This is a work of fiction, and all people named in the story are purely fictional.
CHAPTER 2 THE TRANSFORMATION
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Unfortunately for Tom, the more he enjoyed having Rachel around, the less time she appeared to have for him. Whereas, in the first month, it had often been just the two of them --allowing for many long and interesting conversations to take place-- it was now becoming virtually impossible for him to get hold of Rachel by herself. Whenever she was actually in the flat, which was not the majority of the time, she was either with Ella and Clara, who seemed inseparable from her now, or with whichever fuck-mate(s) she had picked up the night before. Often she was with both.
As far as Rachel's sex buddies were concerned, she appeared to have no particular preference of type, even though the men were often a few years older than her and always rather well built. It seemed like their physical attributes prevailed over anything else in her mind. And Tom guessed there was no point in asking her if penis size mattered.
And to his relative annoyance, all of these male "friends", encouraged by Rachel, tended to behave like the place belonged to them and lounged around, sometimes all day, watching TV or playing video games, even when she was out. Tom's small bedroom had become the only part of the flat where he felt he really could get some proper peace anymore. Because he simply could not summon up the guts to walk over to a man 10 years older than himself to tell him to, in substance, get the hell out of a place that, well, also happened to be Rachel's. Not to forget he would then have to face Rachel herself over it. Simply impossible for a meek little chap like himself!
Ironically, the only times Rachel expressed an interest in him anymore were when she was already well surrounded by her buddies.
"Come over here and sit with us, Tom," she would say.
But, once he complied, wanting to be in her company, they would simply continue chatting to each other like he didn't exist.
And the nature of the chatting was also quite different from what it had been only a month before. Whereas, at first, the girls had been fairly careful about what they said in Tom's presence, not letting him in on too much private stuff, they now appeared to have no problem expressing themselves very openly and rather crudely in front of him. He often felt like he had become invisible or insignificant to them. But on another level, it was kind of exciting to be able to hear all about the details of their sex lives. To listen to them comparing the sizes of their various fuckbuddies' attributes, casually bragging about their anal skills or the different ways in which they could milk a man clean at maximum speed. He was amazed that girls could even speak in this way. In his very narrow experience of life, it had mostly been the blokes doing all the talking, and the girls would have been put back in their proper place by their boyfriends if they ventured out into such territory. Which explained why they mostly didn't.
Even if Tom was becoming very aware of how dominated he now was, when the bullying started, it still took him by surprise. And of course it always took place when there was a small crowd in the flat, never when his flatmate was alone with him, which hardly ever happened anymore, anyway.
First, Rachel began to mention Nick, his tall, confident colleague from work, towards whom he had tacitly expressed a certain jealousy.
"Do you think he would be a good fuck?" she asked. To which Tom uncomfortably explained that he already had a girlfriend.
"He would probably leave her when he finds out the things I can do," Rachel simply stated, perfectly aware Tom knew that she wasn't simply boasting.
Another time she took it even further:
"Would you believe Tom is still a virgin?" she suddenly exclaimed, out of nowhere, in a light-hearted but perfectly loud and clear way.
Totally taken off his guard, Tom turned bright red and began telling them that, well, no, he wasn't a virgin; she had misunderstood him, and so on. He realized he was sitting there, justifying himself, like some nervous, spluttering, sixteen-year-old schoolboy, in front of half a dozen passably amused young people.
'Well, almost a virgin then!" concluded Rachel with a big laugh.
Tom was, of course, now realizing that she was using against him all the personal stuff he had been confidently sharing with her over the first month. He should never have trusted someone he had just met with such intimate information, thoughts, and feelings. He was such a simple and naΓ―ve lad. But it was too late for regrets now. Rachel obviously had her plan, and she had just been too clever for him by half.
And her bullying went on for a few more weeks, but always in a light and jokey tone, like if she was encouraging Tom to accept her trash talking with the same no-big-deal sort of attitude she gave it in. Whenever he got annoyed or started arguing back, she immediately used the old bully technique of minimizing and playing down the moment so he looked like he was being the uptight and difficult one.
"Just kidding, Tom. You really must get a sense of humor," was the sort of stuff she would say.
And of course she was always backed up by her friends, whoever they happened to be at that particular moment.
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