Room 2D

From Blushes Supplement 2. I’ve always loved this photo-set, which was used for several Blushes stories. I'm not sure if I’ve previously posted any others here. ‘Look, I’m awfully sorry but I really  must  go,’ said Nicola, ‘otherwise I’m going to be late for school.’ It was a fact and one not to be viewed with any equanimity. The consequence of missing Morning Assembly when you were a Sixth Former at Southfield County School for Girls was dire in the extreme. At the same time it was a decidedly humiliating thing to have to say when you were 17 and therefore grown up, and your companion was older still and thus  very  grown up, with such juvenile considerations as school assemblies long forgotten. They were seated in a green van which bore the legend  R Bulpitt & Son — Plumbers Merchants  on either side, parked in a quiet little cul-de-sac. Nicola Winfield, prettily blonde, and one Kevin Hicks,...

A photo-story featuring Lucy Bailey from Privilege Club 13 She knew that she was in deepest trouble. Her offence was considered among the gravest a senior girl could commit. She had been instructed to report precisely on time, smartly dressed in Academy uniform, nails polished, hair swept back from forehead as regulations decreed, the books she had been studying in late prep tucked neatly under her arm. Breathlessly she paused outside the daunting door, waiting agonising minutes until the exact moment when she must announce her presence. Her heart slammed, her mouth was dry, her legs felt weak and wobbly. She didn’t feel like Judith Parslowe any more, captain of netball and Classics scholar: her name had dissolved into the mute and terrified entity she had become — a frightened miscreant reporting for the most serious punishment the Academy could administer short of outright banishment. It was time. She lifted her hand and b...