Lancer 33

Remembrance of the Past

Johnny had been going to school with Max for over two weeks.

"Max, you'll do your chores as soon as you get home from school, there's a lot to do." Thomas informed him.

"Yes sir."

"Okay, have a nice day," the man said kissing his brother on the head.

"Hello Johnny," Scott said hugging him.

"Johnny?"

"Yes, Max?"

"I want to ask you a question but I don't want you to get angry."

"I won't get angry. What do you want to know?"

"Did Scott ever give you hard spankings that hurt? I mean, do you think brothers are serious when they threaten?"

Johnny burst out laughing.

"Scott spanked you the night we arrived, did that hurt you?"

"Yes!"

"Well, on a scale of one to ten, I think it was a three. He just wanted to make a point. You don't want to know number ten, believe me. And Scott doesn't make threats, he makes promises, it's even worse. He's stern, but I like him a lot. Spankings on that level ten are quite rare, and if I must be honest, they are always deserved."

"What's the worst spanking he's ever given you?"

"Why so many questions about spanking?"

"I don't know but does it bother you that he has this role?"

"No, I'm used to it, and I have my father, you can imagine that I have to obey two fathers in my life; Scott always protected me, our father worked a lot. As a child, he couldn't spank me, but he could put me in the corner or in my room to wait for my father to do it. When he grew up around fifteen, he was allowed to spank me. He was younger than Tom is now."

"My father was strict. Tom is too but I find it difficult to obey him."

"The worst spanking I got from Scott was the time I almost killed my eight-year-old niece, and it was done on purpose. I think that's what pissed Scott off the most. It wasn't an accident. I told Sam to go to Scott's wild horse stable to give him a drink, I knew it was dangerous and forbidden. He had ordered her never to come near. I just wanted her to disobey so she would get a good spanking. But she could be dead."

"Oh my god, that was bad. What did Scott do?"

"He didn't punish Sam at all since she had acted on my orders. He took me to the barn, piled up several bales of hay to pound me, he wanted me to bend over his knees as if I was four years old He stripped me naked and gave me the worst spanking of my life with his hand. I thought I would never be able to sit down again! When he was done he picked me up, straightened my clothes, and took off his belt. It was his first time using it. He gave me eight stern licks. One lick for every year of Sam's age. I knew better, he was right to punish me. I don't know if it was because it was the first time he used his belt, but I will remember it all my life. It was also his disappointed look and that I forced him to be so severe".

"It was bad. We've come to school."

Johnny decided to talk to Scott again about this particular moment that had marked him so much. Scott must still be mad at him in the back of his mind.

The school day went well. Johnny was actually ahead of their schedule of studies.

Johnny and Max were playing checkers when a furious Thomas entered.

"Max!" he growled. "Didn't you do your chores?" I told you this morning that I wanted it done immediately when you get home from school.

"I'm sorry sir, I forgot."

"Well, I'll give you something to think about! When I give you an order, I expect to be obeyed, come here." Tom unbuckled his belt and slipped it through the loops of his pants. He took off the boy's suspenders, undid his pants to lower them, he left the underwear in place. The man propped the boy on his hip and spanked him five times, making Max scream.

Scott thought he would have given the child the privacy of the barn, not in front of everyone. It was tough, but it was Tom's way and he had to respect the man.

When he was done, he pulled up his brother's pants and hugged him.

"Are you going to obey me next time?"

"Yes sir"

"Okay then go ahead and do those chores now!" he ordered the child.

Max beginning to obey walked by rubbing his buttocks.

"No rubbing!" Tom growled.

The child obeyed and ran to the barn to do his chores.

"Johnny, go help him," Scott ordered.

"No" said Tom.

Johnny stopped dead, waiting for Scott's order.

"No disrespect to you, sir, it's punishment now and he's going to do it alone."

"Okay, Johnny, put the game away and start setting the table then."

"Yes sir" Johnny didn't want a spanking, even though his discussion with Max this morning was running through his head. Plus seeing Max take the belt had made his stomach ache worse. He needed to talk to Scott.

Alice was more and more absent, dinner was not done, luckily John had set the table.

Scott started an impromptu meal.

"Mom? Everything is fine. Don't worry, I will manage Max, I'll take care of everything. Do you want to go lie down for a bit?"

There was no answer but she let Tom lead her to bed.

Scott had finished a quick meal of beans and ham before sitting down.

After hesitating for a moment, John stood in front of Scott as he had done before a spanking.

Scott was taken aback.

"Do you have to tell me something, little boy?"

"Yes. Please can I talk to you alone? May we go for a walk?"

Scott felt the confession full nose.

"Should I take my belt?"

"I guess so," Johnny replied.

Scott grabbed his belt hanging from the hanger with his right hand and put his left arm around his brother's shoulders, leading them outside.

This time it was Tom who was left dumbfounded, a child asking for a spanking? He had never seen that!

Johnny and Scott walked for a while before stopping at a tree stump, hidden by bushes.

Scott sat down and placed the boy in front of him, as he usually did when scolding him.

"I'm listening," Scott said, he was sitting tall, imposing with his belt still doubled up in his hand. Johnny's gaze was on his hand and his belt, lost in thought.

"Johnny?" Scott called quietly.

"Look at me. Stop stalling, just tell me what you did. I'm not going to get upset."

"Johnny then proceeded to tell him about what had happened that morning with Max, his questions about the spankings and what it had caused an ache in his head and stomach."

"Continue" Scott pushed.

"Remember the worst spanking you've given me to date?"

Scott looked uncertain. "I've spanked you a lot."

"Yes, I admit it; but there was one that stood out to me more than the others. It's the one you gave me the time I almost killed Sam. Do you remember that?"

" Of course, I remember it."

"The worst thing was not the spanking, or feeling your belt for the first time, the worst thing was your disappointed look. I'm sure in a corner of your head, you're still mad at me and you'll never forgive me." Johnny was crying all the tears in his body. "So I beg your pardon, Scott!"

Scott couldn't hide his surprise, he expected to hear he had missed school, answered back, that he had a note from the teacher, not what had happened more than a year ago.

"You're wrong Johnny, I don't blame you at all."

"I could have killed her!"

"Yes, and I punished you for that, severely, over a year ago."

"Johnny, you didn't want to 'kill' her, you wanted to make her disobey me to have mespank her, you never thought at the time that she might have died, did you? That's true is it not?"

"No, of course not, just that you give her a good, hard spanking."

"I knew it. Johnny, do you remember the Obkins brothers?"

"Yes, they stole their father's gun and Karl died by accidental shooting."

"Yes, the outcome was tragic, but it was an accident, two children who disobeyed and made a mistake. Do you think the father is angry with his son for killing his brother? No! It was only a child's mistake with unfortunately a tragic end. I can tell you that Mr. Obkins gave the belt to his son not really to punish him, you know why?"

"To take away his guilt so he would not feel guilty all his life?"

"Precisely. See where I'm coming from?"

"Yes, is that also why you punished me so harshly that day?"

"Yes, but it was also to teach you how to do better, that's what a spanking is for. I assure you that for me, it was a child's mistake. You have been punished, I wanted you to remember it, I managed to leave an impression, it seems, but it's over. I absolutely don't blame you, in any corner of my head. Do you understand me?"

"Yes sir! I love you so much!" Johnny says throwing himself into his brother's arms.

"I love you too, even more!" Scott answers as he hugs him to his muscular chest.

"Come on, let's go home, are you better now? Do you want me to use this belt on you to reinforce my words?"

"No, I think I'm going to skip the belt. The guilt is gone."

"Good to know."

"Scott, you would never spank me like Tom did, in front of everyone, just for forgetting to do the chores, it's extensive to pay for forgetting, isn't it?"

"No, I wouldn't have done that, in my book it deserved a hand spanking and in private. But every man is different, Tom turns out to be a man with high expectations of obedience. That is his way, it was severe but not undeserved."

"Yes, you're right."

"I think we could go home soon, I don't have much more to teach him about authority." Before leaving Scott was still going to talk to Tom about the fine line between being harsh and being abusive.