"Just an engagement party, by way of your big family reunion. But I'm mighty pleased to meet you either way. Put her there." Ruthven looked at Charles... hand for a moment longer than most men would before sharking it. His palm felt slightly damp, and it tickled. He did not smile, and when Charles looked into Ruthven's watery eyes he felt his own smile flicker. "Uncle Ruthven spends most of his time in Europe," Devanie said. "None of us have seen him in ages." Pleased to meet you," Charles said. ’ I answer a little defensively not liking how I sound like a kid when he talks about me. ‘Yeah I know,’ he answers with a sigh ‘but that’s exactly it, I feel like I just started college yesterday. One more year and I have to go out in the real world.’ He makes a dramatic shivering motion at ‘real world’ I laugh, seeing good old Luke hasn’t changed. ‘ Oh come on, with that year you can totally live it up. Do all the crazy things still left on your college check list.’ He gives me a smile as a. I loved it.” When she left, Orrin couldn’t get her words out of his mind. He was so happy that she had found out he played the guitar and was more than a janitor. On Monday, when he was sweeping the hallway, he glanced in and she looked up and smiled. Their eyes met and Orrin felt she was looking at him differently. When he finished sweeping and cleaning the bathrooms, Orrin went into her office to empty her wastepaper basket and she stopped working and smiled. “ Orrin, I was so impressed. By the end of this, you’ll be quite clear who owns this ass of yours now.” “Crack”, he brought the ruler paddle full force down on my left butt check. I barely had time to gasp from the sting and shock of it, before he laid down the paddle with another resounding “crack” on my right cheek. Quickly he sped up his tempo, until a flurry of stinging blows was raining on both side of my tender ass. Every so often, for variety and his own amusement I’d guess, he’d lay the ruler paddle square across.