk of his bed. "And now I want you to tell me what is up there under the covers that you don't want me to see young man," Summer commanded sternly without releasing JT's little hand from her own.

[JodyJames]

JT liked listening to Summer. She had a nice voice and smiley eyes. His mom had smiley eyes too except when she was scolding him. Everything seemed to be going fine. Until Summer began to question him abut telling the truth. It was just the kind of thing his mother did. She seemed to always know when he wasn't being completely truthful.

Jerry did know exactly what happened to little boys who didn't tell the truth. They got their bottoms spanked -- actually they got their bare bottoms paddled because telling the truth was very important. And Mommy had said she might also wash his mouth out with soap. After she'd told him that, JT had licked a bar of soap to see how it tasted and it tasted really yucchy.

When she questioned him about whether his mother would want the paddle discarded or not, JT paused for a moment. Then he smiled. "Ummm ..... I think so Summer, 'cause know why? 'Cause wen I hung it back up, Mommy said, 'I hope I never have to use that again, Jeremy.'" There that wasn't a lie and it showed Mommy didn't want to use it -- not precisely that she didn't want to have it but close enough, JT thought.

He was about to offer to get the paddle so Summer could throw it out. That was something he wouldn't dare do, but if Summer did it he'd be blameless. But then she asked about the cookies. How she knew cookies were there he didn't know. Of course she didn't know it was cookies, but Jerry didn't realize that. Somehow grownups seemed to know everything once they started asking questions like this. Again it was just like Mommy.

JT climbed back up on the bed and brought out the cookies with a sheepish grin but had another brilliant idea, "It's not polite to hide 'em and not share, Summer. We can both have them. That's sharing. Then we can put them back before Mommy comes home." He held out the open bag offering a cookie not realizing that his last sentence screamed that he wasn't supposed to have them at all. No he was sure he had solved the problem.

[Roark]

Summer began to smile as JT started his answer with a long, "Ummm." She was sure that she was going to catch JT in a lie now but she listened closely to the creative answer he gave her. Summer quickly realized that JT was a clever little boy as she was certain that he was accurately quoting his mother, while trying to twist the meaning of her words to suit his answer. Summer realized that she would have to carefully listen to every answer JT gave her from now on as the little boy seemed to be hesitant to directly lie to her but not nearly so hesitant to try and deceive her in a more indirect manner. "Well I think we will have to let your Mommy decide if she wants to throw it out JT," Summer answered casually.

Summer watched as JT began to climb his bed again in response to her question instead of answering it directly. Soon enough the little boy produced a pack of Oreos, and Summer had to shake her head in disbelief at how cute the little boy looked in all of his sheepishness. Again the little boy had a clever answer for her as he tried to tempt her with sharing the cookies, but he also he betrayed himself as well. Summer could already feel her affection for this little boy growing as she admired his mischievousness if not his attempts to deceive her. "Now Jeremy," Summer began sternly with the intentional use of his full first name. "Now why would you need to hide cookies from me and why would it be so important for us to put the cookies back before your Mommy got home young man?"

Summer had no idea how JT would attempt to answer those questions, and she was quite curious to see if the little boy would come clean or keep digging a deeper hole for himself. "Remember our discussion about telling the truth young man, and I want you to tell me EXACTLY what your Mommy would say and do right now if she knew you were hiding cookies in your bed," Summer demanded with a calm stern tone of voice her hands once against resting on her hips.

[JodyJames]

Now JT was truly stuck. He thought but he could think of no answer other than the truth. So beginning with his excuse, he told the truth, "Mommy promised we'd do fun stuff, but she didn't 'cause she hadda go to the hospital Summer. So I was gonna stay in my room all day, Summer. But now I don't gotta because you're here. But she'd be mad I had 'em. But I only ate two Summer ... only two."

JT scooted back against the wall. Summer had her hands on her hips just like Mommy did and she asked EXACTLY what Mommy would do. JT had a pretty good idea of what she'd do though he wasn't positive about all the details. "Exactly?" he asked.

Summer nodded and repeated, "Exactly."

JT's lip quivered a little and he said, "I think she'd pad... spank me." Jerry said.

Summer nodded. She was quite sure from the way Jerry was responding that his mother would spank him or more precisely do what he's started to say. "I think she'd PADDLE, too, Jeremy. Is that all? Remember, I said 'excatly'."

Jerry thought for a moment. He'd already said the horrible word so he might as well go on. "I think she'd take my pants and undies down and say I hadda be in the corner to think about being bad. Mommy says bare fannies help little boys think better sometimes -- but not for school thinking just for being bad thinking. And she'd take the cookies to the kitchen and put a clip on them so they don't get ucky. And then she'd come back upstairs and I'd haveta tell her what I thought about. And she'd tell me what she thought about and then I'd get my fanny spanked so I'd remember what I thought about, Summer." He gave Summer a very sad look at this point, but she just continued to look at him. "Then after more corner thinking, I'd haveta tell her how I was thinking that I was going to be good and not bad. And then she'd pull my pants up and hug me and say I was all forgiven."

"But Summer, we don't gotta tell her, right? I only had two." He held up two fingers. JT knew sometimes Grandma didn't spank when he was pretty sure Mommy would have. And sometimes she didn't even tell Mommy. He hoped Summer was like Grandma.

The whole time Jerry was talking his hands were fiddling with his yellow T-shirt bearing the likeness of the Tasmanian Devil and then rubbing his thighs through his jeans. Perhaps the latter was to subconsciously remind himself that they were still in place protecting his bottom.

[Roark]

Summer waited patiently and knowingly as JT took a little time to think about his answer. She listened as he told her about his day before explaining that his Mommy would be mad at him for taking the cookies but then tried to minimize his behavior by saying he had only eaten two so far. Summer did not enjoy seeing the little boy so distressed as he scooted away from her and backed up to the wall, but he looked so cute doing it and it increased the nervous excitement she felt in her own tummy. JT's quivering lip increased both of her feelings even more so but Summer quickly and sternly corrected JT that he was to tell her exactly what his Mommy would do and that she thought that meant paddling him too. She was pleased as the little boy then decided upon the truth and she was even more pleased as he went into full details about how he thought his Mommy would handle his discipline if she was here. Summer's mind was still turning at hearing that JT thought his Mommy would paddle him, but she wasn't sure if she dared to paddle the little boy without permission. In fact she wasn't really sure that she was allowed to spank him but she did remember the knowing look her mother had given her when Jt had covered his bottom at hearing the threat from his own Mommy about behaving badly.

Summer quickly decided that she had been given permission enough to spank the little boy and even if she hadn't that she could not possibly pass the opportunity to give a cute little boy like JT a spanking, and after all he had admitted he had earned at least a spanking. The sad look he gave her as he finished his explanation tugged on Summer's heartstrings but wasn't nearly enough to overcome her desire and excitement to give the boy a good spanking. She listened to JT's final plea not to tell his Mommy and his reminder that he had only taken two cookies, and now it was Summer's turn to gather her thoughts before she answered JT. "I am sorry young man but I am going to have to tell your Mommy about your behavior when she gets home. So I am going to have to tell her about the cookies but if you are a good boy the rest of the day, I'll make sure to tell her about that too," Summer promised as consolingly as she could. "I will also tell her that I have already given you a spanking for it," Summer added in a much more solemn tone with a nod of her head. "Now climb down here and bring me the cookies and then we will get your spanking over with young man," Summer commanded with much more confidence than she actually felt.

[JodyJames]

Jerry wasn't surprised by Summer's pronouncement. He hardly expected less. It didn't occur to him that Summer wouldn't be the one to spank him or that there was any question about the authority to do so. His grandmother had spanked him, and while other sitters had not, he just assumed that the adult in charge could. Summer though not an adult was much older then him and an almost-adult. He didn't really distinguish any difference. And his grandmother had said similar things about telling his mother if he was good after a spanking so it all seemed natural to him.

He handed Summer the bag of cookies and climbed down using the ladder to show he was being good. He walked up to her with one tear running down his cheek. He just knew the spanking was going to hurt. They always did. He was already sorry he'd been naughty. He put his hands up on his head. His mother had always bared him herself so JT didn't even consider any other way. After struggling with him at times to get his pants unfastened and baring him, she had finally settled on making sure his hands were well out of the way. It didn't occur to Jerry there would be any other that Summer would expect him to act. "I'll be real super good Summer so you can tell her, OK?"

[Roark]

Summer took the bag of cookies from JT and put them aside on the dresser for the time being. She looked around for a suitable spot to carry out JT's discipline and decided that sitting on the lower bunk would do. She gave JT a bit of a surprised look as the little boy put his hands on his head, but she quickly figured out why he was doing so as she remembered his explanation of how his Mommy would spank him. Summer quickly stepped past the little boy and took a seat on the edge of the bottom bunk. She then reached out and grabbed JT by the belt loops of his pants and pulled him close to the bed on her right side. Summer had never administered a spanking before but she had a very good memory of receiving them from her younger years and figured she would enjoy figuring it out anyhow.

Summer finally noticed the single tear trickling down JT's cheek and it quickly tempered her excitement. Summer realized that this spanking would not be fun for JT, but that he did actually need the discipline and that it was her job not only to punish him but to teach him as well. She was still looking forward to the experience but her excited nervousness also took on a serious edge to it as she truly wanted to help JT learn from his mistake as well. Summer smiled a little as the little boy sweetly told her that he would be super good for her so that she could tell his Mommy he had been. "I'm sure you will be JT, I know that you are a very good boy even though what you did with the cookies was naughty," Summer reassured gently as her fondness for the little boy grew a little more as she saw some of his sweetness.

Summer's hands trembled ever so slightly as the moment to begin JT's spanking had finally come. Summer carefully undid the button on the front of JT's pants and then slowly tugged them down until they fell to the floor. She then placed a hand under each of his arms and lifted the boy up into the air and gently laid him down across her lap. Her pink sundress had risen up to right around the middle of her thighs and little JT laid half over it and half over her bare leg. The little boy felt surprisingly light once he was over her lap and seemed to fit just perfectly right over it with his little bottom up in the air over her right knee. "You know that sneaking the cookies and hiding them was wrong JT, and that is why I have to spank you now so that you remember that," Summer scolded firmly as she wrapped her left arm around JT 's little body to hold him securely in place. Summer took a deep breath as she pulled her right hand slowly in the air and brought it down firmly right across the seat of JT's undies for the first time.