Jane's Addiction [M/f]

(c) 2007 by Grace Brackenridge
[499 words]

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This story is inspired by the roll of $100 bills
depicted in 23.jpg for SSC07. The author strongly
opposes the spanking of real children in real life.
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"See, everything's the same!" exclaimed Rhonda Pala, showing her daughter her large, brightly lit Pasadena bedroom.

"You searched it?" asked her 15-year-old daughter, Jane, putting down her suitcase. "It's clean, right?"

"Yes, honey, we searched. No drugs. But we found this."

The mother held out a banded roll of $100 bills. "Where did you get all this money?"

Her daughter laughed. "Buy kilos. Sell grams. Immutable law of supply and demand. Ask your husband. He's the capitalist."

Jane hated her stepfather, always referring to him as her mother's husband to show her disconnect.

But, in truth, Jane needed Leo.

"So," said Rhonda, sitting on the bed, "how was 'Safe Measures?' Did it work?"

"Am I clean?" her daughter replied. "The answer is yes. I've learned a lot about myself. I have an addictive personality. Out in Utah, it's easy. Back here, it's a slippery slope."

"I know, honey," said her sympathetic mother. "But we're a family, all in this together."

"Yeah, we'll see. If it's okay, I wanna nap. Send Leo up when he's back from golf. We need to talk."

Rhonda sighed. "Leo wants to talk to you, too. Those things you said in rehab counseling. About child abuse. Well, you hurt him."

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"She's upstairs," Rhonda replied as Leo put away his golf bag. "She wants to talk to you."

The muscular, tanned entrepreneur snorted. "I want to chat, too."

"Leo, she's been through a lot. Be kind. Try to focus on what Jane needs."

"That's her problem. Sure formula for bringing up a spoiled brat."

Upstairs, Leo knocked, entered, and shut the door.

Rhonda tried to read 'Good Housekeeping.'

Rhonda realized now she had been too permissive.

But when Leo introduced Jane to corporal punishment at 13, parenting swung too far in the 'tough love' direction.

Leo blamed permissiveness for Jane's addiction. Rhonda blamed the paddle.

Rhonda leaned back, closed her eyes, and hoped for the best upstairs.

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Whap! Whap! Whap!

Rhonda awoke with a start.

'God no!' thought the mother, charging up the stairs. 'Not that!'

"Stop, Leo!" said Rhonda, flinging the door open. "You're hurting her!"

Indeed, her daughter kicked and squirmed red bottom up as...

Whap!

Rhonda launched into a tirade. Leo set the paddle aside. Jane wept.

After five minutes of denouncing corporal punishment, the mother glared at her husband. "Bully! Thug!"

"Mom, please stop. I asked for this."

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"It's my methadone," said Jane, sitting between her parents. "Spankings always interested me. Since childhood."

"I never spanked!"

"I know, Mom. When Leo started spanking me, I hated him. But I kept misbehaving, knowing I'd get paddled. Clearly, I got something out of it. A rush. Like coke."

"You learned this at 'Safe Measures?' And the SM counselors actually spanked you?"

Jane nodded. "Just like this. So now Leo's my counselor. And Mom, we're not done."

Jane placed herself over her stepfather's lap.

"I better go," said Rhonda, feeling useless.

"No, Mommy, hold my hands. I need you, too. I need my whole family."

Great story!  It makes me wonder if it really would work for people who still need that rush that drugs give.   With the right person to administer them, it would be a safe alternative.   Not that any program would actually incorporate it, too many people would misunderstand the intent.  Oh, for a world that understands the usefulness of spankings!

Spanking as a substitute for methadone, I like that idea.  The SM counselor's, short for Safe Measures, was a nice touch.  SM brought something besides drug counseling to my mind, but it fit right in nicely with the story.  I think you did a good job of portraying two parents who struggled with knowing how to discipline their daughter, and the flippant teen attitude Jane has is classic.  I guess only time will tell if Jane will truly reform, it appears she is on the right track. Nice job.

Well-written, with an interesting plot. I can't remember seeing this idea before, which is quite unusual given the number of spanking stories I've read. It fits the word count, and the category. I wasn't really able to get emotionally involved with the characters and the ending was rather abrupt, but with a 500 word limit it can be hard so some allowances could be made.

It's always hard to read a good story, and want to like it, but just not be able to get into it. I'm not sure what it was about this one that made it hard. It wasn't realistic (at least the part about the rehab counselors spanking her) but most spanking stories aren't, and don't need to be. I guess I would have to say it's a good story, but not my cup of tea.

Original with an oddly hopeful use of spanking as an addiction substitute.  In that, it reminded me a bit of the film "Secretary's" use of BDSM as a replacement for cutting.

My own reaction to this was to find it a bit cold, but then given that my kink is more for non-consent, this story isn't really on my kink. Even so and in such a small number of words, I could feel the love within this family for their daughter and the struggle to try and keep her from destroying herself.