Camp Sissy Curls (Second Summer)--part47
I took a deep breath and stepped inside. Ms Roberts, who was seated behind her desk, got up and approached to inspect me.
She looked me over and, fondling my braid loops, said, "you look very pretty Stephanie."
I said nothing.
And she reprimanded me. "Reply please, properly!"
I curtsied. "Thank you Ms Roberts."
Then she pulled a wooden desk chair over in front of her desk and said. "Sit down please Stephanie." And she took her place back behind her desk. And she just looked at me, silently, for several moments.
She finally began. "Running away from Sunnyvale Saturday night was a very, very bad thing Stephanie!"
"Yes Ms Roberts, I'm sorry." I offered, trying to appear contrite.
"Well not as sorry as you're probably gonna be, young lady!"
"Yes Ms Roberts. Please forgive me!" More contrition on my part, in an effort to smooth things over a bit.
"What you did, Stephanie, warrants very serious consequences!!!"
"Please not full-time Sunnyvale Ms Roberts!" I pleaded. "Anything but that!"
"Well, that's certainly a very real possibility for you Stephanie!"
And she paused, just looking at me again, seemingly waiting for a response from me. And I was surprised by her relatively mild demeanor with me, so far. But I knew the other shoe had to drop soon.
But I ventured to ask. "Please Ms Roberts, what do you mean by....possibility?"
She smiled a little. I had asked the right question.
"Stephanie, I've thought this out very thoroughly. And I'm going to give you a choice. So listen carefully!"
"Yes Ms Roberts." Certainly the alternative Bernice had talked about, I figured.
"As punishment, either full-time at Sunnyvale, where the girls will have a real feast with you....OR, you're gonna go to work full-time....take a job! Working nine to five!"
Now that REALLY caught me off guard. I surely didn't see that coming.
"You mean get a job?" I asked.
"Yup!"
"But how and where Ms Roberts?" The whole thing sounded crazy to me.
"Oh, I have that all planned out Stephanie."
"You mean, if I work a job, I don't have to stay at Sunnyvale?"
"Well, not quite." She replied. "Now keep quiet and listen to your choices for punishment. And you should be grateful to be given a choice. You don't really deserve that!"
I nodded my head up and down.
"Choice one, Sunnyvale full-time, where the girls can have their way with you ALL THEY WANT!"
"No!!!" I moaned.
"I told you to keep quiet young lady!" She scolded, in a not so mild demeanor now.
I nodded "yes".
"Choice two. If you opt for the job, you'll work basically nine to five, Monday through Friday. But you'll still have Saturday night sleepovers at Sunnyvale, like always. And outside of work, you'll continue to be a little baby girl in messy diapers, living here at camp in the nursery. Like always!"
Oh crap, I thought. And I raised raised my hand, like I was in school.
"Put your hand down!" She yelled. "Don't ask!"
I lowered my hand and she continued.
"While you're working, you won't be in diapers....well, you might be some of the time." She corrected herself. "But you won't be using them. And you'll actually be paid....minimum wage, off the books."
And she paused for a breath. "But outside of work, everything remains the same as it's been. In a nutshell Stephanie, your punishment is to either work a job or spend the rest of the summer full-time at Sunnyvale."
And she just silently looked at me again for several moments. Her cue for a response from me.
And I shyly raised my hand again, but just a little.
"Okay Stephanie....what?"
"Well, this job....what is it and where? And will I still be a girl for it?" I asked.
"Well duh!!!" She scorned. "Of course you'll be a girl! Just as you are now!"
I felt foolish. The "girl" question was a stupid one.
"As to what and where, I'll only say this." And she stood up from behind her desk. "It's a job that you're perfectly suited for and it's in town. That's it!!!"
"Can I think about it Ms Roberts?"
"Yeah, you have about one minute while I get a cup of coffee!"
And she left me alone in the office. And all the pros and cons raced through my head. And I thought about how Bernice had said that I should consider her alternative, as a lesser of two evils maybe.
And of course, I wondered what kind of a job it was. Ms Roberts had been, purposely, vague about it. Maybe a waitress in the restaurant in town. God, that'd be awful!
But the bottom line was....anything had to be better than living full-time at Sunnyvale!
A minute later, she returned, sipping her coffee.
"Well....deal or no deal?" She asked.
I always thought that show and Howie Mandel were creepy. But this was even creepier!
What an awful choice to have to make, I thought. But I did.
"Okay, the job." I hesitantly replied.
"Are you sure Stephanie? There's no going back!"
"Yes Ms Roberts."
"Very well then Stephanie. Come along. I'll drive you into town and show you the ropes of your job."
I cringed as we walked to her van.