I refused to call him Mr. Manning as that would give him a degree of superiority and after the first week he stopped referring to me as Miss Lewis. He...also stopped sending students to me for the strap but several times I reprimanded a student for lack of effort or some other minor misdeed without being told. I'm not sure if he appreciated it, but I wasn't castigated for it. However, an incident occurred that I didn't see and which he did indeed demand I use the strap although he knew I. "What happened?" Michael asked, but his voice was scrambled, high pitched, and extremely oscillated."Good afternoon!" he said, poking his head around from behind his back. "Let me make some adjustments before you try to speak again, okay?"Michael nodded, and simply looked forward. A minute later, Dr. Carson finished with the adjustments. "There we go," he said. "Much better!" What time is it?" he asked."It's 4:14PM." Fuck! What about work?" Shhhh," Julie said. "I called you in sick with the. “Don’t worry,” Frank whispered, “It’s dark in here.” Darkness was not my main concern. Another slow song came on. I knew Frank was going to ask me to dance, so I leaned over and suggested he dance with Sandra. “Are you sure?” Frank asked. “She has been waiting all night for you to ask her dance,” I replied. Frank took Sandra by the hand and led her to the dance floor. Matt slid over on the couch next to me. He slipped his hand on to my thigh and gently massaged my upper thigh. I was. Caryn's face was full of adoration. He was the responsible adult here. He somehow had to get the whole thing under control."Mike, I'm not a little girl. I'm nearly seventeen," she said."Nearly seventeen?" he asked."Don't you make fun of me. I'm not a virgin if that's what you're thinking," she said.Mike hadn't been thinking of that at all. But once she brought it up, he couldn't get it out of his mind. It immediately was thrust to the forefront of his thoughts. She wasn't a virgin. "I don't.