By Jamie
Copyright 2023 by Jamie, all rights reserved
* * * * *Harstons Chapter 11
Over the
course of the weekend following the Slackers Court hearing Phil Davis
had a long talk with both Mr. Taylor and Arthur Saunders. He shared
Arthur's views, and they talked through some of the possible steps that
could be taken to address the lad's valid concerns. An idea emerged
which Phil shared with the Six and by Monday evening a plan had been
agreed with Mr. Taylor.
Wednesday evening - house swim.
The
Barnards house swim was a popular evening attracting about half of the
boys in the house mostly the younger set but a fair few older ones too.
The boys were all naked with the 6th formers having the choice, but
virtually all of them wore trunks. Arthur was persuaded to come along
with his trunks of course and he would meet with the Six plus Andy
afterwards.
The swim was always a noisy event with the lads
all relaxing and enjoying themselves. Andy Johnson and Casey were the
lifeguards and occasionally Mr. Taylor popped in to see how things were
going. The lifeguards were prepared to let things get a bit boisterous
but if anything really silly occurred the whistle blew, and the
offending boy or boys were given time outs - out of the pool for 5 or
10 minutes. Any repeat call out or serious bad behaviour was rewarded
with a pool side whacking delivered by the duty prefect.
That evening a group of lads from the 4th form were mucking about and
Andy had been telling them to calm down, a few minutes later the group
were chasing a fellow 4th former and ducking him. The whistle blew.
Everyone stopped what they were doing. Johnson's voice rang out “Taylor
and Harrison out 5 minutes!”
The boys swam to the side and
climbed out Andy told them the exact reason why and then they had to
stand there naked, hands behind their backs for 5 minutes. Everyone
else continued to enjoy themselves. Mr. Taylor who was talking to Phil
and Tom didn’t look very impressed at his son's behaviour.
The boys were released after their "sin bin" time and for a while they
behaved themselves. About 20 minutes later there was a big splash as
Simon Taylor was clearly seen pushing a boy standing on the side into
the water. This was of course a big ‘no no’ when it came to safety, the
boys weren’t allowed to jump or dive in when the pool was crowded and
certainly pushing others in was strictly forbidden.
Casey
blew his whistle, called Taylor over who was still on the pools edge,
and everyone carried on . Andy and Casey conferred telling the boy to
stand there quietly. They walked over to Tom who was the duty prefect
and gave him their decision, the boy needed whacking, Casey turned to
his housemaster, "Sorry Sir I had to call him out."
"Don't
worry Casey you did the right thing, clearly my son has forgotten how
to behave. I know you are duty prefect Tom but if I may chastise my own
son."
"Of course Sir you are the boss!" replied Tom hiding his disappointment!
They all smiled, "Indeed I am but also a very cross father too."
He left the group heading towards his son.
Tom turned to the others, "this could be interesting."
"And painful" added Casey.
Mr. Taylor spoke quietly to his son, but it was clear from anyone who
was watching and many were, that this was very much a one sided
conversation and a telling off. The plaintive words, "but Dad" were
heard, but Mr. Taylor said sharply, "enough Simon" as he sent the boy
off to the lifeguard's chair where the plimsoll was kept
"Bend over Simon."
The boy bent over quivering somewhat. His dad had a reputation, he was
fair and firm, well-liked by all the boys but woe betide if you did
something seriously wrong, a caning by Mr. Taylor was feared and a lot
of the house were just about to witness him whacking his 14 year old
son.
There was silence until the swish and crack of the
plimsoll against the boys bare bottom clearly stung. The boy let out a
fairly loud " oww" two more hard whacks followed. . They were clearly
far harder than the average prefect whackings.
The boy was
told to stand up by his father, who spoke softly to him whilst he could
be seen wiping his eyes. "Understood"; "yes dad" was heard. He gave the
boy the plimsoll to return it to its place and then the naked boy stood
hands behind his back on the poolside. The action was over and the swim
continued noisily.
Mr. Taylor returned to his prefects,
"well I don’t think he will be mucking about again in the near future,
a whacking from dad in front of everyone is pretty embarrassing but the
boy needs to learn. Thanks gentleman I must get on, I’ll leave you to
it."
Phil looked at Tom, " pretty embarrassing is an
understatement in my opinion, Taylor is still blushing! " They looked
over at the boy who was looking very sorry for himself.
A
few minutes later Andy Johnon blew the whistle 3 times which was the
signal for the end of the session. Boys started clambering out as the
to lifeguards joined the two prefects.
Davis called Simon
Taylor over. "Well I have hoped you learned your lesson." He looked
down at the naked boy and observed that he now had a few hairs growing.
"At the beginning of term you tried and failed to prove you were a
young man Simon. Looking at you ,you are now clearly one, but if that’s
the case then you need to stop acting like a silly boy. What you did
was potentially dangerous.”
The boy looked up, "yes I know sorry Davis" .
" Apology accepted. You’ve still got the rest of the term as a nudie,
in January you can hopefully prove to us you are physically but also in
yourself mature enough to get your trunks. Ok off you go".
The boy scampered away, his very red bottom clearly visible.
“Right gents let’s get together with Mr. Saunders.” Davis called
together the 6 along with Johnson and Saunders. Casey headed off to
supervise the changing room.
4 of the prefects were in their
trunks, Andy Johnson in his lifeguard red shorts, and Phil and Tom who
hadn’t been swimming in shorts and t shirts.
"Well as
promised Arthur as you know we have had long chats about your ideas and
Mr. Taylor really did welcome them. He has agreed the following which
we hope will go some way to addressing your concerns.
From
the beginning of next term - a number of lower 6ths will be given some
specific responsibilities. One will be assigned to each member of the 6
- so one to each of the year group prefects, one to sport, one to
secretary and one to me.
In addition there will a new House
6th form council - elected by the year group and it will consist of 3
from each year and prefects will not be included. The council will meet
fortnightly with Mr. Taylor and myself. It will discuss matters
relating to 6th firm life in the house, new ideas, privileges, rules
etc. So we hope a real voice for any sixth former. "
Arthur Saunders thought before giving his response.
" Thanks Phil. I do appreciate your serious response; I did to be
honest think that my views wouldn’t be taken seriously but you have
proved me wrong. I think the 6th form council is a great idea and if I
may suggest one thing, it should be chaired by one of those elected.
What about celebrating non sporting achievements though? "
Phil agreed about the Chair and then turned to Tom, who said that his
new 6th deputy would be specifically responsible for finding that
information and making sure those boys were recognised. Arthur smiled
in thanks.
"So that leads us on to swimming Arthur, over to you Andy."
"I have chatted to the 6th formers on the team and the views are split,
some think we should retain the nudity for all and others think as 6th
formers there should be a choice. In all the other houses it is a
choice so I’ve made the decision to make it optional for Barnards too.
Will that help you make a decision to join the team Arthur, we could
really do with you."
Arthur, as they all realised was a thinker, and again there was a pause befire he spoke, " thanks Andy, okay I’ll join ".
"Great" said Andy very pleased with the outcome.
Arthur looked around the 6 prefects and examined the faces especially of Davis and Tom Youngnan thoughtfully.
"I sense a but...Davis" he said smiling.
Phil Davis laughed, " you are an astute guy Arthur I will give you that. So what do you think this but is?"
"Well I appeared before your Slackers Court for not playing my part in
the house life so whilst we have agreed things going forward I sense
that there may be still a price to pay for the past . Am I close?"
A couple of the prefects laughed. Harry Eddington looked at the Head of House and said in his laughter “gotcha Phil! ".
"I think we should make you Head of the L6th Arthur, in fact I think
you’d make a very good head of house or perhaps you may be too radical
for the House? Do you think we should stop corporal punishment for
instance? "
He shook his head, "no not completely. I think
it has its place like just now what Taylor did was both stupid and
potentially dangerous, I think the whacking his dad gave him will be
far more effective than say a detention or not being able to swim next
week for instance."
" Totally agree. So yes we can’t go
forward without a sanction else it makes a mockery of the process, so
we’ve come up with not a punishment but a challenge for you. We’ve got
the pool for about another 30 or so minutes" He turned around and
shouted “Casey” the boy emerged from the changing room having seen off
the last boy out of the changing room.
He came over his grin
as big as ever, still in his lifeguard red shorts. "Yes Phil” he looked
at them all, “this looks serious?"
They all laughed. " So Casey if I asked you to swim a length naked in front of us would you do it? "
He looked at Phil oddly, " yes of course no problem but why? "
"Well we want to watch a race between you and Arthur here."
"Kool I’m game” said Casey pulling off his shorts and standing there
naked, his small willy on show, not at all worried about being the only
person naked.
“So Arthur there’s the challenge, have a race with Casey but well I’m sure you can guess the rules of participation."
Arthur started laughing, "I’m impressed Phil with your ingenuity. You have backed me into a corner I see, so ok.”
He stood there; his very toned muscled body clear for all to see. He
was tall, at least 6 foot and slim. He hooked his thumbs into his
trunks and pulled them down and stepped out. The act revealed a very
large thick willy about 5 plus inches soft.
Before he could stop himself Casey said, " wow".
They all laughed; “Casey is always an admirer of anything bigger than his” said Andy Johnson ruffling his littl mates hair!
Arthur blushed, “go on then boys to your marks” said Andy picking up
his whistle, “two lengths freestyle.” He blew the whistle and in the
two good swimmers dived, it was a close first length, both executed
good tumble turns but Arthur gradually extended himself and finished
ahead of the smaller boy.
The prefects all applauded.
The two boys climbed out breathing heavily, “well done you two. So
let’s have a game of polo for 20 minutes, trunks v nudies.” said Phil
“and to show you Arthur I would never ask you to do anything I wouldn’t
do…” Phil and Tom both took off their shorts and shirts to stand there
naked alongside Casey and Arthur.
Casey laughed “well of the
8 of us there is one clear winner in the willy stakes! That is massive
Arthur. You are going to be very popular!”
Arthur smiled looking at the smiled Casey, “well size isn’t everything Casey, trust me.”
Later that evening as he lay in bed Arthur reflected and thought ‘well
that wasnt too bad’, and then mused to himself , ‘I actually enjoyed
swimming nude!’