YOU NEVER NOW - A New Story

You Never Know

Bev was walking around back to come into the kitchen when she saw something that made her gape.  There was her friend Wendy, bare assed across her husband’s knee and he was spanking her with a wooden spoon.  She wasn’t sure what to do.  Do I let them know I'm here, do I call the cops, do I turn tail and run? That’s what she chose to do.  She turned away and quickly tried to make her way down the walkway when she ran into the trash cans and overturned them.  She was even more in a quandary now.  Did they hear her, does she stay and pick up the mess or does she just leave it and go back to bed and pull the covers over her head? She seriously thought about the latter but found herself picking up the mess quickly and getting herself out of there.

When she was home in her own kitchen and calmed down with another cup of tea, she thought maybe she had imagined it - but she knew what she saw. The Wahl’s (Bev and Jeff) and the Andersons’s  (Wendy and Dean)  had been neighbors for the last twenty-five years.  Their children had been raised here and were now adults with families of their own.  She and Bev had served or chaired nearly every committee meeting ever held in Cold Springs and she wouldn’t have believed that they had any secrets between them. But, unless this morning was a fluke, she wasn’t sure about anything anymore.

Jeff had threatened to spank her over the years but the most that ever came of it were a couple of swats now and then.  It was more slap and tickle than anything else.  He never even raised his hand to the kids.  They were disciplined with lectures, time-outs, groundings and such but never spankings.  As a matter of fact, one of the kids one time said they wished he would just spank them instead of having to listen to one of his lectures.  We laughed about that for years.

She wasn’t sure how she was going to deal with this situation.  Seeing your 57-year old friend bare-assed over her husband’s knee was not something you could just ask anyone about.  And the person she would mostly likely ask for advice was the “victim”.  She tried to put it out of her mind and started doing her daily chores.  There was a Book Club luncheon today and she was in charge of the chicken salad.  Oh My God she said to herself when she realized she would have to face Wendy in just a couple of hours.  It was then she remembered the meeting was at Wendy’s house today and that was the reason for her morning visit.

Bev decided she would watch and see when other members began to arrive before she went over. She thought she might be better able to handle the situation with others around.  She would try to avoid one on one with Wendy as long as possible.  When Carolyn and Merri arrived, she waited a few moments, got the chicken salad and headed over to Wendy’s.  She went to the front door which was unusual and Wendy questioned why she didn’t just come in the back.  Bev stammered out something and that’s when the light bulb went on in Wendy’s eyes.

“You saw” Wendy said.

Bev wanted to crawl in a hole and die but she couldn’t lie. “Yes”, she answered quietly.

Wendy was red-faced and Bev reached over and hugged her. 

“I am so sorry.  I was coming over to ask if you wanted any help and, and” she stammered.

“That’s okay.  In a way, I am glad you know.  Can we talk about this at another time though?  I don’t want anyone else to know”.

“We don’t have to talk about it at all, it’s none of my business” Bev said.

“Oh, now that the cat’s out of the bag it will be much easier now that you know”

The doorbell rang and Wendy went to answer the door.

The book club met once a month and everyone took a turn in recommending the next month’s selection.  This past month they had read “Living with Frank” a novel about Frank Lloyd Wright. When they had finished discussing the book, it was Claire’s turn to choose next month’s selection and she chose “Fifty Shades of Grey”.  She said she knew this was a little controversial but she wanted to know what all the fuss was about and thought that a bunch of middle aged women might learn something to spice up their life.  Everyone laughed and agreed it would be fun to find out what they might have been missing all these years.

Bev stayed behind to help Wendy with the clean-up.  Wendy told Bev to leave it she would get it later.  She said she would rather talk about what Bev had seen this morning.

Wendy explained that she and Dean had been doing this for about five years. She said it started one night when she had one too many glasses of wine and they got into an argument about a movie they had been watching. The movie was McClintock with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara and in the end John Wayne takes Maureen O’Hara over his knee and spanks her. The argument was because he said that Maureen (Mrs. McClintock) needed to be spanked and she didn’t agree.  If she hadn’t been a little tipsy the argument would have never happened, but she was and he ended up taking her over his knee and told her that she needed that spanking just like Mrs. McClintock.

She said that was the beginning and ever since then whenever she got a little too bossy or unruly he would take her over his knee.  She also told Bev that it had really spiced up their lovelife too.  After that first spanking she was so excited that she initiated sex for the first time in years. For the first couple of months it was like they were on their honeymoon.  They both discovered that spanking could also be lots of fun.

 

Bev listened without commenting.  She couldn’t get her mind wrapped around this scene and didn’t want to alienate her friend by telling her she thought they were nuts.  After all, they were in their late fifties and Jeff was spanking Wendy as if she were a naughty child.  After a while Wendy stopped talking and asked Bev what were her thoughts.

“Truthfully, Wendy, I don’t know what to think.  I have lots of questions but I don’t want to hurt you or our relationship by being judgmental.  Can you give me a couple of days and we can talk about this again?  Would you mind terribly?”

Wendy looked hurt but she agreed to give Bev time to digest all she had learned. Wendy suggested she check out Google and put the word spank in the search line. When Bev went home taking Wendy’s suggestion, she immediately walked over to the computer.  Within seconds the screen revealed more sites dealing with spanking than Bev would have thought possible.  She chose one site which led to another then another and before she knew it Jeff was walking in the door.  He was surprised to see her on the computer - it was not usually her thing.  He asked what she was doing and told him she was researching something Wendy had told her about.  It wasn’t a lie but she was just not ready to talk to him about this.  She closed the computer and went into the kitchen to start dinner.

There on the counter was the crock filled with wooden spoons. She picked out one and looked at it in a whole different way.  She was just slapping it against her hand when Jeff walked in. 

“Honey, want a glass of wine before you start dinner?”

“Okay, that might be a good idea”

He poured her a glass of wine and they both went outside to sit on the deck and enjoy the last of the sunset.  

“Something’s bothering you Honey, what is it?” he said as he clinked her glass.

“I saw Wendy getting spanked today.  Dean has been spanking her for the past five years.”

She went into the events of the day and told him that is what she was researching on the computer when he walked in.

“I’m having trouble with this.  Wendy asked me what I thought and I asked for time to process this. All I can think of is we were raised in an era where Women’s Lib was the topic of the day.  We have made such strides toward equality and here Wendy is willingly submitting to Dean spanking her when he thinks she’s naughty. It just seems so ridiculous to me”.

“Well, honey, if it’s alright with Wendy why are you so upset”.

“That’s the thing Jeff, I don’t know. I was just so surprised.  I guess I just thought it may have been a one-time thing, but then she told me they had been doing this for five years.”

“Do you think that maybe that’s the problem?  The fact that she’s been holding out on you”. He laughed.

“Don’t laugh, this is serious” she said.

“No Honey, it isn’t.  If that is what they choose to do in their home that is their business.”

“I guess you’re right Sweetie and I owe Wendy an apology.  Thank you for your insight. Would you mind terribly if I gave her a call right now?  I feel like she was hurt by my reaction and I want her to know I wasn’t thinking”.

“Go ahead, as a matter of fact, why don’t you invite them over, we can order pizza and just hang out” Jeff suggested.

“That’s a great idea” she said as she was picking up the phone.                   

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That night was the beginning of a whole new relationship between the four of them.  Bev told Wendy how sorry she was for not being supportive right from the beginning.   Wendy told her it was okay but that spanking and the sex afterward was better than they had ever had.  Dean and Jeff came in the room and heard the last part of the conversation.   Dean agreed that it had made a good marriage better and it was just what they needed.

Jeff joked that maybe they should give it a try.  Bev wasn’t sure about that but she was willing to try.

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The following day Bev and Wendy went book shopping for this month’s selection.  Bev called Wendy the next day and told her that she had devoured the book last night and that Jeff couldn’t wait to try some of the things it contained.  She also told her she had just bought the two books that completed the trilogy and she would pass them on as soon as she was finished.  She also told her not to pay any attention to the notes in the margin or the stains on the pages – it was the drool.










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