REAL Old Fashioned: a BMW & GMW Spanking Story

BONUS PRESTORY CHAPTER

Title: Boys Don't Cry (or Jonathan Turner spanks Shawn for the first time)

A/N: First time John ever spanks Shawn, and the aftermath. This story should hopefully come across as more fluff and nurturing than anything else. John takes the tone of John in the Boy Meets World episode where he explains to Shawn what girls like and how to treat them (after Shawn has a struggle with a girl). Sort of gentle and almost apologetic sounding, while also correcting (for post spanking). I don't know. We shall see how this works out! (FYI. I made Shawn here to be about age 13, sort of in line with a time just before this  book, if I remember right.)

Disclaimer—I wrote this on a whim. Felt like I've been seeing lots of dark stuff in real life and it has been manifesting in my writing for too long now. Writing had become my therapy, relieving but also a trauma dump. I said that it was relatable content, and maybe it was, but I don't know if I liked how I wrote some of the characters in my Boy Meets World fan fictions (for reasons including that I don't think John and Shawn would have been the way that I wrote them in the show, apart from just the obvious stilted writing from being an inexperienced writer).

BIG THANKS to Ellie226 (on ao3) for opening my eyes about this. And also to o0_LS_0o, my co-writer of an in progress original work, for showing me the obvious—that writing can be cathartic but also traumatizing for readers :)

Long story short: Hope this feels wholesome and fluffyyyyyy—

Actual story—

Events leading up to the punishment (in the past):

Shawn, with his curfew having been bumped from 7pm to 8pm on school nights, took it upon himself to celebrate this victory by seeing if he could bump it later, or erase it altogether. He expressed to his best friend that since he was thirteen—an actual teenager now—that Jonathan had bumped his curfew. This was true. He also stated that Jonathan was insistent he come home for a proper night's rest, being that it was a school night. This was true too. But Shawn didn't like that. The man had been too strict and needed to lighten up. Come on, Cory's curfew was later, a whole hour later—and in fact, he was a teenager, and the man should know that teenagers shouldn't even be having curfews. Cory agreed, even though he himself would never dare to defy his own parents on the matter. Shawn and Cory both assumed very wrongly that night, that Jonathan was the super cool and hip teacher, but everyone has another side to them—a line you just don't cross.

So—Cory told his parents that John said it was okay for Shawn to spend the night. His parents had been suspicious at first, but Shawn had insisted that he had already let his guardian know (which he in fact did not).

Shawn assumed that John really wasn't serious about that new curfew of 8 o' clock. Come on now, the dude was thirteen–a full fledged teenager. Well, his world was about to be shaken, and his view of his new cool and hip guardian was about to be totally changed. This happened when Cory had gotten all nervous and fidgety, and Shawn had realized he screwed up by making his friend lie about this with him. He should have known not to make Cory lie. Poor kid didn't have it in him, and it's not like this same scenario hadn't happened multiple times before.

Basically, Cory tattled. He told his parents that Shawn was supposed to be at home and tried convincing them not to talk to Turner about this, promising he'd make Shawn leave. And Cory pranced back up the stairs to his room to be with Shawn, assuming his parents agreed (they did not).

Shawn was oblivious to this whole thing. He did not know Cory tattled. And neither boy knew Alan and Amy would inform Jonathan on the matter. The only sign he had that something was amiss was how nervous Cory was acting. By this point, it was nearing 10:30pm, and Cory finally decided to push Shawn out the door, making the excuse that he was feeling sick and didn't want to spread it. Shawn didn't buy this but didn't want to argue, just in case. Cory, making good on his promise with his parents, made sure to be visible to them when kicking Shawn out. So, the boy escorted Shawn to the living room and made him walk out the front door. Cory's parents smiled and waved as they walked past, making Cory assume they were on the same page and trusted him to deal with it.