"When I get home from work tonight you better have a good reason why you are in your sisters dress and her best one at that. I don't have time for any...excuses right now, Tanya and I are on a lunch break and I need to pick up something. You better get into something different. You know that is Jill's favorite dress. If you must wear something of hers, wear something that is not so fancy, maybe one of her old dresses." She whispered to me. She went back to where Tanya was waiting. "Goodby Jill.. She was already destined to graduate with honors even given her prior circumstances and now, with a rock solid support system, bloomed in the classroom. Before she was shy and reclusive, speaking out seldom and then only when called upon. Now she had a family that supported her, believed in her and without any doubt loved her to the very center of her being.With this came self-confidence and assertiveness without being overbearing; she was an intellectual asset to any class she took. She was. Nothing could prepare a novice for the fierce sting of a rattan rod applied with vigour to thinly clad buttocks. But Alison quickly learned that if she forced herself to stay put with no more than a bit of a jiggle the pain would peak and ease back a fraction before the next stroke landed. And somehow the whole thing fell just short of the unbearable.But then he cut her hard and low so that the tip of the cane buried itself in the soft undercurve of the right cheek.“Aaaah!” She jerked up, hands. I’m guessing it didn’t go well.”“How are things with you two and Jessica?” Kurt asked.“Perfect!” Kara said before I could answer. “She’ll be here next weekend. How are things going as newlyweds?”“We’ve more or less lived together since Freshman year, at least on weekends. You know we spent lots of time at Steve’s apartment, and then here. And Kathy moved in with me when I got my job at Abbott Labs. So it’s not really much of a change. She started working last week, so that’s different.”“Oh?.