I awoke with a face full of pillow. I lifted my face from the moist fabric and felt a shooting pain run through my forehead. Red spots flashed across my vision and I slammed my head back down again.
After a few minutes I was able to roll out of bed and onto the floor. My legs were unstable and I couldn't get up off of all fours, so I crawled to the bathroom. I managed to fill the sink and drag myself up enough to plunge my head under the surface of the cold water. I emerged for breath and sank back to the floor. Cold water dripped down my face, and onto my chest. I looked down. I was naked. I leant my head back and covered my eyes with my hand. What the hell was wrong with me? Why was this happening? It felt like the mother-in-law of all hangovers. I thought back to the previous night. It was so fuzzy. It was the night of Sarah's big charity do. I remembered a hall, with tables and chairs facing a stage. Purple was a common theme across the whole room.
A wave of pain hit me again and I opened my eyes. Ok, this was going to be tricky. I decided to start at the beginning and work my way forward.
Sarah knocked on my door and opened it. She looked stunning. She was wearing a tight scarlet dress, and my eye was immediately drawn to her cleavage. The dress was cut low, with thin straps rising to a halter neck framing her chest perfectly.
'Wow. You look beautiful.' I said. She smiled
'Thank you. You look great too.'
I was wearing the outfit she had picked out for me earlier in the week. I wasn't hugely comfortable in such a formal get-up, but Sarah had allowed me the small mercy of not having to wear a tie.
Sarah stepped towards me, and straightened my collar.
'Perfect,' she smiled again. She really was beautiful. I was lost for words. She grabbed hold of my right arm, 'Shall we?'
We went downstairs. Lauren was waiting for us. She beamed.
'You both look fantastic.' She kissed her daughter on the cheek and smiled again. 'I am so proud of you. I'm sorry I can't come and see all of your hard work.
'It's ok Mum,' Sarah smiled back. We've got a few guys videoing it all, so we can produce a DVD. I'll pick you up a copy.'
Lauren stood staring at her daughter for a few seconds, before turning to the door. 'I'll just go and bring the car around.'
She opened the door and hurried out into the cold darkness. Still clinging to my arm, Sarah looked up at me.
'Are you wearing the. . . other thing?'
'The leopard-skin thong you made me buy?'
'Yeah.' She blushed slightly.
'Absolutely.'
She stood on her toes, and kissed me on the cheek.
'Good.' she said.
'What kind of underwear are you wearing?'
'Underwear? With this dress? No way am I turning up to this do with a visible panty line.' The sound of a horn came from outside, and we hurried to the car.
We sat together in the back seat, Sarah absently rubbing her hand against my thigh. She spent the most part of the journey staring out of the window into the inky blackness of the winter night outside. She was clearly nervous about the event coming up, but I couldn't think of anything to say to ease her tension. Eventually I took hold of her hand, and she turned to look at me. I smiled encouragingly (I hoped) and squeezed her hand a little tighter. She squeezed back, and smiled at me. She understood.
Ten minutes later we slid to a halt outside the student union building. I did the chivalry thing and held the car door open for my date. Lauren blew us a kiss and drove away.
We entered as a couple into the hall, and the overly-purple room with the chairs and tables. Purple table-cloths, purple drapes, purple curtains across the stage off to the right hand side of the large room, with a few people milling about. A waitress passed by with a few glasses of white wine on a tray. I picked two up as she passed, and handed one to Sarah.
'To a wonderful evening.' I raised my glass, and Sarah clinked hers against it. I raised the glass to my lips. . .
And the red spots returned and another wave of pain hit me between the eyes. There was a knock on the door.
'Is everything OK in there?' It was Lauren.
'Yeah,' I winced at the sound of my own voice. 'I think I've got a bit of a hangover.'
'You did get in a bit late last night,' Lauren called through the door, 'Can I get you anything? It's just that other people do need to use the facilities you know.'
'No, no, I'll be out in a second.' I hurriedly dried my face on the towel hanging on the door, stood up gingerly and opened the door. Lauren was standing there in long satin nightshirt that came halfway down her thighs. We looked at each other, and her gaze drifted down my body. I looked down at myself, and remembered my nudity I snatched at the towel on the door and covered myself as quickly as possible.
'No need to be so formal on my account.' Lauren said as she squeezed past me into the bathroom, lightly brushing fingertips against my chest.
'Sorry I-' I started, but Lauren interrupted me.
'No, really it's fine. I wish you'd dress like that more often.' She grinned wickedly at me, and in one movement pushed me backwards out of the bathroom, and snatched the towel from me.
'Mmm-hmm.' She growled looking me up and down. 'Nice.' She slammed the door, setting off rockets in my head. Through the fog, I heard the sound of another door opening somewhere, and I staggered as quickly as I could back to my room.
I lay on my bed, eyes closed, for what seemed like hours. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember any more about last night. Clearly I must have had a bit to drink, but even that was an assumption.
I managed to gather myself enough to get myself together enough to get myself up and downstairs for lunch. Lauren was at the kitchen table drinking coffee, with an empty plate in front of her. She smiled playfully when she saw me.
'You seem a little overdressed.' she giggled at me. I smiled sarcastically at her.
'Sorry about that. I hadn't quite got my head together this morning.'
'Oh, don't apologise. It was a nice surprise. We should do that again sometime.'
As it turned out Sarah had gone out to help clear up after our big night out, and Alison had her usual 'something better to do,' so Lauren and I had the house to ourselves all afternoon. We watched a couple of old movies, and I managed to keep my clothes on for once. Eventually Alison waltzed in, and was soon followed by Sarah.
'Hey guys!' Sarah beamed as she sat down on the arm of my chair. She dumped her bag in my lap, and began rummaging in it. She pulled out a jewel case and flourished it proudly. 'I've got the first DVD of last night.'
'That was quick.' Alison said flatly.
'Yeah, well, it's not edited in any way, it's just the main show from the one camera, but I just wanted you all to see it.'
She jumped up and slotted it into the machine. She sat herself down on the floor, as a stage slowly came into focus on the screen. This was good, it may shake a few memories loose.
It was fairly standard stuff. A band opened up, and played three songs. The audience were clapping along and seemed to be enjoying it. I doubted I was one of them, they seemed a bit flat to me. Anyway, there followed a short 'fashion show' where some young men and women paraded up and down in some stuff they had designed themselves. Again, not really my thing. Then a dance troupe came on. Six girls and two guys in rather skimpy attire prancing around to some Phil Collins number. I enjoyed this one a bit more, but only because the buxom blonde looked as though she was going to spill out over the top of her leotard. There was then a comedy sketch that was actually quite funny, but I recognised a few of the jokes as being lifted from some sitcom or other. Then came the interval, which for us was a momentary blip as the camera shifted position slightly. The curtain rose, and a girl stepped out.
'And now for the second half of the show, we have a very special guest. Please welcome hypnotist Claire Miles!'
She retreated from the stage as the curtain rose and a Young woman stepped out to polite applause.
'Good evening ladies and gentleman. During the interval we asked for a few volunteers, and we managed to get two. Please would you welcome to the stage Alex and Caroline!' There was another polite round of applause as a girl I didn't recognise strode out onto the stage followed rather more gingerly by a hideously familiar figure.
Oh. Crap.
I realised at this point the three girls in the room were looking at me.
'There's no way I would have agreed to this.' I said, flabbergasted.
'Yeah, you did. We were struggling for volunteers and I begged you. You said Ok, but only to prove it wouldn't work.'
So I had had too much to drink.
'During the interval I hypnotised these two beautiful young people,' The woman on the screen was continuing, 'using my own secret technique and now we are going to have some fun.' She winked theatrically and the audience laughed. I didn't think it was funny.
Two chairs had appeared on the stage and The two volunteers had sat down. Claire turned to them.
'Now sleep.' She clicked her fingers and both heads sank.
'Now, Caroline' Claire continued. 'Please stand.' Caroline stood. She was of medium height with shoulder length blonde hair. The camera zoomed in and I could see was quite pretty. Not a stunner, by any stretch of the imagination, but quite cute. 'Come forward.' She stepped forward her head still facing the floor. They went through the motions of what a hypnotist show usually is, all the bark like a duck quack like a dog stuff, all the while I was at the back of the stage, apparently asleep.
'Now Caroline,' Claire said eventually, 'You are in a club. You see a sexy boy on the dancefloor. You really fancy him. On my signal, I want you to go up to him and seduce him.'
The audience laughed this time. Not just polite titters, actual laughter.
'Alex, Please come forward.' My image on the screen stood and walked forwards. It appeared I was to be the 'sexy boy'.
The girl began dancing to silence, she shook her chest at me, she turned and ground her backside into my crotch. She hitched up her skirt and pranced around me as she was a stripper, and I was her pole. There was loud laughter now from the audience. Caroline was really getting into her stride. She stood facing the audience and bent over. She lifted her skirt, and flashed me her backside. My eyes were still closed, so even If I was awake I wouldn't have seen it. She then turned, and strode towards me, grabbed me by the ears, and pulled my head to her chest and shook her tits in my face. There were giggles from the girls in the room now as Lauren and Alison couldn't hold it in any more.
What had This woman got in store for me?
Caroline was now grinding her hips into me and had lifted one leg up, exposing quite a bit of thigh.
'Now Caroline, I want you to wake up on my signal, one, two, three wake!'