Julia Ch. 01

Disclaimer: This story is science fiction cast in the future. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and should not be inferred.

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Julia and Natasha had been best friends since elementary school. Their parents had remarked that they shared a common brain. All through middle school and high school they faced all the life changes together. It turned out, however, that Julia was superior to Natasha in the academics and scored higher on the standardized tests. In their senior year of high school, Julia was admitted to a university while Natasha found work in the pink collar sector. There is nothing glamorous about selling perfume, jewelry, and lingerie to middle-aged, obese housewives. The university likewise was boring to Julia without her companion.

As day after boring day passed in the women's section of the department store, Natasha began to take notice of the other employees. One dapper young salesman in the men's shoe department, Mark, was often flirting with Natasha. He always referred to her as "Natashka" for some unknown reason. As time passed Natasha finally, out of ennui and boredom, agreed to meet Mark after work. Since Natasha was still living at her parents-who generally disproved of every male entering their domain-they met at Mark's flat. It was then that Mark introduced Natasha to the dark side of the Internet. She donned a Virtual Reality helmet and was able to sense another reality. She found a dimension where hunger, thirst, and animal attraction were induced via strong magnetic lines of flux.

Coming from strict families, Julia and Natasha were ignorant of drugs, sex, and "rock and roll." With random drug testing, more and more young adults entered the dark domain of the "Adult Internet." The VR helmet was just a gateway to more invasive and tactile devices, not the least of which was the vaginal vibrator. Natasha found the intense pleasure of the induced orgasm. One level of excitement after another led her into the Bondage Domination Sade-Masochism (BDSM) role play. Natasha's parents were concerned about the time their only child spent on the computer keyboard. They also had read warnings in the state-sponsored media. It was unfortunate that the state-sponsored media had so often over exaggerated that their caveats were seldom heeded.

Mark was something of a control freak. As time passed, Mark pushed Natasha deeper and deeper into Internet role playing. Estranged from Julia and unable to communicate with her conservative parents, Natasha succumbed to Mark's wishes. He gave her interactive devices: butt plugs and titty clamps. This he referred to as "kinky sex." She was drawn deep into the alternate reality of watching her avatar suffer while she experienced the actions via her keyboard. Whenever she was home alone, with her father at work and her mother out shopping, she would plug in her VR devices and let Mark pimp her avatar on the Internet.

Julia was diligent in her studies and brought home good marks from her teachers. It was the break between semesters when Julia was finally able to cross paths with Natasha. They spent several days catching up on their experiences. It was then that Natasha introduced Julia to VR and the dark, depraved desires of the secret realm of the Internet. At first Julia was afraid and shy. However, coaxed by Natasha, she entered the alternate reality. There she met Mark, Natasha's boy friend, who was pimping Natasha to well-heeled capitalist plutocrats and video freaks. The break between semesters was nearly over when Mark met with Julia and Natasha in his apartment. He had a present for Julia: a VR helmet, vibrator, butt plug, and nipple clamps. Julia mildly protested at first, but Natasha and Mark convinced her otherwise.

At the university, Julia was spending more and more time on line and less and less time on her studies. Soon a warning letter was sent by the university to Julia's parents. This was the breaking point. Julia's parents took her out of school and enrolled her in a private institution to reform her.

The institution Julia is attending uses corporal punishment to alter their inmates. This is truly a prison designed to convert VR addicts into model citizens. It is the altering of the personality via the cane, humiliation, and punishment.

The morning starts as always: the six o'clock bell rings. Julia and eleven other girls are housed in a large room with six beds on each side. There is a steel door and no windows, only a few ventilation ducts. Opposite the door is a combination sink and toilet. A girl has no expectation of privacy here. Each bed has two sheets, a heavy brown blanket, a pillow, and a pillow case. Under each bed in a drawer for personal effects. Julia and the other girls hurry to remove their night gowns and put on their uniforms. Sara Stanford, the head mistress, and Oleg, her burly male orderly, enter the room and inspect the girls one by one.

One girl's uniform is wrinkled and stained. Sara orders her to bend over the metal railing of the bed, pull up her skirt, pull down her cotton knickers, and present her bare bottom for caning. The rule is six strokes with a willow or rattan cane. Oleg is the Master at Arms for corporal punishment. He is consistent in his caning, never too slight, never too heavy.

The girls watch as Oleg swings the cane to-and-fro, making a hissing sound in the air before striking the girl's carved ivory derriere. The girl jerks and twists. She catches her breath and says: "One, Sir. Thank You. May I have another, pretty please."

Oleg prepares for the next stroke. Tears swell in the girl's eyes as the cane leaves a second red stripe on her buttocks. She repeats the drill: "Two, Sir. Thank You. May I have another, Pretty please." To Oleg, it's just another chore. To Mistress Sara, it is a delight to hear a girl beg for her punishment.