2 comments/ 31293 views/ 28 favorites The Principal Ch. 01 By: jesswills Introduction: In the not too distant future almost all men have become infertile. This has led to great conflict and has resulted in a very different world. In England the political system and cities have collapsed. There has been a return to a much more feudal system in which men behave like men and women are treated like women. There are only a handful of men who remain fertile. Each of these men has established a 'finishing school' for girls. On their eighteenth birthday girls are sent to the finishing schools. Here they attend classes to assist them in their duties. Ultimately each girl hopes to fall pregnant to the Principal at which point they graduate and can be sold off as a husband to an infertile man... Chapter One Melanie sat anxiously in the Principal's waiting room. She crossed and uncrossed her legs in nervous anticipation. The school skirt that she had been given was far too short and it rode up well past the middle of her thighs as she sat on the low wooden bench. Three schoolgirls entered the room and Melanie shyly looked them up and down. The first was a very short slight Asian with a pleated grey skirt that barely covered the bottom curve of her ass. She was just beginning to show as pregnant with her rounded tummy peeking out between her white buttoned blouse and the top of her waistband. She was closely followed by two tall full breasted blondes who were clearly sisters, if not twins. Each girl wore a cloth band clasped firmly around their necks. Melanie's was a soft ivory colour but the others were made from different colours and patches of cloth. "Ohh a virgin!" exclaimed the Asian, as she slouched next to Melanie. Her bare thigh pressed up against Melanie making her feel hot an uncomfortable. "Don't be shy sweetie" continued the pregnant girl - " I'm sure he'll stick his big cock in you and pump his hot cum up your tight cunt before you know it. Then you'll be knocked up like the rest of us." Melanie drew back in shock, her colour rising in embarrassment. She stammered and looked questioningly at the blondes. "Yeah, we're up the duff too." Confirmed the taller of the girls. She fingered a red stripe on her multi-coloured collar. "You'll learn to read the girls collars in time. Red means you're preggo. I'm Sophie." "I'm Melanie" "This is my sister Jane, and this vulgar little slut is Teal" replied Sophie. Teal smiled wickedly at Melanie, Jane just rolled her eyes. The girl's introductions were interrupted by the secretary who announced that the Principal was ready to see them now. "All of us?" asked Melanie. "Yes - he said it would be appropriate for you to watch." The secretary stood to open the door into the Principal's office and Melanie's eyes widened to see that her skirt was ridiculously short. It was barely a white lacy frill that extended below a narrow white elastic belt. Her navy blue thong was clearly visible beneath the lace and was bulging to contain her pussy lips. Melanie looked up and again blushed guiltily as her eyes met the secretary's gaze. The Principal's office was very large and imposing. Soft rugs covered sections of the polished hardwood floors. A fire crackled noisily in the corner and there were several plush couches scattered around the room. The secretary's high heels clicked noisily as she directed Melanie to sit on a tall stool. Jane, Sophie and Teal were led to a long but narrow desk close to the fireplace. Melanie watched in fascination as the girls stood facing the desk, side by side with their hips touching. There were a series of straps attached to the edge of the desk. The secretary used them to fasten each of the girls' upper thighs firmly to the edge of the desk, the leather strap tightly clasped just below their ass cheeks. The girls were then instructed to bend over the desk and another strap on the top of the desk was fastened across their lower backs. Melanie noted that the top of the desk in front of Teal had a shallow groove dug out that accommodated her rounded womb. The secretary lifted each girls skirt in turn to reveal their bare curved buttocks and from Melanie's vantage point she could clearly see the smooth hairless outer lips of her classmate's dripping cunts. Of course no school girl was permitted to wear underwear. Melanie's eyes were completely glued to the sight glistening in the firelight before her so she gasped in shock when she felt the strong arms of a man grasp her hips from behind. "Do you like what you see Melanie?" asked the Principal. His breath was hot and wet in her ear and his stubble was rough against the skin of her cheek. "Yes sir" she admitted quietly. "Why do you think they are here?" Melanie was finding it hard to think. It was the first time a man had held her like this. He felt so strong and firm and possessive and he smelt so different. "Well they're already pregnant aren't they, sir, so they can't be ovulating." she said. "You made them pregnant, didn't you?" "Yes Melanie - I did." He confirmed. "You're one of the only ones left who can do it, aren't you, sir." "That's right Melanie - do you want me to make you pregnant now too?" Melanie bit her lip and tried to concentrate. His hands had moved from her hips around her stomach until they were just millimetres above her soft pubic hairs. She felt like he already knew everything about her body better than she did. "I don't think I'm ready to be pregnant, but I'm 18 now, so I have to come to school." "I like your honesty Melanie, but if you fail to address me as sir again I'll strap you down next to Jane." He stated, with an edge to his voice. "I'm so sorry sir, I'm new, it won't happen again sir." She stammered nervously. The Principal walked around in front of Melanie and she only had a moment to take in his height, his short cropped black hair and his smartly tailored suit before he strode off to speak with his secretary. He handed her a short leather strap and made his way around to the far side of the table. He stood with his legs braced slightly apart directly in front of Sophie. Sophie's hands were flat on the desk and she was able to arch her back against the strap and bring her head up so that it was nearly vertical. Her pert breasts were spilling out from her blouse and the Principal looked down at her sternly. "So Melanie, why do you think these girls are here strapped to my desk?" "The must have broken one of the school rules and they need to be punished, sir." Melanie replied with a tremor in her voice. "That's exactly right, isn't it Sophie?" "That's right, sir" replied Sophie thickly, her voice sounding strangely ragged to Melanie. For Sophie of course the Principal's cock was mere inches from her face and straining against his trousers. It had been two months since Sophie had been filled by his enormous shaft. The last time she'd had it she had been ovulating and he had filled her slippery cunt with his cum until it overflowed down her ass crack. Sophie remembered how he'd lifted her hips up off the desk to make sure his seed didn't spill but there had been so much, and his cock had filled her so completely that she hadn't been able to take it all. When he saw it running down over her anus he had been so angry at the waste that he had forced the secretary lick out Sophie's ass and spit the excess cum back where it belonged. Sophie moaned slightly as the unbidden memory moistened her cunt in expectation. The Principal unzipped his pants and his meat swung free, the bulbous head brushing briefly against Sophie's chin. Melanie gasped at the size of it, it seemed impossibly large and she felt naked fear at the prospect of being fucked for the first time by something so huge. Sophie parted her lips and gazed up at the Principal, seeking permission before gently taking the head of his still flaccid cock into her wet mouth. She began licking and sucking eagerly, but it was not long before his shaft had swollen so much that it was all Sophie could do to open her mouth wide enough to fit his head between her white teeth. He stepped back and repositioned Sophie's head into a better angle and began to push his cock in and out between her lips. "Sophie" He began to lecture as he slowly fucked her open mouth "you have broken our 8th school rule. What is the 8th rule Sophie?" Sophie struggled to reply and gasp for breath in between his thrusts. "Schoolgirls only . . . orgasm . . . . when the. . . . Principal . . . . says." She managed at last. Melanie found herself mouthing the words along with Sophie, but at the same time she realised she had been rubbing her own clit in arousal and in defiance to that very rule. The Principal withdrew and nodded to the secretary who began to spank Sophie without warning. Sophie cried out and wriggled against the straps while the Principal moved on to Teal. If anything Teal had more difficulty accommodating his raging cock in her sassy little mouth. But she managed in the end, but from where Melanie was watching Teal only seemed to be taking a third of his shaft at most into her mouth before she would gag and come up gasping for air. The Principal moved on to Jane and repeated the treatment that her sister had enjoyed while the secretary moved on to Teal. Sophie's ass was bright red and would clearly be tender for some time. The Principal returned to stand in front of Sophie. "Please put it in my pussy sir" she whimpered. He held out his hand to the secretary who gave him a tube of lubricant. Melanie saw Sophie smile blissfully in anticipation and rest her head on the desk. He lathered his raging rock with the lube and then lifted Sophie's head of the desk by her hair. She parted her lips in surprise and then shock as he force fed his slimy meat against the back of her throat. Melanie squirmed to see how Sophie's back arched as if to gag but he just kept pushing until his sopping wet cock slipped down her throat and her nose was hard up against his pubic hair. Sophie's eye's bulged and she struggled for air. In one fluid motion he withdrew his whole cock. Sophie gasped and then he slammed it back in. Melanie began to rub herself furiously as she watched Sophie getting her face completely pounded. She couldn't believe that he had lubed up his cock to force Sophie to deep throat. Just as Melanie was getting close to cumming the Principal looked up and caught her eye. Melanie stopped, ashamed. "I'm sorry, sir" She cast her eyes down. She heard a wet pop as he pulled Sophie's head from his huge dick. The sound of Sophie's sobs for breath filled the room as the Principal walked softly towards Melanie. "Unstrap them" He said. He stood directly in front of Melanie, she squirmed on the stool, not daring to meet his gaze. "Get on the table" He growled. "Yes sir" she moaned in fright. She hurried to the table, conscious of the slippery wetness soaking her inner thighs. The secretary had already loosened the girls and they stood aside, stretching their sore muscles and rubbing their tanned backsides. "On your back." He ordered. Melanie leapt up onto the table quivering with fright. She was a virgin. This man's cock was far too big. Tears sprang unnoticed or heeded from her eyes. "Sophie, Jane, part her legs. Wider, bend them at the knee, like this, lift her ass up off the desk." His instructions were sharp. Melanie was laid completely bare, her open upturned fertile virgin cunt exposed to the four girls and the Principal. He drank in the sight of her, breathing deeply and pointing his horrendously large cock at her tiny pink entrance. "Teal, part her cunt lips" He ordered. "Yes sir". Melanie felt her small fingers pulling her pussy open, her clit was throbbing, she was so exposed and parted that her tight little ass opened just a fraction. Melanie closed her eyes and felt the surprising softness of the head of her Principal's cock rub against her cunt. She looked down between her pert little breasts and over her pubic mound and whimpered aloud at the sight of his ravaging monstrous cock leaking precum. His hand gripped his shaft tightly and he jerked it - just once. A huge stream of white hot cum shot like a gob of spit straight into her open cunt hole. The girls squealed in excitement and shock as squirt after squirt fired into her upturned pussy. Melanie gasped and wriggled as the thick rivulets of cum pumped with precision, filling her virgin hole with salty seed. His orgasm went on and on. Teal cupped her delicate fingers against Melanie's ass hole to catch the streams of cum and pool them back into her gaping cunt. Melanie's fear at the sight of the Principal's gigantic member turned to frustration as she realised he wasn't actually going to fuck her. His great gobs of white hot juice were going to knock her up and she wasn't even going to get broken in as a woman. She moaned plaintively, but the Principal was already turning away. His secretary was on her knees and he was giving her further instructions while he wiped his still dripping cock across her eager face. Melanie tried to sit up but the twins were firmly holding her thighs up in the air to keep her pussy pointing up while Teal scooped as much cum into her slit as possible. The Principal tucked his receding prick back into his trousers and looked Melanie in the eye. "You're going to cum now, because it makes your cervix open and spasm when you do. That will help my cum fuck you right up and make you pregnant like these girls. Teal, tongue fuck her ass. Miss, straddle her face and lick her clit till she cums." He instructed firmly. "Yes sir." Answered the girls obediently. The secretary stepped out of her navy panties, mounted the desk and lowered her musky clean shaven lips directly onto Melanie's helpless upturned face. The girls breasts rubbed against one another's taught stomachs as the secretary bent forward and began stroking Melanie's exposed clit with her wet, firm tongue. Melanie squirmed and groaned. Her sense of sight and smell were completely swamped by the older woman's cunt juices and when Teal's little Asian tongue began to probe her tight ass she began to shake and shudder. She had no control over herself at all. The secretary rubbed her loins across Melanie's face roughly and Teal forced her tongue deeper into her intimate virgin ass with quick pounding strokes. It took only a minute for Melanie's whole body to spasm in the fiercest orgasm she had ever experienced. Her ass and pussy clenched shut sending the Principal's semen squirting out onto Tea'ls waiting face and mouth. Melanie felt the depths of her cunt tighten and she knew that his cum was splashing all over her cervix and violating her inner most entrance. Eventually the virgin calmed. Her breathing slowed and the other school girls helped her up to her feet. The Principal had already left to attend to other business. To be continued. The Principal Ch. 02 The girls straightened their uniforms and made their way from the Principal's office back into the waiting room. Melanie was uncomfortably aware of the rivulets of cum running down her inner thighs, but without panties or a cloth there was nothing she could do about it. The secretary was already seated behind her desk, entering data into a spreadsheet and seemingly oblivious that just moments before she had been grinding her cunt in Melanie's face. "Collars please." She asked briskly. The girls removed the soft bands from around their necks and handed them over. Jane, Sophie and Teal each received a thin blue thread that indicated that they had been spanked. Sophie was given a purple and white checked strip that meant she had deep-throated the full depth of the Principal's cock. "It's tricky to get that one," said the secretary with a sly grin. She handed Melanie back her plain ivory collar. "Why don't I get anything?" said Melanie incredulously. "Well you're still a virgin – you didn't actually take his cock did you?" replied the secretary tersely. Melanie bowed her head. She was furious. She had been so sexually violated that her legs were still trembling, but it seemed that didn't mean anything. Hot tears and a sense of shame inexplicably overwhelmed her and she turned and fled from the office. In fact it was two weeks before Melanie was called back to the Principal's office. During that time she had settled into a routine at the school. The girls all slept in a large dorm under the mastery of Miss White. During the day they attended classes. Melanie did not mind learning, she enjoyed the cooking and domestic duties lessons, sexual servitude, obedience training and self-presentation were also good. But her favourite class was history, taught by Miss Vanessa Kremp. The girls would learn about the fall and how the men had become infertile because of the disobedience of the women. The history lessons gave Melanie a solid understanding of why it was important to respect the differences between men and women and behave appropriately. It was during an obedience theory lesson that Melanie was called to the Principal's office. She felt a tingle of anticipation when she received the message. She was not the same nervous novice that she was two weeks ago – but she was still very inexperienced. The secretary welcomed Melanie with a thin smile of her full lips. She stood up from behind her desk; today she was just wearing a white lace apron. She had nothing else on and as she turned to lead the school girl into the inner office Melanie could count six bright red lines across the secretary's bare ass. She smiled to think of the older women getting some of what she dished out. The Principal was seated behind his desk and seemed preoccupied with work. "Have you had a period since I saw you Melanie?" He asked without looking up. The question surprised Melanie and she stammered in response. "Um . . no, I haven't." He looked up and raised an eyebrow. He nodded to the secretary and handed her what looked like a white pen. The secretary walked over to Melanie and pulled the cap off the white stick. "Wee on this," she said. "What – why – here?" stuttered Melanie. The secretary dropped to her knees and held the stick out about 2 feet above the hardwood floor. "Don't make me ask you again." She said sternly. "But why? I don't understand." Said Melanie. "Bend over the desk." Responded the secretary. Melanie detected the tone of voice and hurried to obey. Without any preliminaries the secretary began spanking Melanie's exposed ass with her bare hand. "Melanie," said the Principal as he arose from his chair. "It's a pregnancy test. I want you to pee on the stick so that I know if you are pregnant from the cum I shot into your pussy two weeks ago. Do you understand?" "Yes sir. Sorry sir." The slaps from the secretary were relentlessly increasing in intensity. Melanie had been taking her obedience training but she was still unprepared for this. She began to cry out in between spanks and tears began the stream down her face. "Melanie, the very essence of obedience is to do exactly what you are told when you are told to do it without asking why. It is not important for you to understand why I am commanding you to urinate – but it is important that you do it immediately." lectured the Principal. "Yes sir, at once sir, sorry sir" moaned Melanie. The secretary ceased her onslaught and again proffered the stick. Melanie squatted above it and managed to send a golden stream that splashed all over the secretary's hand. 'That'll teach the bitch' she thought. The secretary collected the sample, snapped the lid back in place and slid the test across to the Principal. She took a handkerchief from the top draw to wipe her hand dry and then gave it to Melanie. "Wipe up your mess." Melanie saw no option but to dip the handkerchief in her puddle until it was soaked and then wring it out into the waste paper bin and repeat. By the end both her hands were saturated and she felt thoroughly humiliated. The test was negative. "You present somewhat of a dilemma Melanie," said the Principal. "Why is that, sir?" she replied. "Well part of me desperately wants break in your tight virgin pussy with my thick cock. But part of me loves the idea of just pumping my cum out all over your pussy and knocking you up without giving you the satisfaction of being used as every other woman in this school is used." "What will you do, sir?" she asked meekly. "Again with the questions Melanie," said the Principal sternly. He moved close behind her and pushed her against the desk. She put her hands out on the cool wooden surface to brace herself. "You do not ask me 'why' or 'what will you do' – if you must ask you ask 'how may I best serve you' – have my teachers taught you nothing?" "No sir, they have taught that lesson sir, but I am slow to learn,' admitted Melanie. She was arching her body back against his, her throat felt thick and she was having trouble thinking clearly. She could feel his rigid cock pressing against her bare ass, which was all the more sensitive from the spanking it had received. "So here is my decision." He unbuckled his belt and let his pants fall to the floor. His enormous cock sprang half erect between her legs. He lifted and spun her effortlessly so that she sat perched on the edge of the desk with his manhood pointed squarely at her freshly waxed virgin cunt. Melanie's heart was racing and she couldn't take her eyes of his straining member with its single drop of glistening precum oozing from its purple tip. The Principal stepped aside. She looked up and saw that the secretary was standing in his place, but she had affixed a huge black strap-on between her legs. Melanie's eyes flicked back from the dildo to the Principal's monster cock, the similarity was clear. "That's right Melanie" said the secretary, "every detail is the same, every vein in its right place. But I'm going to fuck you with it." "No, please, ma'am" whimpered Melanie. The Principal stepped back to watch and instructed Melanie to lift up her knees. The secretary coated the cock thickly with lubricant and then pushed the head against Melanie's tightly clenched entrance. "No – I want his cock, give me his cock, don't, ouch" groaned Melanie. "Stop, I'm too tight, don't" she cried. The Principal walked around the desk so that he was behind Melanie. He grasped her arms behind her back firmly and pushed her down against the desk, ensuring that the secretary had full access between her thighs. The secretary held the strap-on against her cunt until eventually it yielded, opened and allowed the head to ease up between her lips. Melanie gasped in pain and then let out a long low moan. The sensation of being completely exposed and split open was indescribable. But the frustration that it was a plastic dildo violating her virginity was maddening. The final humiliation was that it was being wielded by that bitch of a secretary and that filled Melanie with anguish. Still the cock pressed on. Two, three, four, six, seven inches worked their way into Melanie's upturned cunt. Only then did the secretary begin to draw back and start to piston in and out of the virgin. It was a full eleven inches before the rubber balls were slapping on Melanie's bare ass crack and the secretary let out a whoop of satisfaction. Melanie was filled to the brim, but all she could think about was that she was still a virgin. The pain and humiliation of accommodating this brutal dildo in the hands of another woman and yet she was still a virgin. The Principal lay Melanie back on the desk and walked around behind the secretary. She tilted her head back and the two kissed passionately. Melanie could see their tongues intertwining as she looked down the length of her own body. Her tits were heaving and her pubic mound rising up and down in pliable submission to the thrusts of the cock substitute. The Principal lathered his own cock with lubricant and positioned himself behind the secretary. 'Lucky slut' though Melanie. The Principal grasped a fist full of the secretary's hair and pushed her down on top of Melanie. The girls' breasts crushed together and Melanie groaned as the plastic cock sank even deeper into her open, ravaged pussy. The secretary suddenly stiffened and Melanie heard her whimper 'no' softly into her ear. The tip of the Principal's cock brushed against the secretary's impossibly tightly puckered ass. The secretary whimpered and bit her lower lip. Melanie's face was pressed up close to the older woman's and she could plainly see that she was scared. It gave Melanie an idea. "She said no." called out Melanie – dobbing in the older woman with a grin. "What!?" spat the Principal – "I demand impeccable obedience from you Sarah – What did you say?" "Nothing, sir, I didn't say anything sir, I just moaned in this dumb cunt's ear and she didn't hear me properly." "That's not true sir, she said no to you sir, and now she's lying to you sir!" called Melanie from beneath Sarah's heaving breasts. The secretary arched her back, trusting her strap-on as deep as she could into Melanie and squinting with fury at the younger girl. In response Melanie gripped Sarah's ass cheeks and pulled them open to expose her tiny bud to the Principal. He mercilessly thrust his cock straight through her puckered sphincter. Sarah screamed. Melanie parted her own legs and threw back her head in pleasure. The Principal did not allow Sarah room to move or time to recover; he simply worked his enormous member into her firmly clenched back passage. "You're tighter than a fist" he muttered under his breath while tears poured down Sarah's cheeks and dripped into Melanie's mouth. Eventually the whole cock was buried in her ass and Sarah's mouth gasped open in a silent scream. Once he was completely settled the Principal paused and then gripped the Secretary's hips firmly. He kept his prick embedded to the hilt, but he pulled back, taking Sarah with him so that the black dildo began to slide out of Melanie's gaping cunt. Slowly he began to fuck Melanie back and forth, using his secretary and her strap-on like an extension of his own cock. Melanie parted her legs and offered herself up. Each stroke filled her with a sense of intense humiliation and pleasure. The Principal pounded more and more ferociously, slamming the girls together with wet slaps that began to drive Melanie towards the point of orgasm. "Please sir," she began to beg, "please let me cum". "No" He answered firmly, 'my cock isn't actually forcing its way in and out of either of you." He changed his tactic. He thrust strongly so that the black dildo completely penetrated Melanie. Then he forced Sarah's whole body down on top of the younger girl. "Lick out her mouth." He instructed. Neither girl was entirely sure who he was speaking two so they both began to tongue fuck each other's' mouths in an effort to be obedient. Then he drew back and began to work his meat in and out of Sarah's violated ass hole in earnest. Melanie could feel the impact of each thrust and she continued to hold the secretary's cheeks wide open in an attempt to spur the Principal on to greater efforts. Sarah just moaned and grunted as she gave up all resistance. The sensation of his balls slapping against her puffy pussy lips while her ass was utterly ravaged was rapidly driving her to the point of ecstasy and she too began to beg for permission to cum. Instead the Principal suddenly withdrew his cock. He left Sarah's ass gaping open and kneeled up on the table next to the girls' heads. He pointed his shaft at Sarah's face. "Don't swallow, and don't spill" He instructed the secretary as he guided her pouted lips around the tip of his straining erection. Melanie watched from beneath, her cunt clenching tightly around the dildo that Sarah was still absentmindedly slapping into her. Melanie could see the disgust on Sarah's face as she was forced to orally serve the vile cock that had just been shoved up her ass. It did not take the Principal long and again Melanie was stunned at his control. Only the head of his cock was in Sarah's mouth, so Melanie had a good view of his balls tightening and lifting up high in his scrotum. She could see the thick tube on the underside of his shaft swell and contract as he pumped squirt after squirt of hot cum into Sarah's mouth. Her cheeks bulged and her eyes began to water as her mouth was filled to gagging point. Finally the flow stopped and the Principal ran his index finger along the underside of his cock, draining the last of his cream into her mouth. The sight of it was so hot that Melanie was tipped over the edge and began to spasm in orgasm. She tried to stifle it but her body betrayed her. Her cunt contracted uncontrollably and her whole body shook as wave after wave of pleasure erupted from her loins to the tips of her nipples. She oped her eyes anxiously and met the Principal's steely gaze. "I'm so sorry sir, I couldn't help it sir, please sir. . ." "Sarah" instructed the Principal through gritted teeth. "Pull that plastic cock out of this stupid slut and then spit my cum up her cunt while it's still gaping open." Sarah rushed to obey. She slipped out of Melanie's embrace and dropped to her knees before the desk. Melanie felt the rush of cold air on the wet hole between her legs and could tell that her virgin cunt was yawning open and that her muscles had been so widely stretched and her orgasm had been so violent that she lacked the strength to clench shut. The secretary pursed her lips together and sent the stream of cum up into her upturned pussy. In the meantime the Principal looped two ropes around Melanie's ankles and knees and made them fast to beams in the ceiling. He pulled them taught and they lifted her legs up and parted them. Her ass was raised a good two feet off the desk, forcing most of her weight onto her shoulder blades. "That will make sure my cum soaks right through your cervix and stop it running out down your thighs." explained the Principal. Melanie turned her head sideways and rested her cheek on the cool surface of the desk. "Thankyou, sir," she mumbled. The secretary returned with a thin black riding crop. "And this, is for cumming without permission," said Sarah with glee. Six times the crop spanked across Melanie's ass. Leaving six bright red welts. Each time she cried out, but to her shame she felt her cunt tighten in anticipation and pleasure at each stroke. This merely worked his salty seed deeper into her womb. The Principal tucked his softening penis back into his suit pants and returned to his desk to work. The secretary picked up her apron and walked gingerly out of the office. 'I bet her ass is sore' thought Melanie as she drifted gently off to sleep.