janeyruth
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The setting is Farnham Institute, an exclusive all-women's college in Somerset...
Miss Juliet Tung, 35 (born in England, father Chinese, mother Italian), was recently appointed head of English there and she's settling into life at Somerset - a far cry from the inner-city institution from which she'd recently been dismissed (although the administration there had been good enough to allow her to quietly resign and avoid a scandal).
The change in setting could not have been in starker contrast. In Islington where she'd taught Art & History, the building was grey and forbidding and the students from the lower middle class.. Farnham College in Somerset was a sprawling late Georgian pile, built on the wealth of its philanthropist founder, the noted feminist writer, Mary Wells-Bryce.
At its core, Farnham projected a sense of academic and artistic achievement. At the same time, it carried with it a spirit of freedom and joy that was evident amongst the five hundred or so undergraduate women there. Juliet felt that very spirit and energy from the first moment she stepped through the huge oak entrance doors and was welcomed by a beaming Dean of Students, Miss Veronica Bennett.
'We're delighted to have you here,' enthused the surprisingly young Ms Bennett. Juliet placed her at just over forty. From her phone calls and letter, she had assumed Ms Bennett would be much older..
'I trust your journey was comfortable?" Her arm rested on the small of Juliet's back, as she delivered the standard introductory speech, the same one she recited for all new, fresh-faced and slightly nervous young professors. Her words, however, were somewhat lost on Juliet, for it surely wasn't all her imagination that the Dean's hand, not a moment before resting in a warmly formal greeting on the small of her back, had changed its angle from the horizontal to one of ninety degrees. Her fingers now seemed to settle, non-threateningly yet oh-so definitely on the upper part of Juliet's buttocks. At the precise moment she could feel her nervousness rise to the surface - and possibly embarrass herself utterly - Ms Bennett gave Juliet's rear a gentle pat and marched forth down the Italian marbled hall. She chimed on and on about how all who came into these venerated walls were indeed blessed by God. Juliet made an inner note that the middle-aged Ms Bennett had certainly been blessed by God. Her long shapely legs almost seemed to glide down the narrow passageways that led off here and there and the roll of her hips took more of her attention than the beautiful oak panels they passed by.
Juliet hoped her own slim figure would be preserved over the years by the gods of Farnham - and that perhaps also the recent past, including her sad, regretful “indiscretion” with young Alyssa Brinker, would be laid to rest and buried under pastures anew. Despite all this, memories of the place from which she'd fled and the near-disaster that was narrowly averted kept churning inside her. Then suddenly, her wandering mind was brought to a halt - just in time - as Ms Bennett swung open a classroom door and gestured for her to enter.
'Ladies. And Miss Elliot,' She said to the Professor at the chalkboard, 'Just popping in for a bit to introduce Miss Juliet Tung. I want you to say a very warm welcome to Miss Tung, our new head of English.'
Swallowing her first-day nerves, Juliet moved two steps forward as the class of fresh-faced 18 and 19-year-olds unisoned their greeting: 'Hello, Miss Tung' and this put her at ease. She smiled and nodded to the twenty or so young women seated there.
And as her gaze moved around the room, taking a mental register of the staring women, her heart skipped a beat and time froze as it does when one falls from a great height. She thought in a panic, 'No, it couldn't be Regina - that was impossible; Regina was many miles behind me now.' Yet out of all the faces that eyed her with that intense curiosity, one eclipsed all the others. It took every ounce of willpower for Juliet to wrench herself back to the situation in hand and to the voice of Ms Bennett.
As they left the classroom, her heart became a kettle drum whose thunderous crashes, she felt, must surely be audible to everyone. She couldn't help but look back as the door slowly closed behind her. All had settled back to attentiveness to the teacher calling out equations to the sound of scraping chalk, but one had not. And it was then that she KNEW it was Regina. Their eyes locked for the briefest of moments - a moment that bespoke volumes more than anything Juliet had heard since arriving at the school.
As she continued the guided tour, it was as if everything and everyone she met along the way were coming from a far-off place. She had no thoughts other than the vision that had just presented itself before her. She thought of the next day - of her first day with her new charges. She was terrified and excited in equal measure and as she was shown into her new lodgings - a shared room with another unmarried professor - her only thought was to run back to London as fast as her legs could carry her.
Instead, she unpacked, laid out her clothes neatly and took from a discreet compartment the photograph that would remain with her until the day she died. Huge brown eyes looked back at her and, as ever when she gazed at Alyssa's portrait, her expression seemed to speak directly to Juliet's heart. This afternoon, it simply said: "Hello. I miss you. Are you being my good pet?"
In the end, she resolved to stay: to see what this new world had in store for her. To see if she had truly been blessed by God - or had become the Devil's own plaything.
The main characters...
1 - Juliet Tung.
2 – Regina Ann Valkyrie, 19, This is her first term at Farnham. Philosophy major/Economics minor. It was she who was Alyssa Brinker's secret lover at Islington. It was she who reported Juliet to the Dean there.
3 – Miss Wendy Stocks, 28, aggressive butch. Professor of Physical Education. An excellent footballer (soccer) and field hockey player. She and Juliet share lodgings. Wendy Stocks has a predatory nature with reference to her students. She likes rough sex. A strict disciplinarian. A good coach.
More roles need to be added....Alyssa, Ms Bennett, one or two of the players on the teams Wendy's coaching, a student who has a crush on Juliet, etc...
Miss Juliet Tung, 35 (born in England, father Chinese, mother Italian), was recently appointed head of English there and she's settling into life at Somerset - a far cry from the inner-city institution from which she'd recently been dismissed (although the administration there had been good enough to allow her to quietly resign and avoid a scandal).
The change in setting could not have been in starker contrast. In Islington where she'd taught Art & History, the building was grey and forbidding and the students from the lower middle class.. Farnham College in Somerset was a sprawling late Georgian pile, built on the wealth of its philanthropist founder, the noted feminist writer, Mary Wells-Bryce.
At its core, Farnham projected a sense of academic and artistic achievement. At the same time, it carried with it a spirit of freedom and joy that was evident amongst the five hundred or so undergraduate women there. Juliet felt that very spirit and energy from the first moment she stepped through the huge oak entrance doors and was welcomed by a beaming Dean of Students, Miss Veronica Bennett.
'We're delighted to have you here,' enthused the surprisingly young Ms Bennett. Juliet placed her at just over forty. From her phone calls and letter, she had assumed Ms Bennett would be much older..
'I trust your journey was comfortable?" Her arm rested on the small of Juliet's back, as she delivered the standard introductory speech, the same one she recited for all new, fresh-faced and slightly nervous young professors. Her words, however, were somewhat lost on Juliet, for it surely wasn't all her imagination that the Dean's hand, not a moment before resting in a warmly formal greeting on the small of her back, had changed its angle from the horizontal to one of ninety degrees. Her fingers now seemed to settle, non-threateningly yet oh-so definitely on the upper part of Juliet's buttocks. At the precise moment she could feel her nervousness rise to the surface - and possibly embarrass herself utterly - Ms Bennett gave Juliet's rear a gentle pat and marched forth down the Italian marbled hall. She chimed on and on about how all who came into these venerated walls were indeed blessed by God. Juliet made an inner note that the middle-aged Ms Bennett had certainly been blessed by God. Her long shapely legs almost seemed to glide down the narrow passageways that led off here and there and the roll of her hips took more of her attention than the beautiful oak panels they passed by.
Juliet hoped her own slim figure would be preserved over the years by the gods of Farnham - and that perhaps also the recent past, including her sad, regretful “indiscretion” with young Alyssa Brinker, would be laid to rest and buried under pastures anew. Despite all this, memories of the place from which she'd fled and the near-disaster that was narrowly averted kept churning inside her. Then suddenly, her wandering mind was brought to a halt - just in time - as Ms Bennett swung open a classroom door and gestured for her to enter.
'Ladies. And Miss Elliot,' She said to the Professor at the chalkboard, 'Just popping in for a bit to introduce Miss Juliet Tung. I want you to say a very warm welcome to Miss Tung, our new head of English.'
Swallowing her first-day nerves, Juliet moved two steps forward as the class of fresh-faced 18 and 19-year-olds unisoned their greeting: 'Hello, Miss Tung' and this put her at ease. She smiled and nodded to the twenty or so young women seated there.
And as her gaze moved around the room, taking a mental register of the staring women, her heart skipped a beat and time froze as it does when one falls from a great height. She thought in a panic, 'No, it couldn't be Regina - that was impossible; Regina was many miles behind me now.' Yet out of all the faces that eyed her with that intense curiosity, one eclipsed all the others. It took every ounce of willpower for Juliet to wrench herself back to the situation in hand and to the voice of Ms Bennett.
As they left the classroom, her heart became a kettle drum whose thunderous crashes, she felt, must surely be audible to everyone. She couldn't help but look back as the door slowly closed behind her. All had settled back to attentiveness to the teacher calling out equations to the sound of scraping chalk, but one had not. And it was then that she KNEW it was Regina. Their eyes locked for the briefest of moments - a moment that bespoke volumes more than anything Juliet had heard since arriving at the school.
As she continued the guided tour, it was as if everything and everyone she met along the way were coming from a far-off place. She had no thoughts other than the vision that had just presented itself before her. She thought of the next day - of her first day with her new charges. She was terrified and excited in equal measure and as she was shown into her new lodgings - a shared room with another unmarried professor - her only thought was to run back to London as fast as her legs could carry her.
Instead, she unpacked, laid out her clothes neatly and took from a discreet compartment the photograph that would remain with her until the day she died. Huge brown eyes looked back at her and, as ever when she gazed at Alyssa's portrait, her expression seemed to speak directly to Juliet's heart. This afternoon, it simply said: "Hello. I miss you. Are you being my good pet?"
In the end, she resolved to stay: to see what this new world had in store for her. To see if she had truly been blessed by God - or had become the Devil's own plaything.
The main characters...
1 - Juliet Tung.
2 – Regina Ann Valkyrie, 19, This is her first term at Farnham. Philosophy major/Economics minor. It was she who was Alyssa Brinker's secret lover at Islington. It was she who reported Juliet to the Dean there.
3 – Miss Wendy Stocks, 28, aggressive butch. Professor of Physical Education. An excellent footballer (soccer) and field hockey player. She and Juliet share lodgings. Wendy Stocks has a predatory nature with reference to her students. She likes rough sex. A strict disciplinarian. A good coach.
More roles need to be added....Alyssa, Ms Bennett, one or two of the players on the teams Wendy's coaching, a student who has a crush on Juliet, etc...
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