The end of the lecture and lunch

You risk shifting your weight around in your seat to relieve the pressure off your lined cheeks, but you have far less trouble now remaining attentive and do not catch the lecturer's eye again. Two more guys get demerits, though, and one more girl has to make her way down for a caning identical to the first two before the largely pointless lecture is over. You have to say you are quite looking forward to the next one, which will actually be on the subject, but for now you are just glad to be out. As you make your way out you see the girl who got caned first a short way in front of you. On an impulse you decide to catch up.

"Um, hi?", you say uncertainly and the girl turns. The "do-I-know-you" expression gives way to recognition a fraction of a moment later. "Hi! I'm Melissa. Are you alright after that?", she asks. "Jenna, my pleasure!", you reply. "And yes, thanks! Just wanted to ask you the same, really." You can see more sideways glances towards you than two girls just talking should attract, but you are not too surprised, not after being nude in front of everyone around not long ago. Before Melissa can reply, however, another person steps in closer. "Spanked-in-the-first-lecture-girls-club?", she suggests, and you recognise the girl who got spanked last. "Yeah, kind of", you smile. "This is Melissa, I'm Jenna.” - “Becky”, the girl replies. “The man certainly can cane!”

Melissa and you agree wholeheartedly as the three of you linger in front of the lecture hall, chatting about your first impressions of the university and then about your research projects. Melissa lives in the same dorm as you, on the level above. Rebecca’s arrangements are more unusual: she is a daughter of one of the academics who occupies a University- provided flat, and the regulations permit her to continue living at home being subject to the same rules. Student wardens have access to her room in her parents’ flat and she even has to display a sign on the bathroom door when she uses it to signify it can be entered for inspection or punishment. When you ask if her parents are more lenient than she would expect student wardens to be, Rebecca laughs out loud. “You guys should come over and find out for yourselves. I can't promise you'll sit down for the next week though if you're not perfect little angels!" Her face grows more serious. "It's not that hard to stay on their good side, but ever since I turned 18, every misstep has cost my butt more than it would with any tutour or warden I know". You bravely assure her you will take her up on her offer when things are settled.

Melissa then says she is hungry and as none of you have anything planned you decide to grab lunch together. You head into one of the cafes on campus. You are happy to find, as you settle your trays onto a table in the corner, that the seats are softer than in the cafeteria where you had breakfast. As the conversation goes on, you find out you are the oldest of the three; the other two girls have only just completed their Masters. You and Melissa will also share your research supervisor; it feels like you will be seeing quite a lot of her, not that you mind. All three of you are enjoying one another's company and you are glad to have met them... Even if the way you caught one another's eye was less than comfortable.