Mel was continually lifting her hand to admire the ring. That night we had a meal and went straight to bed, both of us feeling exhausted from the lack...of sleep the previous night, the travelling and the general emotional rollercoaster. ———————————– The next morning we had breakfast and then went out for a walk. Although we walked around the shopping area we hardly looked in any of them. We were just walking for the sake of it. Suddenly Mel stopped ‘Wait I haven’t got you anything. You got me. .. No. Have you?" I felt like an idiot for not answering yes. "Well I have. Have you kissed a boy before? I haven't." No only girls kiss boys!" I haven't ever thought of kissing boys it seemed weird not bad. Just like something only girls did. "No! I've seen boys kiss boys you can do it.. Do you want to?" "Only if you want to..." He pushed his face right into mine. Our lips met he held there for ten seconds. When he pulled away I felt like I was in a trance of sorts, I didn't want him to stop.. After a while Margaret tapped her bottom with the canemeasuring her stroke. Then the cane whistled through the air as Margaretbrought it hard across the center of Chase's bottom. At first it did not seemthat bad and then the burning pain came making a hot line across her buttocks.Margaret administered a stroke every ten seconds or so, the welts perfectlylevel and parallel, lining Chase's bottom and upper thighs. After thefirst few strokes, Chase was sobbing as the rattan cane continued to cut. God is God. I doubt he cares which house you worship in. He just wants you to be a good person, and everything I know about you says that you are a good person.”“I’m not that good.” She replied in a small voice.“I think you are. Your friends all think you are. Anyone that wants to dedicate their lives to helping and healing, can not be bad.”“That doesn’t mean I am good. Look at Jude’s mom.”“She may be like that now. She may have been a decent person when she was younger.”“I don’t know.” She was.