🈸【美乐蒂故事集】29.访问(3) by dzxsars&water || 4719字

前注:

时隔不久,water又完成了一篇翻译~

这次是访问系列的第三部分,后面紧接着就是之前翻译过的流散,感兴趣可以翻下之前的帖子~

预告:

SARS在元宵节(情人节)会有惊喜放出,求关注啦~

以上 dzxsars & water

下面开始正文!

背景:这篇故事被设定在28世纪。返老还童技术被广泛地应用,并且不仅仅应用在延长人类的寿命,还作为一种针对犯罪行为的惩罚手段。美乐蒂是一个五十岁的女子,因挪用公款被判三个周期的六岁到十二岁还童惩罚。像其他的罪犯一样,她正在“SP父母”的监护下度过她的第一个周期。“SP父母”是经授权监控返老还童罪犯的,并且官方鼓励他们“尽可能多”地打那些小男孩和小女孩的屁股(她的生活也是这么度过的)。

警告:这篇故事里没有直接描写的打屁股场景。好吧,大概没有……过去发生的和未来可能的打屁股惩罚会被提及。本文涉及到很多的背景知识和前情提要,小美给艾莉更新了很多新时代的知识。但是本文里面没有真实的打屁股行为发生。

这是美乐蒂第三次拜访她的朋友艾伦。这个故事系列可能大概会一个月发生一次……
——Lurking Dragon

——dzxsars&water译

访问三

2748年九月十九日

(翻译日期:2014年二月十一日)

美乐蒂故事集第二十九部分
美乐蒂又将到她的朋友艾伦米勒家拜访她。米勒博士和乔希再一次在午饭后坐下来一起观看午间空间球比赛。先前,两位妈妈已经把她们的宝贝带到了米勒家的游泳池里游泳。

“哇!美乐蒂,你确定你想游泳吗?上个周的降雨让池水变得对我来说有点凉!!”玛丽一边说,一边小心翼翼地把一个脚趾浸入池水中试探着水温。

“妈妈,水温刚刚好!真的!”实际上,池水有一点凉,但是大多数像美乐蒂和艾伦一样的小孩子似乎并没有感到不适。不久后,美乐蒂就穿着她的黄色连体小泳衣游来游去了,而艾伦穿着她的蓝色小条纹泳衣,在浅水区向四周泼着水花。她们正在享受一段非常美妙非凡的时光,但是她们的妈妈还是很担心温度,很快她们就被命令离开泳池,躺在草坪旁并排放置的椅子上边晒太阳边聊天。

“对了,美乐蒂,到目前为止,你在学校过得怎么样啊??”

“不怎么样,艾莉。事实上,上个星期我忘了一项家庭作业……”

“哈?你怎么能这样呢?”

美乐蒂叹了口气,知道她必须更详细地解释。“周二老师布置了很多日语家庭作业。我决定上日语课,记得吗??呃,我只有在周二和周四才会被羽岛夫人辅导,所以我有两天的时间去完成它……”

“不要告诉我你把它搁置了!小美,你知道不该这么做的!”

“是的,但是这样让我星期二有一下午的空闲时间!!而且我在星期三晚上把它们全都完成了,艾莉!虽然妈妈发现了这件事,而且因为我的拖延,妈妈狠狠地打了我。”

“你活该!小美,让你的屁股不再被打的唯一方法,就是你好好读书!”

“好吧!!欸,艾莉,你不该骂我!!”

“对不起,对不起,继续说吧,小美!”

“不管怎么样,我完成了日语作业,但是我还有书写作业要完成。抄写作业,确切地说——五十个大写的’N’……”

“等…等一下……为什么你必须练习抄写呢——哦,作为还童犯惩罚的一部分,我打赌一定是这样,就像画线一样吧…”

“不是的——回到一年级,你也会自己练习抄写的……”

“哈?为什么?”

“肌肉记忆啊,记得吗?当我们落笔的时候,百分之九十九的书写动作靠的都是反射。这些反射消失了。还记得在小学的时候,你重拾这些抄写练习吗?”

“是的,我恨它!”

“好吧,做好准备重新再恨一次吧。最糟糕的是,这种练习的一部分是为了调节我们手部的肌肉的——抄写训练确实很痛,但是为了有效果你必须得忍受痛苦。在你的时代里是怎么说的??‘吃得苦中苦,方为人上人?’”

“(呻吟)又是一个我最不喜欢的说法!!但是最起码你知道‘怎么’写…”

“如果我仔细想想,肯定可以!但是如果我让我的手自己‘自动’书写,有的时候连字母都搞反了,尤其是那些‘N’…”

“嘿,我记得我妹妹在一年级的时候也遇到了这个问题。他们认为这可能是,你们是怎么称呼它的,阅读障碍症……”

“是的,它可能是,或者只是没有建立正确的反射。但是杰克逊夫人给我安排了回家以后额外的五十遍,因为我有障碍……”

“你把那个忘掉了吗?”

“是啊,我没有把它写在我爸爸的,嗯,笔记本上?通常情况下,妈妈检查我的作业——我的作业都是下载到家里的电脑上的——但这是个口头作业,于是我就忘了。”

“哎呀!我打赌你肯定因此被好好打了一顿,对吧?”

“(迟疑)是的,就当着全班同学的面儿。我不得不脱下我的短裙,趴在她的膝盖上。她的动作很慢,一次只脱一层,衬裙,内裤,直到我光着屁股,大声哭叫,准备好被桨打。这真的很痛,艾莉!”

“(傻笑)我敢打赌,你妈妈在放学后也打了你,对不对?”

“是的,是的。在我的房间里光着屁股被发刷狠狠揍一顿,然后爸爸在我睡前用柳条抽我!(不寒而栗)”

“哇!还有别的吗?”

“是啊,艾莉,这个周我又搞砸了!周二我们有一次小测验,我拿了个‘C’!羽岛女士狠狠打了我,放学后,妈妈又用发刷重重的、响亮的打了我,睡觉前爸爸也用木桨打了我!疼死了!两周之内,我已经给自己赚来了两顿响亮的惩罚了!!我必须更加努力学习了!”

“哦,小美!我很抱歉!是我劝你上这门课的……”

“不是你的错,艾莉!我知道我面对的是什么!总之,就是这些了,除了我们每个人第一天都要挨的打屁股惩罚——针对所有的处于‘困难时期’的小还童罪犯。”

“咦?你们每个人都要被打屁股吗?顺便问一下,你们班上的人都是什么身份,她们都是还童罪犯吗?”

“我本来认为她们都是的,但是出乎我意料的是她们并不都是。让我们看看,有汤米,他是个武装抢劫犯,正在第二次轮回里。我并不十分了解他。还有米歇尔,她是因为强奸被还童的,正处于她的第三轮循环……”

“哈?一个女孩儿怎么会因为强奸被指控??”

“哦,当她犯罪的时候她还不是个女孩儿;她之间叫做迈克布朗(主教练无故中枪倒地……)。你知道的,就像简妮以前叫做詹姆斯普拉茨伯格。他,或者她,因为罪行被判处‘Y染色体压制’,不得不以女孩的身份完成她的轮回!”

“哦,是的!你给我讲过。真是不可思议。而且,最少他,呃,她正在学怎么成为当一个女孩儿呢,是吧!”

“是的。还有很多小孩儿。彼得是个窃贼,但是已经在他的第三轮轮回里了,现在处于‘温和时期’里了。这意味着,他并不像我们这些身处‘困难时期’的人一样被打屁股,而是用很多的时间参加辅导之类的东西。约翰埃文斯因为散布垃圾邮件才被……”

“散布垃圾邮件?呃,它像我想的一样吗……”

“啊?哦,是的,你们这儿可能没有这种罪行。它意味着用很多自动发送的且没有执照的广告,占用国际互联网的资源。几个世纪之前,情况变得非常糟,他们甚至开始把整个网络玩弄于股掌之间。但是有些人总是认为他们能钻法律的空子……总之,约翰实在是个,那个词儿怎么说的来着?怪人!这大概是他最后一轮循环,我不认为他得到了教训。至于葛洛莉娅,她是个好孩子,绝对的…但我简直不敢相信,她是个杀人犯!!”

“一个杀人犯?和你们在一起!!”

“当然。我的意思是,虽然我们制裁杀人犯,但现在她才六岁,就像我们剩下的这些人一样。她的刑期是三到七岁,因此直到她被假释,她永远都不会通过一年级。并且她被判处十五轮循环!这意味着至少有两个以上的周期会作为一个‘困难时期’处理,不断地被打屁股!!然后另外二十年会作为一个小孩子,度过‘温和时期’。葛洛莉娅在很长一段时间里都不会对社会构成威胁了。”

“并且她必须从三岁开始!和我一样!只是她得每天都被打屁股……哇!小美,我真是厌恶我少数的那几次被打屁股的经历!它们一点都不有趣,尤其是在度假时的‘循环赛’!她就好像每时每刻都在被打屁股,她的小屁股像被火烧一样……哇!”

她活该!记住,艾伦,现在的人们都是不朽的。一段生命也许会持续几个世纪才会终结……好吧,唯一令人惊喜的事儿是她居然那么容易就摆脱了。事出必有因。就像弗吉尼亚。她现在身处‘温和时期’,五到十一岁的第七轮循环,因为过失杀人。这也有可能是她最后一个轮回。我们来看看还有谁呢??还有沃克,实际上他是个惯犯!!你能想象吗??一个切片工……“唔?什么是切片工啊?”

“抱歉!二十一世纪的时候。你们叫他们,什么来着,黑客?”

“哦!而且是个惯犯……你是说即使经历了多次童年之类的东西,所有这些打屁股,他又犯罪了?!?”

“一些聪明的人实际上是傻子。贝丝冲她男友发火,用椅子打他。她曾是一名举重运动员。因为殴打他人,她被判处五到十岁的四次轮回。在第一个轮回里;她正在学习从不断的打屁股中得到乐趣,就像我一样。再有就是可怜的朱迪。我们都试图放她一马,即使她是个切片工。她正处于她的第一或是第二轮循环里,她很可能在一两年后转为‘温和时期’。”

“哈?在一次轮回的中间?为什么呢?”

“特殊情况嘛。她只有十九岁,只是在鬼混。没有伤害任何东西。我觉得她根本不应该被判处还童刑罚,但是她遇上了个严厉的法官。”

“我讨厌这样说,但是如果她十九岁了,她已经是个成年人而且……”

“哈?哦,艾莉,你不知道吗?成年现在变回21岁了。朱迪还是个合法的孩子呢,她不该被当成成人对待。即使是杰克逊夫人,我们的家教,也在尽力对她宽容些。”

“21???噢,该死!但是为什么呢?在那之前孩子早长大了!”

“实际上,我们没有。记得吗,我告诉过你,这里发生了一些很大的变化。在你们那时候,因为营养等等的原因,孩子们性成熟得越来越早。人们终于意识到,这情况实在是非常糟糕;一个九岁十岁的孩子是没有能力去应对这种情感的。然后他们研发了肯辛顿疗法,这种疗法会抑制生育,直到反作用剂被广泛应用。达到八岁的正常小孩,或是本来年长但被还童的罪犯们,都会被注射并登记。所以,没人能够无证养育一个孩子。如果你离开这个星球,去一个“不受限的”殖民地,他们可能不要求这个。但同时,现在那儿也会对每个人进行“藤川氏处理”了。那种处理会减缓生理上的性成熟过程……”

“啊!你是说他们会蓄意……”

“最好是这样。即便是对一个还童者,处理性冲动也是一个很大的问题。在你们的那个时候,女孩儿们初潮都是在十一二岁的时候吧,对吗?”

“有时候吧……”

“嗯,我们的话呢,大概是在十五六岁。男孩们的声音不会改变,直到高中毕业。并且呢,在高三之前不要指望胸能发育多少……”

“啊!怪不得你不把二十一岁以下的孩子当作成年人!但是这不公平!每个小孩儿都希望尽快长大!”

“但是他们想要的却不是所需要的东西!这样一来,在不得不去处理约会之类的事情之前,每个人都会成熟一点儿。这很有效的。但是,我来给你讲讲我最后的两个同学吧。艾莉,玛丽是一个自愿还童者!”

“什么!在一年级!为什么??”

“她正在学习钱德勒氏物理,而且就是没法搞定数学。而且她居然请求杰克逊夫人,一旦她有所懈怠,就狠狠打她屁股!她对这件事非常非常认真!但是我把最好的留到了最后。艾莉,约翰尼迪瓦恩在我们班!!”

“嗯?谁啊?等等……我之前在全息投影上看到过他。而且……妈妈,上个月你是不是提到过约翰尼迪瓦恩?”

米勒太太在她女儿突然的叫喊下跳了一下。“艾伦!别嚷嚷!!是的,在他恢复时是我治好他的辐射中毒的。怎么了?”

“他在小美的班上!!”

“真的吗!!美乐蒂,你真应该感到荣幸!真是个天赐的机会!我希望你切实以那个年轻人为榜样!并用他应得的尊重对待他。”

“哦,我会的,夫人!我保证!”

“美乐蒂,这个人是谁?他怎么就会像我一样中毒呢?嘿!他一定是个医疗还童者!”

“是的,他确实是。太难以置信了,艾莉!医疗还童者还童到一个非常小的年龄可是很罕见的,但是我竟然碰到了两个!不管怎么说,指挥官约翰尼迪瓦恩是一艘星际飞船的总工程师,事实上还是我们的战舰之一。那是在一次进攻中,他走进了一个C-S辐射装载舱,保护了飞船。但是医生们用了三次还童去清除那些辐射。他是个英雄!艾莉,如果不是他的两个属下违反了他的命令,在他失去知觉之后走进去,他就会死,而且他已经预料到这种情况了。更不用说当时飞船还在受到攻击!”

“哇。美乐蒂……我爸爸以前是海军。他甚至在越战的时候获得了海军十字勋章。我–我同意妈妈的观点。小美,你和他搞好关系,尽力去向他学习,我是说……美乐蒂,这样的人永远不嫌多。他可以大大地帮助你,如果你让他帮你的话。相信我。啊,我好想见见他。但是,流散怎么办呢。我一直不太敢问你这个,但是我知道它越来越近了……”

“哦,是啊。我一直试图不去想它。在流散的时候我会被一台机器打屁股,艾莉。我的意思是,会被绑进一个精巧的装置里,死死按住,然后感受一下完全强制的、无情的疼痛。我不想再去想起它了。拜托了。”

“好的。换个话题,让我们问问妈妈我们是不是还能多游一会儿。”

她们也确实这样做了。当她们玩耍的时候,艾伦变得越来越大胆了,游得越来越接近那个阻隔着深水区的绳子。她是不被允许去深水区的。“艾伦!老实待在浅水区!你听到我说话了吗?”她妈妈警告到。美乐蒂已经在较深的水域中游泳了。她听到了米勒夫人的话,然后她开始向小艾莉游去。这时艾莉脚下一滑,头没入了水中。她还牢牢地抓着绳子,但在美乐蒂抓住她然后带着她游向台阶之前,她还是吞了几口水。

她的妈妈已经在那儿等着了。米勒夫人把艾伦从水中拉起来,拍了拍她的蓝色条纹泳衣。

“这该游够了吧,孩子们!我想我们应该让你们去睡会儿!在艾伦完成她的‘暂停’之后。”

“不!不要暂停啊!拜托了!”但是艾莉注定了要在角落里待五分钟,面朝墙,没有泳衣!妈妈从她的小女儿身上褪下了泳衣,好让她在完成‘角落时间’时完全赤裸!!

“我们发现在艾伦的角落时间时,让她不穿衣服是相当有效的惩罚。她非常厌恶像这样被扒得光光的,如果我想的话,我也可以在她的小光屁股上打几巴掌!”

“好吧,也许吧,玛莎,但是我还是要说最有效的‘角落时间’是得和一个滚烫的,红色的小屁股一起的!尽管艾伦是个医疗还童者,不是还童罪犯。美乐蒂,虽然你没有淘气,但是你可以和艾伦站在一块儿陪着她。但是不准说话!”

在‘暂停’之后两个小姑娘被放在床上小睡了一会儿,然后就到了约翰逊一家离开的时候了。

Background: This story is set in the 28th century.Rejuvenation is common, and is used not only to extend life but as a punishmentfor criminal behavior. Melody is a fifty year old woman who was convicted ofembezzlement last October. She was sentenced to three cycles from 6 to 12 yearsold. Like all convicted criminals, she is spending her first cycle(s) in thecustody of ‘spanko’ parents, who are authorized, even encouraged to spank heras often as possible, AS WELL AS often as she deserves…

WARNING: There are no spankings in this story. Well,almost. Past and future spankings are discussed, there’s a lot of backgroundand review gone over, and Mel brings Ellie up to date, but no actual spankingsoccur within the story.

Third of Melody’s visits with her friend Ellen. Thesestories will be taking place approximately once a month…

—Lurking Dragon

Visiting III

Sat. Sept. 19,2748

Part 29 of Melody’s Stories

Once again Melody was going to visit her friend EllenMiller at her home. As Dr. Miller and Josh again settled down after lunch forthe afternoon Spaceball game, the two Mommies escorted their charges out to theMiller family pool for a good swim.

"Whoa! Melody, are you certain you want to goswimming? Those rains last week have left the pool a littly chilly forme!!" said Mary, dipping one toe delicately into the pool.

"Its OK Mom! Really!" Actually, the pool WAS alittle cool, but like most children Melody and Ellen just didn’t seem to findit uncomfortable. Soon Melody was swimming around in her little one-pieceyellow swimsuit, while Ellen splashed around in the shallow end in her littleblue striped swimsuit. They were having a marvelous time, but their Mommies werestill concerned about the temperature, and soon they found themselves sunningin side-by-side lawn chairs, talking.

[So, Melody, how’s school goin’ so far??]

[Not so good, Ellie. Last week I actually forgot about ahomework assignment…]

[Huh? How’d you manage to do that?]

Sighing, Melody knew she’d have to explain more fully. [Ihad a LOT of Japanese homework assigned on Tuesday. Remember, I decided to takeit?? Yeah, well, I only have Mrs. Hashima on Tuesday and Thursday, so I had twodays to do it in…]

[Don’t tell me you put it off! Mel, you know better thanthat!]

[Yeah, but it gave me all Tuesday afternoon free!! And I didget it all done Wednesday night, Ellie! Though Mama caught on and spanked megood for putting it off.]

[And you deserved it! Mel, the only way you’re fanny’llsurvive that course is if you KEEP UP!]

[OK!! Geesh, Ellie, don’t you scold me!!]

[Sorry, sorry, go on, Mel!]

[Anyhoo, I finished the Japanese, but I had a writingassignment to do, too. Printing, actually-50 capital 'N’s…]

[Wait a minit… why do you have to practice printing —oh, part of being Penitatas, I bet, like doing lines…]

[Nope — come first grade, you’ll be practicing printingyourself…]

[Huh? Why?]

[Muscle memory, remember? When we wrote somethin’ down,99% of the writing was reflex. Those reflxes are gone. Remember all thatprinting and handwriting practice back in elementary school??]

[Yeah, I hated it!]

[Well, get ready to really hate it all over again.Worst of all, part of the practice is to condition our hand muscles—so printingpractice actually hurts, and HAS to hurt in order to work. What was thatexpression from your century?? ‘No pain no gain?’]

[(groan) Another of my least favoriteexpressions!! But at least you know how to print…]

[If I think about it, sure! But when I let my hand go on’automatic’, sometimes the letters come out backwards, 'specially the 'N’s…]

[Hey, my sister had that problem in first grade, Iremember. They thought it might be, whatchacallit, dyslexia…]

[Yeah, it can be, or just not having the right reflexesbuilt, too. But Mrs. Jackson assigned me an extra 50 at home, since I washaving trouble…]

[And that’* what you forgot??]

[Yeah, I didn’t note it in my PA, UH, ‘notebook?’. UsuallyMommy checks my homework — my assignments are downloaded into the housecomputer — but this was a verbal assignment, and I forgot it.]

[Ouch! I bet you got really spanked for that one,huh?]

[(wince) Yeah, right in front of the whole class. Had to takemy skirt off and go over her lap and everythin’ And she did it SLOW, too, onelayer at a time, petticoat and panties, until I was bare- bottomed, crying, andready for the paddle. It really hurt, Ellie!]

[(giggle) And I bet your Mommy spanked you after school,too, huh?]

[Yeah, yeah. a good dose of the hairbrush butt-naked inmy room, and Daddy switched me before bed!! (shudder)]

[Wow! Anythin’ else??]

[Yeah, Ellie, I messed up AGAIN just this week! We had apop quiz Tuesday, and I got a ‘C’ on it! Ms. Hashima spanked me good, an’ thenafter school Mommy gave me a good, sound lickin’ with the hairbrush, and Daddypaddled me before bed too! It HURT! That’s two sound, EARNED lickings in twoweeks!! I’m gonna have to start studying a LOT harder!]

[Oh, Mel! I’m so sorry! An’ I advised you to take theclass…]

[Not your fault, Ellie! I knew what I was in for! anyhow,that’s it, except for the spankin’ we all got the first day—all thelittle ‘hard time’ pennys, anyway.]

[Huh? They spanked ALL of you? By the way, who’s in thisclass of yours, are they all Penitatas?]

[I thought they would be, but to my surprise they aren’t.Let’s see, there’s Tommy, he’s an armed robber in his second go round. I don’tknow him very well. There’s Michelle, in her third cycle for rape…]

[HUH? How’d a GIRL get convicted of RAPE??]

[Oh, she wasn’t a girl when she did it; she used to beMike Brown. You know, like Janie used to be James Platsburk. He, she got a Yrepression on her sentence, and has to do her time as a girl!]

[Oh yeah! you told me about that. Weird. Still, at leasthe, she’s learning what bein’ a girl is like, huh!]

[Yeah. Theres a bunch of kids. Petey’s a burglar, buthe’s in like his third cycle, and is ‘soft time’ now. That means he isn’tspanked like us hard timers, but spends a lot more time getting counseled andstuff. John Evans is in for spamming…]

[SPAMMING? Ah, does that mean what I think…]

[Wha? Oh, yeah, you probably didn’t have that crime. Itmeans to tie up the Worldnet with bunches of unsolicited, unliscensedadvertising. It got so bad a few centuries ago it started to bring the whole’net to its knees, so they made unsolicited mass ads a crime. But somebody alwaysthinks they have a new way around the law…anyway, John’s a real, what’s theword? Geek! This is probably his last cycle, an’ I think he’s learned hislesson. Nice kid, really. Gloria…I can hardly believe it, but she’s amurderer!!]

[A MURDERER? in with the rest of you!!]

[Sure. I mean, she’s six years old, just like the rest ofus. We crack down on killers, though; Her sentence is three to seven, so she’llnever get past first grade until she makes parole. And she was sentenced toFIFTEEN cycles!! That means AT LEAST two more cycles as a ‘hard timer’ gettingspanked all the time!! Then another TWENTY YEARS as a little kid doing ‘softtime’. No, Gloria won’t be a threat to society for a while.]

[And she has to start at three years old! Same as me!Only she gets spanked every day…Wow! Mel, I really HATED the few spankin’s Igot! They were NO FUN at ALL, Especially that ‘round robin’ on vacation! Andshe’ll get spanked like that ALL THE TIME, her little bottom on fire…WOW!]

[She earned it! Remember, Ellen, people are all butimmortal now. Ending a life that could go on for CENTURIES…well, the onlysurprising thing is that she got off so EASY. There must’ve been extenuatingcircumstances. Like Virginia. She’s now soft time, seventh cycle doin’ five-to-eleven,for manslaughter, negligence. This may be her last cycle, too. Lets see, whoelse?? There’s Walker, he’s actually a repeat offender!! Can you imagine?? Aslicer…]

[Huh? What’s a slicer?]

[Sorry! 21st century term. You called 'em, what, Hackers?]

[OH! And a repeat offender…You mean even after goingthrough multiple childhoods and stuff, an’ all those spankings, he did itAGAIN?!?]

[Some smart people can be REAL stupid. Beth lost hertemper with her boyfriend and beat him up with a chair. She used to be aweightlifter. She got 4 times five to ten for assault. First cycle; she’slearning the joy of constant spanking just like me. Then there’s poor Judy. Weall try to cut her some slack, even if she is a slicer. She’s in her very firstcycle of two, and she’ll probably be made a ‘soft timer’ in a year or two.]

[Huh? in the MIDDLE of a cycle? Why?]

[Special circumstances. She was only nineteen, justfooling around. Didn’t hurt anything. I feel she probably shouldn’t have gottena Penitatas sentence at all, but she drew a hard judge.]

[I hate to say it, but if she was nineteen, she was anadult and…]

[HUH? Oh Ellie, didn’t you know? Adult is back totwenty-one now. Judy was still legally a CHILD, and should’ve been treated asone. Even Mrs. Jackson, our home room teacher, tries to go easy on her.]

[Twenty-one??? Oh, Damn! But why? A kid is full grown waybefore then!]

[Actually, no we aren’t. Remember, I told you there weresome big changes. In your time, because of nutrition and so forth, kids werebecoming sexually mature earlier and earlier. They finally realized that thiswas a VERY bad idea; a kid of nine or ten is NOT able to deal with those kindof emotions and feelings. And then they developed the Kensington treatment,that blocks fertility until the counteragent is applied. We ALL get that ateight years old, or as soon as we’re rejuved, if it’s older than that, so thatNOBODY can have an unliscensed kid. If you leave the planet for an’unrestricted’ colony they reverse it. But at the same time, they now giveeverybody the Fujikawa treatment, too. That slows down the physical and sexualmaturation process…]

[HUH! You mean they’ll DELIBERATELY…]

[It’s for the best. Even for a rejuve, handling sexualfeelings can be a real problem. In your time, girls got their first periodsaround ten or eleven, right?]

[Sometimes…]

[Well, for us it’ll be more like fifteen or sixteen.Boy’s voices won’t change until high school. And, well, don’t count on much inthe way of teats until your senior year…]

[AAGH! No wonder you don’t count a kid as an adult untiltwenty-one! But it isn’t FAIR! All kids want to grow up as soon as they can!]

[But what they want isn’t what they NEED! This way,everybody’s a LOT more mature before they have to deal with dating and stuff.It works. But let me tell you about my last two classmates. Ellie, Mari is aVOLUNTARAS!]

[WHAT! In FIRST GRADE! WHY??]

[She’s studying Chandlerian physics, and just couldn’thandle the math any other way. And she’s actually asked Mrs. Jackson to SPANKher if she slacks off! She’s REALLY serious about it! But I’ve saved the BESTfor LAST. Ellie, JOHNNY DEVINE IS IN MY CLASS!!]

[Huh? Who? Wait a minute…I saw somethin’ about him onthe holo. And…] "Mama, You say som’tin about Johnny Devine lasmunt?"

Mrs. Miller jumped a bit at her daughter’s suddenPanglish shout. "Ellen! Do not yell! Yes, I treated John Devine forChronostatic Radiation Poisoning when he got back. Why?"

"He in Mel’s class!!"

"Really!! Melody, you should be honored! What agreat opportunity! I hope you really model yourself on that young man! Andtreat him with the respect he deserves!"

"Oh, I will, Ma’am! I promise!"

[Melody, WHO IS this person? How’d he get poisoned likeme? Hey! he must be Medicalos!]

[Yes he is. It’s incredible, Ellie! Medicalos rejuves tovery young ages are RARE, but I’ve met TWO of you! Anyway, COMMANDER JohnDevine was Chief Engineer of a starship, one of our warships, actually. Therewas an attack, and he went into a C-S radiation filled compartment and savedthe ship, but it took THREE rejuves to purge the radiation. He’s a hero! Ellie,if two of his people hadn’t disobeyed his orders and gone in after him after hefell unconscious, he would’ve DIED, and he KNEW that’s what would probablyhappen. Not to mention the fact that the ship was still under attack at thetime!]

[wow. Melody…my Daddy was in the Navy. He even won theNavy Cross during Vietnam. I- I agree with Mommy. Mel, you stick close to himand try to learn, I mean… Melody, people like that, there aren’t ever enoughof them. He can help you a lot if you let him. Believe me. Wow, I’d like tomeet him. But, what about Diaspora. I’ve been afraid to ask you about that, butI know it’s coming up…]

[Ah, yeah. I’ve been trying NOT to think about it. ForDiaspora I get spanked by a MACHINE, Ellie. I mean, just tied into acontraption and held down for a totally impersonal imposition of pain. I don’twant to think about it any more. PLEASE.]

[OK. Lets ask Mommy if we can swim some more, instead.]

And they did. And as they played, Ellen became more andmore adventurous, slipping closer and closer to the rope that blocked off thedeep end where she was NOT allowed to go. "Ellen! You stay in the shallowend! You hear me?" her Mommy warned. Melody, who had been swimming in thedeeper water, heard Mrs. Miller and began to swim towards little Ellie even asher little feet slipped and her head went under. She still had a hold of therope, but swallowed a little water before Melody had her and picked her up tocarry over to the steps.

Where her Mommy was already waiting. Mrs. Miller pickedEllen right up out of the water and popped the seat of her blue stripedswimsuit a couple of times. "That’s enough swimming, children! I thinkwe’d better put you two down for a little nap! AFTER Ellen has her ‘Timeout’!"

"No! No Tim’ aht! Pleeze!" But Ellie wasdestined for five minutes in the corner, facing the wall, WITHOUT her swimsuit!Her Mommy peeled the fabric off her little girl and made her do her ‘cornertime’ BARE NAKED!!

"We’ve found making Ellen do her corner timeunclothed to be quite an effective punishment. She really hates to be exposedlike this, and if I want to, I can give her little bare bottom a few spanks,too!"

"Well, maybe, Martha, but I still say the MOSTeffective ‘corner time’ is that spent with a hot, red little bottom! Still,Ellen IS Medicalos, not Penitatas. Melody, while you were NOT naughty, youmight go stand with Ellen and keep her company. But NO talking!"

After the ‘time out’ the two children were put down for ashort nap, then it was time for the Johnsons to leave.

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