" Why not tell them why Katie? Go ahead." BECAUSE YOU RAPED ME YOU BASTARD!!"I don't remember standing, but I found myself on my feet in front of Robe...rt. Standing between him and my now crying mother. Something in my face must have really frightened Robert, because he shrank even further into his chair. But what he said next was surprising. He didn't try to deny Mom's accusation or defend it. He didn't even raise his arms to fend of the blows he was sure (quite correctly) that I was about to. .. some big animal charged out of the swamp at us. We shot it in self-defense,” Gunther told them.“Big animal?” the second Officer asked just before spotting the body of the river rat.“That animal on the ground. It’s too large to be a beaver, and it don’t look like one either. Don’t know what it is,” Gunther told them.“That’s a river rat, and a rather large specimen at that. You said that it charged out of the swamp at you, is that correct?” the first Officer asked.“Yeah, that’s it, charged. Well I was pretty wide-eyed anyways. I'm very expressive and am very bad at masking my feelings. My face reads like an open book...a book with large, colorful print. Genetically I’m sort of a Kindle. Basically this means that I have no poker face to speak of and generally wear my heart on my sleeve (even if it is a cumbersome location for a vital organ like the heart). I’m sure Cindy thought I looked like a naïve dork listening to her tales of lust and erotic pleasures that I could only imagine. ‘You have two options 6 months detention or the cane on your bottom and a treat’I was between a rock and a hard place but before I had a chance to answer..‘Bend over the desk, hold the sides, nipples just touching the top and legs apart’So there I was at her mercy. She rubbed the cane over my bottom and gave a few light non painful touches.Then I heard it before I felt it whoosh, contact on the middle of my bottom. It stung then got hot.While I was taking that in I heard ‘That’s one of twenty.