One Day Too Late {for Renton}

[CleverFox]

First day in a new school was never an easy thing for any kid but it was altogether a different beast when said school was a reform school for wayward youths. That was something that fourteen year old Nishi had yet to learn as she had just arrived at this place, the girl sitting on a chair in the office and waiting for some so called mentor to come and collect her. Blowing out a frustrated breath the kid reached a hand up to brush back a lock of her black hair, bright green eyes looking around with veiled interest.

Her gaze was scrutinizing as she looked around, noticing a few students and taking note of the fact that they were all wearing the same stupid uniform.

A uniform that she had yet to be given.

“Well that's just great,” the kid muttered to herself as she rolled her eyes.

At this point Nishi should probably be regretting the pickpocketing and hacking that had landed her in this situation to begin with but the only thing that she was really lamenting was the fact that she had been caught. Perhaps she should have covered her tracks better but as they say hindsight is twenty twenty and it was a bit too late to really be giving any thought to any of this now.

Now she was just going to have to deal with the situation.

Biting her bottom lip lightly she gazed around, fidgeting slightly as she waited for this mentor, thinking that they were taking a long time. But then again maybe that was all part of the plan, to throw her off. She wouldn't put it past them honestly, not having a very high opinion of those in positions of authority.

[Renton]

Joaquin was begin his new job on his first day of work when he heard his first student had already arrived. He was surprised. The 27 year old had decided to work at the reform school because he had gone here himself. Orphaned at a young age, he quickly fell into street gangs and petty crime. At 13, he was sent here after one trip in front of the judge too many. After a steady and firm hand of his mentor, Sabrina, he had turned his life around. At 18, he went to college and studied to become a teacher. After trying his hand at public schools for a couple of years, and realized that what he wanted more than anything was to turn someone's life around the way his had.

He had just finished training, and he was a bit nervous.

The school was given special disciplinary permissions that the public schools he worked on didn't have. Simply put, teachers could spank their students, and spank them they did. Joaquin had been given more spankings than he could count by his assigned mentor, and he wondered if he'd be able to show as firm a hand as she had.

"She's been waiting for a while," the receptionist said. Joaquin nodded. He knew that that was part of the process. How would his new student react to being made to wait? And how would he handle that reaction?

He knew that she hadn't been assigned to him at random: whatever systems the higherups at the school had, they thought she was a good match for him. While he would teach classes like all other teachers, he was to specifically mentor and, when necessary, discipline this particular student. It was an approach that had long served this school well.

Joaquin got to the door and took a deep breath. He brushed his short, black hair to the side and opened the door. He saw the girl sitting at her desk, without a uniform.

"I'm Mr. Vaughn," he said, offering his hand to shake, "but you can call me Joaquin if you'd like. I'm your mentor. We're supposed to go up to my office, so please follow me," he said quietly and calmly.

[CleverFox]

It seemed like forever before finally someone came, Nishi shifting her gaze in that direction and watching as the man walked toward her. She was wary of him because really she was wary of anyone that was in a position of authority and she watched what he was doing very carefully. When he gave his name and then offered his hand she just sort of stared at it before waving her own hand in a dismissive way, not all for that whole polite handshake thing.

"Sorry...I'm not a fan of touching," she told him in a very blunt manner, her gaze continuing to follow his movements.

When he said that they were supposed to go to his office she just rose to her feet and stretched, not refusing to do that because honestly she was tired of sitting where she was currently. It was boring and she would just as soon find something a little more entertaining to do. Not that she expected there to be much since it was a reform school, and a boarding school no less so she was trapped here, and she was pretty assured that it wasn't meant to be fun.

"lead the way," she told him needlessly, her own voice quiet but there was an underlying hint of something that was hard to decipher.

[Renton]

Joaquin nodded when she declined the handshake and began the walk back to his office. They went up two flights of stairs and through a hallway where they found his room. He had only unpacked his things yesterday, so it was quite neat and orderly. He took a seat behind his desk and gestured to the seat in front of it for Nishi to sit. "All right, Nishi," he said, reclining slightly in his chair. "I want to cut right to the chase. You're here because a judge ordered you to be. I know you didn't choose to be here. However, you're also here for a reason. You committed a crime. Now, if you behave, and work hard, then this won't be any different than any boarding school. That is up to you." He paused, remembering when his mentor had given him this same talk 14 years ago.

"I learned what happens if you try to act the badass the hard way when I came here," he said. He knew that within his desk was an implement drawer, that contained a paddle, a leather strap, and a thin rod that was essentially a switch. He'd felt all three on his backside many a time, although his mentor generally preferred hand spankings. They were more personal.

He looked again at Nishi. "Look, I was a student here as well. It turned my life around. If you view this as an opportunity, you might find it has the same effect."

His little greeting speech over, Joaquin rested his hands on the desk and waited for the teenager's reply.

[CleverFox]

Nishi was looking around as she walked along behind him but that was less out of curiosity and more because she liked to know the layout of a place, as well as any hiding places and escape routes that might be offered. She didn't say anything about this however, the girl just taking in everything and then following her new mentor into his office.

She sat down when he gestured for her to do so, a bored look on her face.

This had all ceased to be entertaining at this point and she listened as she gave his whole 'I've been where you are too' speech, not really interested in that. When he got to the end of that little spiel Nishi blinked a few times and then sighed in relief when she realized that he was done. "Well that was mind numbingly boring," she told him, her green eys going to his. "Any other words of wisdom you wanna impart or can I go now?"

It was pretty clear that she didn't want to be here and as far as she was concerned it was pointless.

"The only mistake I made...was getting caught," she told him bluntly. "Trust me, I won't do it again."

[Renton]

Joaquin barely held back an eyeroll at Nishi's ambivalence. He'd been the exact same way to his mentor. About ten seconds later he was over her knee, getting his bare bottom spanked.

"Well, it's clear you don't give a damn about authority," he said, shaking his head. "God, to think I said that exact same thing to my mentor. You know what she did? She spanked me, right then and there," he said. "It pissed me off at the time, but I soon realized that I was in no position to bargain. Either I shape up or I head back to a judge itching to send me to juvie. So here are some words of wisdom: if you don't start taking this seriously, your backside will feel the consequences. Simple as that. Sometimes that's what it takes to get through to someone, and I think you might just fit that profile."

Joaquin was surprised how quickly he switched into a more authoritative role, and he made it clear: any more backtalk and Nishi would be over his knee as quickly has his mentor had done the same to him.

[CleverFox]

Looking at him Nishi said quietly, "Glad you picked up on that."

Her voice was soft spoken, she didn't raise it, but it did still hold contempt within and that was also evident in her eyes as she looked at him. It seemed that her words caused him to once again launch into a speech and that actually caused her to groan softly, not wanting to hear about his glorious days of misspent youth or the consequences of what he had done.

"Glad I'm not you is all I can say," she told him before blinking and adding, "Also I'm pretty sure that's not legal. So touch me and I'll yell child abuse so fast you won't know what happened. And then you can go to prison, which I'm sure you'll love."

The threat was intimidating, at least to an extent, but at the same time Nishi didn't really think he had the authority to do that so she was pretty sure that he was bluffing. Which needless to say made her braver.

[Renton]

Joaquin raised an eyebrow in confusion at Nishi's threat before reaching into his desk and pulling out the book on school policy. He opened it to a page that would no doubt surprise Nishi.

"Read it, right there from the top," he said, pushing the book towards her.

The book laid out in dense but unmistakable legalese that the school was given legal leeway to use corporal punishment "Whatever rules you're used to from your previous schools, they're different here," he said calmly. "If I need to spank you, I have every legal right to, and the law will be on my side. Open your eyes kid. The judge who sent you here knows full well that students are spanked at this school. There's a reason we get exemptions. It's either this or a cell in juvie."

He took the book back.

"Now listen, I've kept my cool with you so far, and I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. The ball's in your court, and the next words out of your mouth are important. We can either get back on track, or you can try to play the hardass again and find yourself over my knee."

[CleverFox]

Nishi watched what he was doing as he opened one of the desk drawers and pulled out some sort of book, the girl's green eyes following his movements as he did so. She tilted her head to the side when he opened the book and pointed at a portion of it for her to read, the girl not sure that she really wanted to but she did finally reach her hands out to take it.

Skimming the paragraph that he had pointed out to her didn't take long, Nishi was smart after all, maybe even genius level smart, and she huffed once she had finished it. "That is wrong on so many levels," she said with a slight shake of her head, talking more to herself than to her mentor.

When he went on to once again lecture her, saying that the ball was in her court, Nishi looked at him for a moment before just silently standing up and turning to walk away. After all he had said that the next words out of her mouth were important so she was opting for silence.

It was golden after all, or so they say.

[Renton]

Joaquin saw Nishi watched Nishi go silent and was actually relieved. He had yet to actually give a spanking and did not want to get off to a bad start with his new student. "All right then" he said. "If you have nothing to say, then I ask that you listen to me.

"First off, spankings are given here because they get results. No one enjoys it, but I can speak from experience that they're effective. Second, if you don't want one, then it's as simple as minding the rules, keeping up with your studies, and generally behaving. This is a school, not a prison. Discipline aside, you'll find that the rules here are just about the same as any boarding school."

He reached down beside his desk for a large paper bag, like you'd find at a department store. He placed it next to Nishi's chair. "This contains your uniform," he said. "If you want to make alterations to it, you may provided it stays within the school rules. "

He then pulled out a small black book. "These are the school rules," he said. "Keep to them and I promise you won't have any trouble. Now, do you have any questions?" he asked.