ANGELA by Helier (MFFF/F) WARNING This story contains a scene which is a clear description of a yong woman being spanked. Personally I don't find it at all offensive but I'm willing to believe that some people might. Could I therefore recommend that this story is only read by adults who are entirely convinced that they can read such material with equinimity. ANGELA by Helier Angela came straight to my office when she got back later that morning. She looked at her best - her lovely flow of blond hair loosely tied behind her head, a flush in her soft cheeks. She was optimistic, cheerful. She knew I would have drawn the figures by then and she was confident we would be in the high 60's. I had bad news for her - we were at 63%. She stared at the figures in disbelief. In spite of all our efforts, hers included, we were still below target. I knew it was a serious blow to her after all she had achieved. I looked up at her but she was half-turned away. Her eyes were filling with tears and her pretty face was crumpling as the first sobs trembled in her bowed shoulders. She glanced back at me for a moment perhaps hoping in her despair that there was something I hadn't said that would save her but then her eye caught the ruler I had already placed on my desk. Seeing it she despaired. She looked back in misery at the figures, shaking her head; then, tears streaming down her cheeks, she dragged herself without a word to the space in front of my desk. There, with a fearful glance at the long heavy ruler, she picked up her thick woollen skirt and bent over, grasping her ankles with shaking hands. I stared mesmerised for a moment at the thin covering of white satin stretched across her beautifully rounded bottom then I called the staff in. "It seems..." I said when the initial hubbub had died down. "... that Miss Redmond has failed us. She tried hard - we all did. But we are three percent below target. Therefore, as you must all be aware, there will be no bonus this month." There was a murmur of dismay which quickly died away as people realised the full significance of her unusual posture. "Jeanette." The office junior looked up, shocked suddenly to hear her own name. "Jeanette. Please take down Miss Redmond's panties. To her knees will be sufficient." Jeanette gasped. She was only sixteen and I could see she was feverishly imagining how she would feel in the same predicament - perhaps she was still spanked at home. In any case her hands trembled as she slipped her fingers around the white satin and tugged Angela's panties down her thighs. Angela was trying to be brave but with such humiliation she couldn't help crying. Her tears fell on the carpet. I took the ruler and laid it across her trembling bare flesh. Really I knew the ruler wouldn't greatly hurt her - it was to be a symbolic rather than a painful punishment - but when I drew back and gave her a solid whack across her seat she nevertheless squealed with the shock of it. I gave her another, reddening the tops of her thighs, then gave the ruler to Jane, a tall muscular girl in her early twenties. Jane's two strokes were higher, on the rounding of Angela's bottom, and each one sent her staggering forward a little. Her breath was coming in short gasps and she quickly rubbed at her stinging flesh as the ruler was handed on. Mrs Debenham knew exactly what she wanted to do. She had worked at a girl's boarding school and had had plenty of opportunity to practice. Her two strokes were right on top of mine on the upper part of Angela's glowing thighs. Last of all came Jeanette who was so nervous she almost dropped the ruler before placing two quite sharp little strokes low across Angela's buttocks. Knowing her punishment was over Angela straightened up. With her back to us she pulled her knickers up and settled her skirt. When she turned around her face was tear-stained and her breath still came in little gasps but she was quite surprisingly composed. "Thank you, everybody ..." She faltered for a moment but then recovered herself. "I will revise certain of our strategies and .... and either we will meet our targets or next month I will take ... three strokes of the ruler from each of you. Please return to your desks now and I will bring the changes round." Jane and Jeanette both gave her a quick hug and they all filed out. She stared after them for a moment. "I don't want to fail them again, James," she murmured, then she turned to look at me. "Let's get to work." Within moments I had the computer whirring like a top. I knew I would stay there all night if that's what it took to make her adjustments work. I knew she was on the right track - we'd get there sooner or later - and after all these years of working for stuffed shirts it felt great to have a boss who took responsibility for her own decisions.