She knew that she would very likely get caned this coming evening so she decided to inform Ryan of her past experience on the receiving end of a cane...."I got a caning off my headmistress when I was seventeen," Gina announced."Did you? What for?" asked a very interested Ryan."Me and my friend Sally got caught smoking by the headmistress and she gave us six strokes each, " reminisced Gina."What on your arses?" asked an even more interested Ryan."Yes, on our arses and it fucking stung but I also. She swiftly snatched the computer from my hands, exclaiming a bit too quickly and with her eyes a bit too wide: “Well, it's working. I-need-it-right-now!”Laura drifted away as quickly as she had arrived, taking the laptop with her. I could guess she was afraid of me deleting her files, and I don’t mean the essays. I just shrugged and got back to my own things, reminding myself on that she was an adult and it wasn’t really my business what she was watching.I thought that was that, until she came. I nearly lost it, on my turn, as I hit the gravel on the shoulder of the County Line Road.My mind was racing, and I knew I couldn’t come up to the house from the middle of the farm. I passed the first turnoff and cut down the dirt road that runs beside the levee. I wanted to come up behind the house and shop. I could see Rondo’s pickup parked under some trees out away from the shop, and headed that way. Just as I slid to a stop and reached back for a rifle, I saw him stick his head out of the. But why was Athena here?’ she asked causing Kal to frown at her and wrap his arms around her waist in a possessive grip. ‘Athena seems to think that Kal-El hasn’t proved himself worthy of dating her champion even with the number of times he has saved not only Man’s world but our own.’ Hippolyta said sourly. As far as she was concerned Kal-el had done more to prove himself than she would have even asked. Yet for some reason Athena still thought it wasn’t enough. Maybe it was the goddesses own.