My RA Ch. 01

"Thank you, Mayor."

"Is there any more public comment?" No one came forward. "Do any members of the board have any questions to ask the Dean?" No one had questions. "Does anyone want to make a motion?"

"I move to accept the formation to proceed with the process of forming a new class for Northfield, namely a class focused on how to be a master or a sub."

"Seconded."

"All those in favor," all hands went up. "Any opposed," no hands were raised. "The motion passes 9 to 0."

"Dean, you can inform Dawn of our vote and have her help you to proceed in moving forward with this project. We look forward to seeing your vision for this class."

"Is there a motion for an adjournment for this special meeting of the board?"

"Motioned.

"Seconded. "

"Dawn the motion passed 9-0. Hold onto your hat, we do the same thing tomorrow then after that passes we start the real section. There will be more administrative talk tomorrow because it is a different school, the result will be the same. I am having the stenographer copy the Mayor's segment for each member because he represents the town, the statements would be the same."

Later that night Mei came to Dawn's room. "Dawn I want to thank you for taking me off the planning committee for Gail's wedding. I am feeling much better."

"You are welcome, Mei. Your health is more important than the wedding. The delegation seems to be working. The extra subs we have working on the project seem to be reveling in their jobs. You were shouldering the weight of four people. It is no wonder you had problems."

"We are all here to help each other, we are a family. I should let you know today we had a board meeting to continue with the creation of the class. It passed 9-0. You were cited as one of the people who were the driving force of this transformation. Just being yourself is changing people. Please remember that. Feel free to come to one of us if you need help. We were very worried about you."

The next day Dawn went into town where the children we playing. Dawn shouted, "Any children who want to give ideas about the wedding, please come here." Instantly, the parents shooed their children outside. "We need to find something that expresses how you feel about Gail and Jerry. Any adult can go buy some commonplace present to give to them, you can't do that. It makes your present one of a kind. Why don't you huddle up and get some good ideas?"

It was hard for some of the children to think on that level; once the ideas started floating they were more comfortable. One boy got an idea that all rallied around it. He wanted to do something like what the teacher does on special holidays. Maybe have our pictures cut out into hearts and stars.

"That sounds like a great idea, I will get Michelle to get the pictures from Joy and then talk to you as to how you want to do it." The parents looked on, as yet more students wanted to interact with their children. The children wanted to express themselves, not many people paid any attention to them.

"Michelle, your photo programs have crop features like hearts and stars right? The kids want to make a scrapbook for the wedding. I told them you would go down and talk to them about it. Joy has the pics."

"You might suggest to them they could make a backup rhyme satchel. A pretty rock or shell for old, a blue marble for blue, etc. Molly already gave a penny so let the others give something. Maybe have a parent take a group shot of you and the kids and put the caption 'New friends'."

All the kids flocked to Michelle when she came into town with her laptop. "Hi kids. I hear you want to make a scrapbook for the wedding."

They nodded their heads.

"You know we have to make sure Gail does it right, we need to make a backup rhyme bag, a small one. Does anyone have a pretty small shell or rock? Does someone else have something blue? Does someone else want to let Gail borrow something? We will put everything in a small bag she can hold, we can make a group picture today that says 'New friends.' I think Gail will need to have something for her dress to borrow. Does a little boy have a small blue marble?"

Then the children huddled around Michelle's computer to go through their pictures. Some laughed at what you could do with pictures. It took several hours but at last, they were done."This will be totally awesome kids. Who does not like pictures? Remember, you can't tell Gail. She will be so surprised." Everyone was excited they could give Gail and Jerry a wedding present.

Joy was going through her wedding planning notebook to gather her thoughts before the meeting. A lot has been done in a very short time. After all, were gathered, Joy gave her report. "As expected everyone responded to the invites, all will be there." That made Joy happy, no regrets that someone was not there.

"Rose, this may be a silly question at this point, but how big do you want the dance floor and will it be inside or out."

"Inside, we can two small ones in adjoining rooms."

"Were we going to combine the caterers and the restaurant? I will check with the Dean tomorrow, she is with Mistress now. Tux, should we get Jerry and Dennis measured here? Is there a good stylist out there Rose? We probably need to have eight done at one time. I am sure Gail would want the grandmas with us."

"Yes, there is a very good one, I can schedule one to do as many as possible at one time."

Joy said, "Checklist time"

"We have a hall, honeymoon, airplane, photographer, printer, baker, clergy, tables, decorations, florist, a band all committed."

"Outstanding: tux, hairstylist, dance floor, caterers and dinner. We need a guest book and a table for presents with people to take responsibility for each. Are Jerry and Dennis wearing a rose? Also, what about the fathers?"

"Who is taking them to the airport? Do they have passports yet? Do we have jobs for all the children? Do we need an organist or pianist for the ceremony? Did we decide on the handfasting? Does anyone know what music Gail wants? Does anyone know if someone from the family wants to do something in the ceremony? Will there be a reading from the Bible? Were we going to do the unity candles? How many ushers will we need? Have you talked about that already?"

Rose said, "My cousin can do the music. I think she has a keyboard. My cousin or I will discuss the family stuff. I will ask the florist about the flowers. Unity candles sound good as both Jerry and Gail are devote Christians. I can go either way on the handfasting ceremony. I want to keep the ceremony to less than 90 minutes."

"It sounds like we have a lot of questions that can be answered quickly. Can we meet back here in two days instead of four?" Everyone agreed and the meeting was over.

During the meeting, Alkaia, Dawn and Mistress Ellen met in the Dean's office. Dawn asked Mistress Ellen to tell them where we need to end up and then we can work backward. She also wanted to know if Masters need to start out in a sub class, and play the sub in the submissive's class.

"Dawn, every Master needs to know every need of the sub, maybe they need to be sensitive to the subs. We need to separate what makes being a Master or a sub from sex. The sex part will be determined by the Master and sub together. What we need to is get them to be in the mindset of each role. If their mutual desire turns out to be BDSM, for example, then they can learn at the club."

"You will need to set an academic standard to stay in the program, just like Joy has now. Subs can't be brainless, they are not slaves. If an order is unjust or immoral they should have the right to refuse it. Communication between the two is vital. A bond of trust has to form between the two. If a master is abusive they should have the right to leave, or have a support group that can intervene for them."

Dawn was growing frustrated. "Alkaia, how do you create these programs? I do not see yet how we can integrate the course into an academic setting. So far I have only heard Psychology and perhaps ethics. Front-load core studies with little course training to stabilize GPA."

"Calm down Dawn, maybe we need to talk to the lesser subs and the masters who could not keep their grades up. Find out what hurdles they had; Joy seems to be an exceptional case."

Dawn was quite upset when the meeting was over. It seemed her life was at a crossroads. If the course could not come to be she would have to get a job elsewhere. If she went elsewhere she would break her commitment to Joy, could she do that?

Between meetings with the Dean and Mistress Ellen, Dawn became quite moody and she isolated herself. She ordered her food in on the few times she thought about food. The Dean reassigned her duties to another senior. She also told Joy to not bother her Mistress but instead to talk to her or Mei. Joy felt very sad, she knew that she was the cause of Mistress's moodiness. She felt she let her down. It all had a snowball effect on the whole school, it was like a veil of darkness had fallen upon the students.

Molly had enough of the situation. She corralled several of her friends and they came to her Mommy and asked if she could bring them to see Miss Dawn and Miss Joy. Her logic was that they were her friends, they had helped the children when they needed help. It was now time for the children to help them. "Is that not what friends do?" Word spread, what started with just a handful of children was now more than half the children and growing. Molly's logic was inescapable. "That is exactly what friends do. " Molly was a pretty smart five years old.

All sorts of transportation were converging onto Dawn's dorm. The guard readily agreed and radioed the other guards to let them know what was happening. Molly's Mommy found what room was Miss Dawn's. Molly became the understood spokesperson for the group. Each child brought a blanket, they were in it for the long haul. Molly banged hard on Miss Dawn's door. "Miss Dawn, we know you are in there. You have to come out sometime and you can't avoid all fifty of us. I thought we were friends, and you want to ignore all of us?" That sliced through the heart of Dawn, but she was a proud one. All the children took a seat, they were told they needed to keep a path for the students. Molly did not know it, but she had taken siege onto Dawn's room. Alkaia arrived soon after to observe the event. She was amazed at the show of solidarity. Two hours passed, Dawn thought they were gone.

Alkaia said, "They brought their blankets and they were being treated with pizza while you are mopping in your room. Any food you try to order will have no chance of making it to your room, that's how blockades work."

Dawn could not believe she was being outmaneuvered by a five-year-old. Not only that, Dawn was in the wrong and Molly and the others were in the right. They just wanted to help a friend through a hard time and Dawn just wanted to isolate herself. Joy and Mei told them to give a friend a smile or hug when they were having a bad day. Since they could do neither, they were going to wait her out until they could.

Joy was crying in her room. The Dean told her that she couldn't bother Mistress. Mei walked into the group and asked three of the children that that Joy grew fond of, to follow her back to her room. Joy was pleased to see them. This was a situation that Bear could not help Joy.

The issues were too complex for young children to understand. They were not there to offer advice, Joy was their friend and she was sad. Joy just reeled off all of her problems one by one. Once Joy was done, she was bowled over with hugs and kisses. A good tickle fight always makes people laugh. Joy was outnumbered and the children squirmed too much to stop the onslaught.

Alkaia called Mistress Ellen, "She said bring your spanking hand; we have a very disobedient Mistress and a dorm full of righteous children." The siege had lasted long enough. If Dawn did not want to come out they were going to get the master key. When Mistress Ellen arrived and the door was opened, she propped the door open so all the children could see Dawn's punishment. Mistress Ellen wanted to stress to the children that their behavior makes a difference. "You wanted to help a friend. Friendship is indeed very important and you should be rewarded for being such a good friend."

"Miss Dawn has been hiding from her friends, she did not even want to talk to you. That kind of behavior is not rewarded, those people get punished. 'Children, I give you a choice. You are the ones she offended so you get to decide what her punishment will be. I can give her one swat for each child she offended which would be fifty swats or you can decide to cancel her punishment together but leave her knowing she deserved a punishment. Adults call that mercy.'" Dawn was hoping for the fifty swats. She knew she could never apologize enough to the children if they picked mercy.

After fifteen minutes, Molly walked up to Dawn. "Miss Dawn, those of us who got spankings to say we will never do it again, but do it again soon after. What punishment do you believe you deserve?" "What do we do the next time you do it?" Picking out her own punishment was not what Dawn wanted to do. She realized that the fifty swats were no longer an option. In a day or so she would feel no pain. "Molly there is no way I can apologize enough to you and the other children. I will have to live with this guilt for the rest of my days. I will need help from all of you to prevent me from doing it again."

"Miss Ellen I do not think she needs a spanking. It hurts to get a spanking, friends don't hurt friends. Friends help friends so they do not get hurt."

"Very good children, which was a hard decision to make. It would have been easy to just say give her a spanking. Adults have problems making that decision. You have made her life better, she will never do that again." The children grinned when they learned they helped their friend. Dawn thought that was the end of it. Molly turned and shouted, "Get her!" Soon Dawn was at the bottom of the pile of children who wanted to hug her. Why is it that the answer is so simplistic to a five-year-old, but adults do not even know where to begin?

Dawn was excused from the next planning meeting. She had let her studying go by so she had a lot to catch up on. Joy handed leadership to Rose, she did not like the spotlight. Rose had most of the outstanding items anyway. She took over the wedding planning committee as well, they were finishing up anyway

Joy talked to the Dean, the Dean found a good deal on a hotel not far from Gail's parents' house where everyone could stay."

Joy was shocked. "How could she miss such an obvious need?"

"Joy that is why we delegate, no one can think of everything. We would not want them to anyway, it would steal the fun others get by helping out with a project. It would cause most people to burn out, which would result in a poor results. You must be close to the end, soon you can relax and wait to see how happy Gail will be on her wedding day. She gave you a lot more to do than most brides do, you are doing it. She may not be your Mistress but you are taking on the job just as a good sub would do. How do you think you will feel when you give Gail a day she will never forget?"

"I will feel happy Mistress, she is a good friend. I want my friends to have the best."

"Get some rest before your meeting Joy, you will feel refreshed."

When the meeting started, Joy felt much better. She said, "The Dean found a good deal on the dinner and hotel."

Rose stated, "My cousin is going to handle all the music. I have another cousin that wants to do a guitar solo. The guys are going to wear carnations. I found a DJ that will rent us his dance floors."

"Joy, can you ask Dennis to drive them to the airport? They can't go on a honeymoon until after graduation. I have a call into the pastor and about a Bible reading."The subs were getting very excited, it seemed what they had left to do did not matter if it was done or not. Not any too soon, the wedding was in two weeks. It was agreed Michelle would go out two days early. She had duties she could not do until she got there.

Gail saw everyone come out of the meeting, none could look Gail in the eye. Most had smirks, only a few could hold a straight face. It was not fair, she could not even get gossip about her own wedding, she was told to get passports just in case she needed one.

When she assigned the wedding to Rose, Joy and Mei she was thinking of a very small simple wedding that could be planned in a couple of hours. She did not know how many meetings they had, but judging by the number of people that came out of the room; she knew it will not be a simple wedding. She also noticed most were subs.

As the wedding approached, Gail went to ask Michelle a question, she was nowhere on campus. When Gail inquired about Michelle all she got was. "She left early to see her parents." Then a smile appeared.

When Gail got home she was not allowed to go home to see her parents, instead, they would come to her to have dinner. Gail did not count on this when she said surprise me. On the day of the wedding, Gail was all nerves. She still did not know what was going to happen. Just as she was finishing getting dressed Michelle and Joy burst into the room.

First, she was given the backup rhyme bag, pictures were taken of the presentation.

Gail opened it up to see a beautiful shell marked "Old", then the picture of "New friends." The borrowed item was a pink "My little pony pin" and then a small blue button. Joy handed Gail Molly's penny. Many pictures were taken as she put it in her shoe. Gail was then blindfolded.

Gail's cousin thought of the surprise of all surprises if it could just work. She was told it would be very difficult, but it will be done. Gail was led around the outside of the house so she could not figure out what was inside. Mei took off the blindfold. Gail was so pleased with how many people came, everyone, she wanted there was there. She did not know the pastor, but he did a splendid job with the ceremony.

Everything was perfect. All the little children were in the ceremony, she loved the little ones. After Jerry and Gail were pronounced man and wife a loud noise came from the back of the room. She snapped her head back but could not place it.

Jerry leaned over and said, "Dear wife, you are on the JumboTron back at school." The stands were packed, all in their best suits and dresses. Everyone was toasting the new couple with bottles of ginger ale.

Eric was an awesome photographer, not only did he get the portraits, he got the different shots no one else got and put his own spin on them. As the reception went on everyone was having a great time. There was one person who was frazzled. Rose grabbed Jerry and Gail and announced it was time to cut the cake. Gail almost smashed the cake into Jerry's face. All proclaimed it was "the best wedding cake they ever had."

After Rose tasted the cupcakes the baker made for her, she made sure one more friend of the family was invited. Later that day that woman cornered the baker and just said she was a friend of the family and wanted to thank her for making such a good cake. They talked about an hour, the baker was trying to find a polite way of excusing herself from this rambling woman. Then the woman gave the baker her business card. Not only was the woman a friend of the family but also editor-in-chief of the local paper. "Come by for a free copy of the interview after it is printed. We try to highlight local people because our readers are interested in them. Everyone likes to party and between birthdays, weddings and holidays you will be busy. You get a 'five-star rating'."

"But, but how can I? I have no experience. This is my first wedding and I only got it because Rose's friend could not do it. "