You may come in.’ He directed her to the parlour, and showed her to a small chair near the corner table. ‘To begin with, Penny, I think we should ...iscuss your goals and expectations from our tutoring sessions. Exactly what do you hope to learn, and what will you do with that knowledge when our sessions are complete?’ He waited patiently as he watched her struggle with her answer. When it came, he was unsurprised, and very pleased at how well he’d judged her drive. ‘Well, Mr. Smith, I would very. I had been making progress on recreating my concoction… but with Beth maintaining her distance, I started to think that my linking the potion incident to her actions and body was just in my imagination. Maybe she had a crush on me and I just let it go too far. I was probably just leaping to conclusions about the potion being the cause. I mean, how utterly impossible would it be for a love potion to actually work? How could I reliably test it if it did? I started to slack off. I no longer wanted. He almost laughed aloud when a big lizard scurried across the ledge above him, causing more sand and tiny pebbles to fall.‘I’ve got to believe. I know it’s not my time to go - or I wouldn’t have made it through the night. I have to believe, I have to be strong for Lois. I have to get her safely off this mountain. I can’t let her die like this up here’His hand felt the flat surface of the very top ledge and his heart pumped faster as he pulled himself up to look around. He could see the entire. I closed my eyes. "Listen," said Darren, "Daddy wants you to know that we are doing this because you made a mistake, ok? We just want everything to work out, and you brought this upon yourself. Next time, be more respectful of your betters, and do what we say."With that, Tyrone brought his big, black, hand down and spanked me, hard. I could feel the redness coming up on my left butt cheek, but before I could do anything, he came down just as hard on the right. I grunted in pain as he continued.