Mary was the student president at her college which brought with it many duties and responsibilities alongside her studies. For instance, she'd just spend two hours in an appeal meeting arguing against fines imposed on students who had parked in the staff car park. This despite the fact that the college had recently closed the student carpark for a commercial event they were hosting.

Luckily the argument had gone her way and the college had finally seen sense. Unfortunately, the appeal had taken rather a long time to hear and she was running late for her next meeting, confirming the arrangements for the student charity event at the end of the month. In fact, she arrived in the room only as the meeting was breaking up.

"So that's all agreed then" the student vice president announced.

And with that people behind filed out of the room, many of them smirking at Mary as they passed her by. Mary was starting to suspect that something was going on she didn't know about and was intrigued to discover what had been discussed. She hastily grabbed the notes of the meeting from the committee secretary and scanned them over.

The notes appeared to be pretty standard until she got to the final paragraph about the event, it appeared that Mary had been volunteered for a special role. If they broke their previous record for donations, then she was to be gunged in public.

"Sorry" the secretary said.

Mary wasn't best pleased with the idea but couldn't see any way to avoid it. Maybe they wouldn't raise the money needed, although that was highly doubtful as each year had proved more successful than the one before. In any case she reasoned, it could hardly be worse than a two-hour meeting with the college management.

So, resigning herself to her likely fate, Mary decided that if she was to be humiliated in public then it was only fair that some of the other student committee members were as well. All it took were a couple of phone calls to the right people and a threat to the secretary that if she didn't keep her mouth shut then she'd be joining Mary for the gunge and it was sorted.

* * *

As the day of the charity event arrived, the student committee were shocked to discover Mary's machinations. She'd kept her promise to the committee secretary and kept her out of it. Also, Frank the group's treasurer avoided Mary's ire as apparently he'd been the only one to vote against her gunging. However, Alisha and Hazel weren't so lucky.

Alisha was the events officer who had first raised the idea of the charity gunging. Hazel was the vice president of the committee and the person to "volunteered" Mary for the gunging. Mary didn't know Alisha particularly well outside of the committee, but Hazel was one of her best friends.

"Follow me" Mary commanded the pair of them.

Mary led them through the park where they were holding the event and over towards a set of stocks. In front of the stocks was a large plastic tub filled with cold water within which were floating several sponges. Mary got Alisha to place her head and hands through the appropriate holes and locked her in place. Then came the fun part.

A queue had already formed and for a pound each they got to throw a sponge. The first couple of people missed their target but the third one hit Alisha directly in the face to Mary's great delight. She watched the events officer getting repeatedly pounded by wet sponges for a few minutes before turning her attention to her friend.

"Now for you" Mary stated.

Mary matched Hazel over to a dunk tank. It consisted of a large perspex tank above which a seat was suspended. Beside the tank was a target and in front were buckets filled with tennis balls. Whilst Hazel reluctantly took her place above the tank, Mary started drumming up customers. First in the line was Hazel's own boyfriend Liam.

Liam was the star bowler for the college cricket team. So, it came as no surprise when his first ball struck the target dead centre and Hazel was plunged into the tank. Mary laughed as she saw her drenched friend emerge from the water, but the laughter didn't last long as she realised that it would soon be her turn to be humiliated.

* * *

Mary was somewhat nervous as she made her way up to the stage as the charity event was drawing to a close. Most of the stalls had already shut down and there was now a large crowd gathered for the final announcement and her almost certain gunging. In preparation, Mary had changed clothes and was dressed in a student committee t-shirt beneath which she wore her swimming costume.

Alisha and Hazel were already on stage, having dried themselves off from their unexpected watery fates. Alisha thanked everyone for coming and explained a little about the local charity that would be the beneficiary of this year's event. Hazel then went on to announce that not only had they raised more money than last year, but they had smashed their previous record.

"And we all know what that means!" Alisha declared.

To the cheering of the crowd, four guys from the football team carried an old tin bath up on to the stage. The rest of the team, all seven of them, then one-by-one brought on buckets filled with various messy substances which they placed on the stage beside the bath. As the team left the stage, Alisha and Hazel forced Mary to get in the bath and sit down.

Mary had expected them to pour a bucket of coloured foam over her or maybe two but, it appeared that a worse fate awaited her. She looked anxiously at the buckets surrounding her and wondered what was in them. Mary didn't have long to wait as Hazel picked up one of them and moved over to stand beside her.

"I've been looking forward to this" Hazel stated.

Hazel lifted the bucket above Mary's head and slowly tipped it over her. A stream of dark brown watery liquid gushed out and impacted against the top of Mary's head before flowing down her face and over her chest. The liquid soaked into her t-shirt and Mary smelt a meaty aroma coming from it.

Next up was Alisha who selected one of the other buckets and upended over Mary. Thick porridge descended upon the student president and impacted against her head and shoulders. It felt awful and Mary wanted nothing more than to jump out of the bath and run to the showers. But it was clear that her fellow committee members weren't finished yet.

Hazel picked up another bucket and showed its content to the crowd, who reacted with a mixture of laughter and disgust. Mary didn't know what was in the bucket, but she cringed instinctively as her friend leaned over her and emptied its contents, which turned out to be baked beans, all over her. Mary hated baked beans and she was pretty sure that Hazel knew that.

"Eww!" Mary exclaimed.

Alisha followed up the beans with a bucket brimming with custard. Rather than tipping it over Mary's head, as the previous buckets had been, she instead poured the runny substance over Mary's feet before moving up her body to cover her legs, hips, midriff and chest. Alisha then threw the remaining custard into Mary's face.

As Mary tried to clear the custard from her face, she felt something else being tipped over her. It turned out that Hazel had picked up a bucket containing mushroom soup and was busily pouring it over her, to the encouragement of the watching crowd. However, Mary certainly didn't share their enthusiasm.

"Just two buckets left" Alisha stated.

Mary was relieved that her ordeal was coming to an end but, there were still two buckets left. The penultimate one contained a mixture of stewed fruits which Alisha tipped over Mary's head. The mixture was sweet and sticky, and Mary wondered how many times she'd have to wash before she got the stuff out of her hair. That was assuming it ever came out.

The final bucket contained cottage cheese which Hazel took great delight in tipping over Mary. The lumpy substance covered her completely and see could only imagine what she looked like. But Hazel wasn't quite finished with Mary's humiliation as she took the mostly empty bucket and dropped it down on top of her head.

"Let's give it up for our student president!" Hazel shouted out.

Mary removed the bucket from her head to cheers and laughter from the gathered crowd. Hazel and Alisha made sure to keep their distance from Mary just in case she sought to fling any of the mess at them. But Mary was too focused on trying to get out of the bath and make her escape to the showers.

The end.