Looking Back...a “Missy” Story (M/ff)

(c) 2001 by Sampast

 

(This story is dedicated to Rosso, Meggie, Tamalie, A.J., Jimmy, and Cathy.  In my heart and in my memories, you will never be forgotten.)

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Melissa parked the car across the street.  She got out slowly.  After she opened the trunk and removed the stroller, she gently lifted the carrier and popped it into place.  Melissa looked down at the baby and smiled.  She hadn’t even woken up.

 

Melissa couldn’t believe she was a grownup.  Grown up, and married, and now with a baby.  She looked across the street at the old house and smiled.  She had so many memories of this house.

 

Pushing the stroller, she walked across the street and stood staring.  The people that lived here wouldn’t be home now; it was the middle of the day.  They would be at work.  Melissa was off now, staying home with the baby.  She loved it; being a mommy really suited her.  Of course, she had had one of the greatest examples.

 

Christine had been the best mommy in the world.  Sure she had been strict, but when you’re raising five kids, you had to be.  Melissa sat on the stoop and thought back to all the fun she and her brothers and sisters had had growing up.  Baking cookies with Mommy; doing work in the yard with Daddy.

 

Daddy.  David had been the best daddy in the world.  Still was.  Melissa smiled thinking of them down in sunny Florida.  As soon as their last kid was out of the house, they sold it and bought a one-way ticket to Florida.  David had finally retired last year after Katie graduated from college.

 

Katie.  Missy’s favorite sister.  Not that she didn’t love Debbie; of course she did.  But Missy and Katie just connected; had since the first time Missy saw Katie.  They were still close.  Katie had just moved out to Colorado with her boyfriend.  Missy knew they were planning on getting married as soon as they had saved enough money.

 

Debbie was single and enjoying every minute of it.  She was in New York, trying to make it big on Broadway.  Oh, could she act!  Always could, Missy thought.  She laughed out loud now at the scrapes Debbie was always getting into; always getting them all into.

 

Billy was a carpenter.  He was married now, raising four boys.  Four boys.  Can you imagine?  But he had learned from the best, too, and was doing a great job.  Missy had just seen her nephews a few weeks before, and they were wonderful.

 

Joey was very successful.  He worked in Pennsylvania as an attorney.  He was married, now, too.  He and his wife had two little girls, Kimmie and Beth.  They were four and seven.  The same ages that Missy and Katie had been all those years ago.  Missy thought back, remembering.

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Before she knew it, Missy was seven again.  She and Katie were playing in the playroom.  Mommy was out in the yard with Debbie and the boys.  Daddy was away.  Katie was missing him something awful, and so was Missy.  They sat at the little table in the playroom and thought up ways to see Daddy again.

 

“I want Daddy now!” Katie said sadly.

 

“Mommy said he’ll be home tomorrow; that’s not too bad,” Missy said.

 

“UH HUH, it’s too far away, Missy.  I want him NOW!” she screamed.

 

“But he’s all the way in Michigan.  I don’t even know where that is.”

 

“We could take a bus.  Da bus driver’d know where he is,” Katie spoke up.

 

“Yeah, he would know,” Missy said, looking across the table at her little sister.  “But how would we get to the bus?”

 

The two girls thought and thought for a long time.  “Wait, I know,” Missy said.  “There’s a bus on the corner that goes to the mall.  We could take that one.”

 

“An’ we’d get to Daddy?” Katie asked.

 

Missy shrugged her shoulders.  “I dunno; maybe.  We can try.  Come on, let’s go!” she said.

 

“Yeah!” Katie shouted. 

 

Both girls ran to their room.  They took their bookbags and threw a few toys in, along with a nightgown and a pair of panties.

 

They ran downstairs, peeked into the backyard and saw their mommy working in the garden.  They saw Debbie and Joey pulling up weeds, and Billy was raking leaves.

 

Missy smiled at her lil sis as they walked to the front door.  They opened it up and stepped outside.  Katie stopped.

 

“What’s wrong, sis?” Missy asked.

 

“We not sposed to leave da yard, Missy.  We gonna get to trouble.”

 

“Yeah, but we’re going to get Daddy.  He won’t be mad when we get there.”

 

“Okay,” Katie said, taking Missy’s hand.  The two girls walked to the corner.

 

At the same time as the girls left the house, Joey had gone into the house to get a drink.  He saw the front door open and went to investigate.  He saw his sisters leave the yard.  He didn’t know if he’d have time to go back and tell Mommy and still catch up with them or not, so he decided to follow them without telling his mother.

 

Joey caught up with his sisters when they got to the corner.  “Missy!  Katie!  What are you two doing?”

 

Both girls jumped.  Missy turned and saw her brother.  “Joey, go home, we’re fine!” Missy yelled.

 

“What do you mean? What do you think you’re doing?  You know you’re not supposed to go nowhere without telling anyone,” he said.

 

Katie giggled.  “You sound like Mommy.”

 

“Well, Mommy will not be happy either, Katie.  Missy, you should know better, bringing Katie here.  You’re both gonna be in big trouble.  What are you doing now?”

 

Missy looked at Katie and then back at her brother.  “We’re going to find Daddy.”

 

Joey was confused.  “How’re you gonna do that? Daddy’s on a business trip to Michigan.”

 

“We’s gonna take da bus to Mishagin,” Katie explained.

 

“What bus?” Joey asked.

 

Just then, the A47 bus that went to the mall pulled up at the curb.  Missy and Katie started to walk for it, but Joey put out his hand and stopped them.

 

“Missy, you can’t,” he expressed.  “Besides this bus goes to the mall, not Michigan.”

 

“It not take us to Daddy?” Katie asked, starting to cry.

 

“There they are!”

 

Joey, Missy and Katie jumped.  It was Daddy’s voice.  But how could they hear Daddy? Daddy was in Michigan.  All three turned to the sound of the voice; Daddy and Billy were across the street.

 

“Daddddddddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyy!” Katie yelled, starting to go to him.  She stepped right off the curb and into the street before Missy or Joey could stop her.

 

Daddy ran across the street and picked her up quickly.  He smacker her rear once very sharply and said, “NO!”

 

Katie started to cry and looked up at her daddy.  She had missed him so much and had wanted to see him so badly, that she had risked leaving the yard to take a bus, and now that he was here, he had smacked her.  Katie didn’t know what to do.

 

David picked her up then and held her close to him.  “My god, Kaitlyn, you scared Daddy half to death!”

 

Katie continued to cry.  She figured she was in big trouble, but wasn’t sure for what.  Missy walked over to Daddy then, with Joey close behind.  David hugged both of them and then released them.  He still held Katie in his arms.

 

“You three have some explaining to do,” he said.  “Let’s go home.  Your mother’s worried sick.”

 

The five of them walked home in silence.  It wasn’t a very far walk, but to Missy it seemed endless.  She knew that some kind of punishment awaited her when she got home.

 

“Oh, thank god!” Christine said when she saw David round the corner with all the kids.  She ran to the sidewalk and hugged each child.  She took Katie out of David’s arms and hugged her tight.  “Let’s go inside.”

 

Billy took Debbie up to the playroom.  They were the only ones not in trouble at the moment.  David sat down on the couch with Christine, while Joey, Missy, and Katie stood in front of them.

 

“Well, who’s going to start talking?” Christine asked.

 

Joey spoke up.  “Mommy, when I came in to get a drink of water, I saw the front door open.  Then I went out front and saw Missy and Katie walking down the sidewalk.  I knew if I went to get you that when we got back, they would be gone, so I just followed them.  I didn’t know what else to do.”  Joey stopped talking and looked at his parents.

 

David and Christine exchanged a look.  “Well, son, that probably was best,” Daddy said.  He looked at his wife.  “There really wasn’t anything else he could have done.  If he had gone to tell you, they could have gone anywhere.”

 

Christine nodded.  “All right, Joey, we won’t punish you for this.  We’re glad you found your sisters.”  She turned to Missy then.  “All right, young lady, you have a lot of explaining to do.  What were you thinking of, leaving the house and the yard without permission?”

 

“And what were you doing at the bus stop, Melissa Erin?” David asked.

 

“The bus stop?!  That’s where they were?”

 

David nodded.  Missy looked at Katie and then up at both her parents.  She wasn’t sure what to say. 

 

Katie spoke up.  “We was gonna find you, Daddy.  We was gonna take da bus to Mishagin.”

 

Christine sighed.  “Kaitlyn, didn’t Mommy tell you that Daddy would be home tomorrow?”

 

Katie just nodded.  “But we misseded him today, Mommy!”

 

“Well, then it’s a good thing I came home a day early, isn’t it?” David asked, chuckling lightly.  Christine just gave him a look.

 

Missy and Katie nodded.  “I’m sorry we left the yard, Daddy.  We just wanted to see you so bad.”

 

“Well, Melissa, now you’re going to see me up in your room.  Go on now; I will be right up.”

 

Missy bit her lip and said, “Yes, sir.”  She knew that Daddy was going to spank her.  There was no point in asking if that was what was going to happen.

 

She stood up and walked slowly up the stairs.  She unpacked her bookbag and Katie’s.  Daddy came in a minute later, holding Katie.  He deposited her down on the bed.

 

“I know you girls missed me, but what you did was very naughty.  Do you understand why?” David asked the two girls gently.

 

Both girls nodded.  “We leaved da yard wifout telling Mommy.”

 

“Yes, you did.  And why shouldn’t you do that?”

 

“Cuz you don’t know where we are, and something bad could happen to us,” Missy said.

 

“Yes, Melissa, that’s correct.  You seem to know the rule very well, but when it comes down to following it, you have a problem.  I’m going to spank both of you and you will be grounded the rest of the weekend.  Is that understood?”

 

“Yes, sir,” Katie said sadly.  “Yes, Daddy,” Missy replied.

 

“Okay, Melissa, I’m going to take Katie into mine and Mommy’s room and then I will be back to speak to you,” David said, standing up.  He lifted Katie up and carried her into his bedroom.

 

Once there, he sat down on his bed and put Katie on the floor in front of him.  He reached down and pulled the little girl’s pants and panties down.  “I don’t like to have to punish you my first day back, sweetheart, but what you and your sister did was very naughty.  Do you understand?”

 

“Yes, Daddy, is okay,” she said.  “I know we was bad.”

 

David paused.  “No, sweetie, you weren’t bad.  But what you did was wrong.  And that’s why Daddy is here, to teach you the difference between right and wrong.  Got it?”

 

Katie nodded.  Then David lifted her over his lap and started to spank her.  He didn’t need to alternate cheeks, as his hand fit her entire bottom.  He smacked it about two dozen times, giving a few extra swats to her sitspot.  She wiggled a little, but mostly took her spanking like a big girl.  She knew it would all be over soon and that she would be his sweet little teddybear again.

 

When he was finished, he raised her pants and panties and pulled her up into his lap.  He held her tight to him and rubbed her bottom.  “Daddy loves you, sweetheart, and I don’t want anything to happen to you ever.  When you walked off that curb, my heart just about fell out.  That was very dangerous, Kaitlyn Rose.  Please promise Daddy you won’t ever do that again.”

 

“I not, Daddy, I pwomise.  I not mean to scare you,” Katie said, crying.

 

“Oh, sweetie, it’s okay, now.  Everything is all okay.”

 

David held Katie for a long time until she fell asleep in his arms.  Then he laid her down on his bed and tucked the blankets up around her.  He watched her sleeping peacefully as he headed down the hall, back to Missy.

 

“Melissa?”

 

Missy turned around.  She had been facing the wall.  As she turned, there were tears sliding down her face.  “Oh, baby!” David said, coming over to her.  Missy put her head in her daddy’s lap and cried, while he rubbed her back.

 

“I’m sorry, Daddy.  What I did and let Katie do was so stupid and dangerous.  Will you ever forgive me?”

 

“Of course, baby.  But you know what must happen first, don’t you?”

 

Missy nodded.  “Yes, sir,” she said, standing up.  She stood in front of her daddy and said, “I’m ready.”

 

David looked down at her.  “Tell me why you’re getting this spanking, Melissa Erin.”

 

“Cuz I left the house and the yard without permission, and walked to the bus stop.  And cuz I took Katie with me.  And we could have gotten hurt or taken.”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

“I won’t ever do it again, Daddy.”

 

“I hope not, Melissa.  You worried Mommy half to death.  And when I came home and we couldn’t find you girls and Joey, we were so scared.”

 

Missy nodded.  David put her over his lap, pulling down her pants and panties at the same time.  He raised his hand and started to spank her bottom real hard.  He alternated cheeks as he lectured.

 

“You will NEVER {SMACK!} {SMACK!} leave the house {SMACK!} {SMACK!} or the yard {SMACK!} {SMACK!} without permission again.  {SMACK!} {SMACK!} It is against our rules {SMACK!} {SMACK!} and very dangerous.”

 

The spanking went on and on.  Missy must have gotten a hundred spanks...or at least that’s what it felt like to her.  Finally, her daddy was slowing down.

 

{SMACK!} {SMACK!} “I hope you are learning {SMACK!} {SMACK!} a good lesson, young lady!”  {SMACK!} {SMACK!}

 

“Owwww, yes, sir, I ammmmmmm!” Missy cried, trying to wiggle away from Daddy’s smacks.

 

But David was quick and he held her down firmly as he finished up the spanking.  He delivered five quick hard smacks to her tender sitspot.

 

{SMACK!} {SMACK!} {SMACK!} {SMACK!} {SMACK!}

 

Then he helped her up.  Missy cried into her daddy’s chest.  “I’m so sorry, Daddy.  Don’t hate me!”

 

“Oh, Missy, Daddy could never hate you.  What you did was wrong and it was dangerous.  But you’ve been punished and now you’re forgiven.  I love you very much, baby.”

 

“Forever, Daddy?”

 

“Forever and ever,” David said, reassuring her.

 

Missy smiled.  All was right again in her world.  She was in her Daddy’s arms and she was safe and loved.

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Then she heard crying.  She couldn’t figure out who was crying.  It sounded too young to be Katie.  After all, Katie was four.

 

“Excuse me, ma’am, can I help you?” a voice asked.

 

“What? Huh?” Melissa looked up.  There was a strange older man standing on her front stoop.

 

“Um, you’re sitting in front of my house,” the man said, “and I was wondering if there was something I can help you with.  By the way, your baby is crying.”

 

Melissa jumped up.  Ohmigod, she had forgotten where she was.  Forgotten she was a grown up now.  She reached down and picked the baby up and held her tight to her chest. 

 

She looked at the man.  “I, uh, well,” Melissa tried.  Then she smiled.  “I used to be Melissa Ross.  I used to live here.”

 

“Ohhhh!” the man said, putting out his hand.  The two shook.  “Well the last time I saw you, you were knee high to a grasshopper.”

 

“Yeah,” Melissa said laughing.  “I was in the neighborhood and thought I’d drop by to see the old house.  I guess I got caught up in my daydream,” she stated, putting the baby back down in the carrier.

 

“Yeah, it’s always fun to look back,” the man said.  “But what’s really great is what’s ahead.”

 

Missy looked at the man, and then smiled down at the baby.  “I think you’re right.  Thank you!” she said.

 

Melissa pushed the stroller back to the car.  The future.  That’s definitely what was important now.

 

The end.

Series finale

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