Chapter 1 - Getting To Know Her
Part 3 - Home At Last
Almost a week had passed, and I hadn’t heard from her again. Before, my doubts were based on not knowing her or how she’d progress from that point. This time, she seemed to react to me in a much more friendly way, like she’d be anxious to do it again much sooner this time. Maybe she was trying to formulate a plan again? Perhaps I read her reactions wrong? Was her sad goodbye wave through the window a final goodbye? No, I didn’t want to believe that!
On my way home from work late in the week, I tried to plan how I’d initiate something if she hadn’t by when; tomorrow? The weekend? Should I even do it? I imagined a ridiculous phone call, ‘Hey Susie, mind if I stop by and spank you?’ Maybe an invite to a coffee shop? And I still didn’t know if it was safe for me to call unannounced. I’m so bad at reading and understanding women. Nobody understands them completely, but I feel like everybody else learned the basics in school and had to let experience fill in the rest while I missed that day at school.
I hadn’t settled a thing by the time I arrived home. I parked my car in the garage and went to get the mail. The usual pile of junk mail, a bill or two, and a card from Susie! I opened it while walking back to the house, fearing that writing rather than talking to me in person was her way of telling me it was over. It was one of those blank cards with an attractive graphic or pictures of flowers on the outside and a blank card with an invitation to her home! A sudden wave of relief passed over me, and I went quickly into the house to reread it.
Dear Mark, I hope you’re okay! I’ve wanted to call since our last ‘encounter,’ but I couldn’t call from the office as they’re suspicious of something. They’ve been commenting that I seem happier somehow. If so, it’s because of you! I’d really like to get together again and wonder if you’d like to come to my home for some conversation and probably … you know. Give me a call to make arrangements. My number is below. Call soon!!
Sincerely, Susie.
I was ecstatic! I didn’t care if I seemed too eager; I would call her now! I picked up the phone and dialed her number, which was busy! I waited five minutes and tried again, but it was still busy. Ten minutes later, I got through!
“Hello?”
“Susie? It’s Mark.”
“Mark! I thought that might have been you on call waiting, but I couldn’t hang up on the other call,” she explained apologetically.
“It’s okay. Hey, I got your card!”
“Wow, I only sent it yesterday! So, would you like to come over?”
“Yes, I’d like that. When?”
“Day after tomorrow? That’s Saturday. Say, eight o’clock?”
I wrote down the address, and we signed off, saying we were looking forward to it. I felt like this might be a breakthrough in our relationship, and I would finally get a good feeling about how she viewed our encounters. Inviting me to her home was meaningful, and her joy on the phone when I accepted was evident. I wanted to plan something but thought I should let it happen naturally.
Two days seemed like ten, but finally, Saturday came, as did eight o’clock, and I was on my way to her home. As I pulled into her neighborhood, I noted that all the homes were fairly small, starter homes, I’d call them, with two bedrooms and one bath. They all had garages, but most also had cars parked in the driveway, a sign that the garages were full of the ‘stuff’ that a typical Florida home didn’t have storage for.
As I drove down her street, I recognized her car in her driveway, and the house number confirmed it. I remember when I lived in such a community, there were usually a couple of neighbors who took note of any comings and goings in the street. Trying to spare Susie from the inevitable questions, I passed her house and parked down the street a few houses.
As I walked back to her house, my excitement was building rapidly, especially evident as I rang at her door. I could see a shadow of someone in the door’s sidelights before Susie opened the door. For the first time, I was seeing her in something other than medical scrubs.
She’d made up her face nicely, but not overly so, and her hair got the attention I’d noted it needed, with a bit of a curl down the long strands flowing over her shoulders. She wore a denim shirt with several buttons open. Her skirt was not sheer but gauzy with a floral print that seemed to reveal what was underneath, or was that my imagination? The skirt fell provocatively to mid-thigh. She was barefoot, which I usually am within my home as well.
“Mark! I’m so glad you could come! Come in!”
“Hi, Susie! I’ve never seen you out of scrubs. You look really nice,” I said sincerely. The door opened into her living room, but with the open floorplan, the kitchen and dining room were close by. She suggested I sit on the sofa, where I noticed a platter of cheese and crackers.
“Would you like some wine?” she asked with a voice that said she was as excited about this as I was.
“Red, if you have it.”
“Sure,” and she went to the kitchen to get it. A glass was already on the table, somewhat less than half full. She’d started before me. She returned and handed me my glass. “It’s a Cabernet. Is that okay?”
“My favorite,” I replied honestly. We drank a small toast to ‘us’ and engaged in some small talk. How was work this week, the weather, local news, etc? She was sitting a couple of feet away on the sofa but turned to sit cross-legged facing me.
“This was a big step for me, Mark, inviting you to my home. I’m a little paranoid about having anyone, let alone men, come to my house and know where I live.”
“I completely understand. You can’t be too careful about it.”
“Thank you. It’s nice that we’re finally able to have a conversation that lasts more than five minutes before we have to leave, but there is something I’d like to talk to you about.”
“What’s that?”
“Can we talk about spanking now?”
“My favorite subject,” I said while she laughed.
“It’s getting to be mine too, but I don’t have anyone to discuss it with. First, I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed my first spankings. I surprised myself at how quickly I decided that I loved it. From the first light pats on my pants to the harder spanks on my bare bottom and even harder the last time.” She giggled, adding, “I couldn’t have liked it more. I was a little nervous about trusting you not to hurt me, but that quickly passed as you were so nice to me despite the fact that you were smacking my bottom!
“I liked having my pants and panties pulled down separately with the pain increased so deliciously as you peeled away those layers! A little bit of naughty girl scolding was nice, too. I liked being called a naughty girl and getting punished for it. The only thing I didn’t like about it was that it had to end. I guess you were taking it easy on me for my first time, but I felt I could have taken more!”
“I’m glad you described it that way. It tells me that I accomplished what I’d set out to do: get you to feel what a real spanking was like without scaring or hurting you.”
“Is that what your first time giving a spanking was like?” she asked with sincere interest.
“That’s way more complicated with me, Susie. It could be a long explanation. Are you sure you want to hear it?”
“Definitely,” she said, biting her lower lip, a look that I came to love, and once she knew that, she used it to get to me.
“Okay. This first part will sound weird, but I assure you it’s not an unusual way to become interested in spanking. Nobody knows why, but many people develop an interest in it before they understand the sexuality of it.”
“Really?! How can you …”
“It’s impossible to explain, but there’s no doubt that interest was there. People like me all describe similar actions: looking up ‘spanking’ in the dictionary, noting with extreme interest any movie or TV show that had a spanking in it, and others, yet we have no idea why or even what started it.
“I later learned that there’s a common term used for people whose interest in spanking developed early on. ‘Spanko’!
“As an adult Spanko, my first hands-on experience was with a girlfriend named Rosa. We dated a couple of times in New York and continued when we moved to Florida with the company. Rosa is the one I got that phrase ‘You need a spankin’ from, to which I would usually reply, ‘Promise? which I thought was just being a little cute or kinky, but I never took it seriously.
“You see, at this point, I still believed I was somehow different than everyone else because I liked spanking. I didn’t imagine people actually did it for fun or sexual pleasure, so I thought of myself as something of a freak.
I told her about my first experiences with Rosa up to the point where she moved back to New York, getting sympathetic responses along the way. I continued with my discovery of the magazine called ‘Variations’ which opened my eyes to many sexual practices, but most importantly, spanking.
“For the first time, I realized I wasn’t quite so unique and that people did engage in spanking for pleasure and degrees of punishment. It took reading several issues, one of which was ‘the’ spanking issue before I connected the dots to Rosa, and I felt like such an idiot. Here was someone who almost certainly wanted to get spanked, and I blew my only chance.”
“So, if it wasn’t Rosa, who was your first?”
“Actually, it was Rosa! I had business in New York, and I managed to look her up with help from her mother, who liked me, and we arranged to meet at a bar we both knew from our days together in New York. I told her a more elaborate version of what I just told you. She told me I was right about her and that I was an idiot, amusingly. We left the bar for someplace I could finally spank her, and I did!”
“So, the rest is history, right? Was it a wonderful experience to finally spank Rosa?”
“It was! Everything I’d imagined it to be and more! Unfortunately, it didn’t continue because she would never move back to Florida; she never really liked it here, and we’d been together enough to realize we didn’t have much in common. The relationship would have ended on its own, though probably after quite a bit of spanking! After that, we talked on the phone mostly about spanking, and she came to Florida on vacation twice; I went to New York once again with lots of our favorite activity, but it fizzled out, and all I had to show for it was a clever ice-breaking phrase to find someone else; as I did you!”
I was intentionally not mentioning my interest in being spanked because I didn’t think Susie was ready for it. A first-time Spankee often regards their spanker as an authority figure, and knowing I’d love to have her spank me might lessen that image and turn her off this early on.
“Wow, that’s some story! Mine seems mundane by comparison,” she said with no regrets.
“Yours is the more interesting story! Though you discovered your interest much later, you managed to hook up with someone, with a lot of luck, I guess, and find out if your desire was real.”
“I guess. I have no idea what started me to think it was something I might be interested in, and I didn’t have any idea or plan for finding out until you told me I needed a spanking!” she laughed. “One thing that has surprised me since is how sexy the word ‘spanking’ is. After our first time, I said to myself at one point, in disbelief, ‘You just got a spanking!’ and ‘Mark spanked you!’ and it was arousing!”